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* [[Stephen Gallagher]] based the run-down crew on his former colleagues at [[Granada Television]]. | * [[Stephen Gallagher]] based the run-down crew on his former colleagues at [[Granada Television]]. | ||
* As this was K9's last story, [[Stephen Gallagher]] was credited in his local paper as "the man who killed K9". | * As this was K9's last story, [[Stephen Gallagher]] was credited in his local paper as "the man who killed K9". | ||
*While it has never been cited as an influence on this story, the ''Blakes 7'' episode "[https://blakes7.fandom.com/wiki/City_at_the_Edge_of_the_World_(episode) City at the Edge of the World]" (season 3, 11 February, 1980) has very marked similarities: a crew of villainous space pirates led by a deranged, obsessive captain; a subjugated race of mystical beings who covertly manipulate events to gain the upper hand (and demoting the regular cast to mere catalysts in their scheme); and most markedly of all a mysterious portal / force field that repels all brute force but does which not deter the villan of the piece from trying to break it with stronger and stronger means, until he eventually kills himself in the backblast. | |||
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