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* This episode was shown at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August, just as was done with ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'' in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/09/charlie-brooker-steven-moffat-edinburgh?INTCMP=SRCH|title=Charlie Brooker, Steven Moffat and Ruth Jones top bill in Edinburgh|author=John Plunkett|date of source=9 May 2012|website name=The Guardian|accessdate=23 August 2012}}</ref> | * This episode was shown at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August, just as was done with ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'' in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/09/charlie-brooker-steven-moffat-edinburgh?INTCMP=SRCH|title=Charlie Brooker, Steven Moffat and Ruth Jones top bill in Edinburgh|author=John Plunkett|date of source=9 May 2012|website name=The Guardian|accessdate=23 August 2012}}</ref> | ||
* This is the first televised Dalek story set primarily on another planet than Earth since ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]''. | * This is the first televised Dalek story set primarily on another planet than Earth since ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]''. | ||
*This is the first time since ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', that the caption "written by" was included in an episode. | |||
[[File:EggsStir.jpg|thumb|[[Paul Cornell]] did the "eggs" gag with the [[Seventh Doctor]] before [[Steven Moffat]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Metamorphosis (comic story)|Metamorphosis]]'')]] | [[File:EggsStir.jpg|thumb|[[Paul Cornell]] did the "eggs" gag with the [[Seventh Doctor]] before [[Steven Moffat]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Metamorphosis (comic story)|Metamorphosis]]'')]] | ||
* Although stressing that the first syllable of "Exterminate!" sounds like ''eggs'' was new to television, it was not the first time the notion appeared in licensed ''Doctor Who''. It was done about 20 years earlier by [[Paul Cornell]] in ''[[Metamorphosis (comic story)|Metamorphosis]]''. The usage is remarkably the same in that ''[[Doctor Who Yearbook]]'' comic, except that it's the [[Seventh Doctor]] who is turning into a Dalek and saying "eggs". | * Although stressing that the first syllable of "Exterminate!" sounds like ''eggs'' was new to television, it was not the first time the notion appeared in licensed ''Doctor Who''. It was done about 20 years earlier by [[Paul Cornell]] in ''[[Metamorphosis (comic story)|Metamorphosis]]''. The usage is remarkably the same in that ''[[Doctor Who Yearbook]]'' comic, except that it's the [[Seventh Doctor]] who is turning into a Dalek and saying "eggs". | ||