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* [[Christopher Farries]] was originally cast as the Megaphone Man. | * [[Christopher Farries]] was originally cast as the Megaphone Man. | ||
* [[Peter Davison]] joked that he saw the story as a bit of rest, so that [[Janet Fielding]] could do her "heavy, evil" acting. | * [[Peter Davison]] joked that he saw the story as a bit of rest, so that [[Janet Fielding]] could do her "heavy, evil" acting. | ||
* In the [[DVD releases|DVD]] [[Audio commentary|commentary]] Davison also suggests that the device the Doctor builds (to control Tegan’s dreaming) looks like an original [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic#1st_generation iPod], which would not be launched by [[Apple Inc.|Apple, Inc]] until 2001, some 18 years after this serial was recorded. | |||
* [[Sarah Sutton]] and [[Janet Fielding]] disliked their costumes, with Sutton going so far as to say it made her look fat. [[Peter Davison]] says on the DVD commentary that it looks worse than [[Colin Baker]]'s costume. | * [[Sarah Sutton]] and [[Janet Fielding]] disliked their costumes, with Sutton going so far as to say it made her look fat. [[Peter Davison]] says on the DVD commentary that it looks worse than [[Colin Baker]]'s costume. | ||
* According to [[John Nathan-Turner]], the staircase in the Chamber of Lom was used for ''A Song for Europe''. | * According to [[John Nathan-Turner]], the staircase in the Chamber of Lom was originally used for ''A Song for Europe''. | ||
* The BBC's Head of Serials read the script and thought the storytelling was obscure and confusing. He felt it was a mistake to pursue this line of storytelling, but [[John Nathan-Turner]] and [[Eric Saward]] disagreed because they liked the originality and promised more conventional storytelling for the rest of the season. | * The BBC's Head of Serials read the script and thought the storytelling was obscure and confusing. He felt it was a mistake to pursue this line of storytelling, but [[John Nathan-Turner]] and [[Eric Saward]] disagreed because they liked the originality and promised more conventional storytelling for the rest of the season. | ||
* [[Fiona Cumming]] got the directing job when she told [[John Nathan-Turner]] that she preferred character-driven stories. | * [[Fiona Cumming]] got the directing job when she told [[John Nathan-Turner]] that she preferred character-driven stories. | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The Doctor | * The Doctor and Tegan previously encountered the [[Mara]] on [[Deva Loka]] in the company of [[Adric]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'') Tegan recounts the events in a dream state induced by the Doctor. The three of them and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] would later encounter the entity, once again on Manussa, though centuries before the rise of the Sumaran Empire. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cradle of the Snake (audio story)|The Cradle of the Snake]]'') | ||
* In her trance, Tegan recalls climbing a tree and dropping apples of [[Aris]]' head while under the influence of the Mara. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'') | * In her trance, Tegan recalls climbing a tree and dropping apples of [[Aris]]' head while under the influence of the Mara. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'') | ||
* The Doctor would later tell Nyssa that he planned to catch up with Dojjen at some point in the future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cradle of the Snake (audio story)|The Cradle of the Snake]]'') | * The Doctor would later tell Nyssa that he planned to catch up with Dojjen at some point in the future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cradle of the Snake (audio story)|The Cradle of the Snake]]'') | ||