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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
* This story had working titles of ''The Kraalon Inheritance'', ''The Kraglon Inheritance'', ''The Androgum Inheritance'', ''Parallax'', ''The Seventh Augmentment'', ''Creation''. | * This story had working titles of ''The Kraalon Inheritance'', ''The Kraglon Inheritance'', ''The Androgum Inheritance'', ''Parallax'', ''The Seventh Augmentment'', ''Creation''. | ||
* The story opens in black and white, with a scene featuring the Second Doctor and Jamie, which then gradually transitions to | * The story opens in black and white, with a scene featuring the Second Doctor and Jamie, which then gradually transitions to colour. | ||
* This story features [[Patrick Troughton]]'s final performance as the Doctor. | * This story features [[Patrick Troughton]]'s final performance as the Doctor. | ||
* This story, like many of [[Season 22]] was produced in forty-five minute episodes. | * This story, like many of [[Season 22]] was produced in forty-five minute episodes. When sold to other countries such as Australia and America, the episodes were edited into six twenty-five-minute episodes with new cliff-hangers added, including [[Peri]]'s collapse on the space station, Anita leading the Doctor to Chessene's hideout and the Doctor struggling against the [[Androgum]] genes infecting his timeline. | ||
* Jacqueline Pearce, better known as Servalan in ''[[Blake's 7]]'', appears here as Chessene. | * Jacqueline Pearce, better known as Servalan in ''[[Blake's 7]]'', appears here as Chessene. | ||
* The space station's computer is voiced uncredited by [[Laurence Payne]]. | * The space station's computer is voiced uncredited by [[Laurence Payne]]. | ||
* This is the last serial of the 1963-89 series to be filmed on the European continent, ending a semi-annual tradition that had begun with ''[[City of Death]]'' | * This is the last serial of the 1963-89 series to be filmed on the European continent, ending a semi-annual tradition that had begun with ''[[City of Death]]'' and continued in ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' and ''[[Planet of Fire]]''. | ||
* This is one of the most violent stories in the series' history, featuring multiple stabbings and knife wounds, blood spillage (human, Time Lord and Sontaran), the attempted cooking and eating of humans | * This is one of the most violent stories in the series' history, featuring multiple stabbings and knife wounds, blood spillage (human, Time Lord and Sontaran), the attempted cooking and eating of humans and the killing of Shockeye by the Doctor by cyanide poisoning. This is reflected in the serial's mortality rate: Anita is the sole non-Doctor/non-companion character to survive its conclusion. | ||
* The idea of the Second Doctor being operated on with the intent of removing a unique Time Lord genetic trait was part of Holmes' aborted script for ''The Six Doctors''. In the script, the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] planned to extract a unique organic mechanism from the Doctor and place it in themselves, becoming "Cyberlords". | * The idea of the Second Doctor being operated on with the intent of removing a unique Time Lord genetic trait was part of Holmes' aborted script for ''The Six Doctors''. In the script, the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] planned to extract a unique organic mechanism from the Doctor and place it in themselves, becoming "Cyberlords". | ||
* Originally, this story was set in [[New Orleans]] | * Originally, this story was set in [[New Orleans]] and the Androgums, with their obsession with cooking and eating, were created with the city's culinary reputation in mind. | ||
* [[Laurence Payne]] (Dastari) also supplies the voice of the [[Space Station Chimera]] computer but is uncredited for doing so. He had previously played [[Johnny Ringo]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Gunfighters]]'', a role for which Troughton had been considered, and [[Morix]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]''. | * [[Laurence Payne]] (Dastari) also supplies the voice of the [[Space Station Chimera]] computer but is uncredited for doing so. He had previously played [[Johnny Ringo]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Gunfighters]]'', a role for which Troughton had been considered, and [[Morix]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]''. | ||
* [[Clinton Greyn]] (Stike) previously played [[Ivo]] in [[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]''. | * [[Clinton Greyn]] (Stike) previously played [[Ivo]] in [[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]''. | ||
