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== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
* [[Russell T Davies]] originally wrote a role for [[Noel Clarke]] as [[Mickey Smith]] in both ''Day Four'' and ''Day Five'', but these scenes were cut when Clarke became unavailable due to a film commitment. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale|Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter]]'')
* [[Russell T Davies]] originally wrote a role for [[Noel Clarke]] as [[Mickey Smith]] in both ''Day Four'' and ''Day Five'', but these scenes were cut when Clarke became unavailable due to a film commitment. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter]]'')
* Even though [[Augustus Oduya|Colonel Oduya]] was in this episode, he was not credited.
* Even though [[Augustus Oduya|Colonel Oduya]] was in this episode, he was not credited.
* This is actually not the first time a canonical ''Doctor Who'' franchise story has dealt with the subject of converting sentient beings into drugs. [[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare of Eden]]'' dealt with a similar topic, although in that case the drugs were harvested from the corpses of [[Mandrel]]s rather than from living humans.
* This is actually not the first time a canonical ''Doctor Who'' franchise story has dealt with the subject of converting sentient beings into drugs. [[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare of Eden]]'' dealt with a similar topic, although in that case the drugs were harvested from the corpses of [[Mandrel]]s rather than from living humans.
* Originally, the final shot of the episode was to have been of a computer screen reading "TORCHWOOD STATUS: TERMINATED," referring to the cessation of all Torchwood operations in the UK by the end of the miniseries. This was taken out at a late stage, as Davies did not wish to give the impression that the series had been cancelled, even though he knew that ''Children of Earth'' might very possibly be the last-ever instalment of ''Torchwood''. As it turned out, ''Children of Earth'' would indeed prove to be the finale of the show's original incarnation, but the series continued as a British-American co-production starting in 2011. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale|Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter]]'')
* Originally, the final shot of the episode was to have been of a computer screen reading "TORCHWOOD STATUS: TERMINATED," referring to the cessation of all Torchwood operations in the UK by the end of the miniseries. This was taken out at a late stage, as Davies did not wish to give the impression that the series had been cancelled, even though he knew that ''Children of Earth'' might very possibly be the last-ever instalment of ''Torchwood''. As it turned out, ''Children of Earth'' would indeed prove to be the finale of the show's original incarnation, but the series continued as a British-American co-production starting in 2011. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter]]'')
* Gwen mentions [[the Doctor]], touching on a theme first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' regarding the fact that the Doctor is not always around when a crisis occurs.
* Gwen mentions [[the Doctor]], touching on a theme first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' regarding the fact that the Doctor is not always around when a crisis occurs.
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