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*This was Kylie Minogue's first major acting appearance since her diagnosis and survival from breast cancer two years earlier. She reportedly brought her experience to bear to comfort David Tennant when his mother died of cancer around the time the special was produced. | *This was Kylie Minogue's first major acting appearance since her diagnosis and survival from breast cancer two years earlier. She reportedly brought her experience to bear to comfort David Tennant when his mother died of cancer around the time the special was produced. | ||
*At 71 minutes long, ''Voyage of the Damned'' holds the record for the longest 'single episode' of Doctor Who since the series revival and the third longest single episode of all (the second longest episode ever is the 1996 movie, which was 85 minutes long, and the longest was the special ''[[The Five Doctors]]'', which was 90 minutes long ). | *At 71 minutes long, ''Voyage of the Damned'' holds the record for the longest 'single episode' of Doctor Who since the series revival and the third longest single episode of all (the second longest episode ever is the 1996 movie, which was 85 minutes long, and the longest was the special ''[[The Five Doctors]]'', which was 90 minutes long ). | ||
*''Voyage of the Damned'' has the distinction of being the only episode of the revived ''Doctor Who'' not to be shown by the series' Canadian broadcast network, the [[CBC]]. The network skipped the episode when it began showing Series 4 in the fall of 2008 and the season ended on 12 December 2008 with no announcement that the Christmas special would be shown. Perhaps coincidentally, beginning with ''Voyage of the Damned'', the CBC no longer received an on-screen credit for its participation in funding the series, although it continued to do so for the remainder of Series 4. | *''Voyage of the Damned'' has the distinction of being the only episode of the revived ''Doctor Who'' not to be shown by the series' Canadian broadcast network, the [[CBC]]. The network skipped the episode when it began showing Series 4 in the fall of 2008 and the season ended on 12 December 2008 with no announcement that the Christmas special would be shown. Perhaps coincidentally, beginning with ''Voyage of the Damned'', the CBC no longer received an on-screen credit for its participation in funding the series, although it continued to do so for the remainder of Series 4. When CBC Bold, a digital cable network run by the CBC, began airing Series 4 in early 2009, ''Voyage of the Damned'' was again omitted. | ||
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