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==Story Notes== | ==Story Notes== | ||
* The Doctor regenerates into the Tenth Doctor | * The Doctor regenerates into the Tenth Doctor [[David Tennant]]. His first words: "Hello. I can't... new teeth, that's weird." | ||
*According to his book ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] planned to keep the departure of Christopher Eccleston a secret until the surprise regeneration. However, soon after the broadcast of ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'', the third episode of the season, the BBC's press office prematurely announced Eccleston's departure, which was followed several weeks later by confirmation that Tennant had been signed as the new Doctor, thereby removing both elements of surprise from the episode. | *According to his book ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] planned to keep the departure of Christopher Eccleston a secret until the surprise regeneration. However, soon after the broadcast of ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'', the third episode of the season, the BBC's press office prematurely announced Eccleston's departure, which was followed several weeks later by confirmation that Tennant had been signed as the new Doctor, thereby removing both elements of surprise from the episode. | ||
*The guns used by Jack and the Game Station people are Heckler and Koch G36Ks. | *The guns used by Jack and the Game Station people are Heckler and Koch G36Ks. | ||
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*Jack kisses the Doctor affectionately on the mouth (after kissing Rose) before going off to fight the Daleks. This is the first same-sex kiss featured in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise. | *Jack kisses the Doctor affectionately on the mouth (after kissing Rose) before going off to fight the Daleks. This is the first same-sex kiss featured in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise. | ||
*This episode marks the last time the lead character is identified as "Doctor Who" in the closing credits. Beginning with ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', the credit reverts to "The Doctor" as it had been during the last nine years of the original series. This episode is the only occasion in which David Tennant is credited as "Doctor Who". | *This episode marks the last time the lead character is identified as "Doctor Who" in the closing credits. Beginning with ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', the credit reverts to "The Doctor" as it had been during the last nine years of the original series. This episode is the only occasion in which David Tennant is credited as "Doctor Who". | ||
*This is the first time | *This is the first time the Doctor, or any Time Lord for that matter, is seen regenerating standing up, previous Doctors collapsed before regenerating. This would later be seen again in the Master's regeneration in [[DW]]: ''[[Utopia]]'' and the Tenth Doctor's aborted regeneration in [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''. Coincidentally, all of these episodes feature [[Jack Harkness]] | ||
===Ratings=== | ===Ratings=== | ||
