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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* According to [[Terrance Dicks]]'s [[Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders|novelisation]] of the story, following the events at the meditation centre, [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] planned to use his influence to get Tommy a place at university. This was not derived from any information given in the televised version. | * According to [[Terrance Dicks]]'s [[Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders|novelisation]] of the story, following the events at the meditation centre, [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] planned to use his influence to get Tommy a place at university. This was not derived from any information given in the televised version. | ||
* The children's book from which Tommy reads aloud in his cupboard under the stairs in part four is ''Going to School'', published by Ladybird Books. | * The children's book from which Tommy reads aloud in his cupboard under the stairs in part four is ''Going to School'', first published by Ladybird Books in [[1959]]. | ||
* During the scene in part four where Tommy reads aloud from a book of poetry in the meditation centre's library, he recites the opening verse of ''[[The Tyger]]'' by [[William Blake]] — which he calls "pretty", before correcting himself to "beautiful". | * During the scene in part four where Tommy reads aloud from a book of poetry in the meditation centre's library, he recites the opening verse of ''[[The Tyger]]'' by [[William Blake]] — which he calls "pretty", before correcting himself to "beautiful". | ||
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