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* ''Doctor Who and the Pescatons'' was released to capitalise on the success of the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. | * ''Doctor Who and the Pescatons'' was released to capitalise on the success of the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. | ||
* This was the audio debut for [[Elisabeth Sladen]] and [[Tom Baker]] as [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and the [[Fourth Doctor]], respectively. | |||
** Sladen's first line in the radio drama was: ''"Doctor. Doctor, where are we?"'' | |||
** Baker's first line in the radio drama was: ''"I don't know, Sarah. But whereever it is, I have an uncomfortable feeling we're not very welcome."'' | |||
* [[Bill Mitchell]] (Zor) filmed a scene for [[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'' in which he played a [[26th century]] [[Newscaster (Bill Mitchell)|newscaster]]. While the scene was cut from the televised version of the story, it was included in the novelisation [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Space War]]''. | * [[Bill Mitchell]] (Zor) filmed a scene for [[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'' in which he played a [[26th century]] [[Newscaster (Bill Mitchell)|newscaster]]. While the scene was cut from the televised version of the story, it was included in the novelisation [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Space War]]''. | ||
* Unusually, the Doctor here calls the [[Pescaton]]s "evil" on many occasions. This characterisation of another species is atypical for the Doctor. Indeed, it lays the foundation for another extraordinary feature of the story: the Doctor and Sarah devise and participate in the remorseless [[genocide]] of the Pescatons. | * Unusually, the Doctor here calls the [[Pescaton]]s "evil" on many occasions. This characterisation of another species is atypical for the Doctor. Indeed, it lays the foundation for another extraordinary feature of the story: the Doctor and Sarah devise and participate in the remorseless [[genocide]] of the Pescatons. | ||
