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* This is the last story that [[Terry Walsh]] worked on. His first being ''[[The Smugglers (TV story)|The Smugglers]]'' in 1966. | * This is the last story that [[Terry Walsh]] worked on. His first being ''[[The Smugglers (TV story)|The Smugglers]]'' in 1966. | ||
* The phallic appearance of [[Erato]]'s proboscis caused uncontrolled laughter in the studio, forcing the producers to add a pair of pincers to the creature overnight. ([[DOC]]: ''[[Team Erato]]'') | * The phallic appearance of [[Erato]]'s proboscis caused uncontrolled laughter in the studio, forcing the producers to add a pair of pincers to the creature overnight. ([[DOC]]: ''[[Team Erato]]'') | ||
* Lalla Ward | * [[Lalla Ward]] was unhappy with this story. It was the first one she filmed and she was still working out how to play Romana. The fact that the script was written for [[Mary Tamm]]'s version didn't help. She even wears a white dress like hers. She loathed both her costume and her hair. | ||
* A clip of this story was used in the documentary [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n93c4 "Synth Britannia"], first broadcast on [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc4 BBC 4] on Friday 16 October 2009. (The clip seems to be from part two or three.) | * A clip of this story was used in the documentary [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n93c4 "Synth Britannia"], first broadcast on [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc4 BBC 4] on Friday 16 October 2009. (The clip seems to be from part two or three.) | ||
* A working title for this story was "''The Creatures From The Pit''".<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/5g.html</ref> | * A working title for this story was "''The Creatures From The Pit''".<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/5g.html</ref> | ||
* [[Christopher Barry]] described the shoot as the nadir of his career. | |||
* [[David Fisher]]'s original outline was concerned with Adrasta's attempts to claim the TARDIS for herself. K-9 eventually takes Adrasta away in the TARDIS, returning her — cowed and defeated — at the story's conclusion. Upon initially being thrown into the Pit, the Doctor is attacked by Hellyn, a former member of Adrasta's team of engineers. In the final episode, a battle fleet from Tithonus (later spelt “Tythonus”) arrives, threatening to destroy Chloris with a photon missile. Erato and the Doctor travel into space in Erato's ship, and the Tithonian weaves a spacesuit for the Doctor, enabling him to reach the missile and disarm it. | |||
* Although the Doctor's solution to the problem of the neutron star, weaving a shell of aluminium around it, has been criticised as silly, the idea was in fact proposed to [[David Fisher]] by members of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. [[Christopher Barry]] and visual effects designer [[Mat Irvine]] were called on the carpet by the BBC management for the appearance of the creature Erato. The phallic appearance of the proboscis in the first episode resulted in uncontrolled laughter in the studio and prompted an overnight change to add a pair of pincers to the creature. | |||
* This was [[Terry Walsh |Terry Walsh]]'s final appearance in the series having appeared in various roles since 1966 as well as acting as fight arranger and the stunt double for both [[Jon Pertwee]] and [[Tom Baker]]. | |||
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