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* Designer [[Jan Spoczynski]] had wanted to use an outside firm to build the sets, but permission was withheld until almost the very last minute. Consequently, the sets had to be constructed very quickly, and Spoczynski was disappointed with the results. | * Designer [[Jan Spoczynski]] had wanted to use an outside firm to build the sets, but permission was withheld until almost the very last minute. Consequently, the sets had to be constructed very quickly, and Spoczynski was disappointed with the results. | ||
* [[Jill Bennett]], [[Eleanor Bron]], [[Judi Dench]], [[Elspeth Gray]], [[Sheila Hancock]], [[Jean Marsh]], [[Anna Massey]], [[Kate O'Mara]], [[Barbara Shelley]], [[Joan Sims]], [[Elizabeth Spriggs]], [[Wanda Ventham]] and [[Fiona Walker]] were considered for Lady Tanha. | * [[Jill Bennett]], [[Eleanor Bron]], [[Judi Dench]], [[Elspeth Gray]], [[Sheila Hancock]], [[Jean Marsh]], [[Anna Massey]], [[Kate O'Mara]], [[Barbara Shelley]], [[Joan Sims]], [[Elizabeth Spriggs]], [[Wanda Ventham]] and [[Fiona Walker]] were considered for Lady Tanha. | ||
* [[Peter Davison]] joked that he saw the story as a bit of rest, so that [[Janet Fielding]] could do her "heavy, evil" acting. | |||
* [[Sarah Sutton]] and [[Janet Fielding]] disliked their costumes, with Sutton going so far as to say it made her look fat. [[Peter Davison]] says on the DVD commentary that it looks worse than [[Colin Baker]]'s costume. | |||
* According to [[John Nathan-Turner]], the staircase in the Chamber of Lom was used for <em>A Song for Europe</em>. | |||
* The BBC's Head of Serials read thought the script and thought the storytelling was obscure and confusing. He felt it was mistake to purse this line of storytelling, but [[John Nathan-Turner]] and [[Eric Saward]] disagreed because they liked the originality and promised more conventional storytelling for the rest of the season. | |||
* [[Fiona Cumming]] got the directing job when she told [[John Nathan-Turner]] that she preferred character-driven stories. | |||
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=== Myths === | === Myths === | ||
* Kate Bush wrote this under a pseudonym. (''She didn't.)'' | * Kate Bush wrote this under a pseudonym. (''She didn't.)'' | ||
* This was Martin Clunes' television debut. (''Although all participants insist this is true on the DVD commentary, it's not. It ''was'' his first'' major ''role on TV, but he had already appeared in ''The White Guard'', a'' BBC Play of the Month ''which aired on 20 September 1982.)'' | * This was [[Martin Clunes]]' television debut. (''Although all participants insist this is true on the DVD commentary, it's not. It ''was'' his first'' major ''role on TV, but he had already appeared in ''The White Guard'', a'' BBC Play of the Month ''which aired on 20 September 1982.)'' | ||
=== Filming locations === | === Filming locations === | ||
