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Credit for location is due for Cumming, not JNT. She said on the DVD extras that she had to go a long way to convince him.
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* Filming the scene where Turlough rescues Peri was bizarrely disrupted by a German nudist, who believed that [[Nicola Bryant]] was actually drowning when she filmed the scene of Peri in the water. The man was very unhappy to learn that Bryant was just acting, and later ruined a take for a scene on the beach when he ran through the shot. | * Filming the scene where Turlough rescues Peri was bizarrely disrupted by a German nudist, who believed that [[Nicola Bryant]] was actually drowning when she filmed the scene of Peri in the water. The man was very unhappy to learn that Bryant was just acting, and later ruined a take for a scene on the beach when he ran through the shot. | ||
* On the last night in Lanzarote, [[Dallas Adams]] and [[Peter Wyngarde]] liberated some turtles kept in the hotel pool and released them into the sea, causing the police to be summoned. | * On the last night in Lanzarote, [[Dallas Adams]] and [[Peter Wyngarde]] liberated some turtles kept in the hotel pool and released them into the sea, causing the police to be summoned. | ||
* [[John Nathan-Turner]] | * [[John Nathan-Turner]] agreed to use Lanzarote as a setting after [[Fiona Cumming]] went there on holiday and sent him a postcard recommending it as a location. He still wasn't convinced. Cumming later on went on another holiday there especially to convince him. She shot an entire roll of photos without any of her family in them, and then presented those photos to Nathan-Turner, saying that she meant it. He then agreed to have a story filmed on that location. | ||
* [[Peter Grimwade]] was chosen to write the script to compensate him losing the job directing [[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|''Resurrection of the Daleks'']]''. ''[[Eric Saward]] felt he'd paid his dues to Grimwade, but felt that the script didn't work and it wasn't worth it in the end. | * [[Peter Grimwade]] was chosen to write the script to compensate him losing the job directing [[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|''Resurrection of the Daleks'']]''. ''[[Eric Saward]] felt he'd paid his dues to Grimwade, but felt that the script didn't work and it wasn't worth it in the end. | ||
* Kamelion morphs into the Master and Howard in order to avoid having to bring the cumbersome robot prop on location. | * Kamelion morphs into the Master and Howard in order to avoid having to bring the cumbersome robot prop on location. | ||
