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* ''Radio Times'' credits [[Peter Hawkins]] as "Cybermen Voices" for episode two, and as "Cyberman Voices" for episodes three and four. All on-screen credits read "Cybermen Voices". | * ''Radio Times'' credits [[Peter Hawkins]] as "Cybermen Voices" for episode two, and as "Cyberman Voices" for episodes three and four. All on-screen credits read "Cybermen Voices". | ||
* Actress [[Shirley Cooklin]] (Kaftan) was married to producer [[Peter Bryant]]. Her character was written especially for her by Gerry Davis. [[Frazer Hines]] actually flirted with her, not realising that she was his boss's wife. | * Actress [[Shirley Cooklin]] (Kaftan) was married to producer [[Peter Bryant]]. Her character was written especially for her by Gerry Davis. [[Frazer Hines]] actually flirted with her, not realising that she was his boss's wife. | ||
* [[Peter Bryant]], who had previously been assistant to [[Gerry Davis]] and been newly promoted to script editor on the preceding story, was allowed to produce this serial to test if he could take over from [[Innes Lloyd]] as producer later in the season. Bryant's own assistant, [[Victor Pemberton]], acted as script editor on this serial | * [[Peter Bryant]], who had previously been assistant to [[Gerry Davis]] and been newly promoted to script editor on the preceding story, was allowed to produce this serial to test if he could take over from [[Innes Lloyd]] as producer later in the season. Bryant's own assistant, [[Victor Pemberton]], acted as script editor on this serial and was also an uncredited Assistant Script Editor on ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'' and ''[[The Ice Warriors (TV story)|The Ice Warriors]]''. He did not want to be a full time script editor, preferring to pen his own scripts and, later that season, he wrote [[Fury from the Deep (TV story)|''Fury from the Deep'']]. When Bryant's eventual promotion to producer came, [[Derrick Sherwin]] became script editor. | ||
* The serial begins the semi-recurring tradition of Cybermen stories being titled "...of the Cybermen". This format is also used in the televisions stories ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]''; the comic stories ''[[The Power of the Cybermen (comic story)|The Power of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Time of the Cybermen (comic story)|Time of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]''; the audio stories ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Hour of the Cybermen (audio story)|Hour of the Cybermen]]''; the video game ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'' and the novel ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]''. | * The serial begins the semi-recurring tradition of Cybermen stories being titled "...of the Cybermen". This format is also used in the televisions stories ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]''; the comic stories ''[[The Power of the Cybermen (comic story)|The Power of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Time of the Cybermen (comic story)|Time of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]''; the audio stories ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Hour of the Cybermen (audio story)|Hour of the Cybermen]]''; the video game ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'' and the novel ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]''. | ||
* The story was chosen by [[BBC America]] to represent the [[Patrick Troughton]] era during their 50th-anniversary programming. Edited into an [[omnibus]] format, it was aired by BBCA on [[24 February (releases)|24 February]] 2013, after the debut of their homegrown special called, ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The Second Doctor]]''. It also aired in the [[United Kingdom]] later in [[2013 (releases)|the year]] on [[13 October (releases)|13 October]], along with the ''Revisited'' special, on the [[Watch (TV channel)|Watch]] channel. | * The story was chosen by [[BBC America]] to represent the [[Patrick Troughton]] era during their 50th-anniversary programming. Edited into an [[omnibus]] format, it was aired by BBCA on [[24 February (releases)|24 February]] 2013, after the debut of their homegrown special called, ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The Second Doctor]]''. It also aired in the [[United Kingdom]] later in [[2013 (releases)|the year]] on [[13 October (releases)|13 October]], along with the ''Revisited'' special, on the [[Watch (TV channel)|Watch]] channel. | ||
