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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
* This story had working titles of ''The Kraalon Inheritance'' and ''The Androgum Inheritance''. ''The Kraglon Inheritance'' also appears on some BBC paperwork, but this may possibly be a misspelling of 'Kraalon'. Other rumoured working titles are ''Parallax'', ''The Seventh Augmentment'' and ''Creation'', but these do not appear on any contemporary BBC paperwork. | * This story had working titles of ''The Kraalon Inheritance'' and ''The Androgum Inheritance''. ''The Kraglon Inheritance'' also appears on some BBC paperwork, but this may possibly be a misspelling of 'Kraalon'. Other rumoured working titles are ''Parallax'', ''The Seventh Augmentment'' and ''Creation'', but these do not appear on any contemporary BBC paperwork. | ||
* The story opens in black and white, with a scene featuring the Second Doctor and Jamie, which then gradually transitions to colour. This is a homage to [[Patrick Troughton]]'s era on ''Doctor Who'', which was shot in monochromatic format. | * The story opens in black-and-white, with a scene featuring the Second Doctor and Jamie, which then gradually transitions to colour. This is a homage to [[Patrick Troughton]]'s era on ''Doctor Who'', which was shot in monochromatic format. | ||
* The prop used for the Second Doctor's TARDIS console unit is the same one used by the Fifth Doctor throughout the [[Season 19|first]] [[Season 20|two]] seasons of his tenure. It was brought out for this particular serial due to the need of a "retro" console unit for the Second Doctor's TARDIS, and the budget could not accommodate for a rebuilding of the original 1963 console prop (which had already deteriorated to the point of uselessness by the 1970s). Consequently, this story marks the final televised appearance of the prop. However, the "old" TARDIS control room features the regular built-in white-shuttered scanner screen, which first appeared in Season Fifteen's ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'', as opposed to the bracket-mounted television monitor used during the 1960s. | * The prop used for the Second Doctor's TARDIS console unit is the same one used by the Fifth Doctor throughout the [[Season 19|first]] [[Season 20|two]] seasons of his tenure. It was brought out for this particular serial due to the need of a "retro" console unit for the Second Doctor's TARDIS, and the budget could not accommodate for a rebuilding of the original 1963 console prop (which had already deteriorated to the point of uselessness by the 1970s). Consequently, this story marks the final televised appearance of the prop. However, the "old" TARDIS control room features the regular built-in white-shuttered scanner screen, which first appeared in Season Fifteen's ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'', as opposed to the bracket-mounted television monitor used during the 1960s. | ||
* This story, like many of [[Season 22]], was produced in forty-five-minute episodes. When sold to other countries such as Australia and America, the episodes were edited into six twenty-five-minute episodes with new cliff-hangers added, [[Peri Brown|Peri]]'s collapse on the space station for part one (another version had the voice of Space Station Camera's computer stating "It threatened the Time Lords"), Anita offering to lead the Doctor to Chessene's hideout for part three and the Doctor struggling against the [[Androgum]] [[gene]]s infecting his timeline, confirming he is all right "for the moment" for part five. Due to these international edits, in some countries, this story is arguably the final six-part story instead of ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'' or the unproduced ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]''. Interestingly, this edit results in Patrick Troughton being absent for the twenty-five-minute version of part two. | * This story, like many of [[Season 22]], was produced in forty-five-minute episodes. When sold to other countries such as Australia and America, the episodes were edited into six twenty-five-minute episodes with new cliff-hangers added, [[Peri Brown|Peri]]'s collapse on the space station for part one (another version had the voice of Space Station Camera's computer stating "It threatened the Time Lords"), Anita offering to lead the Doctor to Chessene's hideout for part three and the Doctor struggling against the [[Androgum]] [[gene]]s infecting his timeline, confirming he is all right "for the moment" for part five. Due to these international edits, in some countries, this story is arguably the final six-part story instead of ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'' or the unproduced ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]''. Interestingly, this edit results in Patrick Troughton being absent for the twenty-five-minute version of part two. | ||
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* ''[[Radio Times]]'' credits [[John Stratton]] (Shockeye) as "Shockeye o' the Quancin' Grig" for Part One. | * ''[[Radio Times]]'' credits [[John Stratton]] (Shockeye) as "Shockeye o' the Quancin' Grig" for Part One. | ||
* [[James Saxon]] (Oscar) is credited as "Oscar Botcherby" in ''Radio Times''. | * [[James Saxon]] (Oscar) is credited as "Oscar Botcherby" in ''Radio Times''. | ||
* The ''[[Radio Times]]'' programme listing for part two was accompanied by a black and white publicity shot of [[Colin Baker]] and [[Patrick Troughton]] as the Sixth and Second Doctors sitting back to back in the hacienda's olive grove, the latter wearing Androgum make-up, the accompanying caption of which read "Double trouble with the two Doctors / BBC1, 5.20 p.m. Doctor Who". | * The ''[[Radio Times]]'' programme listing for part two was accompanied by a black-and-white publicity shot of [[Colin Baker]] and [[Patrick Troughton]] as the Sixth and Second Doctors sitting back to back in the hacienda's olive grove, the latter wearing Androgum make-up, the accompanying caption of which read "Double trouble with the two Doctors / BBC1, 5.20 p.m. Doctor Who". | ||
* This is the last serial of the 1963-89 series to be filmed on the European continent, ending an occasional tradition that had begun with [[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'' and continued in [[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]''. The next such occasion was [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', filmed in [[Italy]] in 2007. | * This is the last serial of the 1963-89 series to be filmed on the European continent, ending an occasional tradition that had begun with [[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'' and continued in [[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]''. The next such occasion was [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', filmed in [[Italy]] in 2007. | ||
* This is one of the most violent stories in the series' history, featuring multiple stabbings and knife wounds, blood spillage (human, Time Lord and Sontaran), the attempted cooking and eating of humans and the killing of Shockeye by the Doctor by cyanide poisoning. This is reflected in the serial's mortality rate: Anita is the sole non-Doctor/non-companion character to survive its conclusion. | * This is one of the most violent stories in the series' history, featuring multiple stabbings and knife wounds, blood spillage (human, Time Lord and Sontaran), the attempted cooking and eating of humans and the killing of Shockeye by the Doctor by cyanide poisoning. This is reflected in the serial's mortality rate: Anita is the sole non-Doctor/non-companion character to survive its conclusion. | ||
