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* ''Invasion'' part one is the first episode to bear an individual title since "[[The O.K. Corral]]", the final episode of the four-parter ''[[The Gunfighters (TV story)|The Gunfighters]]'' (1966), which was the last ''Doctor Who'' story to feature individual episode titles. The next few stories to do as such would be a string of one-parters (which, for obvious reasons, are logically incapable of such), before this became a regular occurrence for multi-parters as well from ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'', with rare deviations. | * ''Invasion'' part one is the first episode to bear an individual title since "[[The O.K. Corral]]", the final episode of the four-parter ''[[The Gunfighters (TV story)|The Gunfighters]]'' (1966), which was the last ''Doctor Who'' story to feature individual episode titles. The next few stories to do as such would be a string of one-parters (which, for obvious reasons, are logically incapable of such), before this became a regular occurrence for multi-parters as well from ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'', with rare deviations. | ||
* ''Radio Times'' credits [[Elisabeth Sladen]] as "Sarah Jane" and Nicholas Courtney as "Brigadier" for part four. | * ''Radio Times'' credits [[Elisabeth Sladen]] as "Sarah Jane" and Nicholas Courtney as "Brigadier" for part four. | ||
* The 625 line PAL colour transmission master videotapes for the serial were scheduled to be wiped and reused, but only that for ''Invasion'' part one was erased. The serial remained incomplete in the BBC Archives until 1983, when a 16mm black | * The 625 line PAL colour transmission master videotapes for the serial were scheduled to be wiped and reused, but only that for ''Invasion'' part one was erased. The serial remained incomplete in the BBC Archives until 1983, when a 16mm black-and-white film telerecording of ''Invasion'' part one was found and returned. Broadcast in January 1974, ''Invasion'' part one was one of the latest ''Doctor Who'' episode to have been junked by the BBC (followed only by part one of ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'', which aired roughly a month later). | ||
* The surviving 16mm black | * The surviving 16mm black-and-white film telerecording of ''Invasion'' part one is the only telerecording of a Season 11 episode that exists. | ||
** It is also the only black | ** It is also the only black-and-white telerecording from the Third Doctor's era which has yet to be re-colourised. | ||
* This is the first story to feature the Doctor's car colloquially known as the [[Whomobile]], though it was never actually named on-screen. | * This is the first story to feature the Doctor's car colloquially known as the [[Whomobile]], though it was never actually named on-screen. | ||
* Like other classic series stories, ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'' was broadcast in the United States by [[PBS]] as episodes or in an omnibus format with the episodes combined into a movie-length show. Before ''Invasion'' part one was recovered, both formats used the extant episodes with the story joined in progress at the start of part two. For episodic broadcasts, the episodes' opening titles were re-numbered as parts one to five. Later broadcasts in either format incorporated the 16mm black | * Like other classic series stories, ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'' was broadcast in the United States by [[PBS]] as episodes or in an omnibus format with the episodes combined into a movie-length show. Before ''Invasion'' part one was recovered, both formats used the extant episodes with the story joined in progress at the start of part two. For episodic broadcasts, the episodes' opening titles were re-numbered as parts one to five. Later broadcasts in either format incorporated the 16mm black-and-white film telerecording of ''Invasion'' part one. | ||
* A brief clip from this story was used in the [[BBC Four]] documentary, {{wi|Dinosaurs, Myths and Monsters}}. | * A brief clip from this story was used in the [[BBC Four]] documentary, {{wi|Dinosaurs, Myths and Monsters}}. | ||
* At one point, Sarah states she is twenty-three. This would make the date of this story 1974, based on her date of birth given in the ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' episode ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]''. | * At one point, Sarah states she is twenty-three. This would make the date of this story 1974, based on her date of birth given in the ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' episode ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]''. | ||
* From a certain point of view, Sarah is not really the Doctor's companion until the end of the story. She was merely on her way back to present day London after she stowed away in the TARDIS on its [[The Time Warrior (TV story)|previous voyage]]. Indeed, she at least feigns discomfort at the idea of travelling in the TARDIS again. The Doctor's offer to take Sarah to [[Florana]] leads into the next story ''[[Death to the Daleks]]''. This invitation, which included a long and vivid description of the wonders of Florana, prefigures a penchant of his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth]] and [[Tenth Doctor|tenth]] selves to describe a wonder of the universe in glorious detail to encourage a companion to stick around. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') | * From a certain point of view, Sarah is not really the Doctor's companion until the end of the story. She was merely on her way back to present day London after she stowed away in the TARDIS on its [[The Time Warrior (TV story)|previous voyage]]. Indeed, she at least feigns discomfort at the idea of travelling in the TARDIS again. The Doctor's offer to take Sarah to [[Florana]] leads into the next story ''[[Death to the Daleks]]''. This invitation, which included a long and vivid description of the wonders of Florana, prefigures a penchant of his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth]] and [[Tenth Doctor|tenth]] selves to describe a wonder of the universe in glorious detail to encourage a companion to stick around. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') | ||
* The BBC Classic Who website's ''Party Politics'' states that Operation Golden Age caused the collapse of the Jeremy Thorpe government.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/partypolitics.shtml</ref> | * The BBC Classic Who website's ''Party Politics'' states that Operation Golden Age caused the collapse of the Jeremy Thorpe government.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/partypolitics.shtml</ref> | ||
* The original script had the Doctor using a motorcycle instead of the Whomobile. | * The original script had the Doctor using a military motorcycle instead of the Whomobile. | ||
* The original outline concerned the Doctor returning to the present day to discover that aliens had invaded and ordered the evacuation of London, claiming provocation by humanity. A supplicant government remained in the city, in the manner of the Vichy government which nominally ruled France during the Second World War but was, in effect, a puppet regime controlled by Nazi Germany. The aliens planned to demand larger and larger swathes of territory to satisfy their needs; again, this paralleled the events of World War II, and specifically Adolf Hitler's policy of Lebensraum. Humanity would eventually be limited to Australia, which the aliens then intended to destroy. | * The original outline concerned the Doctor returning to the present day to discover that aliens had invaded and ordered the evacuation of London, claiming provocation by humanity. A supplicant government remained in the city, in the manner of the Vichy government which nominally ruled France during the Second World War but was, in effect, a puppet regime controlled by Nazi Germany. The aliens planned to demand larger and larger swathes of territory to satisfy their needs; again, this paralleled the events of World War II, and specifically Adolf Hitler's policy of Lebensraum. Humanity would eventually be limited to Australia, which the aliens then intended to destroy. | ||
* [[Terrance Dicks]] thought that Yates might be killed off during the story's events, but [[Barry Letts]] felt they might revisit the character in a forthcoming serial. | * [[Terrance Dicks]] thought that Yates might be killed off during the story's events, but [[Barry Letts]] felt they might revisit the character in a forthcoming serial. | ||
