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[[File:DVD Special Feature - Politics in 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' - BBC|thumb|[[Matthew Sweet]] takes a look at the real-world politics evident in ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''.]] | [[File:DVD Special Feature - Politics in 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' - BBC|thumb|[[Matthew Sweet]] takes a look at the real-world politics evident in ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''.]] | ||
* Working titles for this story were ''Bridgehead from Space'' and ''Timescoop''. | * Working titles for this story were ''Bridgehead from Space'' and ''Timescoop''. | ||
* Part one had the story title shortened to ''Invasion'' to conceal the central plot device. However, this was undermined by ''[[Radio Times]]'', which used black and white comic strip-style illustrations by Peter Brookes to accompany the programme listing for ''Invasion'' part one, showing the Doctor being attacked in the warehouse by the pterodactyl; the flying creature breaking through the driver's window of the Land Rover to attack the Doctor (complete with a speech balloon for the Doctor reading "GET OUT!! GET OUT!!"); and the Land Rover — strangely depicted bearing a UNIT logo — smashing its way out through the warehouse doors. The accompanying caption read, "Great to be back? The Doctor and Sarah return to London from medieval England. But swinging London has been invaded by something from even further back in time — prehistoric monsters! 5.30". [[Malcolm Hulke]] protested the title ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'', preferring the original working title of ''Timescoop'', and also felt the ''Invasion'' contraction for part one was silly. In a response letter after transmission, script editor [[Terrance Dicks]] pointed out that all the titles used for the project had originated in the ''Doctor Who'' production office. He agreed that the contraction of the story title to ''Invasion'' for part one was a decision he now regretted, but noted that "''Radio Times'' are a law unto themselves". | * Part one had the story title shortened to ''Invasion'' to conceal the central plot device. However, this was undermined by ''[[Radio Times]]'', which used black-and-white comic strip-style illustrations by Peter Brookes to accompany the programme listing for ''Invasion'' part one, showing the Doctor being attacked in the warehouse by the pterodactyl; the flying creature breaking through the driver's window of the Land Rover to attack the Doctor (complete with a speech balloon for the Doctor reading "GET OUT!! GET OUT!!"); and the Land Rover — strangely depicted bearing a UNIT logo — smashing its way out through the warehouse doors. The accompanying caption read, "Great to be back? The Doctor and Sarah return to London from medieval England. But swinging London has been invaded by something from even further back in time — prehistoric monsters! 5.30". [[Malcolm Hulke]] protested the title ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'', preferring the original working title of ''Timescoop'', and also felt the ''Invasion'' contraction for part one was silly. In a response letter after transmission, script editor [[Terrance Dicks]] pointed out that all the titles used for the project had originated in the ''Doctor Who'' production office. He agreed that the contraction of the story title to ''Invasion'' for part one was a decision he now regretted, but noted that "''Radio Times'' are a law unto themselves". | ||
* ''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. | ||
