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*Another in-joke appears in episode three. When the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are studying the seaweed in the TARDIS, one of the test tubes has RR-200 printed on it. This is a reference to the fact that RR was the production code of this story and that episode three was the 200th episode of ''Doctor Who''. A similar in-joke is the serial number on the impeller shaft: 23179239-43. According to [[Gary Russell]], this is a reference to the internal BBC codes for the scripts for these episodes with 23179239 being the code for episode one and 23179243 for episode six. | *Another in-joke appears in episode three. When the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are studying the seaweed in the TARDIS, one of the test tubes has RR-200 printed on it. This is a reference to the fact that RR was the production code of this story and that episode three was the 200th episode of ''Doctor Who''. A similar in-joke is the serial number on the impeller shaft: 23179239-43. According to [[Gary Russell]], this is a reference to the internal BBC codes for the scripts for these episodes with 23179239 being the code for episode one and 23179243 for episode six. | ||
*At one point in the animated version, there is a note on a clipboard which reads "Get Vic and Dave on this!". This is a tribute to writer [[Victor Pemberton]] and his partner [[David Spenser]]. | |||
*In [[Patrick Troughton]]'s biography, his son Michael named this story as one of his favourites. | *In [[Patrick Troughton]]'s biography, his son Michael named this story as one of his favourites. | ||
*Shortly before her death in 2017, [[Deborah Watling]] named this as her favourite story, and the one she was most keen to see found again. | *Shortly before her death in 2017, [[Deborah Watling]] named this as her favourite story, and the one she was most keen to see found again. |
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