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* Footage from this episode would later be used in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' story ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'' as a flashback of Jo's time with the Doctor. This marks the first and only appearance of Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell in ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. | * Footage from this episode would later be used in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' story ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'' as a flashback of Jo's time with the Doctor. This marks the first and only appearance of Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell in ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. | ||
* This story marked the first time [[Jon Pertwee]] and [[William Hartnell]] appeared in a production together since the 1953 film ''Will Any Gentleman...?'' | * This story marked the first time [[Jon Pertwee]] and [[William Hartnell]] appeared in a production together since the 1953 film ''Will Any Gentleman...?'' | ||
* The story was repeated on [[BBC2]] on consecutive evenings from Monday 23 to Thursday 26 November 1981 as part of the repeat season ''[[The Five Faces of Doctor Who]]'', in order to tie-in with the programme's eighteenth anniversary. The ''Radio Times'' programme listing for the repeat transmission of episode two was accompanied by a black-and-white head-and-shoulders publicity shot of the Second, Third and First Doctors, with the accompanying caption "Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and William Hartnell - ''The Three Doctors'' called in to save the Time Lords and the Universe from doom: 5.35". | * The story was repeated on [[BBC2]] on consecutive evenings from Monday 23 to Thursday 26 November 1981 as part of the repeat season ''[[The Five Faces of Doctor Who]]'', in order to tie-in with the programme's eighteenth anniversary. The ''Radio Times'' programme listing for the repeat transmission of episode two was accompanied by a black-and-white head-and-shoulders publicity shot of the Second, Third and First Doctors, with the accompanying caption "Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and William Hartnell - ''The Three Doctors'' called in to save the Time Lords and the Universe from doom: 5.35". ''(original published text)'' | ||
* Though intended to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Doctor Who, this story aired roughly eleven to ten months ahead of the actual tenth anniversary, which occurred during the hiatus between [[Season 10|Seasons 10]] and [[Season 11|11]]. | * Though intended to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Doctor Who, this story aired roughly eleven to ten months ahead of the actual tenth anniversary, which occurred during the hiatus between [[Season 10|Seasons 10]] and [[Season 11|11]]. | ||
* In the original version, ''Deathworld'', the Time Lords are in conflict with a Federation of Evil led by a personification of Death. To avert all-out war, the Time Lords manage to convince the Federation to allow them to send the three Doctors into the Federation's Underworld domain. There, the Doctors will do battle against various realisations of Death — including zombies, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Hindu goddess Kali, and the cyclops Polyphemus from Greek mythology — with the victor in the contests determining whether the Time Lords or the Federation of Evil will prevail. | * In the original version, ''Deathworld'', the Time Lords are in conflict with a Federation of Evil led by a personification of Death. To avert all-out war, the Time Lords manage to convince the Federation to allow them to send the three Doctors into the Federation's Underworld domain. There, the Doctors will do battle against various realisations of Death — including zombies, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Hindu goddess Kali, and the cyclops Polyphemus from Greek mythology — with the victor in the contests determining whether the Time Lords or the Federation of Evil will prevail. | ||
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* [[Patrick Troughton]] referring to Omega as a "bloke" in an echo of the previous line delivered by [[John Levene]] was improvised. | * [[Patrick Troughton]] referring to Omega as a "bloke" in an echo of the previous line delivered by [[John Levene]] was improvised. | ||
* The serial was originally scripted to end with the first mention of [[Metebelis III]] (though originally scripted as [[Metebelis IV]]), as the Doctor was to invite Jo on a trip to see the planet. This would have originally set up the story arc that would weave all the way through the season to ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]],'' and beyond to ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''. Due to time constraints, the line was cut — though Terrance Dicks reinstated it for the [[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|novelisation]] — and the first mention of the attempts to travel to the Blue Planet would be in the next story, ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]''. | * The serial was originally scripted to end with the first mention of [[Metebelis III]] (though originally scripted as [[Metebelis IV]]), as the Doctor was to invite Jo on a trip to see the planet. This would have originally set up the story arc that would weave all the way through the season to ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]],'' and beyond to ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''. Due to time constraints, the line was cut — though Terrance Dicks reinstated it for the [[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|novelisation]] — and the first mention of the attempts to travel to the Blue Planet would be in the next story, ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]''. | ||
* [[Richard Franklin]] was unable to appear in this serial, so | * [[Richard Franklin]] was unable to appear in this serial due to theatrical commitments, so Sergeant Benton took on the majority of the role written for [[Mike Yates|Captain Yates]] and a new character, Corporal Palmer, took on most of the lines originally written for Benton. | ||
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