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*This is the only story where a Dalek Leader has punished his subordinates failure with extermination. | *This is the only story where a Dalek Leader has punished his subordinates failure with extermination. | ||
*In ''Perfect Scenario'', cast members Katy Manning and Bernard Horsfall express the opinion that the jungle fighting was a deliberate nod to the contemporary [[Vietnam War]]. In the same feature, Terrence Dicks and Barry Letts state they don't believe Terry Nation would have done this deliberately but might have been unconsciously influenced by the war. | *In ''Perfect Scenario'', cast members Katy Manning and Bernard Horsfall express the opinion that the jungle fighting was a deliberate nod to the contemporary [[Vietnam War]]. In the same feature, Terrence Dicks and Barry Letts state they don't believe Terry Nation would have done this deliberately but might have been unconsciously influenced by the war. | ||
*According to the DVD commentary subtitles, it was decided at one point that ''all'' on-screen actors had to wear makeup, including the Dalek operators, who (it was feared) could concievably be seen through the mesh of the props. The operators, in protest, on one day, dressed up their Daleks as women, and Michael Wisher and Roy Skelton, playing along with the joke, provided suitably "camp" voices for the dolled-up Daleks! | |||
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