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** The Second Doctor appearing much older in this feature, with noticeable grey hair, has been stated in novelizations and audio books as there having been a significant amount of time passing between <nowiki>''The War Games'' (1969) and the Second Doctor's regeneration in ''Spearhead from Space''</nowiki> (1970). | ** The Second Doctor appearing much older in this feature, with noticeable grey hair, has been stated in novelizations and audio books as there having been a significant amount of time passing between <nowiki>''The War Games'' (1969) and the Second Doctor's regeneration in ''Spearhead from Space''</nowiki> (1970). | ||
*** However, some later and recent releases of The Two Doctors have digitally darken the Second Doctor<nowiki>'s hair to black, resembling his appearance from ''The Five Doctors''</nowiki>. | *** However, some later and recent releases of The Two Doctors have digitally darken the Second Doctor<nowiki>'s hair to black, resembling his appearance from ''The Five Doctors''</nowiki>. | ||
* The prop used for the Second Doctor's TARDIS console unit is the same one used by the Fifth Doctor throughout the [[Season 19|first]] [[Season 20|two]] seasons of his tenure. It was brought out for this particular serial due to the need of a "retro" console unit for the Second Doctor's TARDIS, and the budget could not accommodate for a rebuilding of the original 1963 console prop (which had already deteriorated to the point of uselessness by the 1970s). Consequently, this story marks the final televised appearance of the prop. However, the "old" TARDIS control room features the regular built-in white-shuttered scanner screen, which first appeared in Season Fifteen's ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'', as opposed to the bracket-mounted television monitor used during the 1960s. | * The prop used for the Second Doctor's TARDIS console unit is the same one used by the Fifth Doctor throughout the [[Season 19 (Doctor Who 1963)|first]] [[Season 20|two]] seasons of his tenure. It was brought out for this particular serial due to the need of a "retro" console unit for the Second Doctor's TARDIS, and the budget could not accommodate for a rebuilding of the original 1963 console prop (which had already deteriorated to the point of uselessness by the 1970s). Consequently, this story marks the final televised appearance of the prop. However, the "old" TARDIS control room features the regular built-in white-shuttered scanner screen, which first appeared in Season Fifteen's ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'', as opposed to the bracket-mounted television monitor used during the 1960s. | ||
* This story, like many of [[Season 22]], was produced in forty-five-minute episodes. When sold to other countries such as Australia and America, the episodes were edited into six twenty-five-minute episodes with new cliff-hangers added, [[Peri Brown|Peri]]'s collapse on the space station for part one (another version had the voice of Space Station Camera's computer stating "It threatened the Time Lords"), Anita offering to lead the Doctor to Chessene's hideout for part three and the Doctor struggling against the [[Androgum]] [[gene]]s infecting his timeline, confirming he is all right "for the moment" for part five. Due to these international edits, in some countries, this story is arguably the final six-part story instead of ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'' or the unproduced ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]''. Interestingly, this edit results in Patrick Troughton having no dialogue for the twenty-five-minute version of part two. | * This story, like many of [[Season 22]], was produced in forty-five-minute episodes. When sold to other countries such as Australia and America, the episodes were edited into six twenty-five-minute episodes with new cliff-hangers added, [[Peri Brown|Peri]]'s collapse on the space station for part one (another version had the voice of Space Station Camera's computer stating "It threatened the Time Lords"), Anita offering to lead the Doctor to Chessene's hideout for part three and the Doctor struggling against the [[Androgum]] [[gene]]s infecting his timeline, confirming he is all right "for the moment" for part five. Due to these international edits, in some countries, this story is arguably the final six-part story instead of ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'' or the unproduced ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]''. Interestingly, this edit results in Patrick Troughton having no dialogue for the twenty-five-minute version of part two. | ||
* The location shoot in Seville kicked off production. When the [[wig]]s constructed for the guest characters such as Chessene and Dastari were lost in transit, the actors had to be fitted for new wigs in Seville. These Spanish wigs were subsequently used for the studio shoot in England in order to keep continuity. The original wigs are, as far as is known, still missing to this day. | * The location shoot in Seville kicked off production. When the [[wig]]s constructed for the guest characters such as Chessene and Dastari were lost in transit, the actors had to be fitted for new wigs in Seville. These Spanish wigs were subsequently used for the studio shoot in England in order to keep continuity. The original wigs are, as far as is known, still missing to this day. | ||
