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*Working titles for this story included '''Bridgehead from Space''' and '''Timescoop'''. | *Working titles for this story included '''Bridgehead from Space''' and '''Timescoop'''. | ||
*The first episode has the story title | *The first episode has the story title shortened to '''Invasion''' in an attempt to conceal the central plot device. However this was undermined by the BBC listings magazine ''[[Radio Times]]'' who gave the full story title. [[Malcolm Hulke]] protested against the use of the title ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'', preferring the original working title of '''Timescoop''', and felt the contraction for the first episode was silly, especially because the ''Radio Times'' listing used the full title. 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 to ''Invasion'' was a decision he now regretted but noted that "''Radio Times'' are a law unto themselves". | ||
*The 625-line colour PAL transmission master videotapes for the serial were scheduled to be wiped and reused, but only Episode 1 was erased. The serial remained incomplete in the BBC Archives until [[1983]], when a monochrome print of Episode 1 was found and returned. Episode 1, broadcast in January 1974, was one of the latest ''Doctor Who'' episode to have been junked by the BBC (surpassed only by Episode 1 of ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'', which aired a few months later). | *The 625-line colour PAL transmission master videotapes for the serial were scheduled to be wiped and reused, but only Episode 1 was erased. The serial remained incomplete in the BBC Archives until [[1983]], when a monochrome print of Episode 1 was found and returned. Episode 1, broadcast in January 1974, was one of the latest ''Doctor Who'' episode to have been junked by the BBC (surpassed only by Episode 1 of ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'', which aired a few months later). | ||
*The surviving film recording of Episode 1 is the only telerecording of a Season 11 episode that exists. | *The surviving film recording of Episode 1 is the only telerecording of a Season 11 episode that exists. | ||
*This is the first story to feature the Doctor's car colloquially known as the [[Whomobile]] (though never actually named on screen). | *This is the first story to feature the Doctor's car colloquially known as the [[Whomobile]] (though never actually named on screen). | ||
*Like other Pertwee-era stories, ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'' was broadcast in the United States by [[PBS]] in an omnibus format that edited together the episodes into a movie-length installment. Prior to the recovery of episode 1, PBS chose to still broadcast an omnibus edition of ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'' using the extant episodes, with the story joined in progress at the start of Episode 2. A later omnibus incorporated the first episode. | *Like other Pertwee-era stories, ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'' was broadcast in the United States by [[PBS]] in an omnibus format that edited together the episodes into a movie-length installment. Prior to the recovery of episode 1, PBS chose to still broadcast an omnibus edition of ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'' using the extant episodes, with the story joined in progress at the start of Episode 2. A later omnibus incorporated the first episode. | ||
===Ratings=== | ===Ratings=== | ||
