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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
* According to the article "So Near, So Farhi" in the ''Farewell Great Macedon'' omnibus, after the script was | * According to the article "So Near, So Farhi" in the ''Farewell Great Macedon'' omnibus, after the script was rejected for ''Doctor Who'' in 1964, Farhi submitted them to the BBC as a potential springboard to a series on Alexander the Great. This idea was rejected. In 1966, Farhi resubmitted the scripts to new ''Doctor Who'' script editor [[Donald Tosh]], but was once again turned down. | ||
* Prior to being formally engaged for this story, Farhi also wrote a single-episode [[wikipedia:spec script|spec script]] for the series — over the well-documented protests of [[David Whitaker]] — entitled ''[[The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance]]''. He was also commissioned by [[Graham Williams]] to write a [[Fourth Doctor]] teleplay, ''The Divided'', in 1977, but this unfilmed script no longer exists. | * Prior to being formally engaged for this story, Farhi also wrote a single-episode [[wikipedia:spec script|spec script]] for the series — over the well-documented protests of [[David Whitaker]] — entitled ''[[The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance]]''. He was also commissioned by [[Graham Williams]] to write a [[Fourth Doctor]] teleplay, ''The Divided'', in 1977, but this unfilmed script no longer exists. | ||
