History Trivia / DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs

* RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle: Creator/ElisabethSladen vexed the production team by cutting her hair short during the summer, contradicting the notion that this was following on directly from the narrative of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior The Time Warrior]]". Sladen would grow her hair back out during the making of this serial but this, in turn, would create further continuity issues.

** The original outline concerned the Doctor returning to the present day to discover that aliens had invaded and ordered the evacuation of London, claiming provocation by humanity. A supplicant government remained in the city, in the manner of the Vichy government which nominally ruled France during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII but was, in effect, a puppet regime controlled by Nazi Germany. The aliens planned to demand larger and larger swathes of territory to satisfy their needs; again, this paralleled World War II, in this case UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's policy of Lebensraum. Humanity would eventually be limited to Australia, which the aliens then intended to destroy.

* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/PeterMiles (Professor Whittaker) had previously played [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Dr. Lawrence]], while Creator/MartinJarvis (Butler) had previously played [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet Hilio]].

* YouLookFamiliar: Peter Miles (Professor Whittaker) had previously played [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Dr. Lawrence]], while Creator/MartinJarvis (Butler) had previously played [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet Hilio]].

** With the Collection boxsets granting new life to restoration efforts and improvements in colorisation technology (as well as rumours for the 60th anniversary including some colorisations of classic serials) there might still be hope for the episode to finally be given the proper treatment.

* MissingEpisode: This is the most recent ''Doctor Who'' story to be in some way incomplete, due to the fact that the master tape of the first episode was junked for some reason almost immediately after its original transmission; until 1983, it was the only missing Pertwee episode.[[note]] Because its title was simply "Invasion", which shared the name of a Patrick Troughton Cyberman serial, "''The'' Invasion", some believe it got junked along with that serial, even though [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion"]] was actually junked before "Invasion" first aired. It is not known why the serial was marked to be junked so soon after its original broadcast (all 6 episodes were scheduled to be wiped, but for whatever reason only the first one was), but a fan theory is that the production team's embarrassment over the dinosaurs played a part in it[[/note]] Fortunately, this was one of the last ''Doctor Who'' stories that BBC also made a black and white film copy of, and the first episode survives in that form. For the DVD release, the episode was recoloured using the chroma dot automated colour recovery process, but the results were not 100% effective. The default version on the DVD is the monochrome one, and the best attempts at restoring it to colour are included as a bonus feature. At the moment, no attempts have been made at manually recolouring the episode à la episode one of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil "The Mind of Evil"]] (likely because the BBC are well aware of this serial's poor reputation and don't consider a manual recolouring job commercially viable as a result).

** The original outline concerned the Doctor returning to the present day to discover that aliens had invaded and ordered the evacuation of London, claiming provocation by humanity. A supplicant government remained in the city, in the manner of the Vichy government which nominally ruled France during the Second World War but was, in effect, a puppet regime controlled by Nazi Germany. The aliens planned to demand larger and larger swathes of territory to satisfy their needs; again, this parallelled the events of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and specifically UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's policy of Lebensraum. Humanity would eventually be limited to Australia, which the aliens then intended to destroy.

* MissingEpisode: This is the most recent ''Doctor Who'' story to be in some way incomplete, due to the fact that the master tape of the first episode was junked for some reason[[note]] Because its title was simply "Invasion", which shared the name of a Patrick Troughton Cyberman serial, "''The'' Invasion", some believe it got junked along with that serial, even though [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion"]] was actually junked before "Invasion" first aired.[[/note]] almost immediately after its original transmission; until 1983, it was the only missing Pertwee episode. Fortunately, this was one of the last ''Doctor Who'' stories that BBC also made a black and white film copy of, and the first episode survives in that form. For the DVD release, the episode was recoloured using the chroma dot automated colour recovery process, but the results were not 100% effective. The default version on the DVD is the monochrome one, and the best attempts at restoring it to colour are included as a bonus feature. At the moment, no attempts have been made at manually recolouring the episode à la episode one of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil "The Mind of Evil"]] (likely because the BBC are well aware of this serial's poor reputation and don't consider a manual recolouring job commercially viable as a result).

-->I decided what I wanted to do, and came up with a lovely idea of The Golden Age with all these people behind it who just didn't fit in. There were lots of rather sad people always living in the past, and who wanted to turn back the clock. I think they were totally wrong in their thinking, but I liked the story – it's easily my favourite – because I felt that it was the way a lot of people feel, left out or left behind by things changing.