History Trivia / DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters

* OldShame: For Creator/PeterKay, who went as far as to say that being in this episode was the biggest regret in his career as of 2012. He specifically stated that although he enjoyed making the episode, he was ultimately disappointed by the final product since it was just him in a costume running around Cardiff.
-->I loved making it but when I saw it, I thought, "Oh my God. I'm a big green lizard running around Cardiff? Is that it?"

** The episode was originally written as a comic strip.
** In the original script, Elton was to have witnessed more events in ''Doctor Who'' history. Namely, his third birthday party was evacuated because of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks the Daleks' invasion of Shoreditch]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons his mother was killed by a plastic daffodil]] (instead of an elemental shade), and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons he witnessed the Loch Ness Monster rising from the Thames]]. The BBC pulled an ExecutiveVeto on this, partly because they were still wary about explicitly referencing any pre-2005 stories to that degree, and partly because the episode's budget was low enough as it was, without having to worry about paying royalties to the writers of those stories.

** The original concept concerned a female fan of the Doctor's who was essentially stalking him. With a surfeit of strong female characters already conceived for the season, however, Creator/RussellTDavies decided to instead replace the female stalker with a more well-intentioned male named Elton.

* OldShame: For Creator/PeterKay, who went as far as to say that being in this episode was the biggest regret in his career as of 2012.

** In the original script, Elton was to have witnessed more events in ''Doctor Who'' history. Namely, his third birthday party was evacuated because of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks the Daleks' invasion of Shoreditch]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons his mother was killed by a plastic daffodil]] (instead of an elemental shade), and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons he witnessed the Loch Ness Monster rising from the Thames]].

** William Grantha in his video linked above mentioned several different ideas he originally came up with for the monster, such as his skin being liquid and being around 20 feet tall.

* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: The monster was from the winner of a ''Series/BluePeter'' contest. (''Blue Peter'' also ran a similar competition circa 1969, but the winning monster only appeared on ''Blue Peter'', not in ''Doctor Who'' itself.)

** the French title is "LINDA".

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The Japanese title of this episode is "Elton's Great Adventure".

** In the original script, Elton had been witness to more events in ''Doctor Who'' history: in this draft, Elton's third birthday party was evacuated because of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks the Daleks' invasion of Shoreditch]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons his mother was killed by a plastic daffodil]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Elton also witnessed the Loch Ness Monster rising from the Thames]].

** In the original script, Elton had been witness to more events in ''Doctor Who'' history: in this draft, Elton's third birthday party was evacuated because of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks the "Shoreditch Incident"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons his mother was killed by a plastic daffodil]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Elton also witnessed the Loch Ness Monster rising from the Thames]].

* InspirationForTheWork: Creator/RussellTDavies was inspired by the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E13TheZeppo The Zeppo]]" and the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E15TheLowerDecks The Lower Decks]]", both of which focused on atypical characters.

* ContestWinnerCameo: The monster was the winner of a ''Series/BluePeter'' design-a-monster contest (although he envisioned it as being the size of a bus, which the episode's budget naturally couldn't handle). He's now on Wesbsite/YouTube as Channel Pup, and in 2018 made a video saying he's still proud of the episode, and still a fan of the show, even though the bullying he suffered from fans did little to endear him to them.
* InspirationForTheWork: Creator/RussellTDavies was inspired by the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E13TheZeppo The Zeppo]]" and the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E15LowerDecks Lower Decks]]", both of which focused on atypical characters.

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* ContestWinnerCameo: The monster was the winner of a ''Series/BluePeter'' design-a-monster contest (although he envisioned it as being the size of a bus, which the episode's budget naturally couldn't handle). He's now on [=YouTube=] as Channel Pup, and in 2018 made a video saying he's still proud of the episode, and still a fan of the show, even though the bullying he suffered from fans did little to endear him to them.

* ContestWinnerCameo: The monster was the winner of a ''Series/BluePeter'' design-a-monster contest (although he envisioned it as being the size of a bus, which the episode's budget naturally couldn't handle). He's now on Youtube as Channel Pup, and in 2018 made a video saying he's still proud of the episode, and still a fan of the show, even though the bullying he suffered from fans did little to endear him to them.

-->I loved making it but when I saw it, I thought, 'Oh my God. I'm big green lizard running around Cardiff? Is that it?'

** In the original script, Elton had been witness to more events in Doctor Who (1963) history: in this draft, Elton's third birthday party was evacuated because of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks the "Shoreditch Incident"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons his mother was killed by a plastic daffodil]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Elton also witnessed the Loch Ness Monster rising from the Thames]].

* ContestWinnerCameo: The monster was the winner of a ''Series/BluePeter'' design-a-monster contest (although he envisioned it as being the size of a bus, which the episode's budget naturally couldn't handle).

* ContestWinnerCameo: The monster was the winner of a ''Series/BluePeter'' design-a-monster contest (although he envisioned it as being the size of a bus, which the show's budget naturally couldn't handle).

* ContestWinnerCameo: The monster was the winner of a ''Series/BluePeter'' design-a-monster contest.

* OldShame: For Peter Kay, who went as far as to say that being in this episode was the biggest regret in his career as of 2012.

* ContestWinnerCameo: The monster was the winner of a ''Series/BluePeter'' design-a-monster contest.