History Trivia / TheMenFromTheMinistry

* RecastAsARegular: In the Finnish version both Heikki Nousiainen and Antti Pääkkönen had several minor roles in multiple episodes before being cast as Lennox-Brown and Sir Clive, respectively.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[SnapBack Not that the series had any real overarching storylines]], but the Finnish dub has a brief plotline that permanently replaced Sir Gregory with Sir Clive, due to Sir Gregory's voice actor Yrjö Järvinen retiring. This is especially noticeable as the change in leadership is openly aknowledged InUniverse with characters still referencing Sir Gregory and comparing him with his replacement, while the earlier change from [[DiedDuringProduction Hamilton-Jones]] to [[RememberTheNewGuy Lennox-Brown]] wasn't addressed at all.

* HeAlsoDid: The Finnish dub had a limited - although not small - amount of voice actors in it's disposal, so pretty common to hear the same people in multiple roles. Since the group who translated it also did most other Finnish audio shows at the times, it's not hard to bump into the same actors in other series.

** Ultimate example occurred in the Finnish run: one episode, "The Ship That Wagged Its Tail" was accidentally translated ''twice'', in 1980 and 1997, and the mistake was noticed only after broadcast.

* RecycledScript: This became very frequent in the later series, where only the names and/or places and assignments were changed. Examples include ''Oil Well that Ends Well'' and ''All that Glitters'' (an oil/gold deposit is "found" from Hyde Park) as well as ''How Now Brown Cow?'' and ''Ballet Nuisance'' (a cow/pig is mistaken for a foreign person).
** Ultimate example occurred in the Finnish run: one episode, ''The Ship That Wagged Its Tail'' was accidentally translated ''twice'', in 1980 and 1997, and the mistake was noticed only after broadcast.
* WrittenByCastMember: John Graham, who co-wrote a lot of the episodes with Edward Taylor, also played most of the recurring side-characters such as Lord Stilton and Mr. Crawley.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Both the Swedish and the Finnish versions were called roughly "The Bowler and the Brolly" ("I plommonstop och paraply" and "Knalli ja Sateenvarjo" respectively).

* TheDanza: Richard Murdoch's Richard Lamb and Deryck Guyler's Deryck Lennox-Brown.

* MissingEpisode: Several episodes from the original run are completely lost, partially lost or only exist in low-quality recordings. The Finnish version at least has all episodes intact...

* RecycledScript: This became very frequent in the later series, where only the names and/or places and assignments were changed. Examples include ''Oil Well that Ends Well'' and ''All that Glitters'' (a oil/gold deposit is "found" from Hyde Park) as well as ''How Now Brown Cow?'' and ''Ballet Nuisance'' (a cow/pig is mistaken for a foreign person).

* WrittenByCastMember: John Graham, who co-wrote all of the episodes with Edward Taylor, also played most of the recurring side-characters such as Lord Stilton and Mr. Crawley.

** Ultimate example occurred in the Finnish run: one episode, ''The Ship That Wagged Its Tail'' was accidentally translated ''twice'', in 1980 and 1997, and the mistake was noticed only after broadcast.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The Finnish dub had a limited - although not small - amount of voice actors in it's disposal, so pretty common to hear the same people in multiple roles. Since the group who translated it also did most other Finnish audio shows at the times, it's not hard to bump into the same actors in other series.

** KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ...However, only 70 of the 170 episodes have been officially released.

* TheDanza: Richard Murdoch's Richard Lamb and Deryck Guyler's Deryck Lennox-Brown.