Trivia / Doctor Who S2 E6 "The Crusade"

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• Creator's Favourite Episode: David Whitaker thought the story was one of his finest works, due to both it’s subject matter and Camfield’s direction.
  "[…] it became almost a labour of love to produce a script worth of the colour and depth of drama that had inspired it, within the limits of the budget - and what was permissible for that time slot and indeed that time, when television was not the liberated lady it has since become."
• Fake Nationality: As was common practice at the time, white British actors play Arabs.
• Executive Meddling: Richard and Joanna’s Brother–Sister Incest was supposed to be more obvious, but the dialogue was removed at the demand of both Hartnell and Verity Lambert.
• Hostility on the Set: Julian Glover apparently did not get along with William Hartnell. On the story’s DVD Commentary, he recalled that "[[he]] didn’t know whether he was insecure or not, but he was very difficult to work with."
  • Production on this serial birthed the notoriously nasty feud between director Douglas Camfield and composer Dudley Simpson, that led to the two never working together again on another story (even after Simpson became the show’s primary composer, Camfield favoured stock music or his own composers), and remained unresolved by the time Camfield died in 1984.
• Missing Episode: Episodes Two and Four are both missing, making it the only serial from the second season to be incomplete. For some time, not even the soundtrack was known to survive, although copies eventually surfaced in the mid-nineties.
• What Could Have Been: Nicholas Courtney auditioned for Richard the Lionheart. He lost out to Julian Glover, but director Douglas Camfield remembered him and in the next season, cast him as Bret Vyon in "The Daleks' Master Plan", and eventually his famous role as the Brigadier.
• Working Title: The Saracen Hordes and The Lionheart.
• You Look Familiar:
  • Walter Randall (El Akir) had played Tonila.
  • Bernard Kay (Saladin) was also Carl Tyler.

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