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** In his first draft of the episode, Buckingham Palace was destroyed by the ''Titanic''. The Doctor stops the ship from crashing, but not before it smashes through the palace. In this version, instead of wishing the Doctor a Happy Christmas, the Queen is heard to curse the Doctor. This same early draft also featured a hoped-for cameo by Prince Charles. Davies spared the Palace as he felt it was too negative an ending for a holiday episode. It also helped that that the required sfx for the scene was one of the things contributing to the episode being far too over budget. Ironically, the alternate universe timeline created in the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]] showed that the ''Titanic'' would've hit Buckingham Palace without the Doctor around.

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** In his first draft of the episode, Buckingham Palace was destroyed by the ''Titanic''. The Doctor stops the ship from crashing, but not before it smashes through the palace. In this version, instead of wishing the Doctor a Happy Christmas, the Queen is heard to curse the Doctor. This same early draft also featured a hoped-for cameo by Prince Charles.UsefulNotes/PrinceCharles. Davies spared the Palace as he felt it was too negative an ending for a holiday episode. It also helped that that the required sfx for the scene was one of the things contributing to the episode being far too over budget. Ironically, the alternate universe timeline created in the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]] showed that the ''Titanic'' would've hit Buckingham Palace without the Doctor around.



* WorkingTitle: ''Starship Titanic''. It was changed when it was pointed out that Creator/DouglasAdams had created a [[VideoGame/StarshipTitanic video game]] and [[Literature/StarshipTitanic novel]] of that title, with an extremely similar concept, years earlier. RTD decided he preferred the new one since the old one might have given too much away about the setting.

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* WorkingTitle: ''Starship Titanic''. It was changed when it was pointed out that Creator/DouglasAdams had created a [[Literature/StarshipTitanic novel]] and [[VideoGame/StarshipTitanic video game]] and [[Literature/StarshipTitanic novel]] of that title, the same name, with an extremely similar concept, years earlier. RTD decided he preferred the new one since the old one might have given too much away about the setting.



** Creator/BernardCribbins, who plays the newspaper man (later retconned as Wilfred Mott), played companion Tom in the AlternateContinuity film ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''.

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** A multi-media example. Creator/BernardCribbins, who plays the newspaper man (later retconned as Wilfred Mott), played companion Tom in the AlternateContinuity film ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''.
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* InMemoriam: To the show's very first producer Creator/VerityLambert.
* ThemeTune: A new variant of the main theme — again by Music/MurrayGold — is introduced with this story. This was because the credits speed had to be changed around this time, which the old music would not have synced with, so Gold wrote this variant to match.

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* InMemoriam: To the show's very first producer producer, Creator/VerityLambert.
* ThemeTune: A new variant of the main theme — again by Music/MurrayGold — is introduced with this story. This was because the credits speed had to be changed around this time, which the old music would not have synced with, so Gold wrote this variant to match. A slightly different variation would be used for the rest of the Tenth Doctor era.
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* Creator/GeoffreyPalmer (Captain Hardaker) had previously played Masters in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Doctor Who and the Silurians]]" and the Administrator in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E4TheMutants The Mutants]]".

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* ** Creator/GeoffreyPalmer (Captain Hardaker) had previously played Masters in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Doctor Who and the Silurians]]" and the Administrator in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E4TheMutants The Mutants]]".

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** Clive Swift played Professor Jobel in the Sixth Doctor serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks "Revelation of the Daleks"]].

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* Creator/GeoffreyPalmer (Captain Hardaker) had previously played Masters in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Doctor Who and the Silurians]]" and the Administrator in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E4TheMutants The Mutants]]".
** Clive Swift Creator/CliveSwift (Mr Copper) played Professor Jobel in the Sixth Doctor serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks "Revelation of the Daleks"]].
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** Creator/BernardCribbins, who plays the newspaper man, played companion Tom in the AlternateContinuity film ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''.
** Clive Swift was in the Sixth Doctor serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks "Revelation of the Daleks"]].

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** Creator/BernardCribbins, who plays the newspaper man, man (later retconned as Wilfred Mott), played companion Tom in the AlternateContinuity film ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''.
** Clive Swift was played Professor Jobel in the Sixth Doctor serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks "Revelation of the Daleks"]].
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* StuntCasting: Music/KylieMinogue as this episode's guest companion is probably the most extreme example of this in ''Series/DoctorWho'' history. To be fair, it worked; this episode still holds the record for the most viewers in the history of ''New Who''.

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