History Trivia / DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay

** Creator/TomBaker and Creator/LallaWard were not on speaking terms, after Ward rebuffed his attempts to rekindle their romance some weeks earlier. Moffatt recalled asking Baker if he could help Ward down in the engine room pipe scene and he retorted, "Why, is she a bloody cripple?"

* RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle: For the only time during his tenure, Creator/TomBaker had to have his hair permed before filming commenced. It had lost its natural curl due to the actor being in ill-health.

** The Time Lord hermit who told the Doctor about the Great Vampire was described as an old woman in many drafts.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/TomBaker and Creator/LallaWard were not on speaking terms, after Ward rebuffed his attempts to rekindle their romance some weeks earlier. They were both united in their dislike of Creator/MatthewWaterhouse. He found them intimidating, while they found him impertinent and disrespectful at times, refusing to follow the instructions of cast and crew with vastly more experience than he.
** According to Ward, Waterhouse was rude to costume designer Amy Roberts because she wouldn't let him got to the canteen in his costume, prompting her to intervene.
** Waterhouse went to introduce himself to Baker in the pub and waited for him to come over. Two hours had passed and Waterhouse finally went over to him and was told to piss off. According to director Peter Moffatt, Waterhouse had no knowledge of camera technique at all and made the fatal mistake of advising Baker on how to say a line. Baker "nearly hit him" and Moffatt had to tell Waterhouse off.
** Moffatt recalled asking Baker if he could help Ward down in the engine room pipe scene and he retorted, "Why, is she a bloody cripple?"

* CreativeDifferences: Both Creator/TerranceDicks and director Peter Moffatt were at odds with Christopher H. Bidmead. They were keen to emphasise the Film/HammerHorror aspects, while he thought it was against the hard science fiction approach he had in mind.

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/LallaWard and Creator/MatthewWaterhouse named this as their favourite story.

** Creator/ColinBaker, Creator/StevenBerkoff, Creator/MartinJarvis, Creator/MichaelJayston, Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/PatrickStewart, Creator/PeterVaughan, Creator/DavidWarner and Creator/PeterWyngarde were considered for Aukon.

** Creator/ColinBaker, Creator/StevenBerkoff, Creator/MartinJarvis, Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/PatrickStewart, Creator/PeterVaughan, Creator/DavidWarner and Creator/PeterWyngarde were considered for Aukon.

** Creator/ColinBaker, Creator/StevenBerkoff, Creator/MartinJarvis, Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/PatrickStewart, Creator/PeterVaughan, Creator/PeterWyngarde, and Creator/DavidWarner were considered for Aukon.

* CreativeDifferences: Both Creator/TerranceDicks and director Peter Moffatt were at odds with Christohper H. Bidmead. They were keen to emphasise the Film/HammerHorror aspects, while he thought it was against the hard science fiction approach he had in mind.

** Creator/ColinBaker, Creator/StevenBerkoff, Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/PatrickStewart, Creator/PeterVaughan, Creator/PeterWyngarde, and Creator/DavidWarner were considered for Aukon.

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Lalla Ward and Creator/MatthewWaterhouse named this as their favourite story.

* CreativeDifferences: Both Creator/TerranceDicks and director Peter Moffatt were at odds with Christohper H. Bidmead. They were keen emphasise the Film/HammerHorror aspects, while he thought it was against the hard science fiction approach he had in mind.

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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Lalla Ward named this as her favourite story.

** Subplots involving townsfolk nocturnally wandering the forest like zombies, and rebellious citizens being found with bat-like bite marks on their necks were removed from the script.
* WorkingTitle: ''The Witch Lords'', ''The Vampire Mutation'', ''The Vampire Mutations'' and ''The Wasting''.

** Peter Arne, Creator/ColinBaker, Creator/StevenBerkoff, John Carson, David Collings, [[Series/TheOneidLine Peter Gilmore]], Michael Gothard, John Hallam, Donald Houston, Michael Jayston, Ronald Lacey, William Lucas, Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/PatrickStewart, [[Series/{{Colditz}} Anthony Valentine]], Creator/PeterVaughan, Creator/PeterWyngarde, and Creator/DavidWarner were considered for Aukon.

* CreativeDifferences: Both Creator/TerranceDicks and director Peter Moffatt were at odds with Christohper H. Bidmead. They were keen emphasise the HammerHorror aspects, while he thought it was against the hard science fiction approach he had in mind.

** Peter Arne, Creator/ColinBaker, Creator/StevenBerkoff, John Carson, David Collings, [[Series/TheOneidLine Peter Gilmore]], Michael Gothard, John Hallam, Donald Houston, Michael Jayston, Ronald Lacey, William Lucas, Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/PatrickStewart, [[Series/{{Colditz}} Anthony Valentine]], Creator/PeterVaughan, Peter Wyngarde, and Creator/DavidWarner were considered for Aukon.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Amongst those considered for Aukon were Creator/ColinBaker, Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/PatrickStewart and Creator/DavidWarner.

* WorkingTitle: ''The Witch Lords'', ''The Vampire Mutation'', ''The Vampire Mutations and ''The Wasting''.

* CreativeDifferences: Creator/TerranceDicks was often at odds with Christopher H. Bidmead. Bidmead wanted the inclusion of vampires to be come as a surprise, while Dicks felt that viewers would quickly deduce this element.
** Peter Moffet was eager to accentuate the Hammer Horror influences of the story, and was unhappy that Christopher H. Bidmead was amending the scripts to downplay these elements.