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* UncreditedRole: While this is the first ''Doctor Who'' story to credit Creator/BarryLetts as producer, it actually started out under his predecessor, Derrick Sherwin, who was moved over to work on ''Paul Temple'' early in production. Letts couldn't come in to replace Sherwin immediately, so Trevor Ray, who normally acted as assistant script editor for the show (a role he ''also'' never got any on-screen credit for) filled the role in the interim.



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* ExecutiveMeddling: A positive example. The story was originally going to end with the Doctor saddened by the loss of knowledge the Silurians possessed. Creator/BarryLetts' first act as producer was to change it to him being disgusted at their murder.

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* ExecutiveMeddling: A positive example. The story was originally going meant to end with the Doctor saddened by disappointed that the loss of Silurians' knowledge the Silurians possessed. was lost to time. Creator/BarryLetts' first act as producer was to change changed it to him being disgusted at their murder. so he would instead be contemptful of UNIT’s genocide of them.
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* NamesTheSame: There's a character named Dr. Quinn. [[Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman No, not that one]].
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* ReferencedBy: The serial's premise inspired the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis Silurian hypothesis]], a scientific thought experiment positing that, if an advanced civilization once existed on any planet before humans did before vanishing, then finding concrete evidence of its existence would be next to impossible.

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* ReferencedBy: The serial's premise inspired the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis Silurian hypothesis]], a scientific thought experiment positing that, that if an advanced civilization once existed and then vanished on any planet before humans did before vanishing, came into existence, then finding concrete evidence of its existence would be next to impossible.
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* ReferencedBy: The serial's premise inspired the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis Silurian hypothesis]], a scientific thought experiment positing that, if an advanced civilization once existed on any planet before humans did before vanishing, then finding concrete evidence of its existence would be next to impossible.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: A positive example. The story was originally going to end with the Doctor saddened by the loss of knowledge the Silurians possessed. Barry Letts' first act as producer was to change it to him being disgusted at their murder.

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* ExecutiveMeddling: A positive example. The story was originally going to end with the Doctor saddened by the loss of knowledge the Silurians possessed. Barry Letts' Creator/BarryLetts' first act as producer was to change it to him being disgusted at their murder.

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* ScienceMarchesOn: Very much a mixed bag, as the reason the Silurians went into hibernation - the Moon crashing into earth, them panicking and it taking up orbit around the Earth instead - has since become a discredited theory, since when we checked moon rocks with earth rocks, it proved that they all came from the same place, proving that the moon were created when a meteorite really early in earth's development forced out a pile of rock that then formed the moon. Discussion of plate tectonics, however, works with what's accepted in the scientific community.
* WorkingTitle: ''The Monsters''.

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* ScienceMarchesOn: Very much a mixed bag, as the reason the Silurians went into hibernation - the Moon crashing into earth, Earth, them panicking and it taking up orbit around the Earth instead - has since become a discredited theory, since when we checked moon Moon rocks with earth Earth rocks, it proved that they all came from the same place, proving that the moon were Moon was created when by the Earth being struck by a meteorite really early in earth's development forced out a pile of large impactor, ejecting the rock that then formed became the moon.Moon. Discussion of plate tectonics, however, works with what's accepted in the scientific community.
* WorkingTitle: ''The Monsters''.Monsters''.

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* ExecutiveMeddling: A positive example. The story was originally going to end with the Doctor saddened by the loss of knowledge the Silurians possessed. Barry Letts' first act as producer was to change it to him being disgusted at their murder.
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* FirstAppearance: Of the Silurians.
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* CreatorCameo: Assistant script editor Trevor Ray is the ticket collector and Barry Letts and Creator/TerranceDicks are passengers.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BlakesSeven Avon]] is Captain Hawkins.
** [[Series/{{Porridge}} Mr Mackay]] is Dr. Quinn.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: Very much a mixed bag, as the reason the Silurians went into hibernation - the Moon crashing into earth, them panicking and it taking up orbit around the Earth instead - has since become a discredited theory, since when we checked moon rocks with earth rocks, it proved that they all came from the same place, proving that the moon were created when a meteorite really early in earth's development forced out a pile of rock that then formed the moon. Discussion of plate tectonics, however, works with what's accepted in the scientific community.
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* CreatorCameo: Assistant script editor Trevor Ray is the ticket collector and Barry Letts and Creator/TerranceDicks are passengers.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BlakesSeven Avon]] is Captain Hawkins.
** [[Series/{{Porridge}} Mr Mackay]] is Dr. Quinn.
* NamesTheSame: There's a character named Dr. Quinn. [[Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman No, not that one]].
* WorkingTitle: ''The Monsters''.

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