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* CastTheExpert: Kristopher Kum, who played the Chinese delegate Fu Peng, was cast at the last minute when the original actor, who Kum was acting as agent for, was considered by the director to be unsuitable. Fortunately Kum had done some acting before turning to agency work, could also speak the right Chinese language, and hurriedly learned the lines. Similarly, Pik-Sen Lim was enlisted by her husband the episode's writer, to give Creator/JonPertwee a crash course in the Hokkien dialect.

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* CastTheExpert: Kristopher Kum, who played the Chinese delegate Fu Peng, was cast at the last minute when the original actor, Creator/AndyHo, who Kum was acting as agent for, was considered by the director to be unsuitable. Fortunately Kum had done some acting before turning to agency work, could also speak the right Chinese language, and hurriedly learned the lines. Similarly, Pik-Sen Lim was enlisted by her husband the episode's writer, to give Creator/JonPertwee a crash course in the Hokkien dialect.

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* BackedByThePentagon: The production team were loaned a real (but unprimed) Bloodhound 2 SAGW missile from the 36th Heavy Air Defence Regiment out of Horseshoe Barracks in Shoeburyness, Essex, in addition to a number of troops who would play the Master's men (eight marines had also been made available for the Dover Castle sequences). The troops were there because the RAF, while happy to loan the missile, were less amenable to loaning it unattended.

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* BackedByThePentagon: The production team were loaned a real (but unprimed) (albeit unprepared) Bloodhound 2 SAGW missile from the 36th Heavy Air Defence Regiment out of Horseshoe Barracks in Shoeburyness, Essex, in addition to a number of and several troops who would play the Master's men (eight marines had also been made available for the Dover Castle sequences). The troops were there because the RAF, while happy to loan the missile, were less amenable to loaning it unattended.



** In the original script, the Brigadier was captured at Stangmoor Prison along with the Doctor and Jo; under the influence of the Master's hypnotism, he had the missile's route changed to enable the Master's men to hijack it.
** One of the weapons used by the Keller Machine was the image of a Gorgon-like monster, which the Doctor eventually destroys by showing it its own reflection in the mirror of the missile transport.
** The script originally played up the tension between the United States and China, with Chin Lee attempting to frame an American delegate for Chang Teik's murder.


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** In the original script, the Brigadier, who had been captured and hypnotized by the Master, ordered the missile to a location where it would be hijacked.
** The Keller Machine was supposed to be defeated by one of its own weapons, the image of a disturbing creature, which the Doctor reflected back at with the missile transport’s mirror.
** More focus was to be put on the overarching political tensions between the United States and China, including Chin Lee trying to frame an American emissary for the murder of Cheng Teik.
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* ThrowItIn: The business of The Doctor tipping over the water pitcher on The Master's desk was not planned, nor was Creator/RogerDelgado slipping on the water that spilled on the floor after The Doctor upended the desk to escape. However, both happy accidents worked so well in selling The Doctor slipping from The Master's clutches that they were left in (though the budget and time issues in TroubledProduction above may have had something to do with it as well)

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* ThrowItIn: The business of The the Doctor tipping over the water pitcher on The the Master's desk was not planned, nor was Creator/RogerDelgado slipping on the water that spilled on the floor after The the Doctor upended the desk to escape. However, both happy accidents worked so well in selling The the Doctor slipping from The the Master's clutches that they were left in (though the budget and time issues in TroubledProduction above may have had something to do with it as well)
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* PromotedFanboy: Stuart "[=BabelColour=]" Humphryes, a [=YouTuber=] who originally specialized in fan-colorized clips of the show's first six seasons, was hired by the BBC to assist with the manual re-colorization of Episode 1. Humphryes' channel even once had a video explaining the episode's restoration process in detail.

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* PromotedFanboy: Stuart "[=BabelColour=]" Humphryes, a [=YouTuber=] who originally specialized in fan-colorized fan-colourised clips of the show's first six seasons, was hired by the BBC to assist with the manual re-colorization re-colourisation of Episode 1. Humphryes' channel even once had a video explaining the episode's restoration process in detail.

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