History Trivia / DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace

* WriterRevolt: Barry Letts and Creator/TerranceDicks greatly disliked the "exiled to Earth" {{Retool}} of the show, but they were left with it by the previous production team. This was the first time they deliberately broke the new format by taking the Doctor off-world, and they would do so more and more until eventually the Doctor's freedom to roam time and space was fully restored at the start of the tenth season.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Morgan was originally a woman, with Susan James cast in the role. However, she was replaced by Tony Caunter when the BBC's Head of Drama Serials made an unusual intervention and decided the role was inappropriate for a woman to perform. Jameson was nevertheless paid in full. Director Michael E. Briant though the decision was "unenlightened and sexist".
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Malcolm Hulke originally envisioned the IMC robot as humanoid in shape.

* WriterRevolt: Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks greatly disliked the "exiled to Earth" {{Retool}} of the show, but they were left with it by the previous production team. This was the first time they deliberately broke the new format by taking the Doctor off-world, and they would do so more and more until eventually the Doctor's freedom to roam time and space was fully restored at the start of the tenth season.

* WorkingTitle: ''Colony''.

* ActorAllusion: The Brigadier tells the Doctor he'd nearly arrested the Spanish ambassador, mistaking him for the Master. The actor who played the Master, Roger Delgado, had previously played Mendoza, the Spanish envoy to the court of Elizabeth I in ''Sir Francis Drake''.

* ActorAllusion: the Brigadier tells the Doctor he'd nearly arrested the Spanish ambassador, mistaking him for the Master. The actor who played the Master, Roger Delgado, had previously played Mendoza, the Spanish envoy to the court of Elizabeth I in ''Sir Francis Drake''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Malcolm Hulke originally envisioned the IMC robot as humanoid in shape.
** Morgan was originally a woman, with Susan James cast in the role. However, she was replaced by Tony Caunter when the BBC's Head of Drama Serials made an unusual intervention and decided the role was inappropriate for a woman to perform. Jameson was nevertheless paid in full.

* GenderFlip: Morgan was originally a woman, with Susan James cast in the role. However, she was replaced by Tony Caunter when the BBC's Head of Drama Serials made an unusual intervention and decided the role was inappropriate for a woman to perform. Jameson was nevertheless paid in full.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Malcolm Hulke originally envisioned the IMC robot as humanoid in shape.

* ActorAllusion: the Brigadier tells the Doctor he'd nearly arrested the Spanish ambassador, mistaking him for the Master. The actor who played the Master, Roger Delgado, had previously played Mendoza, the Spanish envoy to the court of Elizabeth I in ''Sir Francis Drake''.