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* Blooper: In "It Couldn't Happen Here", the photograph of [[spoiler:Stratford-Baker]] found in his dead girlfriend's personal effects is actually a frame taken from Burnside's conversation with him at the end of the episode. Burnside's head is even partially visible at the side of the photo.

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* Blooper: {{Blooper}}: In "It Couldn't Happen Here", the photograph of [[spoiler:Stratford-Baker]] found in his dead girlfriend's personal effects is actually a frame taken from Burnside's conversation with him at the end of the episode. Burnside's head is even partially visible at the side of the photo.



* TechnologyMarchesOn: Unavoidable from a series produced in the 70s in which, for example, mobile phones and computers didn't exist. Some of the plots that are kickstarted by not being able to contact an agent abroad just wouldn't work today.

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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Unavoidable from a series produced in the 70s The70s in which, for example, mobile phones and computers didn't exist. Some of the plots that are kickstarted by not being able to contact an agent abroad just wouldn't work today.
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* Blooper: In "It Couldn't Happen Here", the photograph of [[spoiler:Stratford-Baker]] found in his dead girlfriend's personal effects is actually a frame taken from Burnside's conversation with him at the end of the episode. Burnside's head is even partially visible at the side of the photo.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Richard Vernon as the stoic and intelligent C, a stark contrast to his better known, light-hearted roles as the eccentric Slartibartfast in ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', and dim-witted Sir Desmond Glazebrook in ''Series/YesMinister''.

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* DiedDuringProduction: Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh [[LegallyDead vanished]] in a small airplane flight near Alaska, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Unavoidable from a series produced in the 70s in which, for example, mobile phones and computers didn't exist. Some of the plots that are kickstarted by not being able to contact an agent abroad just wouldn't work today.

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* DiedDuringProduction: Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh [[LegallyDead vanished]] in a small airplane flight near Alaska, UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}}, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Unavoidable from a series produced in the 70s in which, for example, mobile phones and computers didn't exist. Some of the plots that are kickstarted by not being able to contact an agent abroad just wouldn't work today.today.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh [[LegallyDead vanished]] in a small airplane flight near Alaska, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure - DiedDuringProduction: Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh [[LegallyDead vanished]] in a small airplane flight near Alaska, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Unavoidable from a series produced in the 70s in which, for example, mobile phones and computers didn't exist.

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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Unavoidable from a series produced in the 70s in which, for example, mobile phones and computers didn't exist. Some of the plots that are kickstarted by not being able to contact an agent abroad just wouldn't work today.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh [[LegallyDead vanished]] in a small airplane flight near Alaska, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh [[LegallyDead vanished]] in a small airplane flight near Alaska, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.FranchiseZombie.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Unavoidable from a series produced in the 70s in which, for example, mobile phones and computers didn't exist.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh [[NeverFoundTheBody vanished]] in a small airplane flight near Alaska, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh [[NeverFoundTheBody [[LegallyDead vanished]] in a small airplane flight near Alaska, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh vanished in a small airplane flight near Alaska, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh vanished [[NeverFoundTheBody vanished]] in a small airplane flight near Alaska, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Series creator and head writer Ian Mackintosh vanished in a small airplane flight near Alaska, while series three was being shot. Three [[FanonDiscontinuity poorly regarded]] episodes were written to fill out the series, but the producers decided to end the show rather than turn it into a FranchiseZombie.

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