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3	* ActingForTwo: Creator/SarahSutton as Nyssa and Ann. She found playing two roles tiring due to constant costume changes.
4	* TheCastShowoff: That's really Creator/PeterDavison, a passionate cricketer himself, playing cricket in the Doctor's game, and doing pretty well — he bowls out an extra.
5	* CreatorBacklash: The cast didn’t like this story and spend most of the DVDCommentary making fun of it. Creator/PeterDavison and Creator/JanetFielding in particular disliked the lack of a science fiction element and thought the script was generally trite, with the Doctor spending too long dressed like an idiot. Collectively, they believed it to be comprised of GenteelInterbellumSetting stereotypes and no mystery or dramatic tension whatsoever. In fact, the only cast member who has tried to defend the story was Creator/SarahSutton.
6	* CreatorsFavouriteEpisode: According to Creator/EricSaward, this was Creator/JohnNathanTurner's favourite story.
7	* DolledUpInstalment: Creator/PeterDavison claimed that Terence Dudley told him he had written it for a murder mystery series, found it in a bottom drawer and just turned it into a ''Doctor Who'' story.
8	* FakeNationality: Latoni, the indigenous South American, is played by the rather more Asian-British Ahmed Khalil.
9	* HeyItsThatPlace: The story was shot at Buckhurst Park, as used in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva Castrovalva]]", only this time mostly at the house in the centre of the grounds.
10	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
11	** Two scenes in Ann's bedroom, in which she is covertly watched by George, had to be abandoned to an industrial dispute.
12	** Creator/JohnNathanTurner intended for a long time to direct this story, but late in the day, Ron Jones was hired.
13	** Season Nineteen was graced with an extra two episodes’ worth of budget for seven four-part stories, but Nathan-Turner decided to use said episodes’ budget instead for the failed pilot Series/K9AndCompany.
14	** Creator/PeterFirth and Creator/PeterVaughan were considered for Sir Robert Muir.
15	** Creator/HonorBlackman, Creator/VirginiaMcKenna, Creator/BerylReid, Creator/BarbaraShelley, and Creator/JoanSims were considered for Lady Cranleigh.
16	* WorkingTitle: ''The Beast''.
17	* YouLookFamiliar: Ivor Salter (Sergeant Markham) was both [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E7TheSpaceMuseum the Morok Commander]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E3TheMythMakers Odysseus]].
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