| 1 | * TheCastShowoff: Creator/PeterCapaldi is an avid electric guitar player and a former member of a punk band. He went out and got an electric guitar for this story, as seen in a Platform/{{Vine}} with him at a guitar shop. Fittingly, this story debuts his Doctor's guitar and becomes one of his [[IconicItem trademarks.]] |
| 2 | * CastTheExpert: This is the first of several episodes in Series 9 and 10 to show the Doctor playing guitar, a character facet introduced due to Creator/PeterCapaldi's real-life playing ability. |
| 3 | * LyingCreator: In interviews prior to the start of Series 9 (not to mention Series 8), Capaldi was quoted as saying that there would be no flirting between the Doctor and Clara. Notwithstanding his contradictory remarks in the August 2015 interview with Creator/WilWheaton (in which he directly said the Doctor and Clara were in an old-fashioned romance), one of the very first things the Doctor does in this episode when he is reunited with Clara... is flirt with her (something Clara herself flags as [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness out of character]], although there are additional moments of this nature later in the season). |
| 4 | * RoleReprise: Once again, Creator/JulianBleach plays Davros. |
| 5 | * ThrowItIn: Creator/MichelleGomez confirmed on Platform/{{Twitter}} that her tickling a nearby Dalek's bumps when referring to the TARDIS as "the dog's unmentionables" was improvised. |
| 6 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: It was revealed by Creator/RussellTDavies in a 2020 ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' interview he held with Creator/StevenMoffat that the two had been discussing the plans for what would become "The Magician's Apprentice" in 2014 as Moffat was pushing hard for Davies to write a script for the original pitch of Davros being held on trial. The two have noted that very little of what they had discussed made it into the final story. |
| 7 | * WordOfSaintPaul: The actor playing Bors stated on Twitter that he believes the real Bors was unconscious in the castle while a "simulcron" did the work. |
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