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''Silver Nemesis'' was promoted as the show's 25th anniversary special; the first episode of the serial aired on the anniversary itself.
* [[Celebrity Star]]: jazz musician Courtney Pine and his band.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: the chess set in Lady Peinforte's house, and the question of who is moving the pieces.
* [[Comet of Doom]]
* [[Continuity Porn]]: references to Rassilon and Omega, Earth becoming "New Mondas", and in the deleted scenes the Doctor hypnotises some security guards by wearing spectacles in an overt reference to [[Doctor Who/Recap/S6
* [[Creator Cameo]]: a number of contemporary and past ''[[Doctor Who]]'' cast and crew play the tourists at Windsor Castle.
* [[Deleted Scene]]: A special-edition VHS release and the DVD provided deleted scenes which helped make a bit more sense out of things.
* [[Doing
* [[Exit, Pursued by a Bear]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded.]]
{{quote|'''Lady Peinforte''': The bear will not pursue us. Such things only happen in the theatre.}}
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Richard spends most of his time in the future panicking about every single thing he comes across. It helps his [[Heel Face Turn]] towards the end, when he's just so happy that the Doctor can take him home that he resolves to change his ways.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Part of the plot involves breaking into the Peinforte family
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Between the Doctor, Lady Peinforte, the Neo-Nazis, and the Cybermen.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: In the first episode, the Doctor is briefly seen wearing a fez and holding a mop. Guess what article of clothing his Eleventh incarnation really liked?
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: The Cybermen. Makes one wonder why they carry guns in the first place.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Ace points out that the resolution is exactly the same as that from [[Doctor Who/Recap/S25
* [[Minion with an F In Evil]]: Richard, to the point where at the end of the story the Doctor and Ace take him home and let him play the recorder for them. He does seem a bit more sinister and thuggish at the beginning of the story, when he's at home and in his element, but his experiences as a [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]] go some way towards helping a [[Heel Face Turn]] along.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: the skinheads who try to rob Lady Peinforte and Richard.
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]] / [[Punny Name]]: Lady Peinforte is named after "peine forte et dure", a historic English torture method involving slowly crushing people to death with rocks.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: there are hints, especially on the DVD deleted scenes, that "De Flores" is meant to be a pseudonym for Martin Bormann, the most senior Nazi unaccounted for in 1945 who was widely believed in the 1980s to be still alive and hiding out in South America.
** During the scenes at Windsor Castle, the Doctor and Ace encounter a woman who ''theoretically'' is supposed to be [[HM
* [[Shout-Out]]: Lady Peinforte says a [[Exit, Pursued by a Bear|bear wouldn't pursue them]] as such things [[The Winter's Tale|only happen in the theatre]].
* [[Stunt Casting]]: 1950s-1960s Broadway star Dolores Grey shows up for... absolutely no reason whatsoever.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: the only twentieth-century TV ''Doctor Who'' story to feature actual Nazis, as opposed to evil fantasy cultures with a [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|suspicious resemblance]].
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Lady Peinforte claims to know a dark secret about the Doctor's past, but doesn't get to reveal it; at the end, Ace asks the Doctor what she was on about, and he just smiles.
** [[Word of God]] states that the writer intended the Doctor to be... {{spoiler|a Gallifreyan God, of sorts. Or the reincarnation of one, essentially}}.
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