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* [[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 in Thethe Wizard]]: Taken on its own, this episode appears to claim that Lady Peinforte's powers are literal magic, making it the only Original Series episode to allow such a thing rather than [[Magic Byby Any Other Name|handwaving it somehow]] ("[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E1 Battlefield|Battlefield]]" doesn't really count, because the Arthurian characters are visitors from another universe with different physical laws). However, a throwaway line in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E3 The Curse of Fenric|The Curse Of Fenric]]" establishes that, in fact, Lady Peinforte got her powers from Fenric. [[Author's Saving Throw|So there.]]
* [[Exit, Pursued Byby 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.
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* [[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 E1 Remembrance of the Daleks|Remembrance of the Daleks]], a story only two serials before this one.
* [[Minion Withwith 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.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Ace has a minor one when she blows up the Cybermens' lander and they execute their human minions for allowing it.
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* [[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 the Queen|the Queen]]. Unfortunately the lookalike hired by the production team doesn't look all that much like the Queen, and in fact more resembles her daughter, Princess Anne.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Lady Peinforte says a [[Exit, Pursued Byby a Bear|bear wouldn't pursue them]] as such things [[The Winter's Tale (Theatre)|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 Byby 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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