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** Leela kissing Adam Colby on the cheek was ad-libbed by Louise Jameson. The surprised look on his face is genuine.
** On the subject of ad-libbed kisses, so was Eleven grabbing Rory and kissing him in "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". Arthur Darvill was as surprised as Rory!
* [[Troubled Production]]:
** "The Invasion of Time". Firstly the original writer gave the production team a set of scripts that would have been impossible to realize on a ''film'' budget, resulting in the producer and script editor having to come up with a totally new storyline in just a few days. Then the UK's economy imploded due to the Winter of Discontent, rendering the British Pound nearly worthless and leaving [[No Budget]] for the serial. On top of all that, virtually every department of the BBC went on strike at the same time, resulting in a hasty studio session filmed with sets left over from "The Deadly Assassin", followed by location filming at anywhere which would let them shoot, just so that they could get everything in the can. Not to mention the producers didn't believe that the actress playing Leela really wanted to leave, so they delayed writing in her exit and had to add a hastily written romance with Andred.
** "Warriors of the Deep". The production schedule lost two weeks due to an early Parliamentary election, which explains many of the serial's shortcomings. The other shortcomings stem from the set designer, who wanted everything brightly lit to show off his work, and the director, who wanted everything dark and moody for atmosphere, preceding a similar situation on ''[[Aliens]]'' by two years.
** After the location filming for "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" had been completed, the studio sessions were cancelled because of asbestos contamination. At first it was thought that the serial would have to be abandoned, but eventually it was found possible to erect a tent in the car park at Elstree Studios and film there. (It was actually very fortuitous that they were working on that particular serial because the tents made this arrangement possible. With any other serial around that time they might have had to simply throw out the location footage, but John Nathan-Turner was desperate to avoid another "Shada" debacle and arranged the makeshift solution.)
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** The Canadian animation studio Nelvana at one point proposed a ''Doctor Who'' animated series, which never got beyond the concept art stage.
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