Random Facts About.... Spearhead From Space

[Roranicus]

If this proves popular perhaps we can run it with every story. There are always loads of things to be found online about the stories and no doubt people know things from interviews and books and stuff like that, so I thought why not have a thread that puts together all the random stuff about stories that don't perhaps warrant a thread of their own.

[Roranicus]

Ok, so I will do two to start us off, then you can all dig for others

 - This story had the working title of Facsimile

 - This serial first establishes that the Doctor has two hearts

[hannahcole93]

 - This serial first establishes that the Doctor has two hearts

Really? As late as this? 

[Nyki]

 - This serial first establishes that the Doctor has two hearts

Really? As late as this? 

The Second Doctor was medically examined in The Wheel in Space (which, incidentally, was the first time he was called John Smith) and there seemed no indication he was different from humans.

Not exactly a "fact", but as I commented in another thread, the invasion aspect of this story was largely lifted from Quatermass 2 - parts of a composite being coming to earth in pseudo-meteorites and being taken to a sinister industrial plant, key people being under the aliens' control (though in Quatermass they were taken over rather than replaced).  Doctor Who also did stories based on The Quatermass Experiment (Seeds of Doom) and, more loosely, Quatermass and the Pit (The Daemons).

[Tardis-Console]

This is lame, but it's the only one I know.

Despite being the first serial made for the 70's, it was actually made in the 60's

[Peri-Peri]

I love the idea for this thread

This is the first of three series openers that the Autons/Nestene would be the main villains for. Only the Daleks have ever appeared in as many series openers.

[Nyki]

Forgot to mention this before - most of the action of this story takes place just up the road from where I live.  The wood where the TARDIS materialised was Oxleys Wood, which is a small outlier of Epping Forest, about a mile east of Waltham Abbey.  That's perhaps five or six miles from me.  I really should have a wander over there sometime, although I don't expect it to be the same - the M25 goes right past the wood now 

[Aneurin]

The actor playing the Doctor is credited for the first time as 'Doctor Who' in the closing credits as opposed to 'Dr. Who' which had been the norm since 1963.

[Exterminate]

This was the first Doctor Who story to be shown in colour

Someone had to say it.

Also, its one of only two stories (the other being The Movie) to be made on film. Not too sure what that means exactly, but it's on the wiki page

[hannahcole93]

Following on from Exterminate's... Someone has to say it:

This was Jon Pertwee's first episode