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Dave Wilkinson's avatar

"...how do we feel about Space China?"

I found this substack by re-watching this episode and immediately googling "Doctor Who space China".

I'm really enjoying the blog so I guess I'm glad one of RTD's many tone-deaf and boneheaded decisions was to think "Space China" was a reasonable concept for a planet.

Or maybe it's just a random human colony planet and it has a Chinatown.

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James Cooray Smith's avatar

The “chucking yourself in front of traffic to change history” thing is from The City on the Edge of Forever.

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Will Cooling's avatar

"What on earth is going on with Billie’s voice and lips?" - Writer's Tale explains this. The production schedule changes at the last minute or something, so she has to do her scenes quite soon after getting dental surgery done.

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