History Trivia / DoctorWhoS1E8TheReignOfTerror

* NamesTheSame: No, Lemaître is not likely to [[Characters/DoctorWhoMasters hear drums 24/7]].

* NamesTheSame: No, Lemaître is not likely to hear drums 24/7.

* ActorInspiredElement: It was William Russell who suggested a story set during the French Revolution.

* CaliforniaDoubling: This serial featured the first location filming of the series. In this case, Denham and Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire doubled for Paris.

* MissingEpisode: At the time Creator/TheBBC stopped junking, all six episodes were unaccounted-for. In 1982, episode 6 was returned by a private collector, and in 1985 episodes 1-3, along with another copy of episode 6, were returned from Cyprus. Episodes 4 and 5 were animated for the DVD release. The Cypriot copies of those episodes are believed to have been destroyed in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

* TroubledProduction: The main director, Henric Hirsch, had a mental breakdown during the shoot due partially to the punishing shooting schedule and the mutual dislike between himself and Creator/WilliamHartnell, and ended up in hospital. Another director had to be drafted in at short notice to finish the job, but no surviving members of the cast or crew are able to remember who it was. John Gorrie is the man usually credited with it and he doesn't remember doing it. The alternate theory is that the episode was effectively co-directed by Creator/VerityLambert and assistant director Tim Combe. For the record, the actual episode does not credit a director.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The physician in episode 4 was the television premiere of Ronald Pickup, who later voiced Aslan in the Wonderworks serialization of Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia.

* FakeShemp: The Doctor is played by a stand-in for the location shots of Paris. According to Carole Anne Ford, the man actually tailed Creator/WilliamHartnell to try and emulate him, much to the actor's annoyance.

* TroubledProduction: The main director, Henric Hirsch, had a mental breakdown during the shoot due partially to the punishing shooting schedule and the mutual dislike between himself and Creator/WilliamHartnell, and ended up in hospital. Another director had to be drafted in at short notice to finish the job, but no surviving members of the cast or crew are able to remember who it was. John Gorrie is the man usually credited with it and he doesn't remember doing it. The alternate theory is that the episode was effectively co-directed by Creator/VerityLambert and assistant director Tim Combe. For the record, the actual episode does not credit a director.

* NamesTheSame: No, Lemaître is not likely to hear drums 24/7.

* MissingEpisode: At the time TheBBC stopped junking, all six episodes were unaccounted-for. In 1982, episode 6 was returned by a private collector, and in 1985 episodes 1-3, along with another copy of episode 6, were returned from Cyprus. Episodes 4 and 5 were animated for the DVD release. The Cypriot copies of those episodes are believed to have been destroyed in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus.