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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Early drafts included Jamie's father, who would silently and anonymously appear to aid Nancy and the war orphans. The climactic discovery of his true identity would be accompanied by the revelation that he is German, providing an alternative motivation to Nancy's shame.
* WorkingTitle: "Captain Jax".

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Early drafts included Jamie's father, who would silently and anonymously appear to aid Nancy and the war orphans. The climactic discovery of his true identity would be accompanied by the revelation that he is German, providing an alternative motivation to Nancy's shame.
* WorkingTitle: "Captain Jax".
Jax" and "The Empty Children".

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this is serendipity.


* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: Nancy's gang of children were originally supposed to be part of the climax, but as the entire story took place at night and required being filmed in the evening, the child actors had restrictions in how much time they could be filmed at night so they got demoted in plot importance.



* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The typewriter scene was written in after they had to cut a scene at the episode's end for technical reasons but Creator/StevenMoffat still needed to write up a new scene to get the episode to its required length with several mandates: it could not feature any of the main leads, it could only feature Nancy and the orphans, it could not have people in gas masks, only two characters could talk, ''and'' the kind of props that could be used were limited (Moffat wanted to use a record player at first, but was informed it wasn't feasible).

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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: SerendipityWritesThePlot:
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The typewriter scene was written in after they had to cut a scene at the episode's end for technical reasons but Creator/StevenMoffat still needed to write up a new scene to get the episode to its required length with several mandates: it could not feature any of the main leads, it could only feature Nancy and the orphans, it could not have people in gas masks, only two characters could talk, ''and'' the kind of props that could be used were limited (Moffat wanted to use a record player at first, but was informed it wasn't feasible).feasible).
** Nancy's gang of children were originally supposed to be part of the climax, but as the entire story took place at night and required being filmed in the evening, the child actors had restrictions in how much time they could be filmed at night so they got demoted in plot importance.

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* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: Nancy's gang of children were originally supposed to be part of the climax, but as the entire story took place at night and required being filmed in the evening, the child actors had restrictions in how much time they could be filmed at night so they got demoted in plot importance.



* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The typewriter scene was written in after they had to cut a scene at the episode's end for technical reasons but Moffat still needed to write up a new scene to get the episode to its required length with several mandates: it could not feature any of the main leads, it could only feature Nancy and the orphans, it could not have people in gas masks, only two characters could talk, ''and'' the kind of props that could be used were limited (Moffat wanted to use a record player at first, but was informed it wasn't feasible).

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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The typewriter scene was written in after they had to cut a scene at the episode's end for technical reasons but Moffat Creator/StevenMoffat still needed to write up a new scene to get the episode to its required length with several mandates: it could not feature any of the main leads, it could only feature Nancy and the orphans, it could not have people in gas masks, only two characters could talk, ''and'' the kind of props that could be used were limited (Moffat wanted to use a record player at first, but was informed it wasn't feasible).
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The typewriter scene was written in after they had to cut a scene at the episode's end for technical reasons but Moffat still needed to write up a new scene to get the episode to its required length with several mandates: it could not feature any of the main leads, it could only feature Nancy and the orphans, it could not have people in gas masks, only two characters could talk, ''and'' the kind of props that could be used were limited (Moffat wanted to use a record player at first, but was informed it wasn't feasible).

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The hungarian title of this episode is "A mutáns gázálarcosok támadása" (The Attack of the Mutant Gas-Masked People).

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The hungarian Hungarian title of this episode is "A mutáns gázálarcosok támadása" (The Attack of the Mutant Gas-Masked People).



* WorkingTitle: "Captain Jax".

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* WorkingTitle: "Captain Jax".Jax".

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The hungarian title of this episode is ''A mutáns gázálarcosok támadása'' (The Attack of the Mutant Gas-Masked People).

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The hungarian title of this episode is ''A "A mutáns gázálarcosok támadása'' támadása" (The Attack of the Mutant Gas-Masked People).



* WorkingTitle: ''Captain Jax''.

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* WorkingTitle: ''Captain Jax''."Captain Jax".
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The hungarian title of this episode is ''A mutáns gázálarcosok támadása'' (The Attack of the Mutant Gas-Masked People).

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Early drafts included Jamie's father, who would silently and anonymously appear to aid Nancy and the war orphans. The climactic discovery of his true identity would be accompanied by the revelation that he is German, providing an alternative motivation to Nancy's shame.
** The red bicycle comment was what remained of a story where Jack Harkness discovered that the Doctor had gone back in time and manipulated Rose's life to make her a better companion.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
OrphanedReference:
** When Captain Jack arrives at the climax, the Doctor shouts to him "Change of plan!", but they never actually made a plan. In the script book, Creator/StevenMoffat explains that the plan was in an earlier draft of the script and got cut because it was slowing the episode down.
** The red bicycle comment was what remained of a story where Jack discovered that the Doctor had gone back in time and manipulated Rose's life to make her a better companion.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
Early drafts included Jamie's father, who would silently and anonymously appear to aid Nancy and the war orphans. The climactic discovery of his true identity would be accompanied by the revelation that he is German, providing an alternative motivation to Nancy's shame.
** The red bicycle comment was what remained of a story where Jack Harkness discovered that the Doctor had gone back in time and manipulated Rose's life to make her a better companion.
shame.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Early drafts included Jamie's father, who would silently and anonymously appear to aid Nancy and the war orphans. The climactic discovery of his true identity would be accompanied by the revelation that he is German, providing an alternative motivation to Nancy's shame.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
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Early drafts included Jamie's father, who would silently and anonymously appear to aid Nancy and the war orphans. The climactic discovery of his true identity would be accompanied by the revelation that he is German, providing an alternative motivation to Nancy's shame.shame.
** The red bicycle comment was what remained of a story where Jack Harkness discovered that the Doctor had gone back in time and manipulated Rose's life to make her a better companion.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Early drafts included Jamie's father, who would silently and anonymously appear to aid Nancy and the war orphans. The climactic discovery of his true identity would be accompanied by the revelation that he is German, providing an alternative motivation to Nancy's shame.
* WorkingTitle: ''Captain Jax''.

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