Trivia / Doctor Who S1 E7 "The Sensorites"

• Acting for Two: Several of the Sensorite actors play what are clearly intended to be different characters in different episodes.
• Creator Backlash: Inverted. While Peter Newman was pleased with what he wrote, his sister claimed that he didn't like the Sensorites' costumes.
• Creator Killer: Although not the result of what happened to him afterwards, Peter R. Newman didn't have any success after writing this story. His life outside writing this story was very obscure until it was the subject of a documentary for the DVD release; according to his sister and niece, some of his non-Doctor Who screenplays were not made into films or television, and he suffered from writer's block prior to his death.
• Working Title: Mind Control.
• Write What You Know: Newman based the story on time he spent in a Japanese POW Camp in World War II, which he had previously written about on several films for Hammer Film Productions.
• You Look Familiar: Stephen Dartnell appears as John. He had previously appeared as Yartek in "The Keys of Marinus".

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