Trivia / Doctor Who S27 E3 "The Unquiet Dead"

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• Awesome, Dear Boy: Eve Myles leaped at the opportunity of working on the show and Christopher Eccleston, who she both loved.
• California Doubling: Despite the main studio for BBC Wales being in Cardiff, this episode, set in Cardiff, was actually filmed in Swansea, which had more surviving Victorian buildings.
• Cast the Runner-Up: Simon Callow was once a candidate to play the Eighth Doctor.
• Completely Different Title: The Hungarian title of this episode is "Testrablók" (Body Robbers).
• Development Gag: This is how Aliens in Cardiff came to be. Since BBC Wales films there, it's treated as a borderline Place Worse Than Death in-universe, with everyone astonished that anything interesting happens there. "I saw the fall of Troy! World War Five! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon... in Cardiff."
• Out of Holiday Episode: The episode takes place in Christmas Eve, but it aired on April.
• Recast as a Regular: Eve Myles plays Gwyneth Cooper and then became a future relative of that character as Torchwood lead Gwen.
• What Could Have Been: The original story had the Doctor and Rose visiting a hotel for psychics run by a Mrs. Plumchute. This was how they were supposed to meet Sneed, who was called Noah. However, Mark Gatiss felt this version wasn’t good enough, so he heavily rewrote it. During so, Plumchute and her hotel were ditched, more focus was on Gwyneth, and he tried lightening the episode’s tone due to Davies’ suggestion.
  • Davies also tried to include a scene where the Doctor showed Rose a Bad Future of what would happen if they didn’t stop the Gelth.
• Working Title: My Name’s Dickens… Charles Dickens, The Crippingwell Horror and The Angels Of Crippingwell.

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