Trivia / Doctor Who S32 E6 "The Almost People"

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• Completely Different Title: The French title is "La Chair vivante, deuxième partie" (The Living Flesh, Part 2).
• What Could Have Been:
  • The original ending had Amy having a vision of the "Eye Patch Lady" while the Doctor and Rory head back to the TARDIS.
  • It was originally planned that Jennifer would eat Buzzer, but The Mill decided only the shadows of the action would be shown on the wall. All of this was cut from the final episode, with the exception of Jennifer's elongated mouth as she advanced towards him.
  • Matthew Graham originally intended on setting the episode in a different location to "throw everybody", but decided that would be unnecessary.
  • In the original script, the Doctor quizzes the Flesh Doctor about the events of "The Mind of Evil" and mentions former companions Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith, Romana, Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, and Donna Noble. There was also a montage of happy memories of the Doctor's life stored in the Flesh Doctor, which included flashbacks of previous episodes and serials of the show as well as events that had not transpired onscreen.
  • The pile of discarded Jennifer Gangers was originally intended to just be a pile of bodies, but it was decided that would be "too grim". Instead, life-sized dolls were used and computer-generated Flesh was painted on it, giving it a more melted look.
  • The original script contained a scene where the TARDIS provides the Doctor with another sonic screwdriver after he had given it to the Flesh Doctor, in a similar fashion to "The Eleventh Hour".
• Word of God: Just in case anyone was worried the Doctor was being hypocritical by dissolving Ganger Amy, it's been confirmed that Amy's Ganger body was still just a flesh suit her consciousness was being remotely broadcast into, and if it had been sentient like the altered Gangers of the factory workers then disconnecting it from Amy wouldn't have made it dissolve at all.
• Working Title: Gangers.

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