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2005 comments[edit]

Should I do a detailed episode by episode guide (including spoilers) which will make this stub into an artical? Benjamin

Please do, this is an encyclopaedia anyone can edit :) Tim! (talk) 22:40, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I'll do the episode synopsis after I've watched the episodes through in detail again. Tenchi Muyo 14:47, 10 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo[reply]

I've started to construct the erpisode guide. I will watch and analyse Earthshock episode 2 tonight and type it tommorow. Enjoy! 80.6.151.193 12:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo[reply]

Summary[edit]

I don't want to pour cold water on Tenchi Muyo's obvious hard work here, but the summary doesn't sound very encyclopedic, nor is it in line with the style and tone of the other articles... --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 13:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How should I improve the way I deliever it? Was it too opinionated? 80.6.151.193 15:40, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo[reply]

Yeah, basically. Keep your opinions and analysis out of it, just stick to the facts, and keep it concise to what is directly relevant to the plot. You can read some of the other summaries, like Inferno (Doctor Who), Logopolis, Mindwarp or Pyramids of Mars to get a feel of what I'm talking about. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 15:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Alright I'll have a go. So no quotes just solid facts. Tenchi Muyo 16:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo[reply]

If you read the two extra paragraphs added on the end of the summery and could make them better please do. Tenchi Muyo 10:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo[reply]

Could someone just check the order I've placed the events in and also just check my spelling becuase I'm not a number one at spelling! Cheers Tenchi Muyo 13:00, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo[reply]

Gender[edit]

I assume cybermen are 'its' because in Spare Parts the cybermen cyberise women as well as men. Tenchi Muyo 13:00, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo[reply]

"Last time the end credits were rolled"[edit]

Does the TV movie count? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.32.48.236 (talk) 19:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

On the subject of the end credits, is it worth a mention that (on the version I have seen anyway), there is no end music for the last (4th) episode either; where it shows a freeze frame of Adrics badge and with silence. Is this a 'first'? Or not worth a mention at all - DarkMithras 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.100.246.254 (talk) 19:47, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Gold Medal[edit]

Was Adric's medal gold or gold-plated as suggested in this article? I haven't seen this episode in a very, very long time, but I remember how odd it looked when the Doctor used the badge against the Cyberman. It looked almost as if the Doctor was grating cheese rather than something metallic into the robot's chest.

The edge was gold (this is specifically addressed in part 3). The two faces were some sort of blue metal, although around the outside was gold.

Bomb[edit]

Was there any significance to the bomb being placed in a mine that was 65 million years old and the freighter hitting the Earth at that time? I figured that it was something to do with each other, like it was left over from the ship crash, but after re watching it it just seems like the whole point of there being a mine shaft anyways is just so the writer could work in a reference to the dinosaurs' death. Kuralyov 01:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It would not have had a lot of impact if the dinosaurs were mentioned for the first time at the end of the episode. The mine wasn't that old, but it had dinosaur skeletons in it, and a reference was made to when they had died out. Format (talk) 22:40, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Three stories featured?[edit]

Should we have details of the three serials referred to by the Cybermen? Stuart DD _{contributions} 15:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CONTINUITY: Scott / Which is it, then?[edit]

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The fate of Lt. Scott, Captain Briggs and the other survivors of the frigate is never revealed. Although they abandon the frigate via an escape pod before its destruction, they would have been adrift in space millions of years in the past. Scott is last heard advising the Doctor via radio that Adric is still onboard the frigate before the episode's tragic climax. Presumably the Doctor picked them up and returned them to their proper place in time, but there is no reference to Scott or the others in the follow up episode, TimeFlight nor subsequent episodes. - [Note] This is incorrect as the beginning of TimeFlight shows Nyssa running off a checklist which includes sending the escape pod survivors home, at which point Tegan expresses her fustration in the cold manner Nyssa and the Doctor are handling Adric's death.

Since the article seems to be having an argument with itself, let's leave it in talk until it can be verified. Format (talk) 22:37, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Broadcast dates[edit]

The top of the article says the serial was broadcast from March 8 to March 16, 1982, which conflicts with the information in the production box, below. I've changed it to read "from March 9 to March 17," because that would correspond with Tuesday on Wednesday on two consecutive weeks in 1982 (which makes more sense). If anyone knows for certain that it was broadcast on different dates, adjust accordingly. 107.3.148.250 (talk) 06:58, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I still have my notes made at the time of original broadcast (29 years ago!). These show 8,9,15,16 March 1982, and this date range is also shown in a whole heap of books, although only two of them show the specific dates:

Cornell, Paul; Day, Martin; Topping, Keith (1995). Doctor Who: The Discontinuity Guide. London: Doctor Who Books. p. 277. ISBN 0 426 20442 5. 8 March 1982 - 16 March 1982
Haining, Peter (1988). Doctor Who: 25 Glorious Years. London: W.H. Allen. p. 221. ISBN 1 85227 021 7. Screened: 8 March-16 March 1982 {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
Howe, David J.; Walker, Stephen James (1995). Doctor Who The Handbook - The Fifth Doctor. London: Doctor Who Books. p. 81. ISBN 0 426 20458 1. 08.03.82 09.03.82 15.03.82 16.03.82
Howe, David J.; Walker, Stephen James (1998). Doctor Who: The Television Companion. London: BBC Worldwide. p. 417. ISBN 0 563 40588 0. 08/03/82 09/03/82 15/03/82 16/03/82
Lofficier, Jean-Marc (1989). Doctor Who: The Programme Guide. London: Target Books. p. 140. ISBN 0 426 20342 9. 8 March 1982 to 16 March 1982
Richards, Justin (2005) [2003]. Doctor Who: The Legend Continues - 5 decades of time travel (revised ed.). London: BBC Books. p. 294. ISBN 0 563 48640 6. First broadcast 8-16 March 1982
Richards, Justin (2005). Doctor Who: Monsters and Villains - The Doctor's most evil enemies, from the past, present and future. London: BBC Books. p. 21. ISBN 0 563 48632 5. 8 March 1982 - 16 March 1982
Tribe, Steve (2009). Doctor Who: Companions and Allies - a gallery of heroes from across time and space. London: BBC Books. p. 48. ISBN 978 1 846 07749 4. 8-16 March 1982

The specific dates are also shown on three websites: Shannon Sullivan; Dr Who Online and best of all, the BBC. The dates in error (9,10,16,17 March) seem to be from two websites: Outpost Gallifrey and Doctor Who Reference Guide. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:27, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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