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- Another Pertwee/Delgado classic, "The Claws of Axos" is the third story in an
entire seasons worth of Doctor Who/Master storylines.
- Curse those short skirts that the Doctor's companions always manage to find and wear.
"The Claws of Axos" introduces Katy Manning's knickers to millions of
unsuspecting people around the world. :)
- Also evident in this story is what is known as WBWS. That's Wobbly Brick
Wall Syndrome.
It seems to strike 1 in every 4 Doctor Who stories. There is currently no
known cure, but we remain hopeful.
- On location filming was dogged by bad luck. Freak weather conditions
meant that between shots they would have snow one minute and not the
next. This was explained away in the story as caused by the Axon
spaceship.
- Additional footage exists from this story via early edits of some of the
episodes. Hopefully they could make it onto DVD some day.
- Episode 4 has one big snafu in it. It can be seen during one of the
action scenes between Captain Yates, Sergeant Benton and a rampaging Axon
(set in a moving truck). Close-ups of Yates inside the truck were
filmed in the studio, set against a blue screen. Later, in post
production, some moving countryside could be added in its place.
Unfortunately that never happened, and so Yates is seen struggling with an
Axon with an unconvincing blue backdrop.
- The original title of this story was to be "Vampires from
Space." It was changed to "The Claws of Axos" in the
late stages of production.
- You will likely notice a drop in quality between episodes as some are the
original broadcast tapes, while at others are copies of episodes screened in
America (thus having gone through a conversion process to be able to be
viewed in the U.S.), returned to the BBC when the originals were junked,
reconverted back to the PAL standard, and then once again converted back to
our NTSC version for this video release. Needless to say, the quality
of these episodes does suffer.
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