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- Harry Sullivan, companion to the 4th Doctor, departs at the end of
this story.
- Originally intended to be the final story of season 12,
"Terror of the Zygons" is in many ways the last of the U.N.I.T. based
adventures. However, from time to time members of U.N.I.T. do reappear in future
stories such as "The Android Invasion,"
"Mawdryn Undead," and
"Battlefield."
- "Terror of the Zygons" was originally released in an edited "movie" (or
Omnibus) format. This means that individual episodes have been cut and pasted
together into one viewing. The BBC released Doctor Who videos like this until the
early 90's. Since then they have gone back and issued "re-releases" of
virtually all of their omnibus versions. Unfortunately, the U.S.
(i.e. CBS/Fox at first, and then later Warner Home Video) hasn't been eager
to follow suite, as they have only done two re-releases "The
Brain of Morbius" back in 1997 and "Terror
of the Zygons" in 2000. Additionally, many stories first
released in the late 80's and early 90's are seeing re-release on DVD.
Unedited titles such as "Spearhead
from Space," "The
Ark in Space" and "Robots
of Death" are all available now in their unedited formats.
- The U.K. re-released "Terror of the Zygons" in its unedited episodic format in
August of 1999.
- In a rare move, North American fans were treated to the unedited episode
re-release in 2000. This had only been done once before for the story
"The Brain of Morbius." Any other unedited re-releases have
been in the DVD format instead of VHS.
- Included at the beginning of the tape is a rare short segment used in the
show "Disney Time." In the clip, Tom Baker (Doctor #4) can
be seen reading a note from the Brigadier. The Doctor sets off for his
TARDIS and invites everyone at home to watch the new adventure.
- John Woodnutt plays the dual roles of both the Duke of Forgil and
Commander Broton in this story. Woodnutt has appeared frequently in
Doctor Who. Woodnutt's first role in Doctor Who was that of Hibbert in
Pertwee's introductory story "Spearhead
from Space." His next appearance on the show would be that of
the Draconian Emperor in "Frontier in Space."
After "Terror of the Zygons" he made one final appearance as
counselor Seron in Tom Baker's penultimate adventure "The
Keeper of Traken."
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