Wheel in Space

“The Saddle in Space”, “The Seal in Space”, “Doctor Who and the Cybermen Invasion of Space”

“The One with the Hula Hoop in Space” (USA), “Moonbase II – Attack of the Drones”

Doctor Who visits a space station which is shaped like a wheel and defeats the Cybermen for the fourth time in just over two years.

*** - More space dramas should be set in places named after parts of a bicycle.

“We know we’ve arrived in the future, Jamie, because the women are allowed to have proper jobs.”

"My pants have been pumped full of facts and figures which I reel out automatically when needed. But, well, I want to feel things as well."

Episode Two was mistakenly broadcast on the radio instead of the television when the BBC’s reorganisation lead to lots of boxes going to the wrong offices. The Director General was forced to resign after calling the rearrangements “a damn disgrace” while there were ladies present.

As a practical joke, episode one was actually filmed in cinemascope. It’s not entirely clear why anyone thought this was hilarious.

Frazer Hines bet Wendy Padbury that he could eat the model Wheel during the wrap party. Sadly for Frazer he hadn’t realised that the model was a 1:1 replica of a space station and he had to welsh on the bet and forfeit his sixpence.

A mistake led to a technician being briefly in shot during episode four. A bigger mistake meant the technician actually had two lines to say.

Tom Baker played the servo robot with his customary flair.

The BBC Governors had to give special permission for episode five to be recorded as the script used a slightly different shade of ink (due to a temp buying the ribbons that week) and they were afraid the unions would object. They did and were given an ex gratia payment of two pounds and six biscuits. It is a popular myth that they were given two pounds of biscuits and were sick. This rumour started in America.

Si Hunt

"I was once asked to take part in a medical experiment by my good friend and personal physician, Doctor Flapjack. The procedure under review involved firing concentrated bursts of radiation, via a specially adapted X-Ray machine, at various nodules which had grown around my a-n-u-s. After ten minutes of controlled emissions (I was rather nervous) he told me that he was ready for me to come through into his operating room. "I can't help noticing that this technique bears an interesting resemblance to the destruction of asteroids using the X-Ray Laser in Story SS" I said wittily. "Don't tell anyone, Daniel, but that's where I got the idea from" he confided. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I exclaimed, groping for my trousers and inadvertently head butting Nurse Simian in the stomach, "you can't treat my a-n-u-s with something you picked up from a fascinating television programme." He looked at me with some amazement. "You don't mean to say you thought that I got the idea to insert that large blue crystal into your rectum from Gray's Anatomy do you?" I had nothing further to say on the matter and drew a line sensibly under it by walking out with as much dignity as I could muster. I heard that Dr Flapjack had to refund over two hundred pounds to audience members. It serves him right."

How likely is it that anyone would ask for Wendy's autograph without knowing who she was?

No clever pretext - it's Wendy Padbury with a turtle