Frontier in Space

"Space Trek", "Space Wars", "Space Frontier", "Space 1973"

"The One with the Riots in Tokyo" (USA), "Line in Space Battle Glory Warrior Seek Disruption" (China)

Doctor Who stops two sides from fighting by convincing them to not fight each other 

*** - if it's Space Opera, why doesn't Pertwee sing?

"You said they weren't working for the Daleks you old git" (Jo to Doctor, cut at the insistence of BBC1 Controller's mother)

"I prefer to put my faith in the pants probe"

This entire six part serial was, uniquely, shot in one continuous take.

Barry Letts bet Terrance Dicks two pounds that he couldn’t slip the word ‘brothel’ into the script. This led to a severe falling out as Dicks snuck it into the script but Letts used his production power to cut it before transmission. The line in question was spoken by the Master and went “Doctor – I haven’t seen you since we met in that brothel”

Katy Manning’s rather odd performance was mainly due to her new contact lenses which, being blonde and therefore dim, she kept putting in the wrong eyes. Usually Jon Pertwee’s.

Years before “Harry F’N Potter”, this story actually premiered at midnight at a branch of HMV.

The Clackton Crunch interviewed Roger Delgado. When asked what motivated his performance as The Master, he replied “It’s all in the beard – shave my face and you’d swear I was an angel.”

...is that electing a woman as your leader always ends in tears

Si Hunt

"I have only once been imprisoned for assaulting someone and that was in connection with Story QQQ. A rather heated discussion was taking place in the Elk and Bush and, although not technically part of it as I was sipping a small glass of sherry and eating smuggled peanuts from a free airline supplied bag that I had snuck onto the premises in contravention of their food regulations, I joined in with both guns blazing. They were discussing how they saw a parallel between Story QQQ and Story SSS and Story V. "It is a well known fact that they wanted to do an epic twelve part tale in the anniversary season to hark back to Masterplan" said one of the proles. His colleague agreed with him. Thinking back, the conversation may only have become heated after I joined in. It is a matter of no relevance. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I said, tossing my nuts on the floor to add emphasis. "How can there possibly be a parallel between the two when one has a single production code and the other has two production codes? Only a retarded ape or a colonial or a h-o-m-o-s-e-x-u-a-l or a woman could possibly think in such subnormal terms." He looked over at me and grinned. "Well what about Trial - that's one story but has three production codes" he smirked. He had gone too far. He had breached the unwritten code of the telehistorical community. We never mention that aberration, ever. I swung my satchel at the criminal and luckily it contained a brick from the wall behind which a "Cyberman" lurked in Story 6K. I was sentenced to three years in gaol but served only nine weeks when the governor of the jail was handed a petition by my fellow inmates."

"Baker's Bakers" - the official publication of the Tom Baker Cake Maker Club - suggested in 1997 that gingerbread men or women were a good thing to bake while half-watching Frontier in Space. This was part of their lengthy series of pieces about what to do while waiting for UKGold to get round to showing their hero's era. Meanwhile, Paul Caramel, writing in "The In-Vision of Time" wrote an entire space themed opera to accompany his review of this so-called space opera. The script never performed. The review, on the other hand, sold out the Buxton Opera House for twelve nights in 1994. The local paper snidely commented "There obviously isn't much to do in Buxton" before realising they'd broken the golden rule of local journalism.