Talk:The Invasion (Doctor Who)

message: I think this is significant enough to warrant its own section (there was already an external link to the BBC page). I wonder if it would be OK to use a screen capture from the trailer to illustrate the point? 23skidoo 16:25, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the smaller picture of the Second Doctor and Zoe in the news article would be a better one to use. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 16:38, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Very nice I'm sure, but the archive status is not "Black and White animation" but "Only stills and/or fragments exist". Unless the claim is that it was originally made as a cartoon? MartinSFSA (talk) 07:20, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Animated reconstruction

message: On the blurb of the BBC audio soundtrack CD release of this serial it says it takes place in 1975 - seemed quite specific so i would have thought this would have been taken as this episode's dating but according to the UNIT dating controversy page on Wikipedia The Invasion takes place in 1979 at the earliest...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winterspell (talk • contribs) 22:36, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 1975 was the date given for the story in the Radio Times in 1968, which is why the CD states that as the date of the story.86.5.134.132 (talk) 21:29, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dating - 1975? 

message: I have altered the section entitled Planet 14 as I believe there to be overwhelming evidence that this advanced form of cyberman is of the same party seen in Attack of the Cybermen and indeed Silver Nemesis. - Andrew Byatt 11:05 13 October 2008 (UTC)
:Sadly, we can't include that because it's original research.  We can, however, include the opinions of noteworthy sources, so I've replaced your speculation with that of Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood.  If there are other theories from reliable sources (like the Discontinuity Guide, for example), we could include them, but we can't put our own theories into the article. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 22:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Although that reasoning sounds plausible, it's still original research.  We can put in theories like whatever David Banks says in his "Cybermen" book, or what Lance Parkin says in his chronologies, because those are noteworthy sources.  But we can't put in our own theories, no matter how plausible.  Sorry. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 20:21, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: After going through that lengthy series of edits to this section by Byatt (BTW, why are you an anonymous IP there but not here?), I intended to check my copy of Discontinuity to the point; they do have a sidebar/essay "Cyber History" so it's likely I'll find they said something relevant. I'll do that tonight. --Ted Watson (talk) 21:20, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planet 14 

message: On the page it says the animated Episode 1 contains a reference to Season 27's "Bad Wolf" theme.  I had a jolly good look through the episode, and could NOT see it.  I couldn't figure out on the page history who added that here - does anyone know who put that there?  Furthermore can we get confirmation with a screen grab?  I'm not claiming to be the know all on it, but when I read that, I went and looked - three times, and could not find the Bad Wolf in Invasion Ep1 Animated. Thanks.   - Dopefish (talk) 07:25, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It was done on May 6, 2007 by IP 81.152.88.139, with no talk page existing. --Ted Watson (talk) 20:34, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to one of the animators on the episode's commentary, it's written on Isobel's wall over her phone.  The writing is pretty faint, though; I can only make out a "W". Binabik80 (talk) 15:51, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Any evidence that it was in the original - after all, this could have been a private in-joke by the animator concerned. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:47, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad Wolf?

message: There is a line in the section "In print": "The novelisation restores material cut from the broadcast including the UNIT raid to rescue Professor Watkins and Vaughan convincing Routledge to shoot himself." I know that the Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition "The Complete Second Doctor" (I don't have the original "Archive" feature on this serial) states that the first of these two examples was never recorded, while I'm not certain if it says anything about the second—I'll check. The quoted sentence on the other hand sounds like it is talking about post-production editing, stuff left on the proverbial cutting-room floor. What about Ian Marter's other restorations here? We need to make this more accurately indicate just what was restored (scripted-but-unrecorded, recorded-but-untransmitted, or some of each?), but I've never read this novelisation. Can somebody help with this? --Tbrittreid (talk) 22:17, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Novelisation restorations 

message: I wonder why this term is used for Professor Watkins machine, as in the actual episodes it is refered to as the Cerebratron or the Cerebratron Machine only, never as the Cerebration Mentor.86.11.32.155 (talk) 23:06, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be an error. Feel free to correct it. DonQuixote (talk) 14:52, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: According to this site, the phrase 'Cerebraton Mentor' is used twice in the story, once in Episode Three and once in Episode Six. DrWhoFanJ (talk) 19:40, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Cerebration Mentor? 

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message: What i have noticed millions of times everytime I read the 'Plot' section of this page is the lacl of the Cyber-planner in it. At all. It gives no reference to the Cyber-planner. I might add a few references here and there in the plot, also including the scene at the start of Ep. 8 where Vaughn destroys the Cyber-planner. Hope no-pne minds if I do it, though. Vincinel (talk) 07:45, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  RIP Cyber-planner