Production
According to Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts, the working titles for this story included The Crippingwell Horror and The Angels of Crippingwell. The story's final title is a reference to Cyril Connolly's book The Unquiet Grave. Mark Gatiss stated in the Radio Times that the original script was more bleak and frightening, but that he was advised by Davies to "make it more of a romp". In the original script, the story was set in a "spiritualist hotel" with Sneed being a medium. Gatiss also planned a scene in which the Doctor takes Rose to the future to see a world filled with walking corpses; the result if they had left before defeating the Gelth.
Although the story is set in 19th century Cardiff, the production was actually filmed in Swansea and Monmouth, as there were not enough Victorian-looking buildings in Cardiff. Cardiff's New Theatre was used for the theatre Dickens is telling a story at in the beginning of the episode; it did not require much dressing as it resembled a Victorian-style theatre already. An empty Victorian house in Penarth was used for Sneed's parlour.
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