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The Leisure Hive

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The Leisure Hive
Series: Doctor Who -
TV Stories, Season 18
Series Number: 110
Doctor: Fourth Doctor
Companions: Romana II, K9 Mk2
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Setting:
Writer: David Fisher
Director: Lovett Bickford
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Broadcast: 30th August - 20th September 1980
Format: 4 25-minute episodes
Prod. Code: 5N
Previous Story: Shada
Following Story: Meglos

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[edit] Synopsis

The TARDIS has arrived on Brighton Beach. The Doctor has taken to sunbathing. K-9 is damaged when he rides into the sea. Bored of sunbathing, Romana convinces the Doctor to go to Argolis, the first of the leisure planets, where is a recreation building called the Leisure Hive. The Argolins have been conducting experiments with a science called Tachyonics. With the help of Hardin, an Earth scientist, they plan to use their Recreation Generator to rejuvenate themselves, as they are sterile because of a war with a neighbouring species called the Foamasi.

A group of Foamasi from the criminal association called the West Lodge murder two people and commit acts of sabotage. They masquerade as humans and try to get the Argolins to sell the hive to the West Lodge.

Foamasi officials arrive and arrest the two criminals. The Foamasi, like the Argolins, want to live in peace and so do not harm each other. Pangol, a clone made in the Recreation Generator wants to create an army of Argolins with the generator and conquer the planet for himself. The Doctor trips the machine to clone him instead and gradually the clones fade away.

The two West Lodge criminals are killed; when they try to escape in the Foamasi ship, the Argolins blow them up. Pangol enters the generator and it rejuvenates him into a baby.

The Doctor and Romana remove the randomiser from the TARDIS before setting off again.

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[edit] Story Notes

  • This story is the debut of the new title sequence and a change to the theme music.
  • This is not the only time a story is resolved by de-aging the Doctor's antagonist, as happens to Pangol of the Argolin when the Doctor sabotages the Tachyon Recreation Generator. In Boom Town, the Slitheen Margaret Blaine is regressed back into an egg by the Doctor's TARDIS.
  • This is John Nathan-Turner's first story as producer.
  • The story had a working title of The Argolins.
  • The new TARDIS police box prop debuted in this story, being made of fibreglass rather than wood.
  • The Doctor's new outfit (the burgundy colour) also debuts in this story.
  • Beginning with this story and continuing for the next several seasons, until The Five Doctors, each serial will be linked in some way, either through some reference, or directly linked.

[edit] Ratings

  • Part One - 5.9 Million
  • Part Two - 5 Million
  • Part Three - 5 Million
  • Part Four - 4.5 Million

[edit] Myths

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[edit] Location Filming

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[edit] Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • The wires pulling K9 along the beach are particularly visible in part one.
  • The Doctor and Romana are able to comment on Hardin's experiment, despite having missed the hologram of it.
  • In episode two the top of the sonic screwdriver is nearly bent off.
  • Presumably the Foamasi have to put on corsets before they don the skin suits.

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DVD Releases

Released as Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive.

Released:

PAL - BBC DVD BBCDVD1351
NTSC - Warner Video E2217

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Video Releases

Released as Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive.

Released:

PAL - BBC Video BBCV5821
NTSC - Warner Video E1135

[edit] Novelisation

Main article: Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive

[edit] See Also

[edit] External Links

Season 18
The Leisure Hive  • Meglos  • Full Circle  • State of Decay  • Warriors' Gate  • The Keeper of Traken  • Logopolis
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