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Overview

First aired

Saturday, November 26, 1977

Production Code

4W

Written by

Robert Holmes

Directed by

Pennant Roberts

Runtime

100 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Capitalism is bad, Human Colony, Mind Control

Inventory (Potential Spoilers!)

Telescope, Sonic Screwdriver

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Megropolis One, Pluto

Synopsis

Far in the distant future, Earth has become uninhabitable, forcing mankind to colonise first Mars and then Pluto. No longer the coldest planet in the solar system, Pluto is now warmed by artificial suns. The Doctor, Leela and K9 arrive to discover the exploitation of the Megropolis people by the ruling elite, led by the Collector.

Deep in the Undercity, a small group of revolutionaries plot to overthrow the company and the Doctor is forced to fight the oppression of the people using fire against fire...

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4 Episodes

Part One

First aired

Saturday, November 26, 1977

Runtime

25 minutes

Written by

Robert Holmes

Directed by

Pennant Roberts

UK Viewers

8.5 million

Synopsis

Pluto, the distant future. The planet has been terraformed and is now orbited by artificial suns, provided by the rapacious company who ruthlessly exploit the relocated human workforce. The Doctor, Leela, and K9 arrive and befriend a luckless drone worker, but they must flee with him to the dark undercity...


Part Two

First aired

Saturday, December 3, 1977

Runtime

25 minutes

Written by

Robert Holmes

Directed by

Pennant Roberts

UK Viewers

9.5 million

Synopsis

The Doctor has been captured by the Gatherer. Leela works to free him but the Gatherer is already laying his own plans…


Part Three

First aired

Saturday, December 10, 1977

Runtime

25 minutes

Written by

Robert Holmes

Directed by

Pennant Roberts

UK Viewers

8.9 million

Appreciation Index

68

Synopsis

Now Leela is the prisoner of the Collector. He knows of the Doctor and is determined to rid himself of both of them.


Part Four

First aired

Saturday, December 17, 1977

Runtime

25 minutes

Written by

Robert Holmes

Directed by

Pennant Roberts

UK Viewers

8.4 million

Appreciation Index

59

Synopsis

The Doctor now moves to completely overthrow the Company. But the Collector has one last trump card to play.



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Reviewed

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THE COLLECTOR: Grinding oppression of the masses is the only policy that pays dividends.

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Part One

[Corridor]

(A man in dull yellow jacket, trousers and cap, with a brown waistcoat, is hanging about in a corridor. A woman's face appears at an opening high up in the wall, with an X next to it.)

WOMAN: Citizen Cordo, District Four?
CORDO: Yes?
WOMAN: Congratulations, Citizen. Your father ceased at one ten.
CORDO: All was well?
WOMAN: A fine death. Body weight was eighty four kilos at termination.
CORDO: I'm gratified.
WOMAN: Gatherer Hade is waiting for the death taxes.
CORDO: Yes, I have them here.
WOMAN: Pay them at the Gatherer's office.

[Gatherer's office]


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