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The Leisure Hive
Doctor Who, episode 110 (18.1)
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Last Modified: 28 Jun 2006 13:30:03
Synopsis
The Doctor and Romana visit the Leisure Hive on the planet Argolis, the surface of which is uninhabitable following a twenty minute nuclear war between the Argolins and their enemies the Foamasi. The Argolins themselves are now sterile. Pangol, the youngest, was created by the Tachyon Recreation Generator, a machine that runs games in the Hive.
He now secretly plans to use the Generator, modified by an Earth scientist named Hardin, to recreate himself many times over, forming an army of duplicates to destroy the Foamasi. Pangol's mother Mena, the controller of the Hive, is meanwhile coming under pressure from a supposedly human financier, Brock, to sell it to the Foamasi.
Foamasi agents from their planet's government arrive and expose Brock and his assistant Klout as members of a renegade Foamasi group called the West Lodge. The Doctor then reconfigures the Generator equipment using components from the randomiser device previously linked to the TARDIS's navigation circuits, and Pangol's plan is foiled as he rejuvenates into a babe in arms.Reviews
By The Television Companion on 23 Oct 2003 21:51:12
With the coming of the eighteenth season it is as though Doctor Who has undergone a complete transformation. So many changes have been introduced by new producer John Nathan-Turner that the series is almost unrecognisable from the one that ended its previous run with The Horns of Nimon earlier the same year. The familiar 'time tunnel' title sequence so associated with Doctor Who has been dispensed with in favour of a more conventional 'journey through space' effect, while the famous Delia...
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