Saturday, 3 March 2018

The Sun Makers

(Series 15, Episodes 13-16)

Summary: The Doctor and Leela arrive on Pluto in the far future; a planet where fake suns have been implanted in the sky, people are taxed to breaking point (leading, of course, to many taxing puns) and the government pump fear-inducing drugs into the air in order to control the population.  The Doctor wastes no time in stirring up a revolution, Leela nearly gets steamed, Gatherer Hade meets a rather untimely end and the Collector turns out to be Flubber in disguise.

Watch it because: Cordo’s wonderfully innocent excitement at the success of the revolution.


Original Air Date: 26 November – 17 December 1977.
Doctor: Tom Baker.
Companions: Leela (Louise Jameson) & K9 Mk I (John Leeson).
Writer: Robert Holmes.
Director: Pennant Roberts.
Producer: Graham Williams.

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