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* FailureInducedTransformation: the Doctor is able to finally defeat the Collector by programming a 2% growth tax into his computers, causing an inflation spiral that would leave the Company bankrupt, so the Collector won't be able to recoup his losses from the revolution - which finally catches up with him as he frantically reviews his records. The Collector's VillainousBreakdown is so extreme that he loses his humanoid shape and shrinks back into his original form, quite literally going down the plughole of his wheelchair. For good measure, the Doctor ensures he won't leave by jamming a champagne cork in the plughole.
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* FailureInducedTransformation: the The Doctor is able to finally defeat the Collector by programming a 2% growth tax into his computers, causing an inflation spiral that would leave the Company bankrupt, so the Collector won't be able to recoup his losses from the revolution - which finally catches up with him as he frantically reviews his records. The Collector's VillainousBreakdown is so extreme that he loses his humanoid shape and shrinks back into his original form, quite literally going down the plughole of his wheelchair. For good measure, the Doctor ensures he won't leave by jamming a champagne cork in the plughole.
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* AnAesop: As well as the AuthorTract on taxation, the story also has a clear anti-colonialism message.
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* FailureInducedTransformation: the Doctor is able to finally defeat the Collector by programming a 2% growth tax into his computers, causing an inflation spiral that would leave the Company bankrupt, so the Collector won't be able to recoup his losses from the revolution - which finally catches up with him as he frantically reviews his records. The Collector's VillainousBreakdown is so extreme that he loses his humanoid shape and shrinks back into his original form, quite literally going down the plughole of his wheelchair. For good measure, the Doctor ensures he won't leave by jamming a champagne cork in the plughole.
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* WhatAreYouInFor: The Doctor asks Bisham this in the Correction Centre.
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* BrokenAesop: The story is supposed to be a right-wing allegory about how taxation is bad, written by an openly Conservative writer. However, ignoring a few throwaway flippant comments made by the Doctor, the story is really about the evil of taxation that targets the poorest in society, and societies that strip away social safety nets so the untaxed rich can rake in massive profits. The reason for this situation is privatisation, where every utility (including sunlight) is run by corporate interests and the government is viewed only as an extension of the MegaCorp. At the very least, it comes across as left-wing in an Occupy kind of way. If you choose to read into the fact that the Doctor wins by inspiring a populist revolt to execute their leaders while quoting Creator/KarlMarx, it becomes actively ''Communist''. Not what you'd expect from something written by a UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher supporter in 1977.
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* TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay: "I've heard that one too."
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'''Leela:''' Well, the column has stopped moving.
-->'''The Doctor:''' So?
-->'''Leela:''' It is not important?
-->'''The Doctor:''' WHAT?! We might have gone right through the time spiral, why didn't you tell me?
-->'''Leela:''' I tried to, but you wouldn't let me.
-->'''The Doctor:''' You didn't!
-->'''Leela:''' I ''did!''
-->'''The Doctor:''' So?
-->'''Leela:''' It is not important?
-->'''The Doctor:''' WHAT?! We might have gone right through the time spiral, why didn't you tell me?
-->'''Leela:''' I tried to, but you wouldn't let me.
-->'''The Doctor:''' You didn't!
-->'''Leela:''' I ''did!''
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'''Leela:''' Well, the column has stopped moving.
-->'''Themoving.\\
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'''The Doctor:''' WHAT?! We might have gone right through the time spiral, why didn't you tellme?
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'''Leela:''' I tried to, but you wouldn't letme.
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'''Leela:''' I ''did!''
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* ProfessionalButtKisser: Praise The Company. Hade to The Collector.
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* ProfessionalButtKisser: Praise The Company. Hade to The Collector. Praise The Company!
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* {{Pun}}: The Doctor spoofs Creator/KarlMarx when he tells the workers they have nothing to lose but their claims.
* PunnyName: "Usurians" = usury
* TheQuisling: Hade.
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* PunnyName: "Usurians" = usury
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*LaResistance LaResistance: Well, ever since the Doctor takes over.
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* VisualPun: when Leela is captured the Collector orders her status to be set as "pending". When we next see her she's hung on a wall.
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* VisualPun: when When Leela is captured the Collector orders her status to be set as "pending". When we next see her she's hung on a wall.
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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''Fourth Doctor Era'''\\
'''Season 15:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E2TheInvisibleEnemy 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl 3]] | '''4''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E5Underworld 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime 6]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora <<< Season 14]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E1TheRibosOperation Season 16 >>>]]''']]-]]]
!The Sun Makers
'''Fourth Doctor Era'''\\
'''Season 15:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E2TheInvisibleEnemy 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl 3]] | '''4''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E5Underworld 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime 6]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora <<< Season 14]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E1TheRibosOperation Season 16 >>>]]''']]-]]]
!The Sun Makers
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->Written by Creator/RobertHolmes\\
Directed by Pennant Roberts\\
'''Production code:''' 4W\\
'''Air dates:''' 26 November - 17 December 1977\\
'''Number of episodes:''' 4
Directed by Pennant Roberts\\
'''Production code:''' 4W\\
'''Air dates:''' 26 November - 17 December 1977\\
'''Number of episodes:''' 4
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Written by Creator/RobertHolmes. This four-episode serial first aired from November 26 to December 17, 1977.
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* HitThemInThePocketbook: Done twice. First, the Collector basically backstabs Hade, by announcing the money for the bounty on the Doctor will be taken out of the latter's bank account. The second time, the Doctor surreptitiously programs an algorithm into the Collector's computer that falsely predicts eventual and total bankruptcy, triggering the Collector's VillainousBreakdown.
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* ProfessionalButt-Kisser: Praise The Company. Hade to The Collector.
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* EmotionBomb: The Company uses a anxiety inducing agent to control the human workforce - under the pretext of it being an air purifier (company officals take special pills that make them immune). The Doctor puts a stop to it, and the workforce becomes really alive (and angry) as a result.
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* EmotionBomb: The Company uses a an anxiety inducing agent to control the human workforce - under the pretext of it being an air purifier (company officals take special pills that make them immune). The Doctor puts a stop to it, and the workforce becomes really alive (and angry) as a result.
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* BrokenSystemDogmatist: The [[KnowNothingKnowItAll snooty]], [[CampGay foppish]], [[TheQuisling boot-licking]], and [[EvilDebtCollector completely]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive disconnected]] [[RulesLawyer character]] of Gatherer Hade to a tee. When the Doctor and Leela, along with disillusioned citizens, form a rebellion, the mysterious [[MorallyBankruptBanker Collector]] running the whole operation sets a reward of 5000 talmars for their capture, which Gatherer Hade praises as an excellent strategy, only for the Collector to metaphorically backstab Hade by taking the reward money out of ''his'' income! He exclaims in protest at this, but doesn't outright reject the system either; to keep his pocketbook safe, he goes off to try capturing the Doctor instead. Hade, being an accessory to the oppression, later gets LaserGuidedKarma, when trying to stop the rebelling workers from loitering in the sun, who then throw him off of one of the kilometre-high buildings of the city.
--->'''Hade:''' Fortunately, as the Gatherer, I have certain powers. [[BadNewsInAGoodWay I will encourage your supervisor to allow you increased output.]]
--->'''Cordo:''' But, your Honour, I already work a double shift now! I have only my three hours sleep time away from the Foundry.
--->'''Hade:''' Twenty one hours a week. [[InsaneTrollLogic You must manage without sleep time until the debt is paid.]]
--->'''Cordo:''' It will kill me!
--->'''Hade:''' Take your Q capsule.
--->'''Cordo:''' But your Honour, the high medical tax on Q capsules!
--->'''[beat]'''
--->'''Hade:''' [[QuitYourWhining Citizen Cordo, you complain too much.]] [[AppealToWorseProblems Thank the Company you're warm and fed.]]
--->'''Cordo:''' ''[exasperated and downtrodden]'' Praise the Company.
--->'''Hade:''' [[ThatWasntARequest You may go.]]
--->'''Hade:''' Fortunately, as the Gatherer, I have certain powers. [[BadNewsInAGoodWay I will encourage your supervisor to allow you increased output.]]
--->'''Cordo:''' But, your Honour, I already work a double shift now! I have only my three hours sleep time away from the Foundry.
--->'''Hade:''' Twenty one hours a week. [[InsaneTrollLogic You must manage without sleep time until the debt is paid.]]
--->'''Cordo:''' It will kill me!
--->'''Hade:''' Take your Q capsule.
--->'''Cordo:''' But your Honour, the high medical tax on Q capsules!
--->'''[beat]'''
--->'''Hade:''' [[QuitYourWhining Citizen Cordo, you complain too much.]] [[AppealToWorseProblems Thank the Company you're warm and fed.]]
--->'''Cordo:''' ''[exasperated and downtrodden]'' Praise the Company.
--->'''Hade:''' [[ThatWasntARequest You may go.]]
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* BrokenSystemDogmatist: The [[KnowNothingKnowItAll snooty]], [[CampGay [[SissyVillain foppish]], [[TheQuisling boot-licking]], and [[EvilDebtCollector completely]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive disconnected]] [[RulesLawyer character]] of Gatherer Hade to a tee. When the Doctor and Leela, along with disillusioned citizens, form a rebellion, the mysterious [[MorallyBankruptBanker Collector]] running the whole operation sets a reward of 5000 talmars for their capture, which Gatherer Hade praises as an excellent strategy, only for the Collector to metaphorically backstab Hade by taking the reward money out of ''his'' income! He exclaims in protest at this, but doesn't outright reject the system either; to keep his pocketbook safe, he goes off to try capturing the Doctor instead. Hade, being an accessory to the oppression, later gets LaserGuidedKarma, when trying to stop the rebelling workers from loitering in the sun, who then throw him off of one of the kilometre-high buildings of the city.
--->'''Hade:''' -->'''Hade:''' Fortunately, as the Gatherer, I have certain powers. [[BadNewsInAGoodWay I will encourage your supervisor to allow you increased output.]]
--->'''Cordo:'''output]].\\
'''Cordo:''' But, your Honour, I already work a double shift now! I have only my three hours sleep time away from theFoundry.
--->'''Hade:''' Twenty oneFoundry.\\
'''Hade:''' Twenty-one hours a week. [[InsaneTrollLogic You must manage without sleep time until the debt ispaid.]]
--->'''Cordo:'''paid]].\\
'''Cordo:''' It will killme!
--->'''Hade:'''me!\\
'''Hade:''' Take your Qcapsule.
--->'''Cordo:'''capsule.\\
'''Cordo:''' But your Honour, the high medical tax on Qcapsules!
--->'''[beat]'''
--->'''Hade:'''capsules!\\
'''[beat]'''\\
'''Hade:''' Citizen Cordo, [[QuitYourWhiningCitizen Cordo, you complain too much.]] much]]. [[AppealToWorseProblems Thank the Company you're warm and fed.]]
--->'''Cordo:'''fed]].\\
'''Cordo:''' ''[exasperated and downtrodden]'' Praise theCompany.
--->'''Hade:'''Company.\\
'''Hade:''' [[ThatWasntARequest You maygo.]]go]].
--->'''Cordo:'''
'''Cordo:''' But, your Honour, I already work a double shift now! I have only my three hours sleep time away from the
--->'''Hade:''' Twenty one
'''Hade:''' Twenty-one hours a week. [[InsaneTrollLogic You must manage without sleep time until the debt is
--->'''Cordo:'''
'''Cordo:''' It will kill
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'''Hade:''' Take your Q
--->'''Cordo:'''
'''Cordo:''' But your Honour, the high medical tax on Q
--->'''[beat]'''
--->'''Hade:'''
'''[beat]'''\\
'''Hade:''' Citizen Cordo, [[QuitYourWhining
--->'''Cordo:'''
'''Cordo:''' ''[exasperated and downtrodden]'' Praise the
--->'''Hade:'''
'''Hade:''' [[ThatWasntARequest You may
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Hade gets one, at how greedy and disconnected he is, when he mocks at how destitute Cordo's late father was, at the beginning of the serial.
-->'''Hade:''' [The calculation of your father's death payments is] all here, you see, and said we put your father's personal contribution of seven talmars. [''pauses, and smiles mockingly''] Only seven talmars, Citizen? Must have been a poor man.
-->'''Hade:''' [The calculation of your father's death payments is] all here, you see, and said we put your father's personal contribution of seven talmars. [''pauses, and smiles mockingly''] Only seven talmars, Citizen? Must have been a poor man.
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* WeaknessIsJustAStateOfMind: Played with; the workers of the Company are conditioned to think this, when it's not actually a lack of skill or a lack of initiative, but a physical impossibility, to meet the taxes and demands, because The Collector and Hade are metaphorically choking every last drop of livelihood and money from the populace. If someone is somehow able to make ends meet, the taxes and demands increase.
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->'''Cordo''': Praise the company!
->'''Mandrel''': Stuff the company!
The one with the offhand bit of ''Film/LogansRun''.
->'''Mandrel''': Stuff the company!
The one with the offhand bit of ''Film/LogansRun''.
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->'''Cordo:''' Praise the
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'''Mandrel:''' Stuff the company!
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* IncrediblyLamePun: The Doctor spoofs Creator/KarlMarx when he tells the workers they have nothing to lose but their claims.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Collector plans to commit genocide by [[FinalSolution pumping poison gas through the sprinkler system.]]
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* NiceHat: Gatherer Hade wears one.
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* BigBad: The Collector is the Company's representative on Pluto.
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* BlandNameProduct: One of the props in the story was designed to look like an oversized [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5215013/Barclaycard-washes-Sussex-beach-40-years.html Barclaycard]]. When someone expressed concern that Barclays might complain, the prop was redesigned to look somewhat less like a Barclaycard.
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* ProductPlacement / BlandNameProduct: One of the props in the story was designed to look like an oversized [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5215013/Barclaycard-washes-Sussex-beach-40-years.html Barclaycard]]. When someone expressed concern that Barclays might complain, the prop was redesigned to look somewhat less like a Barclaycard.
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* BrokenSystemDogmatist: The [[KnowNothingKnowItAll snooty]], [[CampGay foppish]], [[TheQuisling boot-licking]], and [[EvilDebtCollector completely]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive disconnected]] [[RulesLawyer character]] of Gatherer Hade to a tee. When the Doctor and Leela, along with disillusioned citizens, form a rebellion, the mysterious [[MorallyBankruptBanker Collector]] running the whole operation sets a reward of 5000 talmars for their capture, which Gatherer Hade praises as an excellent strategy, only for the Collector to metaphorically backstab Hade by taking the reward money out of ''his'' income! He exclaims in protest at this, but doesn't outright reject the system either; to keep his pocketbook safe, he goes off to try capturing the Doctor instead. Hade, being an accessory to the oppression, later gets LaserGuidedKarma, when trying to stop the rebelling workers from loitering in the sun, who then throw him off of one of the kilometer-high buildings of the city.
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* BrokenSystemDogmatist: The [[KnowNothingKnowItAll snooty]], [[CampGay foppish]], [[TheQuisling boot-licking]], and [[EvilDebtCollector completely]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive disconnected]] [[RulesLawyer character]] of Gatherer Hade to a tee. When the Doctor and Leela, along with disillusioned citizens, form a rebellion, the mysterious [[MorallyBankruptBanker Collector]] running the whole operation sets a reward of 5000 talmars for their capture, which Gatherer Hade praises as an excellent strategy, only for the Collector to metaphorically backstab Hade by taking the reward money out of ''his'' income! He exclaims in protest at this, but doesn't outright reject the system either; to keep his pocketbook safe, he goes off to try capturing the Doctor instead. Hade, being an accessory to the oppression, later gets LaserGuidedKarma, when trying to stop the rebelling workers from loitering in the sun, who then throw him off of one of the kilometer-high kilometre-high buildings of the city.
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Written by Creator/RobertHolmes. This four-episode serial first aired from November 26-December 26 to December 17, 1977.