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* MistakenForSpies: When the Doctor is released, the rebels think it's because he's spying for the Company.
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* MistakenForSpies: When the Doctor is released, the rebels think it's because he's spying for the Company. Especially given the 1000 talmars he's been paid; the Company ''never'' gives anything away.
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* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: Bisham was sent to the Correction Centre because he of it. Specifically, he got curious about the [[GovernmentDrugEnforcement mind-control chemicals]] he found labelled "For Official Use Only".
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* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: Bisham was sent to the Correction Centre because he of it. Specifically, he got curious about the [[GovernmentDrugEnforcement mind-control chemicals]] he found labelled "For Official Use Only".
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* TakeThat: The entire script is one towards the Inland Revenue office (although changed around from a public government entity to a private corporate one).
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* TakeThat: TakeThat:
** The entire script is one towards the Inland Revenue office (although changed around from a public government entity to a private corporate one).
** The entire script is one towards the Inland Revenue office (although changed around from a public government entity to a private corporate one).
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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 Karl Marx, it becomes actively ''Communist''. Not what you'd expect from something written by a UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher supporter in 1977.
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The one with the offhand bit of ''Logan's Run''.
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The one with the offhand bit of ''Logan's Run''.
''Film/LogansRun''.
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The one with the offhand bit of ''Logan's Run''.
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* PriceOnTheirHead: The Gatherer puts a 5,000 talmar bounty on the Doctor's head. The Doctor boasts that The Droge of the Gabriellides offered ''an entire star system'' for his head.
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** When Mandrel says that the Doctor had better have a good story, the Doctor begins, "[[Literature/AliceInWonderland Once upon a time, there were three sisters...]]"
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* {{Expy}}: The Collector appears to have been based on Davros's design.
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* {{Expy}}: {{Expy}}:
** The Collector appears to have been based on Davros'sdesign.design.
** Actor Richard Leech saw his character, Gatherer Hade, as a version of Pooh-Bah from ''Theatre/TheMikado''. Hade's remark that giving the Doctor a thousand talmars "added a touch of verisimilitude" echoes Pooh-Bah's famous line describing an element he has added to a cover story as "merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
** The Collector appears to have been based on Davros's
** Actor Richard Leech saw his character, Gatherer Hade, as a version of Pooh-Bah from ''Theatre/TheMikado''. Hade's remark that giving the Doctor a thousand talmars "added a touch of verisimilitude" echoes Pooh-Bah's famous line describing an element he has added to a cover story as "merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
* FunWithAcronyms: The initialism PCM may be a play on Per Calendar Month.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: The Doctor spoofs Karl Marx when he tells the workers they have nothing to lose but their claims.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: The Doctor spoofs Karl Marx UseulNotes/KarlMarx when he tells the workers they have nothing to lose but their claims.
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** Actor Richard Leech saw his character, Gatherer Hade, as a version of Pooh-Bah from ''Theatre/TheMikado''. Hade's remark that giving the Doctor a thousand talmars "added a touch of verisimilitude" echoes Pooh-Bah's famous line describing an element he has added to a cover story as "merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
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* BaldOfEvil: The Collector
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* TheDragon: Hade to the Collector.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The story is set in the far future on Pluto, which is referred to explicitly as a planet (other Doctor Who episodes refer to it as such, too).
* NoodleIncident: The PA announces that the Gatherer has offered 5,000 telmars for the Doctor's capture. A couple of workers marvel at this, until the Doctor (who's been standing behind them) scoffs, "Peanuts! The Droge of the Gabriellides once offered an entire star system for my head!"
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* ShoutOut: Leela's attempted execution contains visual references to ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' (the pod she's confined in, and the control panels). The opening shots of Cordo are a copy of the opening shots of Winston Smith in the famous 1950s [=BBC=] version of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Leela's attempted execution contains visual references to ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' (the pod she's confined in, and the control panels). The opening shots of Cordo are a copy of the opening shots of Winston Smith in the famous 1950s [=BBC=] version of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
** Leela's attempted execution contains visual references to ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' (the pod she's confined in, and the control panels). The opening shots of Cordo are a copy of the opening shots of Winston Smith in the famous 1950s [=BBC=] version of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
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* CameraSpoofingCameraSpoofing: The Doctor does this; looping the film so it looks like he is wandering back and forth along a corridor.
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* PublicExecution: Leela is sentenced to die in a public steaming.
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* PublicExecution: Leela is sentenced to die in a public steaming. The Controller is disappointed at the turnout. Dialogue indicates that public executions are a semi-regular occurrence on Pluto.
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* AirVentPassageway: The Doctor rescues Leela from the steamer by crawling through the steam vent.
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* PublicExecution: Leela is sentenced to die in a public steaming.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The novelisation restores a DeletedScene where Leela sees citizens lining up to be executed for their death-day is reinstated.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The novelisation restores a DeletedScene where Leela sees citizens lining up to be executed for their death-day is reinstated.death-day.
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* MeaningfulName: The Usurians are usurers.
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* MeaningfulName: The Usurians are usurers. Hade ruling Pluto.
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* StealthPun: Hade and the Collector are bureaucrats who run Pluto. Pluto-crats.
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* StealthPun: Hade and the Collector are bureaucrats who run Pluto. Pluto-crats. (Plutocracy = rule by the rich, making Pluto a plutocracy.)
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** On the DVD commentary, director Pennant Roberts says that the positions in the chess match between the Doctor and K9 were based on the endgame of a match between Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. However, Kasparov never played Fischer. It is probable that the set-up was based on another match, perhaps the 1972 World Chess Championship between Fischer and Boris Spassky. It is ironic if the match in this story was indeed based on a Fischer endgame, since Fischer left the United States after a dispute over back taxes.
** Actor Richard Leech saw his character, Gatherer Hade, as a version of Pooh-Bah from ''Theatre/TheMikado''. Hade's remark that giving the Doctor a thousand talmars "added a touch of verisimilitude" echoes Pooh-Bah's famous line describing an element he has added to a cover story as "merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
** Actor Richard Leech saw his character, Gatherer Hade, as a version of Pooh-Bah from ''Theatre/TheMikado''. Hade's remark that giving the Doctor a thousand talmars "added a touch of verisimilitude" echoes Pooh-Bah's famous line describing an element he has added to a cover story as "merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
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* AllThereInTheManual: The novelisation restores a DeletedScene where Leela sees citizens lining up to be executed for their death-day is reinstated.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The Doctor points out how the Usurian economic enslavement methods - driving entire races into economic ruin and despair - are as bad as wars.
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** When one of the rebels rhetorically asks the Doctor, "What have we got to lose?" he replies, "Only your claims!" This is a playful paraphrase of the famous slogan derived from the last lines of ''Literature/TheCommunistManifesto''.
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** The Collector was made to look like Denis Healey, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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* AuthorTract: Writer Robert Holmes based this story on some of the troubles he was having with England's revenue office (due to having been simultaneously paid by the BBC as a salaried worker in his role as script editor, and as a freelancer for the scripts he was credited writer on). Some of the floors are numbered based on tax forms.
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* AuthorTract: Writer Robert Holmes Creator/RobertHolmes based this story on some of the troubles he was having with England's revenue office (due to having been simultaneously paid by the BBC as a salaried worker in his role as script editor, and as a freelancer for the scripts he was credited writer on). Some of the floors are numbered based on tax forms.
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** In this episode, Leela and the Doctor are identified as "terrorists." In real life, Leela's character was partially based on Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled.
** When one of the rebels rhetorically asks the Doctor, "What have we got to lose?" he replies, "Only your claims!" This is a playful paraphrase of the famous slogan derived from the last lines of ''Literature/TheCommunistManifesto''.
** When one of the rebels rhetorically asks the Doctor, "What have we got to lose?" he replies, "Only your claims!" This is a playful paraphrase of the famous slogan derived from the last lines of ''Literature/TheCommunistManifesto''.
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* IntimidatingRevenueService: How the Company squeezes every last bit out of their workers. Lampshaded when both Leela and The Doctor flee the rooftop when told "Gatherer Hade" is coming despite not knowing who that is.
** "Perhaps everyone runs from the taxman!"
** "Perhaps everyone runs from the taxman!"
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* TakeThat: The entire script is one towards the Inland Revenue office (although changed around from a public government entity to a private corporate one).
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Crosswicking.
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* SupernaturalFearInducer: One of these was used by the evil tax-gathering government to control the human populace. The Doctor inverts the technology to make people angry instead.
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* CuriosityIsACrapshootCuriosityIsACrapshoot: Bisham was sent to the Correction Centre because he of it. Specifically, he got curious about the [[GovernmentDrugEnforcement mind-control chemicals]] he found labelled "For Official Use Only".
* DescriptionCut: A compassionate man tells the Doctor that he doesn't think Leela was ''badly'' wounded. Cut to Leela in a straitjacket bellowing threats and trying to kick her guard's knees the other way.
* DescriptionCut: A compassionate man tells the Doctor that he doesn't think Leela was ''badly'' wounded. Cut to Leela in a straitjacket bellowing threats and trying to kick her guard's knees the other way.
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* DoubleTake: The Doctor's reaction to having a gun pointed at his back.
-->"[[DullSurprise Oh, it's you.]] ''(neck-straining take)'' What'd I say?"
-->"[[DullSurprise Oh, it's you.]] ''(neck-straining take)'' What'd I say?"
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* DoubleTake: The Doctor's reaction to having a gun pointed at poking his back.
neck.
-->"[[DullSurprise Oh, it'syou.you again.]] ''(neck-straining take)'' What'd I say?"
-->"[[DullSurprise Oh, it's
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* DoubleTake: The Doctor's reaction to having a gun pointed at his back.
-->"[[DullSurprise Oh, it's you.]] ''(neck-straining take)'' What'd I say?"
-->"[[DullSurprise Oh, it's you.]] ''(neck-straining take)'' What'd I say?"
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* MegaCorp: The Company.
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* MegaCorp: The Company. The Doctor compares them to a colonising army; the Collector cheerfully admits that they've tried war in the past, but found commercial imperialism more effective.
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Misuse. It\'s Genre Savvy, not just \"savvy\".
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* GenreSavvy: The rebels soon realise the Doctor wasn't actually captured by accident, but let go on purpose.
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* EmotionBomb: Used by the evil tax-gathering government to control the human populace. The Doctor inverts the technology to make people angry instead.
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* EmotionBomb: Used by the evil tax-gathering government The Company uses a anxiety inducing agent to control the human populace. workforce - under the pretext of it being an air purifier (company officals take special pills that make them immune). The Doctor inverts puts a stop to it, and the technology to make people angry instead.workforce becomes really alive (and angry) as a result.
