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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''Fourth Doctor Era'''\\
'''Season 17:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E3TheCreatureFromThePit 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E4NightmareOfEden 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon 5]] | '''6'''\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E1TheRibosOperation <<< Season 16]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive Season 18 >>>]]''']]-]]]
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->Written by Creator/DouglasAdams\\
Directed by Pennant Roberts[[note]]Original footage[[/note]] and Charles Norton[[note]]Animated segments[[/note]]\\
'''Production code:''' 5M\\
'''Air dates:''' It's complicated[[note]]Originally intended to air 19 January - 23 February 1980. Incomplete version released on VHS on 6 July 1992. Complete version released for digital download on 24 November 2017. First aired on television in the United States on 19 July 2018.[[/note]]\\
'''Number of episodes:''' It's complicated[[note]]Could be 0, 1, or 6, depending on how you count. Originally intended to be six episodes, but left incomplete and not broadcast. Finished version released in 2017 only available in a single-episode omnibus format. Remastered 2021 version re-edited into six episodes.[[/note]]



'''Production code:''' 5M



Intended to air at the start of 1980[[note]]specifically from January 19 to February 23[[/note]], filming on ''Shada'' ("SHAH-duh") was never completed due to a union strike at the BBC in 1979 interrupting the studio shoots after all the location filming was completed. While the show has had a number of stories that were scrapped earlier in development, this is the first -- and, to date, only -- example of a story that had to be abandoned midway through filming. But Creator/DouglasAdams scripts aren't so common that they can be discarded so easily, and eventually ''five'' official versions saw the light of day.

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Intended to air at the start of 1980[[note]]specifically from January 19 to February 23[[/note]], 1980, filming on ''Shada'' ("SHAH-duh") was never completed due to a union strike at the BBC in 1979 interrupting the studio shoots after all the location filming was completed. While the show has had a number of stories that were scrapped earlier in development, this is the first -- and, to date, only -- example of a story that had to be abandoned midway through filming. But Creator/DouglasAdams scripts aren't so common that they can be discarded so easily, and eventually ''five'' official versions saw the light of day.



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* MindRape: The first victims of Skagra's device. Most victims are simply killed, but the first six people were left alive and so nonfunctional by the experience that they are unable to talk or care for themselves. The Doctor is eventually able to communicate with Caldera, one of the victims, by connecting Chris's brain to his -- and Caldera'sbrain is so wrecked that the experience is excruciatingly painful for Chris (defying this trope, the Doctor tells Chris that this might happen and gets his consent first).

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* MindRape: The first victims of Skagra's device. Most victims are simply killed, but the first six people were left alive and so nonfunctional by the experience that they are unable to talk or care for themselves. The Doctor is eventually able to communicate with Caldera, one of the victims, by connecting Chris's brain to his -- and Caldera'sbrain Caldera's brain is so wrecked that the experience is excruciatingly painful for Chris (defying this trope, the Doctor tells Chris that this might happen and gets his consent first).
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'''The Doctor''': What? And [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Schönberg]]?\\

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'''The Doctor''': What? And [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Schönberg]]?\\Schönberg?\\
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** Zig-zagged with Skagra. He's a pretty [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRFjzTx0CD1zpmmj849ahirvDeeCn_NX0jyBA&usqp=CAU good-looking guy]] in the original TV version, while the [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/14bbf8825e7477d86989a149d5b0cda2a03b6cf5.jpg webcast version]] voiced by Andrew Sachs has him as a LeanAndMean[[invoked]], EvilOldFolks type. The novelisation goes the other way again and has him as downright EvilIsSexy.

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** Zig-zagged with Skagra. He's a pretty [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRFjzTx0CD1zpmmj849ahirvDeeCn_NX0jyBA&usqp=CAU good-looking guy]] in the original TV version, while the [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/14bbf8825e7477d86989a149d5b0cda2a03b6cf5.jpg webcast version]] voiced by Andrew Sachs has him as a LeanAndMean[[invoked]], EvilOldFolks type. The novelisation goes the other way again and has him as downright EvilIsSexy.gorgeous.

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