History Recap / DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive

* The Doctor wears a heavier, burgundy version of his hat-coat-scarf ensemble for the rest of the season, and his collar is now adorned with a question mark on each side.

The Doctor and Romana are in the mood for a holiday. After trying out the English seaside -- shown during [[LeaveTheCameraRunning a 2-minute pan across a deserted beach]] -- during the off-season, when the weather's bad and everything's shut, and it turns out that K-9 isn't waterproof, they head for the Leisure Hive, a famous resort on the planet Argolis in the 23rd century.

* ActualPacifist

* CloningBlues
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Argolis

* NoWaterProofingInTheFuture: K-9

* PleasurePlanet: Argolis

* RaiseHimRightThisTime

"The Leisure Hive" brought ''Doctor Who'' into the 1980s with a new producer, a new look, and a new title sequence (complete with a new electronic synthesizer version of the theme tune). Let's see what else is new to this era:

* BiggerOnTheInside: [[spoiler: Brock, seemingly completely human up towards the end, is forcibly unmasked to reveal he's really a Foamasi imposter.]] Foamasi heads are ''ridiculously'' bigger than human heads, but while the other characters are shocked at the reveal that he's really an alien, none of them seem to realize that his mask is BiggerOnTheInside, meaning they FailedASpotCheck.

'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''

Looking back from post-2005, the serial's villains are also noteworthy. There's a plot twist where it turns out that the alien monsters, rather than being part of a hostile racial monolith, are a bunch of profit-motivated criminals regarded as renegades by their own society. Another plot twist is that several apparently-human characters are actually the villainous aliens in skin-tight disguises, even though undisguised (as represented by an actor in a bulky monster suit) they're clearly larger than any of the humans they impersonate. There's even a scene involving a horrified bystander and a discarded skin in a closet. Does [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E4AliensOfLondon anything remind you of this?]]

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The Doctor and Romana are in the mood for a holiday. After trying out the English seaside--shown during an 2-minute pan across a deserted beach--during the off-season, when the weather's bad and everything's shut, and it turns out that K-9 isn't waterproof, they head for the Leisure Hive, a famous resort on the planet Argolis in the 23rd century.

* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard: The lawyer Klout never speaks a word on-screen, which turns out to be plot significant: [[spoiler:He's one of the disguised Foamasi, and doesn't have the anatomy to speak English.]]

* MesACrowd: Pangol's answer to the question "[[YouAndWhatArmy With what army?]]". (In the event, [[spoiler:the Pangol-clones last only a few minutes -- and most of them turn out to be clones of that meddling Doctor, anyway]].)

* SterlityPlague: The Argolian race were rendered sterile by their twenty minute war with the Foamasi.

The Doctor and Romana are in the mood for a holiday. After trying out the English seaside--shown during an ''interminable'' 2-minute pan across a deserted beach--during the off-season, when the weather's bad and everything's shut, and it turns out that K-9 isn't waterproof, they head for the Leisure Hive, a famous resort on the planet Argolis in the 23rd century.

* [=~Busman's Holiday~=]

* [=~Me's A Crowd~=]: Pangol's answer to the question "[[YouAndWhatArmy With what army?]]". (In the event, [[spoiler:the Pangol-clones last only a few minutes -- and most of them turn out to be clones of that meddling Doctor, anyway]].)

* [=~Ooh Me Accent's Slipping~=]: In-story example -- when the suave Brock is attacked by a Foamasi, his posh demeanor cracks and he starts screaming at it to keep away from him in an accent several social rungs lower than the one he's been speaking in up to that point.

* As mentioned above, it's TheEighties. That means we're taking a long trip to [[{{Synthesizeritis}} Synth City]]!

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"The Leisure Hive" brought ''Doctor Who'' into the 1980s with a new producer, a new look, and a new title sequence (complete with a new electronic synthesizer version of the theme tune).

"The Leisure Hive" brought ''Doctor Who'' into the 1980s with a new producer, a new look, and a new title sequence (complete with a new electronic synthesizer version of the theme tune). Opinions of the new era vary considerably, although it's generally agreed that "The Leisure Hive" itself looks very nice. (In fact, the director went significantly over budget, and never worked on the series again.)

* SecondChance

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Looking back from post-2005, the serial's villains are also noteworthy. There's a plot twist where it turns out that the alien monsters, rather than being part of a hostile racial monolith, are a bunch of profit-motivated criminals regarded as renegades by their own society. Another plot twist is that several apparently-human characters are actually the villainous aliens in skin-tight disguises, even though undisguised (as represented by an actor in a bulky monster suit) they're clearly larger than any of the humans they impersonate. There's even a scene involving a horrified bystander and a discarded skin in a closet. Does anything remind you of this?