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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Retired quizmaster Gartrold Breame, to meets life in general - including arrival of horrifically bionically augmented [[spoiler: Greg Ashby]] - with a genial, facilitative inquisitiveness.
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* DeathWorld: The Brago nebula has long-since poisoned the planet Scrantek’s atmosphere, rotting its minerals and rendering the populace infertile.
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* ImMelting: [[spoiler: With their DNA sequencer disabled by the Doctor’s clone, the Fleshsmiths’ bodies collapse]].
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While travelling through the Time Vortex, the TARDIS receives a broadcast - ''The Roderik Saarl Show''. Given the unlikelihood of a signal strong enough to reach the TARDIS, the Doctor lands on the planet Blinni-Gaar, where lies the headquarters of galactically popular Channel 400.
Although renowned for their agriculture, the indigenous Blinnati have left most of the farming to gigantic Guldarian farming drones - on Blinni Gaar, commercial and domestic life is managed almost entirely by television broadcasts.
While the Doctor and Ace book into the Rooth family’s board and breakfast, freelance broadcasters Greg Ashby and Eeji Tek learn of the Doctor’s century-spanning adventures. Channel 400 boss Vogol Lukas has an idea for a compelling new show about time travel and monsters. Unfortunately, it’s going to be unscripted.
In the suspiciously spacious studios of Channel 400, the Master and a pack of genetically engineered Zzinbriizi jackals involuntarily aid a scheme hatched by Lukos and the fiendish, hooded Fleshsmiths…
Although renowned for their agriculture, the indigenous Blinnati have left most of the farming to gigantic Guldarian farming drones - on Blinni Gaar, commercial and domestic life is managed almost entirely by television broadcasts.
While the Doctor and Ace book into the Rooth family’s board and breakfast, freelance broadcasters Greg Ashby and Eeji Tek learn of the Doctor’s century-spanning adventures. Channel 400 boss Vogol Lukas has an idea for a compelling new show about time travel and monsters. Unfortunately, it’s going to be unscripted.
In the suspiciously spacious studios of Channel 400, the Master and a pack of genetically engineered Zzinbriizi jackals involuntarily aid a scheme hatched by Lukos and the fiendish, hooded Fleshsmiths…
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Although renowned for their agriculture, the indigenous Blinnati have left most of the farming to gigantic Guldarian farming drones - on Blinni Gaar, commercial and domestic life is now managed almost entirely by television broadcasts.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Having aided the Fleshsmiths planned mass-teleportation harvest, Roderik Saarl aims to [[spoiler: put a stop to it, and reap the financial kudos]].
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Having aided helped start the Fleshsmiths planned mass-teleportation harvest, Roderik Saarl aims to [[spoiler: put a stop to it, and reap the financial kudos]].
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* FunPersonified: Dining with Ace at an Argolin restaurant, the Doctor is approached by Greg Ashby and Eeji Tek with request for a televised interview. Delighted, the Doctor entrances the restaurant with talk of past adventures; [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy, juggling and magic tricks]].
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* ChekkhovsSkill: The Rooths’ teenage daughter Gatti shares with Ace a love of rock climbing. This comes in handy in their escape from the Channel 400 building.
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'''Warning:''' spoilers may be unmarked.
Written by Mike Tucker; published 2000, and featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
While travelling through the Time Vortex, the TARDIS receives a signal - ''The Roderik Saarl Show''. Given the unlikelihood of a signal strong enough to reach the TARDIS, the Doctor lands on the planet Blinni-Gaar, where lies the headquarters of galactically popular Channel 400.
Although renowned for their agriculture, the indigenous Blinnati have left most of the farming to gigantic Guldarian farming drones - on Blinni Gaar, commercial and domestic life is managed almost entirely by television broadcasts.
While the Doctor and Ace book into the Rooth family’s board and breakfast, freelance broadcasters Greg Ashby and Eeji Tek learn of the Doctor’s century-spanning adventures. Channel 400 boss Vogol Lukas has an idea for a compelling new show about time travel and monsters. Unfortunately, it’s going to be unscripted.
In the suspiciously spacious studios of Channel 400, the Master and a pack of genetically engineered Zzinbriizi jackals involuntarily aid a scheme hatched by Lukos and the fiendish, hooded Fleshsmiths…
!!Tropes:
*ActorAllusion: The Doctor’s cover story of his and Ace’s respective work in alternative comedy and children’s programme presentation alludes to the careers of Creator/SylvesterMcCoy and Creator/SophieAldred.
-->''''The Doctor:''' You can impress them with your ''Series/BluePeter'' badges.
*AlienBlood: Through bionically applied pipes, the Fleshsmiths regularly imbue themselves with some kind of black goo.
*AllWebbedUp: The Channel 400 Commissionaires are equipped with tape guns, which squirt quick-drying strands of literal red tape.
*AndIMustScream: On the planet Scrantek, the Fleshsmiths’ fleshbanks hold numerous interstellar species, all of whom are suspended for gradual harvest of their body parts.
*TheAssimilator: With their home planet Scrantek rendered barren by natural disaster, the Fleshsmiths became masters of transplant surgery. They eventually resorted to harvesting the flesh of other species, leading to the annual mysterious disappearance of thousands of spaceships.
*BigEater: Not long after breakfast, Ace, on the way to Blinni Prime, gets addicted to grape-sized, orange-tasting berries.
-->'''The Doctor:''' ''{prods Ace’s stomach}'' I swear I don’t know where you put it all.
-->'''Ace:''' Bigger on the inside.
*BioAugmentation: A pack of bipedal Zzinbriizi jackals, led by Barrock, have, by the Fleshsmiths, been given sapience.
*BodyHorror: The Fleshsmiths survive by surgically merging their own bodies with the flesh of other species. Flayed with weeping sores, their skin is laced with tubes, and variably infused with machinery.
*{{Bizarrchitecture}}: The TARDIS Console Room always gives an inscrutable impression of being at the top of the ship.
*ChekkhovsSkill: The Rooths’ teenage daughter Gatti shares with Ace a love of rock climbing. This comes in handy in their escape from the Channel 400 building.
*CloningGambit: [[spoiler: With the Fleshsmiths’ DNA sequencer]], the Doctor [[spoiler: makes a short-lived self-replicate, imbued with a DNA-unravelling sequence]].
*{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Retired quizmaster Gartrold Breame, to life in general - including arrival of horrifically bionically augmented [[spoiler: Greg Ashby]] with a genial, facilitative inquisitiveness.
-->'''Breame:''' Ladies and gentlemen, a mystery guest star for you to identify. Familiar features hidden in a [[BodyHorror most unusual]] way. Can you guess who it is?
*ContinuityNod: The Master, with his catlike movements and pointed teeth, still has [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival the Cheetah virus]].
*CreepyCathedral: Scrantek buildings resemble warped cathedrals.
*DeathWorld: The Brago nebula has long-since poisoned the planet Scrantek’s atmosphere, rotting its minerals and rendering the populace infertile.
*DeflectorShields: During a heavy storm, many residents of Blinni Prime use force field umbrellas.
*TheEeyore: Eeji Tek, a gangly, blue-skinned Mokteekan, is generally pessimistic.
*EldritchLocation: With its “pedestrian infrastructure in a state of flux,” the Master’s TARDIS adopts a metallic sky; a plane of red sand, and towering, root-like buildings. Via an “auxiliary control node,” the Doctor puts the corridors back in place.
*EnemyMine: Promised a custom-made new body, the Master is forced by the Fleshsmiths into a lethal flight, with the Doctor, from the Zzinbriizi.
*EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Rennie Trasker, having unknowingly shot her OldFlame [[spoiler: Greg Ashby]], breaks down.
*EvenEvilHasStandards: Jovially sadistic Roderil Saarl is stunned by Vogol Lukos’s deal with the Fleshsmiths.
*FlyingCar: Vehicles are powered by antigrav fields.
*FunPersonified: Dining with Ace at an Argolin restaurant, the Doctor is approached by Greg Ashby and Eeji Tek with request for a televised interview. Delighted, the Doctor entrances the restaurant with talk of past adventures; [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy, juggling and magic tricks]].
-->'''The Doctor:''' Of course, it’s not all about saving the universe. ''{[[RunningGag reaches for spoons]]}'' I am quite musical.
*GallowsHumour: For the imprisoned Master’s surgical scars, the Doctor whips out some sticking plasters and antiseptic cream.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Don’t want you getting infected, do we?
-->'''The Master:''' You are an imbecile.
*HumanoidAliens: The Blinni Gaar have smooth, wide, delicately green-tinged faces.
*HumongousMecha: Since the decline of its farming industry, Blinni Gaar's cornfields are currently maintained by Guldarian farming drones.
*ImMelting: [[spoiler: With their DNA sequencer disabled by the Doctor’s clone, the Fleshsmiths’ bodies collapse]].
*ImmoralJournalist: Renownedly unscrupulous Rennie Trasker deviously lures Ace back into the clutches of Vogol Lukos.
*IntrepidReporter: Freelance broadcasters Greg Ashby and Eeji Tek.
*InTheHood: The Fleshsmiths wear dank, heavy, hooded robes.
*LightIsNotGood: Gaudily staged Channel 400 forces the Doctor and the Master into lethal pursuit by the Zzinbriizi, and torments Ace with time travel-gleaned elements of her troubled personal life.
*OldSoldier: Thirty year space corps veteran Reg Gurney, now a security guard, maintains a brusque efficiency.
*OminousMultipleScreens: On Blinni Gaar, television screens are all over the place - on traffic signs; in a taxi Hovercab - Ace even finds one built into a bath.
*PsychologicalTormentZone: Forced onto ''The Roderik Saarl Show'', Ace is tormented with a time travel-acquired photo of her elderly mother, and footage of her own gravestone.
*ResistTheBeast:
** Under threat of mechanically dwelt torture, Barrock and his pack have learned to resist their predatory instincts.
** The Master has gained some control over his [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Cheetah virus]].
*SceneryPorn: Some beautiful descriptions of the sun-baked, mountain-flanked cornfields.
*ShoutOut:
*In the TARDIS's 1920s style cinema, the Doctor and Ace have recently watched ''Film/JurassicPark''.
*Channel 400 has a show called ''[[Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs Walking With]][[Recap.DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Drashigs]]''.
*TheSpook: Having looked into [[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresStormHarvest the recent disaster on Coralee]], Greg Ashby realises the Doctor to have been involved in numerous, similarly scaled, galaxy-wide, century-spanning incidents.
-->'''Greg:''' He’s been cropping up for centuries. No name, just calls himself the Doctor. I’ve pulled records from Central as far back as the prespace era.
*StarfishAliens: A Hovercab driver follows a broadcast sport involving giant amoebas.
-->'''Driver:''' Go on, son, get a pseudopod in.
*{{Sadist}}: Vogol Lukos, under threat of gunfire, forces Ace onto ''The Roderik Saarl Show''.
*{{Teleportation}}: Channel 400 screens, imbued a deconstructive enzyme, are set, when the ratings peak, [[spoiler: to break down the viewers' flesh into a transmittable form, which, via a lunar transmitter, will send the Fleshsmiths laughing all the way to the fleshbank]].
*TrojanHorse: [[spoiler: Of himself,]] the Doctor produces [[spoiler: a short-lived self-clone. When the Fleshsmiths try to harvest the Doctor’s regeneration powers, the clone disables their DNA sequencer]].
*VillainWithGoodPublicity: Having aided the Fleshsmiths planned mass-teleportation harvest, Roderik Saarl aims to [[spoiler: put a stop to it, and reap the financial kudos]].
*WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: Greg Ashby]], by the Fleshsmiths, is captured, and surgically equipped with a bodily implants and a [[ElectronicEyes prosthetic camera]]. It leaves him severely disorientated.
*WhatAreRecords: Albee Greeth's chain of Albee Megastore music shops sell "vidcubes" of Channel 400 programmes.
*YourDaysAreNumbered: Following Channel 400's screening of what appears to be Ace's gravestone, the Doctor finds the grave - which contains Ace's young corpse. Desperate to prevent the young death of another companion, he resolves to pit himself against Time itself.
'''Warning:''' spoilers may be unmarked.
Written by Mike Tucker; published 2000, and featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
While travelling through the Time Vortex, the TARDIS receives a signal - ''The Roderik Saarl Show''. Given the unlikelihood of a signal strong enough to reach the TARDIS, the Doctor lands on the planet Blinni-Gaar, where lies the headquarters of galactically popular Channel 400.
Although renowned for their agriculture, the indigenous Blinnati have left most of the farming to gigantic Guldarian farming drones - on Blinni Gaar, commercial and domestic life is managed almost entirely by television broadcasts.
While the Doctor and Ace book into the Rooth family’s board and breakfast, freelance broadcasters Greg Ashby and Eeji Tek learn of the Doctor’s century-spanning adventures. Channel 400 boss Vogol Lukas has an idea for a compelling new show about time travel and monsters. Unfortunately, it’s going to be unscripted.
In the suspiciously spacious studios of Channel 400, the Master and a pack of genetically engineered Zzinbriizi jackals involuntarily aid a scheme hatched by Lukos and the fiendish, hooded Fleshsmiths…
!!Tropes:
*ActorAllusion: The Doctor’s cover story of his and Ace’s respective work in alternative comedy and children’s programme presentation alludes to the careers of Creator/SylvesterMcCoy and Creator/SophieAldred.
-->''''The Doctor:''' You can impress them with your ''Series/BluePeter'' badges.
*AlienBlood: Through bionically applied pipes, the Fleshsmiths regularly imbue themselves with some kind of black goo.
*AllWebbedUp: The Channel 400 Commissionaires are equipped with tape guns, which squirt quick-drying strands of literal red tape.
*AndIMustScream: On the planet Scrantek, the Fleshsmiths’ fleshbanks hold numerous interstellar species, all of whom are suspended for gradual harvest of their body parts.
*TheAssimilator: With their home planet Scrantek rendered barren by natural disaster, the Fleshsmiths became masters of transplant surgery. They eventually resorted to harvesting the flesh of other species, leading to the annual mysterious disappearance of thousands of spaceships.
*BigEater: Not long after breakfast, Ace, on the way to Blinni Prime, gets addicted to grape-sized, orange-tasting berries.
-->'''The Doctor:''' ''{prods Ace’s stomach}'' I swear I don’t know where you put it all.
-->'''Ace:''' Bigger on the inside.
*BioAugmentation: A pack of bipedal Zzinbriizi jackals, led by Barrock, have, by the Fleshsmiths, been given sapience.
*BodyHorror: The Fleshsmiths survive by surgically merging their own bodies with the flesh of other species. Flayed with weeping sores, their skin is laced with tubes, and variably infused with machinery.
*{{Bizarrchitecture}}: The TARDIS Console Room always gives an inscrutable impression of being at the top of the ship.
*ChekkhovsSkill: The Rooths’ teenage daughter Gatti shares with Ace a love of rock climbing. This comes in handy in their escape from the Channel 400 building.
*CloningGambit: [[spoiler: With the Fleshsmiths’ DNA sequencer]], the Doctor [[spoiler: makes a short-lived self-replicate, imbued with a DNA-unravelling sequence]].
*{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Retired quizmaster Gartrold Breame, to life in general - including arrival of horrifically bionically augmented [[spoiler: Greg Ashby]] with a genial, facilitative inquisitiveness.
-->'''Breame:''' Ladies and gentlemen, a mystery guest star for you to identify. Familiar features hidden in a [[BodyHorror most unusual]] way. Can you guess who it is?
*ContinuityNod: The Master, with his catlike movements and pointed teeth, still has [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival the Cheetah virus]].
*CreepyCathedral: Scrantek buildings resemble warped cathedrals.
*DeathWorld: The Brago nebula has long-since poisoned the planet Scrantek’s atmosphere, rotting its minerals and rendering the populace infertile.
*DeflectorShields: During a heavy storm, many residents of Blinni Prime use force field umbrellas.
*TheEeyore: Eeji Tek, a gangly, blue-skinned Mokteekan, is generally pessimistic.
*EldritchLocation: With its “pedestrian infrastructure in a state of flux,” the Master’s TARDIS adopts a metallic sky; a plane of red sand, and towering, root-like buildings. Via an “auxiliary control node,” the Doctor puts the corridors back in place.
*EnemyMine: Promised a custom-made new body, the Master is forced by the Fleshsmiths into a lethal flight, with the Doctor, from the Zzinbriizi.
*EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Rennie Trasker, having unknowingly shot her OldFlame [[spoiler: Greg Ashby]], breaks down.
*EvenEvilHasStandards: Jovially sadistic Roderil Saarl is stunned by Vogol Lukos’s deal with the Fleshsmiths.
*FlyingCar: Vehicles are powered by antigrav fields.
*FunPersonified: Dining with Ace at an Argolin restaurant, the Doctor is approached by Greg Ashby and Eeji Tek with request for a televised interview. Delighted, the Doctor entrances the restaurant with talk of past adventures; [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy, juggling and magic tricks]].
-->'''The Doctor:''' Of course, it’s not all about saving the universe. ''{[[RunningGag reaches for spoons]]}'' I am quite musical.
*GallowsHumour: For the imprisoned Master’s surgical scars, the Doctor whips out some sticking plasters and antiseptic cream.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Don’t want you getting infected, do we?
-->'''The Master:''' You are an imbecile.
*HumanoidAliens: The Blinni Gaar have smooth, wide, delicately green-tinged faces.
*HumongousMecha: Since the decline of its farming industry, Blinni Gaar's cornfields are currently maintained by Guldarian farming drones.
*ImMelting: [[spoiler: With their DNA sequencer disabled by the Doctor’s clone, the Fleshsmiths’ bodies collapse]].
*ImmoralJournalist: Renownedly unscrupulous Rennie Trasker deviously lures Ace back into the clutches of Vogol Lukos.
*IntrepidReporter: Freelance broadcasters Greg Ashby and Eeji Tek.
*InTheHood: The Fleshsmiths wear dank, heavy, hooded robes.
*LightIsNotGood: Gaudily staged Channel 400 forces the Doctor and the Master into lethal pursuit by the Zzinbriizi, and torments Ace with time travel-gleaned elements of her troubled personal life.
*OldSoldier: Thirty year space corps veteran Reg Gurney, now a security guard, maintains a brusque efficiency.
*OminousMultipleScreens: On Blinni Gaar, television screens are all over the place - on traffic signs; in a taxi Hovercab - Ace even finds one built into a bath.
*PsychologicalTormentZone: Forced onto ''The Roderik Saarl Show'', Ace is tormented with a time travel-acquired photo of her elderly mother, and footage of her own gravestone.
*ResistTheBeast:
** Under threat of mechanically dwelt torture, Barrock and his pack have learned to resist their predatory instincts.
** The Master has gained some control over his [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Cheetah virus]].
*SceneryPorn: Some beautiful descriptions of the sun-baked, mountain-flanked cornfields.
*ShoutOut:
*In the TARDIS's 1920s style cinema, the Doctor and Ace have recently watched ''Film/JurassicPark''.
*Channel 400 has a show called ''[[Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs Walking With]][[Recap.DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Drashigs]]''.
*TheSpook: Having looked into [[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresStormHarvest the recent disaster on Coralee]], Greg Ashby realises the Doctor to have been involved in numerous, similarly scaled, galaxy-wide, century-spanning incidents.
-->'''Greg:''' He’s been cropping up for centuries. No name, just calls himself the Doctor. I’ve pulled records from Central as far back as the prespace era.
*StarfishAliens: A Hovercab driver follows a broadcast sport involving giant amoebas.
-->'''Driver:''' Go on, son, get a pseudopod in.
*{{Sadist}}: Vogol Lukos, under threat of gunfire, forces Ace onto ''The Roderik Saarl Show''.
*{{Teleportation}}: Channel 400 screens, imbued a deconstructive enzyme, are set, when the ratings peak, [[spoiler: to break down the viewers' flesh into a transmittable form, which, via a lunar transmitter, will send the Fleshsmiths laughing all the way to the fleshbank]].
*TrojanHorse: [[spoiler: Of himself,]] the Doctor produces [[spoiler: a short-lived self-clone. When the Fleshsmiths try to harvest the Doctor’s regeneration powers, the clone disables their DNA sequencer]].
*VillainWithGoodPublicity: Having aided the Fleshsmiths planned mass-teleportation harvest, Roderik Saarl aims to [[spoiler: put a stop to it, and reap the financial kudos]].
*WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: Greg Ashby]], by the Fleshsmiths, is captured, and surgically equipped with a bodily implants and a [[ElectronicEyes prosthetic camera]]. It leaves him severely disorientated.
*WhatAreRecords: Albee Greeth's chain of Albee Megastore music shops sell "vidcubes" of Channel 400 programmes.
*YourDaysAreNumbered: Following Channel 400's screening of what appears to be Ace's gravestone, the Doctor finds the grave - which contains Ace's young corpse. Desperate to prevent the young death of another companion, he resolves to pit himself against Time itself.
