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1	[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\
2	'''First Doctor Era'''\
3	'''Season 4:''' '''1''' \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet 2]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks 3]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders 4]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace 5]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase 6]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E7TheMacraTerror 7]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E8TheFacelessOnes 8]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks 9]]\
4	'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 <<< Season 3]]''' \| '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen Season 5 >>>]]''']]-]]]
5	!The Smugglers
6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smugg_6549.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:350:Please, you think you can intimidate [[Creator/WilliamHartnell Hartnell]] with a ''knife?'' This man has crossed '''swords''' with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E6TheCrusade fanatical crusaders]] on a pair of rheumatic knees and lived to tell the tale!]]
8	->Written by Brian Hayles\
9	Directed by Julia Smith\
10	'''Production code:''' CC\
11	'''Air dates:''' 10 September - 1 October 1966\
12	'''Number of episodes:''' 4
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14	-> '''The Doctor:''' You are now travelling through time and space.\
15	'''Ben:''' Yes, well, make sure I get back by tea-time!
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17	JustForFun/TheOneWith pirates.
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20	Season four kicks off with another historical tale, this time in 17th century Cornwall as the Doctor and new companions Polly and Ben get involved in a search for hidden treasure, smuggling and kidnap - all the pirate movie staples, but this time in Cornwall instead of the Caribbean.
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22	The Doctor inadvertently hears a rhyme telling the location of the treasure and is kidnapped by the pirates. He escapes, but is eventually forced to tell them the rhyme anyway, and the treasure is found - just as the feared "Revenue Men" turn up with the local militia. In the ensuing fight, most of the pirates are killed and the travellers make their escape.
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24	Surprisingly, we won't be seeing much more of the Doctor as we know him now during this season. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet Because something very strange is about to happen with the Doctor for the first time...]]
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26	!Tropes
27	* AnachronismStew: Cherub yells, "A free trip to Davy Jones' locker", a phrase that wasn't in widespread use until a hundred years later. Similarly, the pirates refer to the Doctor as "sawbones", which originates from the 1830s.
28	* BigBad: Captain Samuel Pike, the leader of the pirates.
29	* BoundAndGagged: Polly and later Ben.
30	* BuriedTreasure: The rhyme the Doctor hears tells the way to Avery's hidden treasure.
31	* ChromosomeCasting: Polly is the only female character in this story. Creator/AnnekeWills pointed this out in the DVDCommentary[[invoked]] of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" and remarked that she was rather annoyed about it.
32	* DarkerAndEdgier: Even by later standards, there's a lot of graphic death in this one.
33	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Doctor has one, at the start of the Story?
34	--> '''The Doctor''': "See that Scanner? What is what I call the Scanner!"?
35	* DistressedDude: Yep, this is the first time the Doctor gets explicitly kidnapped (it's even commented upon many times), but it won't be the last.
36	* EekAMouse: Polly doesn't mind time travel, or even being locked up on suspicion of murder, but her bravado comes crashing down when she spots a rat in her cell.
37	* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Squire is more than happy to smuggle goods to get rich and avoid paying the taxes on them, but he draws the line at piracy and murder.
38	* HookHand: Captain Pike
39	* ICallItVera: Cherub's knife 'Tommy Tickler'
40	* LadyLooksLikeADude: Because she's wearing trousers and has her hair tucked into her cap, everyone mistakes Polly for a young boy instead of a woman. She calls herself Paul.
41	* LongJohnShoutout: Pike is an {{Expy}} of [[Literature/TreasureIsland Long John Silver]], only with a missing hand instead of a leg. He even uses Silver's VerbalTic "and you may lay to that" on one occasion.
42	* OhCrap: Jamaica has been tricked into letting Thete and Kewper overpower him. Then he realizes Pike is going to [[YouHaveFailedMe kill him for his failure]].
43	-->'''Jamaica:''' Captain! I beg thee! [[BigNo NO]]! gasps
44	* PirateBooty
45	* PirateEpisode
46	* PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime
47	* SecretUndergroundPassage: The smugglers use one that leads from a cave on the beach up to the church.
48	* SweetPollyOliver: Polly is dressed fashionably for the 1960s in trousers and a cap. When she goes back in time to pirate Cornwall, the locals mistake her for a boy, which she admits to the Doctor makes her feel 'very odd'. The Doctor tells her it's better she go along with it for her own safety, as pirates do not tend to be kind to women.

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