Line #70 Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld


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5	!The Enemy of the World
6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/salamander_3789.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:350:The Doctor? Or Salamander? YOU make the call![[note]]It's Salamander. The [[ForeheadOfDoom villainous part in his hairstyle is a dead giveaway.]][[/note]]]]
8	->Written by Creator/DavidWhitaker\
9	Directed by Creator/BarryLetts\
10	'''Production code:''' PP[[note]][[HehHehYouSaidX Go ahead, laugh.]][[/note]]\
11	'''Air dates:''' 23 December 1967 - 27 January 1968\
12	'''Number of episodes:''' 6
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14	->''"Dinner tonight's going to be a national disaster! First course interrupted by bomb explosion. Second course affected by earthquakes. Third course ruined by interference in the kitchen. I'm going out for a walk. It'll probably rain..."''
15	-->-- '''Griffin''' the chef
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17	JustForFun/{{The one w\|ith}}here the bad guy looks like the Doctor in brownface.
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20	The Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria arrive in Australia in the year 2018 only to discover that the Doctor bears a great resemblance to Ramon Salamander, would-be world dictator. Salamander is a scientist turned politician who has perfected a technique for storing and distributing solar energy, feeding a world ravaged by storms, volcanoes and earthquakes.
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22	The Doctor ends up in the company of Astrid Ferrier and her employer Giles Kent, a dissident who is one of the few who knows that Salamander is busy setting himself up as a dictator rather than the world-saving hero everyone else believes. He convinces the Doctor to investigate. Jamie and Victoria head to Hungary with Astrid, while the Doctor and Kent go to Salamander's research station. Jamie and Victoria are initially successful in infiltrating Salamander's inner circle, but are soon discovered and arrested.
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24	Salamander himself is responsible for the natural disasters. He creates them with the help of a group of humans living in a bunker underneath his research station. This group were selected for an endurance test five years ago, and believe that there is a war going on above and they have been striking back at the enemy by engineering the natural disasters. When the leader of the group insists on accompanying Salamander back to the surface, Salamander attempts to kill him, but the man survives long enough to be found by Astrid, who in turn discovers the bunker. Between her discovery and the Doctor tricking Kent into confessing his part in the whole scheme, Salamander's crimes are finally made public. Kent originally worked with Salamander on the project, but now returns to destroy the base.
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26	Salamander attempts to escape in the TARDIS by impersonating the Doctor, but the Doctor catches up with him before he can trick Jamie into operating the controls. In the ensuing fight, Salamander activates the dematerialization control, but he doesn't know that the door must be closed first and is dragged screaming into the Time Vortex.
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30	With the exception of the existing Episode 3, this story was missing from the BBC archives until all six parts were recovered from a TV relay station in Jos, Nigeria, along with most of the following episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear The Web of Fear]]" (actually all of it, but Episode 3 was stolen before the BBC could claim it). The discoveries were made public in October of 2013.
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32	!!Tropes
33	%% ZCE (and no, "And how!" is not context) * ActionGirl: Astrid, and how!
34	* AirVentPassageway: Used by Giles, Fariah and the Doctor to escape a security cordon. (The actual air vent is not shown, only the hatch they enter through; when next seen they have already emerged from the far end.)
35	* AndIMustScream: Salamander's fate. He ends up falling into the Time Vortex after trying to hijack the Doctor's TARDIS ''with the doors open.''
36	* AllThereInTheManual: The first names of Fedorin and Benik are never mentioned in the serial, but the novelisation revealed them to be Nicholas and Theodore respectively.
37	* AnswerCut: When Astrid and Denes are meeting, Astrid asks Denes if there's any chance his assistant Fedorin will betray him, and Denes says he can think of no reason why Fedorin would. Cut to Salamander blackmailing Fedorin over to his own side.
38	* ApologeticAttacker: Astrid apologizes to a guard she met earlier when she has to punch his lights out.
39	* BadBadActing: A more layered example, as Salamander and the Doctor take turns impersonating each other. The Doctor's performance starts out slightly wobbly but steadily improves, while Salamander is only able to keep up the impersonation by remaining silent, to the point where it eventually gives him away by forcing him to act out of character.
40	* BeneathTheEarth: Salamander has essentially imprisoned a group of people in an underground bunker by leading them to believe that the world above has suffered from a nuclear war.
41	* BigBad: Salamander.
42	* {{Blackmail}}: How Salamander keeps a hold on Fedorin. He also blackmails Fariah into working as his food taster, which is why she hates him so much.
43	* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Fedorin points out that the dossier Salamander has on him constitutes blackmail, but Salamander prefers to describe it as "comprehensive insurance".
44	* BriefAccentImitation: Creator/PatrickTroughton plays the Doctor and Salamander both impersonating the other's accent (with varying degrees of success depending on position in the story). The voice Troughton used for the Doctor wasn't even the same as his natural voice to begin with.
45	* {{Brownface}}: In-universe, because Salamander's darker skin-tone is the only physical difference between him and the Doctor, so the Doctor has to do this to pull off the impersonation. A relatively justifiable real-life use for Salamander himself, because the Doctor's physical double couldn't have been believably played by anyone other than Creator/PatrickTroughton.
46	* ChekhovsGun: One that's loaded and fired within the same episode. When Astrid rescues the Doctor from the gunmen in her helicopter, [[MurphysBullet a stray bullet hits the fuel tank]], and she comments that there's now a danger the helicopter will explode, but they complete the flight without incident. Later, the gunmen take the helicopter to pursue them by air, and are not so fortunate.
47	* {{Cliffhanger}}: The story ends with one, one of few serials after the First Doctor era to do so. The Doctor and Salamander duke it out in the TARDIS before the latter tries to take off without closing the doors first. Salamander falls into the Time Vortex, while the Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria are left grabbing on to whatever they can find to not meet the same fate.
48	* ContinuityNod: In a nod to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen "The Abominable Snowmen"]], the Doctor mishears "disused jetty" as "disused yeti".
49	* CoordinatedClothes: Victoria wears a variation of Jamie's normal jumper-and-kilt costume.
50	* CriminalDoppelganger: Salamander. Mostly played for drama rather than laughs.
51	* DecontaminationChamber: The underground bunker has a decontamination chamber with a prominently-displayed radiation meter that Salamander makes a show of going through every time he returns from the supposedly-ravaged surface. One of the ways Astrid persuades the bunker people that she's telling the truth is by deducing and then demonstrating that the meter is rigged to show a high level of radiation that falls as "decontamination" takes place and will do so regardless of what goes in the chamber.
52	* DirtyCoward: Benik panicking and begging for a "fair trial" after Salamander is exposed.
53	* DisproportionateRetribution: Done jokingly by Griffin the Chef, who says the food is so terrible he might get shot. He says he won't have to worry anymore, then miserably says this wouldn't happen and the firing squad would miss him.
54	* DistractedByTheSexy: Jamie says he got past the guards at Salamander's headquarters by having Victoria pass by them.
55	* TheDragon: Benik to Salamander
56	* EarthquakeMachine: Operated by the people in Salamander's underground bunker. Salamander's ability to 'predict' these disasters is used to enhance his prestige and weaken his enemies.
57	* TheEeyore: Griffin the chef, as seen in the above quote. Some fans have wished he could have been given a SpinOff series, only half-jokingly.
58	* EmergencyImpersonation: The plot is centred around the Doctor impersonating wannabe world dictator Salamander in order to uncover information that would discredit him.
59	* EngineeredHeroics: Twice in one story, no less.
60	** To infiltrate Salamander's security, Jamie stages an attempt on Salamander's life so that he can save the man at the last minute, earning jobs for both himself and Victoria.
61	** Salamander's whole plan to sway public opinion in his favour hinges on causing natural disasters so that he can "predict" them and save people by warning them and evacuating affected areas.
62	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Bruce is moved to sympathy for "those poor people" when he witnesses the volcanic eruption. It is ultimately revealed as {{foreshadowing}} that Bruce is more principled than he first appears.
63	* EvilAllAlong: Giles Kent initially seems like the BigGood of the serial, having found out about Salamander's plot years ago and doing everything he can to take him down. Near the end of the last episode, it's revealed that he and Salamander were originally partners and helped create the underground bunker. The only reason he is trying to take down Salamander is so he can take his place.
64	* ExtyYearsFromPublication: The story was broadcast in 1968 and set in 2018, 50 years in the future.
65	* FakeoutEscape: At one point, Benik's security men have Astrid surrounded in Kent's office. They break in to find the room apparently empty, and an air vent hatch ajar, and rush off to try and intercept her at the air conditioning plant. Then the camera pans down to reveal she was hiding under Kent's desk.
66	* FateWorseThanDeath: Floating around, lost in the Time Vortex, Salamander probably wishes that Kent's explosives really had killed him.
67	* FictionalUnitedNations: In the future, the world has been divided up into Zones, overseen by the United Zones Authority which meets in a building that looks a lot like the United Nations building in New York.
68	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Doctor mishears Astrid over the phone and asks, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear Disused Yeti?]]" Also a CallBack to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen "The Abominable Snowmen"]].
69	* GenreRefugee: The story is a Franchise/JamesBond pastiche, with Astrid and Fariah as "Bond girls", and Salamander who as a Bond-style DiabolicalMastermind. The Doctor is charmed by Astrid but does not seem to enjoy being in the company of this setting at all -- he constantly tries to dodge espionage and only agrees to go undercover when absolutely forced. Young, handsome and resourceful Jamie is a bit more at home.
70	* GladYouThoughtOfIt: Salamander plots for Fedorin to replace Denes as Controller of the European Zone, but doesn't say anything about it to anyone but Fedorin until Bruce remarks that with Denes gone, Fedorin is the obvious replacement, to which Salamander's response is, "Oh, what an interesting idea".
71	* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Salamander is a heavy cigar smoker, which is used as one of the distinguishing points between him and the Doctor.
72	* HateSink: Salamander is an outright villain, but it's hard not to admire his style and audacity. His deputy, Benik, on the other hand, is a thoroughly sadistic, cowardly and contemptible little man.
73	* HeelFaceTurn: Donald Bruce, initially introduced as a sinister heavy, turns out to honestly care about doing the right thing.
74	* HeyWait: When Astrid infiltrates Salamander's HQ in Hungary disguised as a messenger, she passes a guard, who calls her back -- to ask her to have drink with him when they're both off duty.
75	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Benik straight-out threatens to rape/mutilate/do extremely unpleasant things to Victoria and make Jamie watch.
76	* ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin: The Doctor impersonates Salamander and vice-versa.
77	* TheInfiltration: Jamie does this by staging a rescue on Salamander's life. And who can complain about being a guard for the bad guy when he gets to wear that leather uniform?
78	* InsultBackfire: When Benik, Salamander's deputy, threatens Jamie and Victoria with torture, Jamie shows his contempt:
79	-->'''Jamie:''' You must have been a nasty little boy.\
80	'''Benik:''' Oh, I was. But I had a ''very'' enjoyable childhood.
81	* IWantMyJetpack: The world of 2018 has passenger rockets, robot harvesters, earthquake machines and satellites for creating artificial daylight.
82	* JustAStupidAccent: Imagine the Doctor sounding like WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales, but with more of an edge to his voice (or alternately, him doing a [[Film/Scarface1983 Tony Montana]] impression 15 years too early). Creator/PatrickTroughton used the same "foreign" voice in other TV series such as ''Series/ThePersuaders''.
83	* TheKetchupTest: In one scene, Astrid and Giles fake Giles's death, using kitchen materials to make a phony bloodstain. At the end of the scene, Giles dips his finger in the "blood", tastes it, and makes a face.
84	* LastRequest: When Swann, the leader of the bunker, begins to doubt Salamander's account of the surface world, Salamander takes him up to see for himself and then kills him. He doesn't die immediately, and after Salamander leaves he is found by Astrid. He asks her to promise to rescue the rest of the people in the bunker, and she does.
85	* LiteralCliffhanger: The TARDIS tilts sideways while the Doctor is fighting against Salamander, with everyone except for Salamander hanging onto the ship. This was resolved at the beginning of the next serial.
86	* LowerDeckEpisode: Episode 3. Once the rest of the serial was recovered, it became more obvious that the scenes with Griffin the chef were meant to show the perspective of a common man disconnected from the world-shaking plot.
87	* ManChild: When the TARDIS materialises at the seaside the Doctor asks Jamie and Victoria to get buckets and spades, then goes for a swim.
88	* MatchCut: The scene where Salamander and Bruce realise there's a fake Salamander on the loose ends with a close-up of Salamander's face, which dissolves to a close-up of the Doctor's face that begins the next scene.
89	* NewspaperDating: Jamie finds out he's in 2018 by looking at the expiration date of the tax disc on the helicopter that's just picked him up.
90	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Salamander's fate.
91	* NotThatKindOfDoctor: When the Doctor introduces himself to Astrid, he clarifies that he's not a doctor "of any medical significance", then deflects her attempts to find out what kind of doctor he is.
92	-->'''Astrid:''' Doctor of law? Philosophy?\
93	'''Doctor:''' Which law? Whose philosophies, eh?
94	* OhCrap: Kent, when he reminds Salamander of an aspect of their old plot -- oops, that's actually the Doctor.
95	* OutOfCharacterAlert: After everyone reunites in the TARDIS at the end of the story, Jamie figures out that "the Doctor" is actually Salamander when the latter silently motions at him to take off in his stead. Jamie quickly points out that the Doctor never lets either him or Victoria touch the controls, and is immediately proven correct when the real Doctor shows up to confront Salamander.
96	* OutOfGenreExperience: This is ''Doctor Who'' doing SpyFiction -- the Doctor goes undercover like a [[Series/TheAvengers1960s 60s super-spy]], and the villain is an evil human politician TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture with no monsters involved. It's also the only story in the whole season that isn't a [[TheSiege Base Under Siege]].
97	* ThePlotReaper: Fariah successfully steals all of the documents implicating Salamander as a criminal and is going to bring them to the Doctor. She gets killed because it is a six-parter and if she'd managed, the plot would have stopped. Instead, the Doctor has to come across the information by other means.
98	* PunchClockVillain: Salamander's guards are generally presented as fundamentally decent people who are just doing their jobs. The captain who holds Fariah as she dies is particularly gentle.
99	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Bruce may be ruthless, but he's willing to listen when presented with evidence that Salamander isn't what he seems to be. The Doctor even notes this: "I think I know what kind of man you are, honest and reasonable."
100	* RecycledPremise: Both this story and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors the previous adventure]] have as their premise food shortages caused by overpopulation; in this case, Salamander is exploiting the need for farms to produce multiple crops in a season to amass power.
101	* ScottyTime: The Doctor tells Kent that it will take him "three weeks, perhaps four" to work up a convincing impersonation of Salamander. Kent tells him that they're about to be raided by Salamander's security forces, so he's got two minutes.
102	* SoftSpokenSadist: Benik.
103	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When the Doctor infiltrates the research station disguised as Salamander, his impersonation is so good that Jamie and Victoria aren't sure it's really him until he mimes playing his recorder (and complains about Jamie making him leave the actual recorder in the TARDIS).
104	* StaffOfAuthority: Donald Bruce, Salamander's head of security, carries a swagger stick.
105	* TheStarscream: At first, Giles Kent says he wants the Doctor to expose Salamander's actions to the world, but in truth he wants to kill Salamander and run his operation for himself.
106	* StockFootage: The helicopter explosion is taken from ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''.
107	* TakingYouWithMe: When Giles is shot by Salamander he sets off the explosives. However Salamander survives.
108	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Salamander blackmails Fedorin into disposing of Denes by poisoning his food, but Fedorin is unable to go through with it. Salamander then disposes of Fedorin by poisoning his drink with the poison he was meant to use on Denes.
109	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: An interesting case: the trailer announcing that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ckdpvg22w the story, having been found, will be released on iTunes]] ends by showing the last scene: the TARDIS taking off with ''the doors opened'', and Salamander being sucked out into the Time Vortex. Oops.
110	* TheXOfY
111	* UndercoverAsLovers: During his infiltration, Jamie introduces Victoria as his girlfriend. [[{{Shipping}} Or perhaps she really is his girlfriend]].[[invoked]]
112	* VanillaEdition: Because the episodes were lost for years and only recovered only in 2013, after most of the series was out on DVD already, the initial DVD release contained no bonus features so that it could be released as soon as possible after the recovery became public knowledge. A new special edition DVD followed a few years later (in, appropriately, 2018) with the kinds of bonus features that are usual for the series.
113	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Salamander's invention, the Sun Store, is helping to feed the world. Three or four crops can be grown in a single growing season, and formerly arid areas have become productive areas when it comes to producing food. This has resulted in enormous popularity for Salamander.
114	* WhamLine:
115	** In the midpoint of the last episode, after Kent is holding "Salamander" hostage, and reveals he knows the secret of the hidden passage in the research center, "Salamander" has this to say:
116	-->'''The Doctor:''' ''[dropping his Salamander accent]'' Well that's very interesting Mr. Kent. Why didn't you tell me that before?
117	** At the climax of the last episode; Salamander, having been mistaken for the Doctor by Jamie, is asked by the companions to have the TARDIS take off. Not wanting to give himself away, Salamander silently motions to Jamie to do it for him:
118	-->'''Jamie:''' Me, Doctor? ''[motions to close the doors, then stops]'' [[OutOfCharacterAlert ...but you said we were never to touch the controls.]]\
119	'''The Doctor:''' ''[speaking from behind them]'' Quite right, Jamie.
120	* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: One of the reasons that the Doctor thinks that Salamander might be evil (though he wasn't yet totally convinced) is because one of his flunkies breaks Kent's crockery.
121	-->'''The Doctor:''' Sad, really, isn't it? People spend all their time making nice things, and other people come along and break them.
122	* WorldOfSnark: Most of the topside characters are snarky.
123	** Astrid.
124	--->Really, as Head of Security, you should have more reliable guards.
125	** Benik.
126	--->'''Bruce:''' ''[puzzled about Salamander's apparent unannounced departure]'' Did you see the rocket take off?\
127	'''Benik:''' Do you mean did I stand there waving my handkerchief? Hardly.
128	** The Doctor, naturally enough, exchanges snark with Salamander when they finally meet.
129	--->'''The Doctor:''' ''[after the OutOfCharacterAlert blows Salamander's cover]'' Welcome to the TARDIS.\
130	'''Salamander:''' Thank you. You were doing so well impersonating me, I thought I might return the compliment.
131	** Fariah, who even ''dies'' with a snark.
132	--->I can only die once, and someone's beaten you to it.
133	** Griffin, the pessimistic chef.
134	--->Well sit down and write out the menus. First course interrupted by bomb explosion. Second course affected by earthquakes. Third course ruined by interference in the kitchen.
135	* WrittenInAbsence: Jamie and Victoria are absent from the fourth episode, as Creator/FrazerHines and Creator/DeborahWatling were on holiday. This is covered in the story by Jamie and Victoria being captured at the end of Episode Three and held prisoner somewhere off-screen until being brought out for interrogation in Episode Five.
136	* YouHaveFailedMe: Salamander dispatches Fedorin for not killing Denes as he promised to.
137	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Why Salamander discredited Giles Kent. When Kent offers to work with him at the end Salamander shoots him.

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