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* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: After Tragan's gambit to kill him and Grebber, he wakes up in a laboratory where one Professor Wilkins is about to dissect him. The Doctor doesn't react with fear, though, he just impatiently asks Wilkins to stop pointing the scalpel at him.
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* MeaningfulName: The miracle plant used by Parakon for food and manufacturing is called rapine, which rapidly depletes nutrients from the soil. Rapine is an old term for violent siege and plunder, which is fitting as the Parakon Corporation routinely ravages other planets through engineered wars, taking the bodies of those killed in the conflict and processing it into a fertilizer that sustains the plant.
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* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: {{Discussed|Trope}} in the beginning of Episode 1, where Freeth notes how the radio advertisement for Spaceworld didn't mention its sponsor, the Parakon Corporation.
-->''"I could have wished that he had mentioned the name of the corporation, that after all it ''is'' the object of the exercise. Perhaps we should have called it the Parakon Corporation Spacepark, like a sponsored horse race. It lacks a certain ''je ne sais quoi'', though, wouldn't you say, Tragan?"''
-->''"I could have wished that he had mentioned the name of the corporation, that after all it ''is'' the object of the exercise. Perhaps we should have called it the Parakon Corporation Spacepark, like a sponsored horse race. It lacks a certain ''je ne sais quoi'', though, wouldn't you say, Tragan?"''
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''The Paradise of Death'' is a radio drama based on ''Series/DoctorWho'', produced by Creator/TheBBC and first broadcast in five episodes on BBC Radio 5 from 27 August to 24 September 1993. The original radio play was released on CD as part of the BBC Radio Collection in March 2000. A second radio play featuring the Third Doctor, ''The Ghosts of N-Space'', was broadcast in 1996. Creator/JonPertwee, Creator/ElisabethSladen and Creator/NicholasCourtney all return to play their ''Doctor Who'' characters.
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart asks the Doctor to investigate a mysterious murder near a new theme park called Space World. Together with Sarah Jane Smith and her photographer Jeremy Fitzoliver, the Doctor investigates the mysterious Parakon Corporation, which is not quite of this world.
''The Paradise of Death'' is a radio drama based on ''Series/DoctorWho'', produced by Creator/TheBBC and first broadcast in five episodes on BBC Radio 5 from 27 August to 24 September 1993. The original radio play was released on CD as part of the BBC Radio Collection in March 2000. A second radio play featuring the Third Doctor, ''The Ghosts of N-Space'', was broadcast in 1996. Creator/JonPertwee, Creator/ElisabethSladen and Creator/NicholasCourtney all return to play their ''Doctor Who'' characters.
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart asks the Doctor to investigate a mysterious murder near a new theme park called Space World. Together with Sarah Jane Smith and her photographer Jeremy Fitzoliver, the Doctor investigates the mysterious Parakon Corporation, which is not quite of this world.
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->'''The Doctor:''' He knows how wary the human tribe is of foreigners. What sort of a welcome do you think a gang of alien carpetbaggers from outer space would get?\\
'''Chairman Freeth:''' ''Not quite'' the expression I might have used ''myself,'' but fundamentally, Doctor, you've hit it on the button -- ''or even the nose.'' Our proposals can only be of ''benefit'' to the ''economy'' of your world. A valuable new export market for a new product, cheap imports of every kind, the benefit of advanced technologies, which can offer a life of ''ease'' and ''luxury'' to the vast majority of your people! We have a paradise of our own on Parakon, we want you to share it!\\
'''The Brigadier:''' So, you plan to get the public on your side, before it's revealed that you come from outside the Solar System. Give them a spoonful of honey to help the pill go down?\\
'''Chairman Freeth:''' Exactly ''right.'' Except, that in this case, it'll turn out to be honey. Honey! ''Honey!''
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Liner notes say that, continuity-wise, this story fits between "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior The Time Warrior]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]". This is also the first appearance of Jeremy Fitzoliver, who would make a few more appearances in the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]].
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* ActuallyIAmHim: Via a JumpCut, the audience is told of the true identity of someone from Onya's past:
-->'''Freeth:''' This Onya, who is she? Where does she come from?\\
'''Tragan:''' That is precisely what I'm checking at the moment. Ah, here we are. Onya Farjen. Bond-servant to the President. Previous employment: Catian Glesay, deceased. Highly recommended, previous records unavailable, reference...\\
'''Freeth:''' ''...Unavailable.''\\
'''Tragan:''' Ah, thought as much. Her previous records were destroyed in the Temple dissolution riots.\\
'''Freeth:''' I see! So, our only lead is this Catian Glesay, correct?\\
'''Tragan:''' So it would seem.\\
'''Freeth:''' And ''she's'' dead.\\
''({{beat}})''\\
'''Onya:''' ''(To the Doctor and company)'' Oh, my name wasn't Onya Farjen in those days; it was Catian Glesay.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Sarah says that Tragan's true form has mauve-colored skin and a face full of hairy warts, and the Doctor identifies him as a Naglon.
* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: When Sarah plugs into an ER couch on Parakon and turns it to Channel 77, she initially presumes that it's a game of paintball in a forest... until she realizes that the target was ''not'' pretending to be hurt after being shot, and that there's a giant hole in his back. Made more horrible when her point-of-view person trudges over to him to shoot another hole in the victim.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: When Sarah is in disbelief that [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster the Doctor's been to Atlantis]], he retorts that [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior she's been with him to medieval England]].
-->''"Well, you've traveled in the TARDIS yourself, about eight hundred years back, to merry England! [...] If you can swallow that, why choke on a mere three thousand years more?"''
* BloodKnight: [[TheDragon Tragan]] takes much pleasure in the wetwork he does for [[BigBad Freeth]], between sending his beasts after the hooligans, mind-controlling Grebber to send the Doctor off a building with him, and orchestrating the arrest and execution of Captain Rudley.
-->''"I stayed with him too long, that's all. I couldn't resist it! The sheer mortal terror of the man -- it was ''ecstasy,'' Freeth! I tell you, utter ecstasy!"''
* BloodSport: On Parakon, those who stand accused of serious offenses such as insurrection against the government or the Corporation are plopped into a wilderness and pursued by a heavily-armed soldier, whose experience in hunting and likely killing the victim is [[PublicExecution broadcast into the Experienced Reality headsets]]. Rudley says that the ones where the condemned escapes aren't even put on the public networks.
-->'''Sarah:''' And people switch on for ''that?''\\
'''Rudley:''' They're the most popular channels.
* BoundAndGagged: Sarah, while Tragan has her restrained in his ship.
* BreadAndCircuses: The scenes of gory bloodsport broadcast on the ER channels serve well to lull the populace of Parakon into a state of complacency. The Doctor spells it out after the President departs:
-->'''The Brigadier:''' {{Gladiator|Games}}s, by jiminy.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Yeah, to keep the plebs quiet. The Romans had a word for it, or rather, three words: ''Panem et circenses'', bread and circuses. It works then, it works now!
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Each episode save for the finale ends on one of these:
## Tragan, having mind-controlled Grebber to leap off a building, takes the Doctor down with him, proudly proclaiming, "The Doctor's dead!"
## The TARDIS has brought the Doctor, the Brigadier, and Jeremy not to Parakon, but to a war-torn planet called Blestinu.
## As the Doctor and company rush to escape Parakon, their flight is halted by Freeth, Tragan, and the latter's hounds standing between them and the TARDIS.
## Sarah and Jeremy have doubled back to rescue Rudley, but their path takes them right through the territory of the [[SuperPersistentPredator Gargan]]... [[OhCrap and the beast has seen them]].
* ColdHam: Chairman Freeth talks slower than most other characters and doesn't raise his voice much, but manages to be very dramatic and theatrical anyway, [[ChewingTheScenery making a meal of each line he utters]].
* ContinuityNod:
** While being interviewed by Sarah, The Doctor relates some of the events of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]". When Sarah reacts with incredulity, The Doctor reminds her of her own meeting with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior Irongron]] a few days (and a few hundred years) earlier.
** When the Doctor, Onya, and the like land in one of the {{Last Fertile Region}}s of Parakon to escape Corporation agents and tend to Onya's arm:
--->'''The Doctor:''' ...as the stun gun blocked the energy flow, so we have to [[ReversePolarity reverse the effect]].\\
'''The Brigadier:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E3TheSeaDevils Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow]], eh, Doctor?
** The Doctor tries to soothe the Gargan with the Venusian Lullaby, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E2TheCurseOfPeladon just like he did with Aggedor]]. He mentions his old teacher as well.
* DamselInDistress: In Episode 2, Sarah is a stowaway on Freeth's ship as it leaves Earth for Parakon, and is tied up and menaced by Tragan.
* DoesntLikeGuns: A variation. While Onya doesn't mind LaResistance using conventional firearms, she objects to the use of stolen [[TheParalyzer stun-guns]] used by Corporation agents, and so modifies them to give a lower-intensity blast incapable of permanent paralysis.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: Just as in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior her previous appearance]], Sarah's eager to get to the bottom of all of the strange happenings at Spaceworld.
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* AmusementPark: Spaceworld
* ContinuityNod: The Doctor tries to sooth the Gargan with the Venusian Lullaby, just like he did with Aggedor. He mentions his old teacher as well.
** While being interviewed by Sarah, The Doctor relates some of the events of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]''. When Sarah reacts with incredulity, The Doctor reminds her of her own meeting with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior Irongron]] a few days (and a few hundred years) earlier.
* LargeHam: Chairman Freeth, who makes a meal of every line he utters.
* ContinuityNod: The Doctor tries to sooth the Gargan with the Venusian Lullaby, just like he did with Aggedor. He mentions his old teacher as well.
** While being interviewed by Sarah, The Doctor relates some of the events of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]''. When Sarah reacts with incredulity, The Doctor reminds her of her own meeting with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior Irongron]] a few days (and a few hundred years) earlier.
* LargeHam: Chairman Freeth, who makes a meal of every line he utters.
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* AmusementPark: Spaceworld
HellIsThatNoise: After the two hooligans are brutally killed by Tragan's beasts, there is a sound of bones slowly crunching as the monster sinks its teeth into their lifeless bodies.
*ContinuityNod: LastFertileRegion: Rapine cultivation has reduced much of Parakon to a desolate wasteland, but a few regions survive that went unspoiled by this environmental degradation, "a green island in a yellow sea", as Sarah Jane puts it.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: The Doctortries to sooth is flabbergasted at the Gargan with Brigadier's request that he help him investigate the Venusian Lullaby, just like he did with Aggedor. He mentions his old teacher goings-on at Spaceworld:
-->''"Lethbridge-Stewart, let me understand you right -- you have ''catastrophically'' interrupted a ''very tricky'' operation, on which I may say the entire navigation system of the TARDIS could depend, ''to invite me to a children's funfair?''"''
* LotusEaterMachine: The Experienced Reality module feeds the subject a seamless simulation of another person's recorded experiences. It compels people to want to live in the simulation, aswell.
** While being interviewed by Sarah,it resists the Brigadier's efforts to deviate from "what the program wants [him] to do". The Doctor relates notes that it's possible (and, with the aliens' advanced tech, very probable) to scale that technology way up to control a country -- or even a ''world.''
* MegaCorp: The Parakon Corporation has powers on its home planet equaling those of the proper government, and the President says that it is the sole producer on the planet.
* MonsterMunch: In the very beginning, there're a pair of drunken hooligans who try to invade the park, but run into Freeth and Tragan while the latter pair land. Tragan sics some of his alien monsters on theevents pair, killing both and eating the body of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]''. When Sarah reacts with incredulity, The Doctor reminds her of her own meeting with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior Irongron]] a few days (and a few hundred years) earlier.
* LargeHam: Chairman Freeth, who makes a meal of every line he utters.one.
-->'''Freeth:''' Don't let them ''both'' be eaten! A corpse could be good publicity.
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* LetMeGetThisStraight: The Doctor
-->''"Lethbridge-Stewart, let me understand you right -- you have ''catastrophically'' interrupted a ''very tricky'' operation, on which I may say the entire navigation system of the TARDIS could depend, ''to invite me to a children's funfair?''"''
* LotusEaterMachine: The Experienced Reality module feeds the subject a seamless simulation of another person's recorded experiences. It compels people to want to live in the simulation, as
** While being interviewed by Sarah,
* MegaCorp: The Parakon Corporation has powers on its home planet equaling those of the proper government, and the President says that it is the sole producer on the planet.
* MonsterMunch: In the very beginning, there're a pair of drunken hooligans who try to invade the park, but run into Freeth and Tragan while the latter pair land. Tragan sics some of his alien monsters on the
* LargeHam: Chairman Freeth, who makes a meal of every line he utters.
-->'''Freeth:''' Don't let them ''both'' be eaten! A corpse could be good publicity.
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* SimpletonVoice: NoodleIncident: The Doctor points out to Freeth that he recognized the Crab-Clawed Kamelius from having "spent a long weekend on Aldebaran II a few years ago", and remarks that the food was bad. Freeth commiserates.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The Brigadier says that it'd be a miracle for anybody to survive the 200-foot fall that the Doctor suffered at the end of Episode 1.
* NotOfThisEarth: The Doctor and Professor Willow analyze the body of the man who was butchered by one of Tragan's creatures, and they determine from traces of its acidic saliva and from a non-mammalian hair that it left behind that it must be an extraterrestrial.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Mr. Grebber is slaved to an ER implant by Tragan to jump off a tower, but the latter also sees the opportunity to drag the Doctor down with Grebber when he tries to help Grebber to safety.
* PunBasedCreature: This is Sarah's impression of what a time ram is, as the Doctor relates the events of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]".
-->''"Oh, don't tell me -- the TARDIS was attacked by a randy sheep with a clock for a face!"''
* PuppetKing: Onya notes that Parakon is nominally ruled through the President and his Council of Ministers, but they're all too weak and/or corrupt to do the job of governing, so they leave it all to Freeth.
* RuleNumberOne: Midway through Episode 2, as Sarah prepares to investigate the spaceships at Spaceworld:
-->'''Sarah:''' Second rule of investigative journalism, Jeremy: Never take anything for granted.\\
'''Jeremy:''' What's the first rule?\\
'''Sarah:''' Get your expenses sorted out.
* ShoutOut:
** When Jeremy briefly loses his shoe on Blestinu, he grouses, "I can't go wandering around the old universe like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddle,_Diddle,_Dumpling,_My_Son_John Diddle Diddle Dumpling]] now, can I?" This actually tips the Doctor off that his shoe's stuck in the mud outside the TARDIS, and he swipes it for Jeremy before departing for Parakon.
** When the Doctor expresses his puzzlement at how the inner workings of Parakonian society must tick, he has this to say:
--->''"Even on our own terms, there's one thing missing from the paradise equation, Brigadier. [...] Nothing for nothing and precious little for sixpence, as Theatre/KingLear very nearly said."''
** After Tragan and Freeth thwart Team TARDIS' escape from Parakon in Episode 3's {{cliffhanger}}, Freeth gloats, "To misquote a little, [[Film/{{Casablanca}} I think this could be the end of a beautiful friendship]]!"
* StealthInsult: When Mr. Grebber encounters Sarah and Jeremy, Sarah sneaks in a jab at the latter's status as TheDitz:
-->'''Sarah:''' [[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretend to be dimwitted]].\\
'''Jeremy:''' What?\\
'''Sarah:''' On second thought, stay as sweet as you are.
* TemptingFate: When Freeth insists that Tragan head back to Parakon, he says that the Doctor -- the only person who could've been a SpannerInTheWorks -- is dead. Cue the Doctor, healthy as arather facetious nincompoop.horse, "barging in unannounced".
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: After Tragan's gambit to kill him and Grebber, he wakes up in a laboratory where one Professor Wilkins is about to dissect him. The Doctor doesn't react with fear, though, he just impatiently asks Wilkins to stop pointing the scalpel at him.
* WithThisHerring: In the GladiatorGames, the Doctor is armed only with a RollingPinOfDoom against a mighty champion with a broadsword and shield.
* TheXOfY: "The Paradise of Death". Not as in death itself being a paradise, but [[CrapsaccharineWorld death being around every corner in this ostensible paradise]].
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The Brigadier says that it'd be a miracle for anybody to survive the 200-foot fall that the Doctor suffered at the end of Episode 1.
* NotOfThisEarth: The Doctor and Professor Willow analyze the body of the man who was butchered by one of Tragan's creatures, and they determine from traces of its acidic saliva and from a non-mammalian hair that it left behind that it must be an extraterrestrial.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Mr. Grebber is slaved to an ER implant by Tragan to jump off a tower, but the latter also sees the opportunity to drag the Doctor down with Grebber when he tries to help Grebber to safety.
* PunBasedCreature: This is Sarah's impression of what a time ram is, as the Doctor relates the events of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]".
-->''"Oh, don't tell me -- the TARDIS was attacked by a randy sheep with a clock for a face!"''
* PuppetKing: Onya notes that Parakon is nominally ruled through the President and his Council of Ministers, but they're all too weak and/or corrupt to do the job of governing, so they leave it all to Freeth.
* RuleNumberOne: Midway through Episode 2, as Sarah prepares to investigate the spaceships at Spaceworld:
-->'''Sarah:''' Second rule of investigative journalism, Jeremy: Never take anything for granted.\\
'''Jeremy:''' What's the first rule?\\
'''Sarah:''' Get your expenses sorted out.
* ShoutOut:
** When Jeremy briefly loses his shoe on Blestinu, he grouses, "I can't go wandering around the old universe like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddle,_Diddle,_Dumpling,_My_Son_John Diddle Diddle Dumpling]] now, can I?" This actually tips the Doctor off that his shoe's stuck in the mud outside the TARDIS, and he swipes it for Jeremy before departing for Parakon.
** When the Doctor expresses his puzzlement at how the inner workings of Parakonian society must tick, he has this to say:
--->''"Even on our own terms, there's one thing missing from the paradise equation, Brigadier. [...] Nothing for nothing and precious little for sixpence, as Theatre/KingLear very nearly said."''
** After Tragan and Freeth thwart Team TARDIS' escape from Parakon in Episode 3's {{cliffhanger}}, Freeth gloats, "To misquote a little, [[Film/{{Casablanca}} I think this could be the end of a beautiful friendship]]!"
* StealthInsult: When Mr. Grebber encounters Sarah and Jeremy, Sarah sneaks in a jab at the latter's status as TheDitz:
-->'''Sarah:''' [[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretend to be dimwitted]].\\
'''Jeremy:''' What?\\
'''Sarah:''' On second thought, stay as sweet as you are.
* TemptingFate: When Freeth insists that Tragan head back to Parakon, he says that the Doctor -- the only person who could've been a SpannerInTheWorks -- is dead. Cue the Doctor, healthy as a
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: After Tragan's gambit to kill him and Grebber, he wakes up in a laboratory where one Professor Wilkins is about to dissect him. The Doctor doesn't react with fear, though, he just impatiently asks Wilkins to stop pointing the scalpel at him.
* WithThisHerring: In the GladiatorGames, the Doctor is armed only with a RollingPinOfDoom against a mighty champion with a broadsword and shield.
* TheXOfY: "The Paradise of Death". Not as in death itself being a paradise, but [[CrapsaccharineWorld death being around every corner in this ostensible paradise]].
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''The Paradise of Death'' is a radio audio drama based on ''Series/DoctorWho'', produced by Creator/TheBBC and first broadcast in five episodes on BBC Radio 5 from 27 August to 24 September 1993. The original radio play was released on CD as part of the BBC Radio Collection in March 2000. A second radio play featuring the Third Doctor, ''The Ghosts of N-Space'', was broadcast in 1996. Creator/JonPertwee, Creator/ElisabethSladen and Creator/NicholasCourtney all return to play their ''Doctor Who'' characters.
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''The Paradise of Death'' is a radio audio drama based on ''Series/DoctorWho'', produced by Creator/TheBBC and first broadcast in five episodes on BBC Radio 5 from 27 August to 24 September 1993. The original radio play was released on CD as part of the BBC Radio Collection in March 2000. A second radio play featuring the Third Doctor, ''The Ghosts of N-Space'', was broadcast in 1996. Creator/JonPertwee, Creator/ElisabethSladen and Creator/NicholasCourtney all return to play their ''Doctor Who'' characters.
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart asks the Doctor to investigate a mysterious murder near a new theme park called Space World. Together with Sarah Jane Smith and her photographer Jeremy Fitzoliver, the Doctor investigates the mysterious Parakon Corporation, which is not quite of this world.
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* AmusementPark: Spaceworld
* ContinuityNod: The Doctor tries to sooth the Gargan with the Venusian Lullaby, just like he did with Aggedor. He mentions his old teacher as well.
** While being interviewed by Sarah, The Doctor relates some of the events of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]''. When Sarah reacts with incredulity, The Doctor reminds her of her own meeting with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior Irongron]] a few days (and a few hundred years) earlier.
* LargeHam: Chairman Freeth, who makes a meal of every line he utters.
* SimpletonVoice: Jeremy, who is a rather facetious nincompoop.
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart asks the Doctor to investigate a mysterious murder near a new theme park called Space World. Together with Sarah Jane Smith and her photographer Jeremy Fitzoliver, the Doctor investigates the mysterious Parakon Corporation, which is not quite of this world.
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* AmusementPark: Spaceworld
* ContinuityNod: The Doctor tries to sooth the Gargan with the Venusian Lullaby, just like he did with Aggedor. He mentions his old teacher as well.
** While being interviewed by Sarah, The Doctor relates some of the events of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]''. When Sarah reacts with incredulity, The Doctor reminds her of her own meeting with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior Irongron]] a few days (and a few hundred years) earlier.
* LargeHam: Chairman Freeth, who makes a meal of every line he utters.
* SimpletonVoice: Jeremy, who is a rather facetious nincompoop.
