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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: This is one of the funnier episodes of the series, topped by Gatherer Hade's pompous malapropisms.
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* IFightForTheStrongestSide: [[spoiler: Marn]]'s HeelFaceTurn at the end of the episode.
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* IFightForTheStrongestSide: [[spoiler: Marn]]'s HeelFaceTurn at the end of the episode.serial.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Goudal is played by Michael Keating, better known for his later role as Vila Restal of ''[[BlakesSeven Blake's 7.]]''
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Goudal Goudry is played by Michael Keating, better known for his later role as Vila Restal of ''[[BlakesSeven Blake's 7.]]''
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Goudal is played by Michael Keating, better known for his later role as Vila Restal of ''[[BlakesSeven Blake's 7.]]''
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: This is one of the funnier episodes of the series.series, topped by Gatherer Hade's pompous malapropisms.
** The Doctor and Leela bicker over why the both of them ran from the rooftop when warned "the Gatherer was coming!" The Doctor finally realizes "I suppose everybody runs from the Taxman!"
** The Doctor and Leela bicker over why the both of them ran from the rooftop when warned "the Gatherer was coming!" The Doctor finally realizes "I suppose everybody runs from the Taxman!"
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: This is one of the funnier episodes of the series.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: On the roof, trying to talk Cordo out of jumping, Leela and the Doctor flee with Cordo when the Gatherer shows up...
-->'''Leela''': Where are we going?
-->'''Doctor''': I don't know. Why did you run?
-->'''Leela''': Well, he ran first.
-->'''Doctor''': That's no answer.
-->'''Leela''': Why did ''you'' run?
-->'''Doctor''': I don't know. (thinks it over) Odd, isn't it?
-->'''Leela''' (figuring it out): [[AuthorTract Perhaps everyone runs from the tax man]].
--> ''Cordo nods''
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After Leela has failed to persuade the resistance to lend her a half dozen warriors to free the Doctor from the Correction Center, Cordo (who has been outside with K-9) comes in and offers his support:
-->'''Cordo:''' I know I'm not very brave, but I can at least show you the way there.
-->'''Leela:''' Cordo, you are the bravest man here.
** TheDoctor leaves a bag of Jelly Babies to a fellow prisoner - Bisham - as he's being led off to a presumably painful end. How they were able to share the Jelly Babies being bound up in straitjackets, well...
-->'''Leela''': Where are we going?
-->'''Doctor''': I don't know. Why did you run?
-->'''Leela''': Well, he ran first.
-->'''Doctor''': That's no answer.
-->'''Leela''': Why did ''you'' run?
-->'''Doctor''': I don't know. (thinks it over) Odd, isn't it?
-->'''Leela''' (figuring it out): [[AuthorTract Perhaps everyone runs from the tax man]].
--> ''Cordo nods''
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After Leela has failed to persuade the resistance to lend her a half dozen warriors to free the Doctor from the Correction Center, Cordo (who has been outside with K-9) comes in and offers his support:
-->'''Cordo:''' I know I'm not very brave, but I can at least show you the way there.
-->'''Leela:''' Cordo, you are the bravest man here.
** TheDoctor leaves a bag of Jelly Babies to a fellow prisoner - Bisham - as he's being led off to a presumably painful end. How they were able to share the Jelly Babies being bound up in straitjackets, well...
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* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Cowardly Vila from ''[=~Blake's Seven~=]'' is in this episode a ruthless criminal.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified: Initially subverted - the 'resistance' are depicted as brutal, self-interested and venal criminals out for themselves rather than any higher purpose until the Doctor effectively takes over.
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* AuthorTractAuthorTract: Writer Robert Holmes based this story on some of the troubles he was having with England's revenue office. Some of the floors are numbered based on tax forms.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: On the roof, trying to talk Cordo out of jumping, Leela and the Doctor flee with Cordo when the Gatherer shows up...
-->'''Leela''': Where are we going?
-->'''Doctor''': I don't know. Why did you run?
-->'''Leela''': Well, he ran first.
-->'''Doctor''': That's no answer.
-->'''Leela''': Why did ''you'' run?
-->'''Doctor''': I don't know. (thinks it over) Odd, isn't it?
-->'''Leela''' (figuring it out): [[AuthorTract Perhaps everyone runs from the tax man]].
--> ''Cordo nods''
-->'''Leela''': Where are we going?
-->'''Doctor''': I don't know. Why did you run?
-->'''Leela''': Well, he ran first.
-->'''Doctor''': That's no answer.
-->'''Leela''': Why did ''you'' run?
-->'''Doctor''': I don't know. (thinks it over) Odd, isn't it?
-->'''Leela''' (figuring it out): [[AuthorTract Perhaps everyone runs from the tax man]].
--> ''Cordo nods''
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Cowardly Villa from ''BlakesSeven'' is in this episode a ruthless criminal.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Cowardly Villa Vila from ''BlakesSeven'' ''[=~Blake's Seven~=]'' is in this episode a ruthless criminal.
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* MeaningfulName: The Usarians Usurians are usurers.
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* [[spoiler: PlantAliens: The Usarians turn out to be a species of poisonous fungus.]]
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* WhyDidntYouJustSaySo?: After Leela attempts for several minutes to pull the Doctor's attention away from a riveting chess game:
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-->'''The Doctor:''' WHAT?! We might have gone right through the time spiral, why didn’t you tell me?
-->'''Leela:''' I tried to, but you wouldn’t let me.
-->'''The Doctor:''' You didn’t!
-->'''Leela:''' I tried to, but you wouldn’t let me.
-->'''The Doctor:''' You didn’t!
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-->'''The Doctor:''' WHAT?! We might have gone right through the time spiral, why didn’t didn't you tell me?
-->'''Leela:''' I tried to, but youwouldn’t wouldn't let me.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Youdidn’t!didn't!
-->'''Leela:''' I tried to, but you
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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: the undercity.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After Leela has failed to persuade the resistance to lend her a half dozen warriors to free the Doctor from the Correction Center, Cordo (who has been outside with K-9) comes in and offers his support:
-->'''Cordo:''' I know I'm not very brave, but I can at least show you the way there.
-->'''Leela:''' Cordo, you are the bravest man here.
-->'''Cordo:''' I know I'm not very brave, but I can at least show you the way there.
-->'''Leela:''' Cordo, you are the bravest man here.
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The Doctor succeeds in switching off the calming gas and the workers rise up against The Company and kill the hated Gatherer Hade, while the Doctor does some computer jiggery-pokery to bankrupt it. The Usurian "Collector" is powerless to stop The Company going bust and reverts to his natural form - a harmless fungus.
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The Doctor succeeds in switching off the calming gas and the workers rise up against The Company and kill the hated Gatherer Hade, while the Doctor does some computer jiggery-pokery to bankrupt it. The Usurian "Collector" is powerless to stop The Company going bust [[spoiler: and reverts to his natural form - a harmless fungus.
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* OnlyElectricSheepAreCheap: Gatherer Hade boasts a desk of real wood - most people only learn about trees in school - and members of the resistance are extremely impressed by Leela's skins.
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* EarthThatWas: The Company rescued humanity from a dying Earth, moving them first to Mars and thence to Pluto.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The Correction Center. Followed by death.
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* HypnoticEyes: The Doctor. It works a little too well.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: The Doctor plays chess with K-9. [[spoiler: He's losing.]]
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Gatherer Hade]] is ultimately thrown over a railing to his death.
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* VillainousBreakdown: The Collector, upon realizing the revolution has finally caught up with him, is reduced to a babbling wreck as he slowly (and literally) goes down the drain.
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* WhyDidntYouJustSaySo?: After Leela attempts for several minutes to pull the Doctor's attention away from a riveting chess game:
-->'''Leela:''' Doctor, can I speak now?
-->'''The Doctor:''' What? All right, if you must. What is it?
-->'''Leela:''' Well, the column has stopped moving.
-->'''The Doctor:''' So?
-->'''Leela:''' It is not important?
-->'''The Doctor:''' WHAT?! We might have gone right through the time spiral, why didn’t you tell me?
-->'''Leela:''' I tried to, but you wouldn’t let me.
-->'''The Doctor:''' You didn’t!
-->'''Leela:''' I ''did!''
-->'''Leela:''' Doctor, can I speak now?
-->'''The Doctor:''' What? All right, if you must. What is it?
-->'''Leela:''' Well, the column has stopped moving.
-->'''The Doctor:''' So?
-->'''Leela:''' It is not important?
-->'''The Doctor:''' WHAT?! We might have gone right through the time spiral, why didn’t you tell me?
-->'''Leela:''' I tried to, but you wouldn’t let me.
-->'''The Doctor:''' You didn’t!
-->'''Leela:''' I ''did!''
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* StealthInsult: Gatherer Hade has an ostentatious manner of addressing The Collector (your Immensity, your Hugeness, your Supernal Eminence, etc), but as their relationship breaks down under the strain of events the honorifics become somewhat insulting, as in: "I fear the situation is worsening, your Grossness!"
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* StealthInsult: Gatherer Hade has an ostentatious manner of addressing The Collector (your Immensity, your Hugeness, your Supernal Eminence, etc), but as their relationship breaks down under the strain of events the honorifics become somewhat insulting, as in: "I fear the situation is worsening, your Grossness!"
Grossness!"
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified: Initially subverted - the 'resistance' are depicted as brutal, self-interested and venal criminals out for themselves rather than any higher purpose until the Doctor effectively takes over.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified: Initially subverted - the 'resistance' are depicted as brutal, self-interested and venal criminals out for themselves rather than any higher purpose until the Doctor effectively takes over.
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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Justified, as the serial was filmed in the real-life deep air raid shelters of London.
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* ConveyorBeltODoom: For conveying Leela into the SaunaOfDeath
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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Justified, as the serial was filmed in the real-life deep air raid shelters of London.
* EmotionBomb: Used by the evil tax-gathering government to control the human populace. The Doctor inverts the technology to make people angry instead.
* EmotionBomb: Used by the evil tax-gathering government to control the human populace. The Doctor inverts the technology to make people angry instead.