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The TARDIS lands on a spaceship, the [=R1C=], commanded by a man named Jackson. He and his Minyan crew are on a quest to recover their "race banks" from another ship, the [=P7E=], which left centuries ago to form a new colony. The [=R1C=] is buried by a meteor storm but the Doctor helps them escape - before they crash into a small planet just as the serial's budget runs out.
Investigating the planet, the Doctor finds a system of caves that leads to the [=P7E=], long ago buried by asteroids. The [=P7E=]'s computer, Oracle, has gone insane and rules over the survivors of the Minyan crew with the aid of the robotic Seers. It allows Jackson to take the race banks, but the Doctor realises that they are just fakes, primed with fission grenades. The Doctor tricks Oracle into allowing him to take the real race banks, meanwhile returning the fakes via the Seers. The resulting explosion destroys the [=P7E=] and propels the [=R1C=] off on its voyage to Minyos II with the [=P7E=]'s survivors.
Investigating the planet, the Doctor finds a system of caves that leads to the [=P7E=], long ago buried by asteroids. The [=P7E=]'s computer, Oracle, has gone insane and rules over the survivors of the Minyan crew with the aid of the robotic Seers. It allows Jackson to take the race banks, but the Doctor realises that they are just fakes, primed with fission grenades. The Doctor tricks Oracle into allowing him to take the real race banks, meanwhile returning the fakes via the Seers. The resulting explosion destroys the [=P7E=] and propels the [=R1C=] off on its voyage to Minyos II with the [=P7E=]'s survivors.
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The TARDIS lands on a spaceship, the [=R1C=], commanded by a man named Jackson. He and his Minyan crew are on a quest to recover their "race banks" from another ship, the [=P7E=], which left centuries a hundred thousand years ago to form a new colony. The Time Lords, who are seen as Gods by the Minyans, shared a form of regeneration with them but left as soon as the Minyans turned on them. Jackson's ''quite'' surprised to see a God suddenly standing in the middle of his spaceship, but the team doesn't have time to be surprised, as the [=R1C=] is buried by a meteor storm but storm. Rocks gather around the spaceship's gravitational field, instantly forming the beginnings of a planet. The Doctor helps them escape - before escape, and they crash into a another small planet just as the serial's budget runs out.
Investigating the planet, the Doctorfinds and Leela are awkwardly projected onto a photo background and find a system of caves that leads to the [=P7E=], long ago buried by asteroids. The [=P7E=]'s computer, Oracle, has gone insane and rules over the survivors of the Minyan crew with the aid of the robotic Seers. It allows Jackson to take the race banks, but the Doctor realises that they are just fakes, primed with fission grenades. The Doctor herds the [=P7E=]'s descendants into the [=R1C=] and gives Jackson a rather grand WhatTheHellHero speech for considering the quest more important than the actual people the quest was all about. After that, Four tricks Oracle into allowing him to take the real race banks, meanwhile returning the fakes via the Seers. The resulting explosion destroys the [=P7E=] and propels the [=R1C=] off on its voyage to Minyos II with the [=P7E=]'s survivors.
Investigating the planet, the Doctor
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* WholePlotReference: to To the quest for the Golden Fleece.Fleece. The Doctor explains the whole thing to Leela after he accidentally called Jackson "Jason".
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* TroubledProduction: The story (and the one that followed) suffered from TheBBC slashing the rest of the season's budget due to the economic crisis the UK was suffering, leaving them with barely enough money to build the spaceship set, and nothing to build sets of the caves, or to shoot them on location. As a result, they ended up having to resort to filming all the non-spaceship scenes on a bluescreen, and matte the actors into miniature cave sets. The results aren't quite as bad as you might expect, but the effects technology of the time wasn't really advanced enough to pull it off convincingly.
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* TroubledProduction: The story (and the one that followed) suffered from TheBBC slashing the rest of the season's budget due to the economic crisis the UK was suffering, leaving them with barely enough money to build the spaceship set, and nothing to build sets of the caves, or to shoot them on location. As a result, they ended up having to resort to filming all the non-spaceship scenes on a bluescreen, and matte the actors into miniature cave sets. The results aren't quite as bad as you might expect, but the effects technology of the time wasn't really advanced enough to pull it off convincingly.
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* [[WeWantOurJerkBack I Want My Nubile Savage Back]]: The Doctor isn't happy when Leela is momentarily converted into a nice person.
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The Tardis TARDIS lands on a spaceship, the [=R1C=], commanded by a man named Jackson. He and his Minyan crew are on a quest to recover their "race banks" from another ship, the [=P7E=], which left centuries ago to form a new colony. The [=R1C=] is buried by a meteor storm but the Doctor helps them escape - before they crash into a small planet just as the serial's budget runs out.
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* GracefulLoser: After having spent the previous episode chewing on the scenery, the Oracle resigns itself to destruction with surprising dignity.
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* ReverseThePolarity: Justified in dealing with the DeadlyGas:
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* SarcasticConfession: The Doctor goes back to the planet to get rid of the fake race banks, which are actually bombs. He travels all the way back to where he can get captured again (rather than just leaving them on the surface) so it's obvious that he planned to have them taken from him, yet when forced to give them up, he explains that they are really bombs. "You can do better than that..." replies a villain and confiscates them. The bombs blow up the planet, of course.
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* WholePlotReference: to the quest for the Golden Fleece.
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