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* RopeBridge: A rope bridge is used to trap the protagonists on the wrong side of a chasm inside a spacious ice-cave. They put it back together with the help of stalactites (or were they stalagmites?) even though they [[SpecialEffectsFailure clearly could have just jumped over the chasm]].
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Written by Creator/TerryNation. This serial first aired April 11, 1964.
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Written by Creator/TerryNation. This serial first aired April 11, 11-May 16, 1964.
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* AbsenteeActor: The Doctor is absent from Episodes Three and Four; due to the year-round production of the show, it was agreed that each regular cast member would be allowed a two-week holiday during production, and this was Creator/WilliamHartnell's turn.
* AdventureTowns
* AdventureTowns
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Written by Creator/TerryNation. This serial first aired April 11, 1964.
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* ItsQuietTooQuiet:
-->'''Barbara''': This is a dead place.
-->'''Ian''': Yes, it's a bit quiet, isn't it?
-->'''Barbara''': That isn't quite what I meant.
-->'''Barbara''': This is a dead place.
-->'''Ian''': Yes, it's a bit quiet, isn't it?
-->'''Barbara''': That isn't quite what I meant.
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** This also allowed Creator/WilliamHartnell [[SerendipityWritesThePlot to go on holiday during the filming of Episodes 3 & 4]].
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** This also allowed Creator/WilliamHartnell [[SerendipityWritesThePlot to go on holiday during the filming of Episodes 3 & 4]].4.
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* ShiftingTheBurdenOfProof: Jurisprudence in Millennius requires the defence to prove a negative.
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* BigBad: Yartek. He doesn't appear until the last episode but it is his actions that prompt the Doctor's party to go on their quest to find a way to defeat him.
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* VisibleBoomMic: In "The Velvet Web", as the group are about to sleep in Morphoton, a boom microphone appears at the top of the shot; William Russell can clearly be seen glancing at it briefly.
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* VisibleBoomMic: In "The Velvet Web", as the group are about to sleep in Morphoton, a boom microphone appears at the top of the shot; William Russell Creator/WilliamRussell can clearly be seen glancing at it briefly.
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* AbsenteeActor: The Doctor is absent from Episodes Three and Four in order to allow Creator/WilliamHartnell a holiday.
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* AbsenteeActor: The Doctor is absent from Episodes Three and Four in order Four; due to allow Creator/WilliamHartnell the year-round production of the show, it was agreed that each regular cast member would be allowed a holiday.two-week holiday during production, and this was Creator/WilliamHartnell's turn.
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* ShiftingTheBurdenOfProof: Jurisprudence in Millennius requires the defense to prove a negative.
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* ShiftingTheBurdenOfProof: Jurisprudence in Millennius requires the defense defence to prove a negative.
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* GardenOfEvil: The Screaming Jungle. The forest was biologically altered by Darrius in an experiment on speeding up the growth process of flora. The experiments made the flora move. It also seemed to have been made sentient. The flora could kill individuals by constriction. It was also strong, capable of breaking down walls. The flora emitted a loud screaming noise.
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** This also allowed Creator/WilliamHartnell [[SerendipityWritesThePlot to go on holiday during the filming of episodes 3 & 4]].
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** This also allowed Creator/WilliamHartnell [[SerendipityWritesThePlot to go on holiday during the filming of episodes Episodes 3 & 4]].
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* MalevolentArchitecture: In part 3, a building full of death traps houses one of the titular artifacts.
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* MalevolentArchitecture: In part 3, a building full of death traps houses one of the titular artifacts.artefacts.
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* VisibleBoomMic: In "The Velvet Web", as the group are about to sleep in Morphoton, a boom microphone appears at the top of the shot; William Russell can clearly be seen glancing at it briefly.
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* CuttingBackToReality: The apparently utopian city of Morphoton is actually a LotusEaterMachine that keeps its inhabitants happy with illusions. After the brainwashing on Barbara fails, the episode alternates between the illusion that everyone else sees and the grimy reality that Barbara has become aware of. For instance, Susan shows Barbara a beautiful new dress that she's been given, then a cut to Barbara's POV shows her holding a bundle of dirty rags.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: In Morphoton, the Doctor is offered a laboratory fitted out with an impressive array of advanced scientific equipment -- which the audience never sees. By this point, Morphoton's LotusEaterMachine nature has been revealed to the audience, so what we see is the Doctor standing in a bare room rhapsodizing over things that aren't really there.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: In Morphoton, the Doctor is offered a laboratory fitted out with an impressive array of advanced scientific equipment -- which the audience never sees. By this point, Morphoton's LotusEaterMachine nature has been revealed to the audience, so what we see the scene is depicted by CuttingBackToReality where the Doctor is standing in a bare room rhapsodizing over things that aren't really there.
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* FakinMacGuffin
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* FakinMacGuffinFakinMacGuffin: At one location, Ian and Barbara find a fake decoy Key before they find the real one. Ian keeps it, and in the final episode he gives it to Yartek in place of one of the real Keys.
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Yartek’s disguise as Arbitan is revealed when he has no idea who the guy he supposedly sent to do his work for him is. Not, you know, [[PaperThinDisguise the fact he looks and sounds more like a Voord than the old man encountered earlier.
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Yartek’s disguise as Arbitan is revealed when he has no idea who the guy he supposedly sent to do his work for him is. Not, you know, [[PaperThinDisguise the fact he looks and sounds more like a Voord than the old man encountered earlier.earlier]].
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* MrFanservice: Altos, with his clothing covering abut as much of his legs as a pair of briefs would.
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* MrFanservice: Altos, with his clothing covering abut about as much of his legs as a pair of briefs would.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: In Morphoton, the Doctor is offered a laboratory fitted out with an impressive array of advanced scientific equipment -- which the audience never sees. By this point, Morphoton's LotusEaterMachine nature has been revealed to the audience, so what we see is the Doctor standing in a bare room rhapsodizing over things that aren't really there.
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Yartek’s disguise as Arbitan is revealed when he has no idea who the guy he supposedly sent to do his work for him is. Not, you know, [[PaperThinDisguise the fact he looks and sounds more like a Voord than the old man encountered earlier.
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* InfoDump: In order to satisfy the demands of BBC executives that the show should still have a primarily educational focus even when taking place away from Earth, Ian and Barbara suddenly drop a rather out-of-place bunch of facts about Egyptian and Mayan pyramids, and the techniques that were used to build them, when they first see the structure that houses the Conscience of Marinus.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Yartek's attempt to disguise himself as Arbitan is so laughably unconvincing that Ian and Susan come across as complete idiots for believing he was who he claimed to be. It's mitigated a little when Ian reveals that he worked out quickly that "Arbitan" wasn't the real deal and handed him a fake key, though even then it begs to the question as to how exactly Yartek thought his disguise attempt was going to work, other than him presumably just not being able to do come up with a better plan in the time available.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Somewhat unusually, it's signposted at the end of the first episode that the Doctor's and his companions' quest will turn out to be this, when Arbitan is assassinated by one of the Voords. Though it does end up being a downplayed example, as the Conscience of Marinus self-destructs at the end of the story, but ends up taking the Voords with it.
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Big Damn Villains is a disambiguation page, this former trope is covered by Villainous Rescue or Bad Guys Do The Dirty Work
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* BigDamnVillains: Vasor takes Susan hostage, but the warriors from the ice kill him as they hack their way through the door.
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* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: After spending months in ancient China as Marco Polo's guest, ian keeps wearing his Chinese clothing for this adventure just for the heck of it.
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* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: After spending months in ancient China as Marco Polo's guest, ian Ian keeps wearing his Chinese clothing for this adventure just for the heck of it.
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* NoNameGiven: Darrius is never referred to by name in the on-screen dialogue of "The Screaming Jungle"; his name appears only on the closing credits. The character is also nameless in Philip Hinchcliffe's novelisation, being referred to simply as "the old man".
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* NoNameGiven: Darrius is never referred to by name in the on-screen dialogue of "The Screaming Jungle"; his name appears only on the closing credits. The character is also nameless in Philip Hinchcliffe's novelisation, being referred to simply as "the old man".
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: How one of the conspirators in episodes 5 and 6 slips up.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: How one of Susan is kidnapped and her captor forces her to speak to Barbara over a futuristic alien phone. Later, the conspirators kidnapper accidentally lets it slip in episodes 5 and 6 slips up.conversation that she is aware they have spoken to Susan, even though it was not mentioned. This allows Barbara to realize her guilt.
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* PeopleInRubberSuits: The Voords. Possibly. Perhaps the suits have fused with their actual bodies.
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* TheXOfY
** Most of the individual episodes count as well, with the 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th being called ''The Sea of Death'', ''The Snows of Terror'', ''Sentence of Death'' and ''The Keys of Marinus'' respectively.
** Most of the individual episodes count as well, with the 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th being called ''The Sea of Death'', ''The Snows of Terror'', ''Sentence of Death'' and ''The Keys of Marinus'' respectively.
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* TheXOfY
**TheXOfY: Most of the individual episodes count as well, with the 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th being called ''The Sea of Death'', ''The Snows of Terror'', ''Sentence of Death'' and ''The Keys of Marinus'' respectively.
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* ContinuityNod: Ian starts the story wearing a robe from "Marco Polo."
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* AllThereInTheScript: Creator/TerryNation developed more background in his script than was made explicit onscreen in the finished production. The Voord were alien invaders who took advantage of the people of Marinus, rendered vulnerable by the pacifying effects of the Conscience. The Conscience was then deactivated to allow the Marinians to fight the Voord, and over the centuries, the time they spent on Marinus meant that the Voord, too, could now be affected by the machine. Therefore, Arbitan despatched agents to recover the keys which would reactivate the Conscience and allow him to finally defeat the invaders.
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* AllThereInTheScript: Creator/TerryNation developed more background in his script than was made explicit onscreen in the finished production. The Voord were alien invaders who took advantage of the people of Marinus, rendered vulnerable by the pacifying effects of the Conscience. The Conscience was then deactivated to allow the Marinians to fight the Voord, and over the centuries, the time they spent on Marinus meant that the Voord, too, could now be affected by the machine. Therefore, Arbitan despatched dispatched agents to recover the keys which would reactivate the Conscience and allow him to finally defeat the invaders.
