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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''First Doctor Era'''\\
'''Season 4:''' '''1''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E7TheMacraTerror 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E8TheFacelessOnes 8]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks 9]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 <<< Season 3]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen Season 5 >>>]]''']]-]]]
!The Smugglers




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->Written by Brian Hayles\\
Directed by Julia Smith\\
'''Production code:''' CC\\
'''Air dates:''' 10 September - 1 October 1966\\
'''Number of episodes:''' 4



'''Production code:''' CC




Written by Brian Hayles. This four-episode serial first aired from September 10 to October 1, 1966.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Please, you think you can intimidate [[Creator/WilliamHartnell Hartnell]] with a ''knife''? This man has crossed '''swords''' with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E6TheCrusade fanatical crusaders]] on a pair of rheumatic knees and lived to tell the tale!]]

-> '''The Doctor:''' ''You are now travelling through time and space.''\\
'''Ben:''' ''Yes, well, make sure I get back by tea-time!''

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[[caption-width-right:350:Please, you think you can intimidate [[Creator/WilliamHartnell Hartnell]] with a ''knife''? ''knife?'' This man has crossed '''swords''' with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E6TheCrusade fanatical crusaders]] on a pair of rheumatic knees and lived to tell the tale!]]

-> '''The Doctor:''' ''You You are now travelling through time and space.''\\
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'''Ben:''' ''Yes, Yes, well, make sure I get back by tea-time!''
tea-time!

'''Production code:''' CC

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* {{Expy}}: Pike is one of [[Literature/TreasureIsland Long John Silver]], only with a missing hand instead of a leg. He even uses Silver's VerbalTic "and you may lay to that" on one occasion.


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* LongJohnShoutout: Pike is an {{Expy}} of [[Literature/TreasureIsland Long John Silver]], only with a missing hand instead of a leg. He even uses Silver's VerbalTic "and you may lay to that" on one occasion.
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* {{Expy}}: Pike is one of [[Literature/TreasureIsland Long John Silver]], only with a missing hand instead of a leg. He even uses Silver's VerbalTic "and you may lay to that" on one occasion.
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-> '''The Doctor''': ''You are now travelling through time and space.''\\
'''Ben''': ''Yes, well, make sure I get back by tea-time!''

The one with pirates.

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-> '''The Doctor''': Doctor:''' ''You are now travelling through time and space.''\\
'''Ben''': '''Ben:''' ''Yes, well, make sure I get back by tea-time!''

The one with JustForFun/TheOneWith pirates.
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* PirateEpisode
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Written by Brian Hayles. This serial first aired September 10-October 1, 1966.

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Written by Brian Hayles. This four-episode serial first aired from September 10-October 10 to October 1, 1966.
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* ChromosomeCasting: Polly is the only female character in this story. Creator/AnnekeWills pointed this out in the DVDCommentary of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" and remarked that she was rather annoyed about it.

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* ChromosomeCasting: Polly is the only female character in this story. Creator/AnnekeWills pointed this out in the DVDCommentary DVDCommentary[[invoked]] of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" and remarked that she was rather annoyed about it.
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Written by Brian Hayles. This serial first aired September 10-October 1, 1966.

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* BigBad: Captain Samuel Pike, the leader of the pirates.



* LadyLooksLikeADude: Because she's wearing pants and has her hair tucked into her cap, everyone mistakes Polly for a young boy instead of a woman. She calls herself Paul.

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* LadyLooksLikeADude: Because she's wearing pants trousers and has her hair tucked into her cap, everyone mistakes Polly for a young boy instead of a woman. She calls herself Paul.
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* ChromosomeCasting: Polly is the only female character in this story. Anneke Wills pointed this out in the DVDCommentary of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" and remarked that she was rather annoyed about it.

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* ChromosomeCasting: Polly is the only female character in this story. Anneke Wills Creator/AnnekeWills pointed this out in the DVDCommentary of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" and remarked that she was rather annoyed about it.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This exchange:
--> '''Captain Pike''': "What makes you think I'm the kind of man who likes the company of gentlemen, sir?"
--> '''The Doctor''': "Why, your dress, your tastes..."

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Surprisingly, we won't be seeing much more of the Doctor as we know him now during this season. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet Because something big is about to happen for the first time....]]

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Surprisingly, we won't be seeing much more of the Doctor as we know him now during this season. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet Because something big very strange is about to happen with the Doctor for the first time....time...]]
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* AnachronismStew: Cherub yells, "A free trip to Davy Jones' locker", a phrase that wasn't in widespread use until a hundred years later. Similarly, the pirates refer to the Doctor as "sawbones", which originates from the 1830s.
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* ChromosomeCasting: Polly is the only female character in this story. Anneke Wills pointed this out in the DVDCommentary of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" and remarked that she was rather annoyed about it.

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%%* BuriedTreasure

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%%* BuriedTreasure* BuriedTreasure: The rhyme the Doctor hears tells the way to Avery's hidden treasure.


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* SweetPollyOliver: Polly is dressed fashionably for the 1960s in trousers and a cap. When she goes back in time to pirate Cornwall, the locals mistake her for a boy, which she admits to the Doctor makes her feel 'very odd'. The Doctor tells her it's better she go along with it for her own safety, as pirates do not tend to be kind to women.

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* BadassGrandpa: The pirate Gaptooth was played by a septuagenarian actor.



* BuriedTreasure

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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Doctor has one, at the start of the Story.

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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Doctor has one, at the start of the Story.Story?
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Doctor has one, at the start of the Story.
--> '''The Doctor''': "See that Scanner? What is what I call the Scanner!"?

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