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Last flashback...Sorry non Who-philes!

Doctor is being blackmailed into stealing food from a dispenser on a well surveilled upstairs complex in some megalopolis...There is ONLY one way to get any Time Lord, Much LESS Tom Baker's Doctor to do ANYTHING...HOSTAGES!!!

(As an Aside I swear the grubby, paunchy grizzled scavenger types they picked to be the blackmailers looked suspiciously like any 8 guys cruising a Washington Arms Collector's Gun SHOW, at any given moment...easiest casting job ever!...) The Trolls gave the Doctor a time limit to get the food back to the "basement" or the little buckskin bisquit gets shived...Welll Times up...No Doctor, No Food...15 to one odds...They start closing in to make good on their threat to the Doc... She backs into a corner, Draws her dirty but undoubtedly RAZOR SHARP knife, braces, and practically grunts out(still in a perky English accent, never seen it done better)

"Before I die here, I shall see this room ANKLE DEEP in BLOOD!"

Troll chieftain looks at his white faced band of not so merry cutthroats and announces..."We'll give him another half an hour". Audible sigh of relief from everyone MALE in the room...Hope it was as good for you people as it was for me to retell it;-D

>"Before I die here, I shall see this room ANKLE DEEP in

"Tom Baker's fourth season of Doctor Who marked a change from the exploration of Gothic horror. The unusually satirical "The Sun Makers" finds the Doctor, Leela (Louise Jameson), and robot dog K9 involved in a struggle against capitalism-gone-mad at the outer limits of the solar system. With Earth exhausted, mankind has colonized Pluto and lives in six vast "megropoli" lit by artificial suns. These colonies are run by the Company, with drugged human "work units" slaving simply to pay their funeral expenses. There are plenty of potshots at overzealous taxation and bureaucracy--Robert Holmes wrote the story as revenge after a frustrating audit--and splendidly theatrical performances from Richard Leech and Henry Woolf as the ultra-capitalist villains. With no monsters and little conventional horror, Baker is in fine form in a briskly directed four-part comedy-thriller distinguished by its political edge."

Contains the classic Doctor line, given when he's trying to convince the oppressed workers to rebel against capitalism: "You have nothing to lose but your claims!"

-- KotS

Robert Holmes wrote the story as revenge after a frustrating audit--and splendidly theatrical performances from Richard Leech and Henry Woolf as the ultra-capitalist villains.

A Latent Freeper found his outlet in low budget BBC SciFi... I wonder where he is now? Thanks again...KoTS...If you're ever in the PNW we must drink some beers and find somewhere to admire the female form and psyche...perhaps two places...

>Now I get to see her on my profile every day!

If you'd like a selection of Leela images, check out the Leela gallery at the Dr. Who Archives. All the pictures expand, of course, if you click on them. They also have images of all the other companions, as well as other stuff.

-- KotS

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