Name: Doctor Who - The sun makers
Brand: BBC3
SKU: BBCDVD2955
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Rating: 3.00 (1 reviews)

Doctor Who - The sun makers (Robert Holmes)

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Detail			Value
Catalogue number			BBCDVD 2955
Title			Doctor Who - The sun makers
Artist(s)			Robert Holmes
Cover condition			Near mint
Record condition			Near mint
BBC records label code			-
Item deleted?			Yes
Released			1977
Distributed / printed by			2 entertain
Country of origin			UK
Media type			Primary
Media genre			Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi.
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Side & track	Track and Artist	Length
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A1	Part one	24.59
A2	Part two	24.57
A3	Part three	24.57
A4	Part four	24.57
A5	Running from the tax man - The making of The Sun Makers	24.51
A6	Trailer	0.43
A7	The Doctor's composer - Part 2 [Dudley Simpson]	18.06
A8	Outtakes	0.34
A9	Photo gallery	4.06
A10	Radio Times listings [PDF]
A11	Coming soon - Day of the Daleks - Special edition	1.23
Total length of media 2:29:33.

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Starring Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor) Louise Jameson (Leela) John Leeson (Voice of K9) Henry Woolf - The Collector Richard Leech - Gatherer Hade Jonina Scott - Marn Roy Macready - Cordo David Rowlands - Bisham William Simons - Mandrel Adrienne Burgess - Veet Michael Keating - Goudry Carole Hopkin - Nurse Derek Crewe - Synge Colin McCormack - Commander Tom Kelly - Guard Written by Robert Holmes Produced by Graham Williams Directed by Pennant Roberts Synopsis The TARDIS, along with the Doctor, Leela and K-9, arrives on Pluto in the distant future. The time travellers discover the planet has a breathable atmosphere and enjoys heat from six small suns, but the humans who live there are taxed and exploited heavily for the privilege. When Leela is captured and sentenced to death, the Doctor must save his companion, as well as stopping the ruthless Company, before it is too late ... Background The Sun Makers was written by Robert Holmes as he was getting ready to leave his position of script editor during Season 15 of Doctor Who. Renowned for dark stories with nightmare creatures and strong characters (the writer was also responsible for creating the recurring Autons and Sontarans), Holmes' satirical script is not as monster-led as previous work, but this time reflects his huge frustration with the Inland Revenue. While the new robot dog K-9 was quickly written into The Sun Makers after it was decided he should join the TARDIS in The Invisible Enemy, at one point the Doctor Who production team considered killing off the Doctor's human companion Leela in this story. This idea was abandoned - with Leela's less grisly fate left for The Invasion of Time a couple of adventures later, when she was married off to a Gallifreyan guard. Finding a rooftop with an empty skyline for the Megropolis One proved difficult until a tobacco company building in Bristol was discovered. Unfortunately, production was let down by weather, with the empty skyline shrouded in mist throughout. Although some of the more political elements were toned down by request of producer Graham Williams, the resulting story about an alien race that taxes people beyond belief is littered with many subtle references to the tax man. Viewers cannot fail to miss the corridor named P45 and guards called the Inner Retinue. Just don't mention the stolen consumcard to a well-known Visa card company ...
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