The Sun Makers
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Doctor Who serial
"An ongoing insurrectionary situation would not be acceptable to my management."
Cast
Doctor
Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor)
Companions
Louise Jameson (Leela)
John Leeson (Voice of K-9 Mk. I)
Others
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
Production
Writer
Robert Holmes
Director
Pennant Roberts
Script editor
Robert Holmes and Anthony Read (both uncredited)
Producer
Graham Williams
Executive producer(s)
None
Production code
4W
Series
Season 15
Length
4 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast
26 November–17 December 1977
Chronology
← Preceded by
Followed by →
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Underworld
The Sun Makers is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 26 November to 17 December 1977.
Contents
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1 Synopsis
2 Plot
2.1 Continuity
3 Production
3.1 Cast notes
4 Outside references
5 In print
6 VHS and DVD releases
7 References
8 External links
8.1 Reviews
8.2 Target novelisation
[edit] Synopsis
In the far future, the planet Pluto is habitable, heated by several miniature suns. However, the heat is available only to the ruling classes, the working population being oppressed by the ruthless, bureaucratic and omnipresent Company. When the Doctor and Leela arrive, they help to initiate a rebellion from the Undercity, and stop the evil company's plans once and for all.
[edit] Plot
The inhabitants of Pluto in the far future are taxed to desperation, not least the functionary Cordo, who is so overwhelmed by the size of his tax bill that he decides to take his own life by jumping from the roof of one of the vast Megropolis tower blocks. He is interrupted by the arrival of the Doctor and Leela from the TARDIS, who save him from his chosen fate, and discover that false suns have been created around Pluto to provide the ability for some of mankind to live. However, the Company which owns the suns and all the buildings on Pluto is using its economic stranglehold over mankind to extort ever growing taxes through an extreme form of usury. The Doctor is concerned at this economic and social structure, where each Megropolis is ruled by a taxation Gatherer, and the entire operation on the planet reports to a malevolent Collector. Some citizens have rejected this social order and choose to live in the dark tunnels of the Undercity. The Doctor, Leela and Cordo venture there and encounter the renegades of the undercity, a vicious bunch of thieves and drop-outs led by the brutal Mandrel. He tells the Doctor that he must use a stolen consume-card to obtain money from a cashpoint or else Leela will be killed.
The Gatherer of Megropolis One, Hade, has been alerted to the arrival of the TARDIS. He uses an electronic tracker to follow K9, who has now departed the craft in search of his master. K9 finds the Doctor and Cordo at a cashpoint where the Gatherer sees them and suspects they must be arms dealers. He orders his private guard, the Inner Retinue, to deal with them. When the Doctor tries the stolen card he is overpowered by a cloud of noxious gas and falls unconscious.
When the Doctor awakes he finds himself restrained in a Correction Centre alongside a similarly incarcerated man named Bisham. They are likely to be tortured, but the Doctor is as concerned for Leela, whom Mandrel threatened to kill if the Doctor did not return. Leela has defended herself though, and Cordo, who evaded capture, returns to the Undercity with news of the Doctor’s capture. This serves to increase Leela’s standing with the thieves and the threat over her life diminishes. The Doctor’s lot improves too when he is released for questioning by Gatherer Hade, but Hade is playing a game of double bluff. He has the Doctor released but orders his movements tracked, believing the Doctor will lead him to the heart of a conspiracy against the Company. Not knowing about this change in fortunes, Leela, Cordo and K9 attack the Correction Centre to try and rescue the Doctor. He has left, but they do succeed in freeing Bisham. As they depart the Centre they find all their possible travel routes blocked by Inner Retinue troopers.
Leela leads her friends in an attack on the guards, but she alone is injured in a skirmish and falls from a troop transporter they have commandeered. The Doctor has returned to the Undercity to find a very agitated Mandrel, who refuses to believe he could have been simply released after such a crime. Once more Cordo returns, this...
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