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the leisure hive

story 110 : season 18 : serial 5N : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Lovett Bickford
Writer: David Fisher
Script Editor: Christopher H Bidmead
Designer: Tom Yardley-Jones

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Lalla Ward (Romana); John Leeson (voice of K-9); Adrienne Corri (Mena); David Haig (Pangol); Laurence Payne (Morix); John Collin (Brock); Nigel Lambert (Hardin); Martin Fisk (Vargos); Roy Montague (Guide); Ian Talbot (Klout); David Allister (Stimson); Harriet Reynolds (Voice); Clifford Norgate (Generator Voice); Andrew Lane (Foamasi);

crew information

Val McCrimmon (Assistant Floor Manager); June Hudson (Costumes); Keith Barton (Film Cameraman); Chris Wimble (Film Editor); Peter Howell (Incidental Music); Dorka Nieradzik (Make-Up); Romey Allison (Production Assistant); Angela Smith (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Duncan Brown (Studio Lighting); John Howell (Studio Sound); Peter Howell (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Andrew Lazell (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 30 August 1980 at 18:15 23'33" 5.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 6 September 1980 at 18:20 20'45" 5.0mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 13 September 1980 at 17:55 21'21" 5.0mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 20 September 1980 at 18:15 21'19" 4.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
  4. Part Four
    » Always held by the FVTL

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive
Written by: David Fisher
Number 039 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1982 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
22 July 1982 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 20147 7
21 October 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20147 7

plot synopsis

After a disappointing holiday attempt in Brighton, with K9 getting waterlogged in the sea, the Doctor and Romana head for the planet Argolis, famed for its leisure complex. The Argolins are being forced to sell out to the Foamasi, an enemy of the race for generations, and Pangol uses the Argolin Generator to mass-clone himself as an army to wage war against the creatures. The Doctor, who has accidentally been aged five hundred years, has to race to stop Pangol, and uncover the Foamasi agent in their midst.

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