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{{quote|''There's nothing "only" about being a girl.''|'''Sarah Jane Smith'''}}
 
The Doctor returns to Peladon, some fifty years after his first visit (''[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S9 E2 The Curse of Peladon|The Curse of Peladon]]''). King Peladon's daughter, Queen Thalira, is now in charge, advised by the inevitable [[Evil Chancellor]], who promptly arrests the Doctor and Sarah Jane. Alpha Centauri, the effeminate octopoid from the last story, is now the Federation ambassador to Peladon, and clears the Doctor's name.
 
A spectral image of Aggeddor (the titular Monster, a sacred monster to Peladon) has been blamed for a number of deaths among the Trisilicate miners. The Doctor discovers that the spectral image is the work of a human engineer, Eckersley, who is working in cahoots with some renegade Ice Warriors to seize the Trisilicate deposits for a rival power bloc.
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* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]]: Both averted and played straight; Gebeck's worker's rights movement is depicted sympathetically, but the attempts of Ettis to start an ''actual'' revolution are universally condemned.
* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: This story was inspired by the 1972 miners' strike.
* [[Scooby -Doo Hoax]]
* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: Alpha Centauri, an alien hermaphrodite, who has an obviously female voice and mannerisms but is usually referred to as "he".
* [[What's Up, King Dude?]]: It seems anyone, including miners, can walk into the throne room and talk to the queen whenever they want to talk to her about something.
* [[The X of Y]]
* [[Green Rocks|Yellow Rocks]] - Trisilicate