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The Doctor succeeds in switching off the calming gas and the workers rise up against The Company and kill the hated Gatherer Hade, while the Doctor does some computer jiggery-pokery to bankrupt it. The Usurian "Collector" is powerless to stop The Company going bust and reverts to his natural form - a harmless fungus.
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: the undercity.
* [[Author Tract]]: Writer Robert Holmes based this story on some of the troubles he was having with England's revenue office.<ref>Due to having been simultaneously paid by the BBC as a salaried worker in his role as script editor, and as a freelancer for the scripts he was credited writer on</ref>
* [[Badass Boast]]: Leela gets several, but most memorably when the Others threaten to kill her.
{{quote|'''Leela:''' Before I die I'll see this rathole ankle deep in blood. That is a promised thing.}}
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* [[Driven to Suicide]]
* [[Earth-That-Was]]: The Company rescued humanity from a dying Earth, moving them first to Mars and thence to Pluto.
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: The serial was filmed in the real-life deep air raid shelters of London.
* [[Emotion Bomb]]: Used by the evil tax-gathering government to control the human populace. The Doctor inverts the technology to make people angry instead.
* [[Evil Cripple]]: The Collector would appear to be one, since he's confined to a wheelchair-like device throughout the story. It's actually a device that emits radiation to keep him in his human form.
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* [[Plant Aliens]]: The Usurians turn out to be a species of poisonous fungus.
* [[La Résistance]]
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Goudry is played by Michael Keating, better known for his later role as Vila Restal of ''[[
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Villified]]: Initially subverted - the 'resistance' are depicted as brutal, self-interested and venal criminals out for themselves rather than any higher purpose until the Doctor effectively takes over.
* [[Sauna of Death]]: Leela is captured and sentenced to death by "steaming."
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* [[Spell My Name with a "The"]]
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Gatherer Hade has an ostentatious manner of addressing The Collector (your Immensity, your Hugeness, your Supernal Eminence, etc), but as their relationship breaks down under the strain of events the honorifics become somewhat insulting, as in: "I fear the situation is worsening, your Grossness!"
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: The Collector, upon realizing the revolution has finally caught up with him, is reduced to a babbling wreck as he slowly (and literally) goes down the drain.
* [[Visual Pun]]: when Leela is captured the Collector orders her status to be set as "pending". When we next see her she's hung on a wall.
* [[Why Didn't You Just Say So?]]: After Leela attempts for several minutes to pull the Doctor's attention away from a riveting chess game:
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