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Line 3: {{quote\|Never guess. Unless you have to. There's enough uncertainty in the universe as it is.\|'''The Doctor'''}} The Doctor and Adric make a pit stop in 1981 Britain, so that the Doctor can materialize right on top of a real police box and make hyper-precise multi-dimensional measurements of it, which he needs to take to the math nerds of Logopolis so they can fix the chameleon circuit. ([[It Makes Sense In Context ~~Just~~\|nod along, OK?]]) Oddly enough, though, when they try to materialise, a police box shows up in the console room! A police box that is a TARDIS! With ''its'' own TARDIS in the control room! Doctor and Adric investigate the string of TARDISes, all identical except for being progressively less well-lit. Meanwhile, a plucky young Aussie named Tegan Jovanka is off to her first day of work as a flight attendant, ~~when--wouldn~~when—wouldn't you know?--the car breaks down on the way to Heathrow. Good thing there's a handy police box nearby, so she can call for help. But she hadn't planned on getting ''lost inside''. The sonorous ''bong'' of the TARDIS's cloister bell (its [[Oh Crap]] signal) makes itself heard, so the Doctor and Adric retrace their steps through the nesting TARDISes back to the outermost one. The Doctor suspects that the multiple TARDISes thing is yet another devious trick of the Master, and dematerializes at once, bound for Logopolis. Tegan, by now extremely confused, finds her way back to the control room and demands to know what the hell is going on and to be put back in 1981 ''right now'', ~~please--rather~~please—rather shrilly, true, but then again "Sorry I'm late, I accidentally stepped into a spacetimeship that looked exactly like a police box and ended up at either MIT or a Buddhist monastery or possibly both at once, in the company of an alien with an enormous scarf and a swotty maths geek from another dimension" is, as excuses go, pretty lousy. Especially for one's first day on the job. Anyway. The TARDIS soon materializes on the dusty, cave-pocked planet of Logopolis, home of the maths monks. It is, we learn, an enormous analogue of a computer: a task is broken down into a series of calculations; each monk performs a single calculation and passes the result on to the next monk over. Operations are overseen by the Monitor (get it?) in a sort of large workroom. After reuniting with Nyssa, who is here for no very good reason, the TARDIS crew finds the Monitor. He explains that the universe is actually well past its sell-by date, and is kept from flying apart into chaos only by the power of their mighty minds, as they do... something mathematical... to keep the universe together. Line 19: But nothing bad's going to come from that, of course! Watch it [https://web.archive.org/web/20100708033312/http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x102zh_tardismedia_logopolis here]. === Tropes === * [[Didn't See That Coming\|Didn't See That One Coming]]: Oops. The Master didn't actually ''intend'' to destroy so much of the universe... including Nyssa's homeworld. Line 32: * [[Floating Advice Reminder]]: Happens twice in Part 4. The first time, while hanging on the Pharos Project's power cable, the Doctor is taunted by visions of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S14/E03 The Deadly Assassin\|the (decayed) Master]], a [[Doctor Who/Recap/S17/E01 Destiny of the Daleks\|Dalek]], the [[Doctor Who/Recap/S16/E02 The Pirate Planet\|Pirate Captain]], the [[Doctor Who/Recap/S12/E05 Revenge of the Cybermen\|Cyberleader]], [[Doctor Who/Recap/S12/E04 Genesis of the Daleks\|Davros]], a [[Doctor Who/Recap/S15/E06 The Invasion of Time\|Sontaran]], a [[Doctor Who/Recap/S13/E01 Terror of the Zygons\|Zygon]], and the [[Doctor Who/Recap/S16/E06 The Armageddon Factor\|Black Guardian]]. Then after falling, the Doctor sees visions of his past companions from Sarah Jane to Romana II. * [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: The Doctor. Actually a realistic one, as his death isn't a direct cause of saving the day, but because he pulls off an incredibly risky stunt that he doesn't recover from. * [[The Master (trope)\|The Master]] * [[My Brain Is Big]] * [[Planet of Hats]]: Their hat is genius, universe-maintaining mathematicians. * [[Shown Their Work]]: Writer Christopher H. Bidmead seems to have done more reading up on computers than on entropy. The monks of Logopolis work and communicate in hexadecimal (base 16), just like real computers. At one point, the Doctor mentions "bubble memory"~~--which~~—which is real, and was the subject of a lot of research in 1981. * [[Spanner in the Works]]: The Master doesn't actually ''plan'' on wiping out part of the universe or destroying Logopolis. See also: [[Gone Horribly Right]]. * [[The Stars Are Going Out]]: the entropy spreads and consumes part of the universe. Line 44: {{reflist}} [[Category:Recap]] [[Category:Doctor Who]]▼ [[Category:Doctor Who/Recap]] ▲[[Category:~~Doctor Who~~{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]