Doctor Who/Recap/S24/E03 Delta and the Bannermen
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"You are not the Happy Hearts Holiday Club from Bolton, but instead are spacemen in fear of an attack from some other spacemen?"
—Burton
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The TARDIS is the Umpteenth Customer at a hyperspace tollbooth, and the Doctor and Mel win a free vacation through time and space to Disneyland in AD 1959. Mel boards a Time Machine in the form of a bus (no, it's not a TARDIS). The Doctor follows in his Old Semi-Reliable.
In 1959, the US launches a satellite which promptly collides with the bus, which makes an emergency landing just outside a Welsh holiday camp called Shangri-La. One of the other passengers is Delta, Queen of the Chimerons. She and her egg are the last of their kind, as the evil Bannermen have taken over her world.
Meanwhile, two bickering CIA Agents (the Earthbound version) are notified that the satellite was last seen over their area. All these people will get mixed up in the affair when the Bannermen are alerted to Delta's whereabouts.
Tropes
- Adam and Eve Plot
- Aliens in Cardiff
- Bee People: The Chimerons before the genocide. How the species will adapt to having a male "queen" is anyone's guess.
- Biker Babe: Ray
- Brown Note: The Princess' weaponized singing
- Character Name and the Noun Phrase - Likely as a Shout-Out to rock group Echo & the Bunnymen
- Cool Bike: The Vincent.
- Fake Band: The Lorells.
- The Fifties
- Incredibly Obvious Bug: A six inch long shiny silver one with audible beeping and a flashing blue light.
- Jabba Table Manners: Gavrok
- Last Of Her Kind
- Motorcycle Jousting
- Mutagenic Food: Delta's "royal jelly"
- No One Could Survive That: What the Bannermen do to the bus.
- The Noun and the Noun
- Smoldering Shoes
- Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: The princess.
- Those Two Guys
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: Ray
- Umpteenth Customer
- What Could Have Been: Once Bonnie Langford decided she was leaving, initially the new companion was going to be Ray; the production team later went with Ace, but we could have had a 1950s Welsh tomboy mechanic travelling with the Doctor instead...
- Wrench Wench: Ray habitually goes about with her pockets full of spanners, Allen keys and other tools.