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'''Mandrel''': ''Stuff the company!'' }}
 
''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' goes all political with this thinly-disguised allegory on the evils of income tax. The TARDIS arrives on the planet Pluto, which in the future has six suns, a breathable atmosphere and a thriving industrial base. "The Company" controls the entire planet and exploits the workers mercilessly, paying peanuts and taxing everything.
 
The Doctor and Leela contact the resistance, led by Mandrel, and learn that the workforce are being kept calm by a gas piped into the atmosphere. While The Company has a human representative in Gatherer Hade, it is in fact run by alien Usurians, noted for keeping planets in economic servitude.
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* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Gatherer Hade is ultimately thrown over a railing to his death.
* [[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.
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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 ''[[Blake's Seven (TV)|Blake's 7.]]''
* [[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."
* [[Shout -Out]]: Leela's attempted execution contains visual references to ''[[Metropolis]]'' (the pod she's confined in, and the control panels). The opening shots of Cordo are a copy of the opening shots of Winston Smith in the famous 1950s BBC version of ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''.
* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: The Doctor plays chess with K-9. He's losing.
* [[Spell My Name With a "The"]]
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