Doctor Who and the Sunmakers


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Doctor Who and the SunmakersDoctor Who and the Sunmakers


BOOK DETAILS

Pages 127
ISBN 0-426-20059-4
Publication Date 18 November 1982

SYNOPSIS

Everyone knows that Pluto is a barren airless rock. So naturally the Fourth Doctor is surprised when he discovers artificial suns, an ultra-modern industrial city and a group of colonists being worked – and taxed – to dealt in this inhospitable and supposedly undeveloped part of the universe …

With the help of his companion Leela and the faithful K9, the planets and their people.

NOTES

CHAPTER TITLES

  1. The Cost of the Golden Death
  2. The Fugitive
  3. The Others
  4. The Collector
  5. The Reprieve
  6. The Trap
  7. The Rebels
  8. The Prisoner
  9. The Steaming
  10. Revolt
  11. The Confrontation
  12. Liquidation

DEVIATIONS FROM THE TELEVISED STORY

  • A deleted scene where Leela sees citizens lining up to be executed for their death-day is reinstated.
  • Hade’s death leaves the humans sick, in the televised story they cheer.
  • There are several minor dialogue changes: For instance, Leela’s “Perhaps everyone runs from the tax man “becomes “Perhaps everyone runs from this Tax Gatherer.”
  • Some role as reassigned: One of Goudry’s lines is given to another member of the Others and some of the Commander’s role is given to an unnamed technician. Veet is absent from the scene of Goudry stirring up the rebels and the TARDIS departure scene.
  • Bisham knew the tablets he took were the PCM antidote.
  • The Doctor believes Mandrel threatening him with a poker is a bluff, saying he’s not really nasty enough at heart.
  • Synge recalls that Mandrel was sent to the Correction Centre for assaulting a supervisor and there were rumours he escaped.
  • Marn accompanies the guards to Main Control and escapes to alert Hade.
  • Leela’s knife strikes the guard in the back rather than the shoulder.
  • Some ad-libbed material, such as The Doctor specifying the order in which everyone walks and briefly searching for K9, is omitted.

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