The Leisure Hive
1980 Doctor Who serial / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Leisure Hive is the first serial of the 18th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 August to 20 September 1980. It marks the return of John Leeson as the voice of K9.
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Directed by | Lovett Bickford | ||
Written by | David Fisher | ||
Script editor | Christopher H. Bidmead | ||
Produced by | John Nathan-Turner | ||
Executive producer(s) | Barry Letts | ||
Music by | Peter Howell | ||
Production code | 5N | ||
Series | Season 18 | ||
Running time | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
First broadcast | 30 August 1980 (1980-08-30) | ||
Last broadcast | 20 September 1980 (1980-09-20) | ||
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In the serial, a criminal organisation of alien Foamasi, called the West Lodge, attempt to buy the planet Argolis from the Argolin people there as a West Lodge base. Meanwhile, the young Argolin Pangol (David Haig) seeks to start a war against the Foamasi, to whom his people had previously lost, with an army made of clones of himself.