^^^ That should go in the best meme's ever thread x-D
Watched the Tom Baker, Leela and K-9 serial 'The Sun Makers'. It's a satire on galloping bureaucracy exactly like Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil'... only 8 years before 'Brazil' was filmed ;-)
The Doctor and Leela arrive on Pluto in mankind's future, where the human race are enslaved to insane and draconian tax laws, admistered by the all powerful 'Collector' and his obsequious number-two 'The Gatherer'.
Both parts are played with gusto by Richard Leech and Henry Woolf. Woolf plays the twisted 'Collector' like a cross between a demented Denis Healey (No accident, he was the Chancellor at the time) and an even more insane Dr. Strangelove.
Leela's part is so well written in this story that I could have quite happily just watched "The Leela and K-9 Show" and forgotten about The Doctor (But Baker is terrific too). She's like a grenade tossed into this repressed society and soon she's threatening to "Split" and "Fillet" various people with her knife and leading an armed insurrection. It was the best element of the serial. For example...
The fact that it ends with the Doctor helping the "Goodies" to murder 'The Gatherer' in cold-blood, felt a bit odd. Writer Robert Holmes must have really, really hated the Taxman at the time (It was the 70s after all) ;-)
