Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} and the Leisure Hive by David Fisher Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive by David Fisher. and Romana travel to the Leisure Hive on Argolis, a planet ravaged by a nuclear war with the Foamasi years earlier. The Argolin leader, Mena, explains that her people are now sterile and the Hive is their legacy, intended to bring different races together in the spirit of peace. The main attraction is a device called the Tachyon Recreation Generator, but it is experiencing mysterious faults. At the same time, Mena's son, Pangol, becomes increasingly militant; the scientist Hardin conducts fraudulent temporal experiments; an Earth businessman, Brock, behaves very oddly; and mysterious creatures prowl the Leisure Hive. Production. Throughout the incubation of Doctor Who 's seventeenth season, the outgoing team of producer Graham Williams and script editor Douglas Adams had tried unsuccessfully to attract new writers to the programme. As a result, they had found themselves relying on veteran Doctor Who contributors, while also leaving few viable scripts in development for Williams' successor, John Nathan-Turner. Despite these struggles, Nathan- Turner was eager to attract not only new writers, but also new directors to Season Eighteen. However, he and executive producer Barry Letts were also keen to rein in the programme's humorous and fantastical tendencies, in favour of a renewed emphasis on more legitimate science. This was out of keeping with those few narratives -- such as Pennant Roberts' “Erinella” and Alan Drury's “The Tearing Of The Veil” -- that remained available for consideration. With no script editor in place when he took over as producer in December 1979, this forced Nathan-Turner to turn to a familiar Doctor Who name: David Fisher. For Season Seventeen, Fisher had written The Creature From The Pit , as well as a set of scripts which had evolved into City Of Death . More recently, he had been discussing an idea called “The Psychonauts” with Adams and, on November 7th, had offered Nathan-Turner a storyline entitled “The Castle Of Doom”. Nathan-Turner, on the other hand, preferred an idea of Fisher's called “The Argolin” that Adams had rejected in early 1979, which was set in a futuristic holiday camp. With Letts' help, Nathan-Turner reworked Fisher's original proposal, and returned it to the writer to flesh out into full scripts. These were commissioned under the title “Avalon” on December 20th. More and more of David Fisher's humour was winnowed out during the story's development. Initially, Fisher strove to maintain some of the same comedic elements that he had invested in his earlier Doctor Who adventures. He envisaged “Avalon” as a pastiche of gangster movies, and even formed the name of the alien Foamasi as an anagram of “mafiosa”. However, more and more of Fisher's humour was winnowed out during the story's development, by which time Christopher H Bidmead -- who shared the producers' vision of a more serious Doctor Who -- had come aboard as script editor. Fortunately, Fisher had done some research into tachyonics via the New Scientist , and so he could supply the desired element of hard science. The opening scene of “Avalon”, set on the beach at Brighton, East Sussex, was added at the request of Nathan-Turner, who lived nearby. No one amongst the new production team was fond of K·9 -- whose departure from Doctor Who was planned for later in Season Eighteen -- and the producer was eager to diminish his role as much as possible. Nathan-Turner also thought that the robot dog's surprise near-destruction would come as an intriguing shock to hook viewers at the start of what was now intended to be the season premiere. One aspect of Doctor Who which Nathan-Turner felt was in need of an overhaul was its visual style. The producer believed that there was a lot of money to be made by branding the programme correctly and, to this end, he decided that it was time to implement several changes, beginning with the title sequence. The “time tunnel” version had been used -- with only minor changes -- since The Time Warrior in 1973. Now Nathan-Turner tasked Sid Sutton of the BBC Graphics Department with a complete redesign. To date, the Doctor Who titles had been disorienting and claustrophobic, so Sutton introduced a starscape-style animation to provide a significant contrast. He also devised a new Doctor Who logo which was styled in the manner of neon tubes. In the same vein, Nathan-Turner thought that Doctor Who characters would be more marketable if they were clothed consistently from story to story, like a uniform. This would also save money on new costumes for each serial. Although Lalla Ward, playing Romana, was insistent that she continue to have a substantial say in how her character was dressed, Nathan-Turner asked June Hudson -- the designer assigned to “Avalon” -- to come up with a new outfit for 's Doctor. Baker mooted the possibility of a completely different silhouette, but Hudson ultimately maintained the same basic design, such as the lengthy scarf. The major change was the predominantly burgundy colour scheme, in place of the original browns and greys. Question marks were also added to the Doctor's shirt collar, at Nathan-Turner's request. 's 15-year association with Doctor Who would come to an end. To this point, the score for each Doctor Who episode had typically been performed by small ensembles. Freelancer Dudley Simpson was the composer most often employed for the programme but, early in 1980, Nathan-Turner took him out to lunch to explain that he was opting for a new approach. Simpson's fifteen-year association with Doctor Who would come to an end, while members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop would now compose the incidental music and realise it electronically. was the Radiophonic Workshop member assigned to “Avalon”, and Nathan-Turner also asked him to engineer a completely new arrangement of the familiar Doctor Who theme music. In 1972, a previous attempt to replace the original version had wound up being rejected at the last minute. In keeping with his desire to bring new directors onto Doctor Who , Nathan-Turner secured the services of Lovett Bickford for “Avalon”. Having developed a reputation for achieving distinctive visuals, Bickford was eager to record “Avalon” in the style of a feature film, replete with unusual camera angles, single-camera takes and the widespread use of a handheld camera. By the start of March, the season premiere had gained its final title of The Leisure Hive . Work on Doctor Who 's eighteenth production block then began with two days -- March 20th and 21st -- at Brighton Beach. This saw the introduction of a new fibreglass TARDIS prop to replace the battered wooden version in use since 1976. The opportunity was taken to reintroduce a more historically-accurate stacked roof. This feature had been present on the original TARDIS in 1963, but a flat roof had been employed since the mid-Sixties. Unfortunately, as recording got under way, Baker was unwell following a long flight from Australia, and his mood was further affected by a downturn in his relationship with Ward. The pair had decided to end their romantic liaison when shooting ended on Season Seventeen in December. Now, however, Baker yearned to rekindle their affair, while Ward was content to leave things as they were. As a result, both stars were soon refusing to speak to one another. Baker's attitude was at least moderated by his cordial working relationship with Nathan-Turner -- a marked change from the acrimony that had brewed between the actor and Graham Williams -- although he was unenthusiastic about several of the changes introduced by his new producer. The first studio session for The Leisure Hive took place from April 2nd to 4th at BBC Television Centre Studio 1 in White City, London. This was originally scheduled as a two-day block, but Bickford lobbied for a third day so that he could experiment with cutting-edge Quantel image processing equipment. Work on the first day concentrated on effects shots for the visidome screens. They were completed the next day, which also encompassed modelwork and material in the Great Hall. Amongst these shots was the sequence of the TARDIS arriving on Argolis; thanks to Quantel, the time machine could now be seen materialising while the camera was moving. More scenes in the Great Hall were completed on the final day of the block, alongside footage in the boardroom and the corridors. Bickford also recorded more model shots, as well as the effects sequences for the squash game and the faked hologram. The baby Pangol was played by Alys Dyer, whose mother was production unit manager Angela Smith. Unfortunately, Bickford's avant garde approach had resulted in The Leisure Hive falling catastrophically behind schedule. The second studio block, originally intended to span three days, now had to be extended to a fourth day to ensure that all the necessary scenes would be captured. In the event, this session took place in TC3 from April 18th to 21st. Scenes in the corridors were on the agenda throughout the block, and those in the boardroom on all but the last day. The 18th additionally saw Bickford tape material in the Great Hall, the laboratory, and the cabin where the Doctor and Romana were held. The lab set was also in use on the 19th. Sequences in the Great Hall and the courtroom were completed on the 20th. This left scenes in the laboratory, Brock's cabin and the interior of the Tachyon Recreation Generator for the 21st. The Leisure Hive was substantially over-budget, ensuring that Lovett Bickford would never work on Doctor Who again. In spite of the decision to extend the second studio block by a day, Bickford still had to schedule extra recording during the mornings, and obtain permission for overruns in the evenings. All of this added up to The Leisure Hive going substantially over-budget, earning Nathan-Turner a reprimand from his superiors and ensuring that Bickford would never work on Doctor Who again. The Leisure Hive was also Fisher's final contribution to the programme. This was partly due to his unhappiness over the efforts of Nathan-Turner, Bidmead and Bickford to cut a significant amount of Fisher's material which they deemed to be superfluous, in order to augment the pace of each episode. As a consequence, all four installments were quite short, even with lengthy reprises grafted onto the last three parts. Because the Season Seventeen finale, Shada , had been cancelled due to industrial action, the hiatus between the 1979-80 and 1980-81 seasons was the longest in Doctor Who history to that point, at more than seven months. In the interim, the programme's timeslot had largely been filled by the American superhero adventure Wonder Woman , then What's On Wogan? from the late spring, and finally a series of Cliff Richards films towards the end of the summer. Season Eighteen launched with Episode One of The Leisure Hive on August 30th. The show's nominal timeslot was 6.15pm and, for the opening installment, it was preceded by another American import, The Dukes Of Hazzard , plus the news, and followed once again by Larry Grayson's Generation Game . The next week, Episode Two was scheduled at 6.20pm due to its brevity. On September 13th, the BBC's broadcast of The Last Night Of The Proms brought Episode Three forward to 5.55pm. The Duke Boys were rested that night, so Doctor Who followed directly after Grandstand , with the exception of an intervening animated short and news update. Unfortunately, despite Nathan-Turner's efforts to revamp the show, Doctor Who fared badly against ITV's glossy American import, Buck Rogers In The 25th Century . Fewer than six million viewers showed up for the season premiere -- the smallest debut audience since The Smugglers led off Season Four in 1966. To make matters worse, Doctor Who 's audience declined over the course of The Leisure Hive : by Episode Three, the programme had fallen out of the Top 100 programmes for the week for the first time since its very first story, 100,000 BC , back in 1963. Although no one could know it at the time, it was an early sign of the tumult that awaited Doctor Who in the Eighties. Doctor Who And The Leisure Hive. The Leisure Hive on the planet Argolis is an entertainment centre for galactic travellers. At the heart of the Hive is the Tachyon Recreation Generator, a machine with a most extraordinary performance capability and vital to the continued existence of the Argolin after their devastating war with the reptilian Foamasi. While visiting the Hive, the Doctor and Romana are sucked into a whirlpool of treachery and deceit, and are eventually arrested on suspicion of murder. Soon the Doctor is on trial for his life. Lalla Ward, who played Romana in Doctor Who, reads David Fisher's complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1982. The voice of K9 is provided by John Leeson. Doctor Who: The Androids Of Tara (Classic Audio Original) David Fisher. The Proudest Day. Anthony Read. David Fisher. David Fisher was approached by script editor Anthony Read to write for Doctor Who and the result was the 100th story, The Stones of Blood, transmitted in 1978. Fisher first met Read when the latter was setting up a series called The Troubleshooters in 1965. Fisher went on to write for Orlando (1967), Dixon of Dock Green (1969), Sutherland's Law (1973) and General Hospital (1977). As well as The Stones of Blood, Fisher also contributed The Androids of Tara, The Creature from the Pit and The Leisure Hive to Doctor Who. The first two stories were novelised by Terrance Dicks, but Fisher decided to pen the latter two himself for the Target range. Following his work on Doctor Who, Fisher wrote for Hammer House of Horror (1980), Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984) and collaborated with Read on a number of historical books with subjects including World War Two espionage, the Nazi persecution of Jews and the Nazi/Soviet pact of the early 1940s. Penguin Books Ltd. Registered number: 861590 England. Registered office: 20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London, Penguin Books Limited. Our Use of Cookies. 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As well as The Stones of Blood, Fisher also contributed The Androids of Tara, The Creature from the Pit and The Leisure Hive to Doctor Who. The first two stories were novelised by Terrance Dicks, but Fisher decided to pen the latter two himself for the Target range. Following his work on Doctor Who, Fisher wrote for Hammer House of Horror (1980), Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984) and collaborated with Read on a number of historical books with subjects including World War Two espionage, the Nazi persecution of Jews and the Nazi/Soviet pact of the early 1940s. The Leisure Hive (TV story) The Leisure Hive was the first serial of season 18 of Doctor Who . It was the first serial produced by John Nathan-Turner. He immediately instituted a number of radical new changes to the series. The title sequence was redone with a 'star-field' motif. Delia Derbyshire's arrangement of the Doctor Who theme was abandoned in favour of a more dynamic, glossy and 'funky' version of it, done by Peter Howell (also of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, where Derbyshire worked previously), using synthesisers (particularily the Yamaha CS-80 and ARP Odyssey synthesisers, as well as an EMS vocoder). These wholesale alterations to the programme's opening sequence would, with relatively minor adjustments, remain in place until season 24. At the same time, Nathan-Turner decided to end composer Dudley Simpson's long association with the programme. He chose the Radiophonic Workshop to handle the incidental music for The Leisure Hive . The story also brought a new uniform look for the Fourth Doctor. His coat and trademark scarf were now coloured burgundy, the latter with purple stripes. The new question mark motif premiered here on the Doctor's shirt collar and would persist throughout Nathan-Turner's era. Narratively, The Leisure Hive was an unusual story in that it was commissioned directly by the producer rather than the script editor, because Christopher H. Bidmead was not yet hired. New executive producer Barry Letts, who had previously served as the show's producer during most of the Jon Pertwee era and during Tom Baker's first story, also had a significant hand in shaping the story's outline. [1] Letts's new role as executive producer would only last for the duration of the season, and would be his last contribution to televised Doctor Who . Contents. Synopsis [ edit | edit source ] The Fourth Doctor and Romana II arrive on Argolis in search of a peaceful holiday at the famed Leisure Hive. Instead they become embroiled in both a takeover scheme by the Argolins' historic enemy the Foamasi and the machinations of Pangol, child of the Generator. Plot [ edit | edit source ] Part 1 [ edit | edit source ] The Fourth Doctor, having yet again failed to pilot the TARDIS to Brighton Pavilion thanks to his attempts to bypass the randomiser, snores loudly on a deck chair as Romana and K9 discuss alternate holiday options. Frustrated, Romana tosses her beach ball into the sea and K9 goes to fetch it, badly damaging him. Romana convinces the Doctor to go to Argolis, home of the famed Leisure Hive. Argolis had been nearly annihilated by a brief but devastating war with the Foamasi, but the surviving Argolins have built the domed holiday palace, offering anti-gravity racquetball among other delights. However, the Hive has run into financial dire straits. The chief executive, Morix, ageing and near death, is pondering a buy-out offer from Earth businessmen Brock and Klout, who represent the Foamasi, but his hotheaded son Pangol will hear nothing of it. Morix dies and is succeeded by Mena, who herself is getting old. Meanwhile, an alien presence has infiltrated the Hive. The Doctor and Romana arrive and watch a demonstration of the Hive's newest offering, the Tachyon Recreation Generator, but the demonstration goes horribly awry when a volunteer from the crowd is torn apart inside the machine. The Doctor and Romana realise the recordings of the experiments have been faked. The Doctor explores the Tachyon Recreation Generator, and when an alien turns the machine on, the Doctor appears to be torn limb from limb. Part 2 [ edit | edit source ] The image onscreen is merely an illusion - the Doctor escaped the generator from the back. He and Romana are taken to Mena by security guards. Meanwhile, staff scientist Hardin has arrived, and when Mena learns of the newcomers' experience with time technology, she asks Romana to assist him with tachyonics experiments. They are trying to use the questionable science to reverse the flow of time. The Argolin race is sterile after the war with the Foamasi. Rejuvenating themselves is the only way to survive. Mena begins to age quickly, a result of the radioactivity on the planet. Meanwhile, Hardin and his partner, Stimson, discuss their experiments, which have been faked by them. Hardin wants to confess. Stimson plans to get off Argolis. Romana and Hardin appear to have some success, but when they go to tell Mena, the equipment explodes. Guards find Stimson, who has been murdered, and arrest the Doctor. He stands trial in the boardroom and claims his innocence. Romana and Hardin announce their success, but before it can be used on Mena, Pangol wants to test it on the Doctor. As the experiment proceeds, Romana realises something is wrong, but she is too late to stop the experiment. The Doctor emerges from the machine, aged several hundred years. Part 3 [ edit | edit source ] The Doctor and Romana are imprisoned and try to figure out what went wrong with the experiment. Pangol discovers that Hardin's experiments were faked, which Hardin admits to but says he is near to a breakthrough, and wants Romana's help. Mena refuses. Vargos fits the Doctor and Romana with limitation collars. They can roam freely around the Leisure Hive, but must stay within the limits programmed into the collars. If they enter a forbidden area or attempt to remove the collars, these will tighten around their necks and strangle them. Pangol prevents Mena from signing contracts with the Foamasi. He wants to rebuild Argolis. He is the first Argolin created in the recreation generator and has big plans for the machine. Hardin frees the Doctor and Romana from their collars with a borrowed security key, and they decide to put Romana in the machine. She works on the machine but is confronted by an alien. Pangol sees the Doctor on a monitor and goes to stop him. He programs the machine to age the Doctor, who he thinks is in the machine, another two thousand years. The alien, a Foamasi, helps Romana escape. The Foamasi doesn't speak with words but the Doctor can understand him. They go to the boardroom where Pangol reveals his grand plans to Brock - he will raise an Argolin army from the generator. The Foamasi approaches Brock and pulls at his face - revealing that it is a mask and he is a Foamasi. Part 4 [ edit | edit source ] The first Foamasi takes Brock's voice synthesiser and reveals that Brock and Klout (the murderer) are disguised Foamasi, members of a dissident group called the West Lodge. They do not act in the interest of the Foamasi at large, however. The two planets are now at peace. Pangol is suspicious of the Doctor and the Foamasi, and refuses to let them leave. When the Foamasi ship takes off, it is destroyed by Pangol. Pangol plans to start creating his clone army. The Doctor and Romana try to stop him by using the randomiser from the TARDIS. Pangol enters the machine, wearing the Helmet of Theron, and duplicates himself into an army. However, because the Doctor was in the machine at the time, the clones are images of the Doctor, who has been restored to his original age. The clones do not last long, disappearing one by one. Hardin takes a near-dead Mena to the machine to regenerate her, but Pangol pushes past him. Both Mena and Pangol get into the machine, and both are restored, Mena to a young adult age and Pangol to a baby. The Doctor shuts off the generator. The Foamasi who rescued Romana appears, not having been in the Foamasi ship when it was destroyed. He and Mena begin negotiations for peace. The Doctor and Romana decide to leave, and the Doctor decides to leave the randomiser behind despite the threat of the Black Guardian, as he is tired of not knowing where he's going. With that, the two return to the TARDIS to continue their travels. Cast [ edit | edit source ] - Tom Baker - Lalla Ward Voice of K9 - John Leeson - Adrienne Corri - Laurence Payne - John Collin - David Haig - Nigel Lambert - Martin Fisk - Roy Montague - Ian Talbot Voice of Tannoy - Harriet Reynolds - David Allister Voice of Generator - Clifford Norgate - Andrew Lane. Crew [ edit | edit source ] References [ edit | edit source ] Conflicts [ edit | edit source ] In 2250Argolis (led by Theron) was all but destroyed by two thousand nuclear warheads in twenty minutes during a war with the reptilian Foamasi. Argolis's surface, while beautiful, is deadly to all life. The Argolin survivors, made sterile by the radiation from the war, invented the science of tachyonics "forty years ago", and built the Leisure Hive with its Experiential Grid offering variable environments. Influence [ edit | edit source ] Death in Venice - the opening tracking shot was John Nathan-Turner's homage to the film. Planets [ edit | edit source ] K9 lists all known recreational planets for Romana, ending with "Yegros Alpha: speciality, atavistic therapy of primitive asteroids. Zaakros: galaxy's largest flora collection. Zeen 4: historical re-enactments.". Argolis is the first of the leisure planets. Brock (the real one) lists other more successful leisure planets: Limnos 4, and Abydos; the latter was name-dropped in The One Doctor . Species [ edit | edit source ] There are lodges of Foamasi, the West Lodge being one such group. Technology [ edit | edit source ] Story notes [ edit | edit source ] This story is the debut of the new opening and closing title sequences, complete with "neon tube" logo, designed by the BBC's Sid Sutton, accompanied by a new Peter Howell-arranged version of Ron Grainer's theme music. The arrangement is notable for being performed in F# minor, whereas all previous arrangements were in the original key of E minor. The scene changes with the picture shrinking, leaving the star effect. This only happened once. This is John Nathan-Turner's first story as producer. This is the last story to be written by David Fisher. The story had working titles of The Argolins [2] and Avalon . A new TARDIS exterior prop makes its debut, this time made of fibreglass rather than of wood and, with its stacked roof arrangement, somewhat truer to the design of a genuine police box than the previous version (first seen in The Masque of Mandragora ). The Doctor's new outfit (burgundy colour) also debuts in this story. The Radio Times programme listing for part one was accompanied by a black and white full-length publicity shot of the Doctor and Romana standing outside the TARDIS on Brighton beach, with the accompanying caption "Voyages through time as the Tardis returns with Dr. Who and Romana and the first planned trip is a holiday. Tom Baker and Lalla Ward: 6.15". That for part three bore a black and white photograph of the aged Doctor sitting next to Romana, each wearing a limitation collar placed on them by Vargos, with the accompanying caption "A grisly accident happens in the Tachyon Recreation Generator when Dr. Who (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) arrive on Argolis: 5.55". (Tannoy Voice) was uncredited on-screen for part two, but credited in Radio Times . Beginning with this story and continuing for the next several seasons until , each serial will be linked in some way, either through some reference, or directly linked. returns portraying the voice of K9, having been persuaded by John Nathan-Turner to reprise the role for this season. By this time, Leeson could provide K9's voice by vocal power alone, and thus no longer required the vocal modulator he had previously used. This story features the first use in Doctor Who of the digital Quantel image processing system. Amongst the effects created by the use of this system was a moving shot of the TARDIS materialising on Argolis (whereas the roll back and mix technique by which the materialisation was achieved normally necessitated a completely static shot). ITV, the commercial TV competitor to the BBC, premiered the American series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century directly opposite the first episode of The Leisure Hive , after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with Doctor Who by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who' s eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode of The Leisure Hive , but figures dropped each week. By week three, Doctor Who did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted. Production of the serial was extremely challenging. Tom Baker and Lalla Ward's tumultuous off-screen relationship was at a nadir, causing the mood on set to be distinctly chilly. DirectorLovett Bickford's management of the shoot caused it to go so badly over budget that John Nathan-Turner was severely reprimanded by his superiors. Bickford would never work on Doctor Who again. [1] The baby Pangol was played by Alys Dyer, whose mother was production unit manager Angela Smith. conceived of the Foamasi as a race of organised criminals. "Foamasi" is a near-anagram of "mafioso". The episode was written as a satire of the decline of tourism in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. The alien costume used for the Foamasi was later reused in the BBC's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as the leader of the G'Gugvuntt. The opening shot on Brighton Beach took a day to film. Ratings [ edit | edit source ] Part one - 5.9 million viewers Part two - 5.0 million viewers Part three - 5.0 million viewers Part four - 4.5 million viewers. Filming locations [ edit | edit source ] Brighton Beach, Brighton, East Sussex (TC1 & TC3), Shepherd's Bush, London. Production errors [ edit | edit source ] The wires pulling K9 along the beach are particularly visible in part one. In part two, the top of the is nearly bent off. The shiny silver belts of the zero gravity squash players were a poor choice of costume accessory for the CSO effect. Because they reflect the colour of the special effects backdrop, they have a tendency to become completely invisible. The number of nodules on Morix's horn changes between shots during his death scene. Continuity [ edit | edit source ] The Doctor had previously attempted to reach Brighton with Leela. (TV: Horror of Fang Rock ) The Foamasi reappear in PROSE: Placebo Effect . The Doctor is also rapidly aged during his tenth incarnation. (TV: The Sound of Drums ) The planet Midnight is also a leisure planet and its environment is also uninhabitable because of extreme radiation. (TV: Midnight ) Cellular regeneration (or "de-ageing") is also performed by Professor Lazarus. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment ) The SlitheenMargaret Blaine is also de-aged, regressed back into an egg by the Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: Boom Town ) The Doctor expressed concern about K9 getting wet in the swamps of the moons of Delta Magna. (TV: The Power of Kroll ) Argolis is later visited by future renegade Time Lord, Epsilon Delta. Like the Doctor and Romana, he visited the leisure hive before he met the Seventh Doctor. (PROSE: The Dimension Riders ) Home video and audio releases [ edit | edit source ] CD Release [ edit | edit source ] In March 2002, At the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 3 was released with The Leisure Hive score in it.