Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive

THE LEISURE HIVE - Doctor Who and Romana cut short an unsatisfactory holiday in the English seaside resort of Brighton to visit the Leisure Hive on Argolis - an artificial environment created on a planet laid waste by war. Here travelers and businessmen of the 23rd century can relax in style. Rendered sterile by the war, the Argolins are a dying race and the Hive seems to be dying alongside then as rival planets offer more modern attractions. When the Doctor and Romana arrive, a grisly accident occurs in the Tachyon Recreation Generator, the showpiece of the Hive. Apparently there is a connection between this event and the Argolins' deadly enemy, the Foamasi who have offered to buy the planet. Brock, and agent from Earth, tried to persuade the Argolin leader, Mena, to sell. However, her son doesn't agree with the deal. Mena is rapidly aging and Hardin, an earth scientist, and his assistant, Stimson, claim their development of tachyonics will make rejuvenation possible. Mena's son, Pangol, uncovers Stimson as a fraud after he dies mysteriously, apparently at the hands of the Foamasi who have gained access to the Hive. The Doctor and Romana are arrested for murder, but Hardin helps them escape. Pangol announces a coup d'etat and begins to alter the Recreation Generator in an attempt to clone himself and create a powerful army against the Foamasi. But the Doctor has cannibalized the TARDIS' Randomizer to implement Hardin's rejuvenation theory with the result that a hall full of troops fade away shortly after their creation. Pangol and his mother fall into the machine - and emerge as a youthful Mena and a small bawling baby.

The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and his beautiful companion, Romana, discover that all is not well on planet Argolis when they visit its Leisure Hive in 2290. A 20- minute nuclear war has left the natives sterile, the surface uninhabitable and the invading Foamasi in charge. Trapped inside the Tachyon Recreation Generator, the Doctor ages hundreds of years. Only Romana's quick thinking can save the day and turn the tables on the Foamasi! Four digitally remastered, action-packed episodes, including a historic wardrobe change for the Doctor.

Cast
The Doctor - Tom Baker
Romana - Lalla Ward
Voice of K9 - John Leeson
Foamasi - Andrew Lane
Generator Voice - Clifford Norgate
Guide - Roy Montague
Hardin - Nigel Lambert
Klout - Ian Talbot
Mena - Adrienne Corri
Morix - Laurence Payne
Pangol - David Haig
Stimson - David Allister
Tannoy Voice - Harriet Reynolds
Vargos - Martin Fisk
Production Credits
Director - Lovett Bickford
Assistant Floor Manager - Val McCrimmon
Costumes - June Hudson
Designer - Tom Yardley-Jones
Executive Producer - Barry Letts
Film Cameraman - Keith Barton
Film Editor - Chris Wimble
Incidental Music - Peter Howell
Make-Up - Dorka Nieradzik
Producer - John Nathan-Turner
Production Assistant - Romey Allison
Production Unit Manager - Angela Smith
Script Editor - Christopher H Bidmead
Special Sounds - Dick Mills
Studio Lighting - Duncan Brown
Studio Sound - John Howell
Title Music - Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Peter Howell
Visual Effects - Andrew Lazell
Writer - David Fisher