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In 1746, the time traveling alien known as the Doctor (Doctor 2) and his companions arrived in Scotland on Earth and ended up getting captured along with some Highlanders by an English Lieutenant. The Doctor thwarted plans to turn him and his fellow captives into slaves and he helped the Highlanders escape to France. Before leaving he added Jamie to his companions. ("The Highlanders", Doctor Who vlm 1 ,TV)

Out of the Unknown: The Midas Plague (1.12, BBC, 1965)

"You do not seem to understand, Morrey. This is no excuse for your present idleness. We are undergoing a severe economic crisis. The people of this land are being asked to let out their belts, take their shoulders off the wheel. They have to eat more, drink more, drive more cars, wear out more clothes, and generally enjoy themselves more - and work less. This country is over-producing. Our automatic factories, our robots, are making much too much of everything, and it has to be consumed! Want not, Morrey, waste not."

#Out of the Unknown #The Midas Plague #frederik pohl #Single play #Troy Kennedy Martin #BBC #Peter Sasdy #Graham Stark #Anne Lawson #Sam Kydd #John Barron #A.J. Brown #Anthony Dawes #Victor Brooks #Geoffrey Alexander #Sydney Arnold #Julian Curry #David Blake Kelly #David Nettheim #Robert Sidaway #Another story that I read as a wayward teen. Some liberties have been taken with the plot from what I remember of it and the ending #Reworked to be more television friendly but this is unmistakably Pohl: simultaneously one of the most politically engaged of the golden age #Sci fi writers and yet one of the most playfully irreverent. The comic nature of the source story has been ramped up and we close out the #First series on an out and out comedy episode. A rare starring role for comic actor (and close friend and ubiquitous costar of Peter #Sellers) Graham Stark who was more often seen in supporting parts. He has a lot of fun here as does the entire cast but the robot outfits #Having been presumably been designed for maximum practicality whilst being easily duplicated and as cheap as possible end up being.. Well #A little creepy to be honest. An odd way to bow out the series but as silly as it is the central point is never lost. Interestingly this #Wasn't an isolated story of Pohl's but a springboard for a whole world of short stories that examine this particular timeline and satirise #Consumerism on industrial scales. Not a patch on The Space Merchants tho which should be required reading for every student of sci fi #So what will (what survives of) series 2 hold for us? Well more women for a start i hope..

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