We all know the Doctor runs around overthrowing dictators, raising up the oppressed, and stopping colonization of already-inhabited worlds. But what happens when the colonizers decide to avenge themselves on the Doctor, and are prepared to wait nearly a thousand years for him? We find out when the Fourth Doctor takes Leela to visit the Heligan structure, a gigantic tree that floats in space and is home to people with names like Agony-Without-End-Shall-Be-The-Doctor's-Punishment. Though I rather like Aggie, and all the rest of her people, once the Doctor has convinced them to resist the tree's natural defenses. Well, not really natural.
It's rather like The Face of Evil, only this time the Doctor is cleaning up after one of his future selves. Which we can do, now that this Doctor is a past Doctor. I enjoyed it; it was a nice little Four-and-Leela romp; and now I need to get back to watching Romana regenerate.
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