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Trying to remember an episode


The Doctor picks up an aboriginal tribe in the TARDIS and forces them into slave labor, polishing the roundels. He then materialises in the artic and clubs a number of baby seals to death and kicks the carcasses into the sea. He then eats some cheese and says it is delicious and I think he offers some to his female companion. Probably a Third Doctor episode but my memory is hazy. Thanks.

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The Doctor picks up an aboriginal tribe in the TARDIS and forces them into slave labor, polishing the roundels. He then materialises in the artic and clubs a number of baby seals to death and kicks the carcasses into the sea. He then eats some cheese and says it is delicious and I think he offers some to his female companion. - mail-81278


While I'm sure the original poster is trying to shock us with the Doctor's alleged amoral behavior, his synopsis is completely unbelievable for two reasons. The second being the budget of "Doctor Who" could never afford a tribe of slaves and a number of seals. Two pieces of cheese, yeah, they could afford that.

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I think the cheese eating alone probably does identify it as a Third Doctor story, but clubbing baby seals to death is so integral to the Doctor's character, and so vital a plot point in so many stories, that it's hard to pin this story down further.

Just a painted face on a trip down suicide row

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Is this also the one were he goes to that one place and does all those things while talking and running? If so, it is so obvious that I am not going to bother to tell you what it is.

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I don't recall any running. He had downed a bottle of absinthe so he was somewhat uncoordinated.

I think the Master was in the episode too, if that helps.

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Did you have cheese before you went to bed again? 

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It's The Space Pirates. All of these things happen (except the cheese) but the audio narration is a little sketchy in places, so it's not always obvious.

So this is permanence, love's shattered pride.
What once was innocence, turned on its side.

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