Doctor Who/Recap/S4/E01 The Smugglers
The Doctor: You are now traveling through time and space.
Ben: Yes, well, make sure I get back by tea-time!
Season four kicks off with another historical tale, this time in 17th century Cornwall as the Doctor and new companions Polly and Ben get involved in a search for hidden treasure, smuggling and kidnap - all the pirate movie staples, but this time in Cornwall instead of the Caribbean.
The Doctor inadvertently hears a rhyme telling the location of the treasure and is kidnapped by the pirates. He escapes, but is eventually forced to tell them the rhyme anyway, and the treasure is found - just as the feared "Revenue Men" turn up with the local militia. In the ensuing fight, most of the pirates are killed and the travelers make their escape.
Tropes
- Buried Treasure
- Dude in Distress: Yep, this is the first time the Doctor gets explicitly kidnapped (it's even commented upon many times), but it won't be the last.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The Squire is more than happy to smuggle goods to get rich and avoid paying the taxes on them, but he draws the line at piracy and murder.
- Hook Hand: Captain Pike
- I Call It Vera: Cherub's knife 'Tommy Tickler'
- Missing Episode: Ironically, the only surviving visual portion of the episodes are the violent scenes, thanks to overseas censorship.
- Pirate Booty
- Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
- Secret Underground Passage: the smugglers use one that leads from a cave on the beach up to the church.
- You Have Failed Me...