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 |doctor          = Seventh Doctor
 |companions      = [[Ace]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]]
-|enemy           =
+|enemy           = The [[Sperivore]]s
-|setting         = [[Ricosta]], the [[far future]]
+|setting         = [[Ricosta]], circa [[2000000]]
 |writer          = [[Matt Fitton]]
 |director        = [[Ken Bentley]]
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 == References ==
+* Gloria gives 500 [[grotzit]]s to the Mayor.
 * Mel lost her ship, the ''[[Nosferatu III]]'', when it was impounded.
-* Gloria gives 500 [[grotzit]]s to the Mayor.
+* The Ricosta currency is the dollar. The Mayor regrets not adopting the grotzit when he had the opportunity.
-* Gloria offers Mel a glass of [[gadalaxian champagne]].
+* Lefty Lonnigan is a [[cyborg]]. He received his nickname because only the left side of his body is still [[human]].
+* Gloria offers Mel a glass of [[Gadalaxian champagne]].
+* Ace refers to the Mayor as "fur-face" and "fuzzball".
+* Lefty compares [[Ricostan]]s to [[ferret]]s, though Gloria believes that they more closely resemble [[raccoon]]s.
+* Ace has read about [[regeneration]].
+* Mel considers Glitz to be his ne'er-do-well.
+* Ace compares Lefty to [[Long John Silver]].
+* Gloria tells the Doctor that not even she can make beige and paisley look good.
+* The [[Sperivore]]s are one of the wealthiest species in the [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda Galaxy]], if not the wealthiest.
+* Lefty once robbed a bank on [[Andromeda IX]].
+* Gloria refers to Mel as "Little Miss Carrot Curls".
 == Notes ==
 * This story was recorded on [[2 February (production)|2 February]] and [[3 February (production)|3 February]] [[2016 (production)|2016]] at [[The Moat Studios]].
 * Barring time travel, this story presumably takes place circa [[2000000]], contemporary with the other [[Sabalom Glitz]] stories ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]'' and ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]''.
+* In a reference to the Doctor's faked regeneration, Mel asks Gloria, "What did you do? Bung on a hat and a wig? Fake some special effects?" This is an in-joke referring to the fact that [[Sylvester McCoy]] played the [[Sixth Doctor]] during his regeneration into his seventh incarnation in [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'' as [[Colin Baker]] declined to return.
 == Continuity ==
-* Lefty mentions [[Ravolox]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]''), [[Iceworld]] (TV: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]''), and [[Vandor Prime]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission: Impractical (novel)|Mission: Impractical]]'')
+* The galactic common currency is the grotzit. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'', ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
-* A [[Foamasi]] representative is visiting Ricosta. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'')
+* Lefty was Glitz's best friend. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'', ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
-* Mel mentions that she has recently seen the [[Porcian]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You are the Doctor]]'') and been to the [[Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (audio story)|The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]'')
+* Mel tells Gloria that she met Glitz on [[Iceworld]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
+* Ace refers to the fact that the Doctor stole the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'')
+* Lefty refers to [[Ravolox]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]''), Iceworld ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'') and [[Vandor Prime]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission: Impractical (novel)|Mission: Impractical]]'')
+* A [[Foamasi]] representative is visiting Ricosta. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive (TV story)|The Leisure Hive]]'')
+* Mel tells Gloria that she is aware that the Doctor can regenerate from personal experience. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Brink of Death (audio story)|The Brink of Death]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'')
+* Mel refers to the fact that the Doctor procured a new [[umbrella]] in the [[Warehouse (The Warehouse)|Warehouse]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Warehouse (audio story)|The Warehouse]]'')
+* Mel recalls the Doctor telling her his days were "like crazy paving" just before she departed the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
+* Ace once again exclaims, "[[Gordon Bennett]]!" ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'', ''[[The Happiness Patrol (TV story)|The Happiness Patrol]]'', ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'', ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'')
+* Ace refers to Long John Silver. During his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]], the Doctor met Silver in the [[Land of Fiction]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'')
+* Ace recalls that Glitz used to hang around [[Iceworld's ice cream parlour]] when she worked there as a waitress. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
+* Ace again refers to Mel as "[[Donut]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
+* Mel mentions that she has recently encountered the [[Porcian]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You are the Doctor]]'') and visited the [[Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (audio story)|The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]''). The Doctor determines that the two humans who escaped from [[Chimbly]] and [[Keith (You Are the Doctor)|Keith]] were Mel and Glitz ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You are the Doctor]]'') and that the woman going by the name of Ms Zingiber, whom [[Norris (Come Die With Me)|Norris]] claimed had visited immediately before the Doctor and Ace's arrival and who later stayed at the Grand Betelgeuse Hotel, was Mel ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Come Die With Me (audio story)|Come Die With Me]]'', ''[[The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (audio story)|The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]'').
+* The Doctor notes that Mel has a memory like an [[elephant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The One Doctor (audio story)|The One Doctor]]'', ''[[Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!]]'', ''[[The Warehouse (audio story)|The Warehouse]]'')
+* Ace tells Mel that the Doctor has been giving her lessons in flying the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You Are the Doctor]]'', ''[[Come Die With Me (audio story)|Come Die With Me]]'', ''[[The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (audio story)|The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]'', ''[[Dead to the World (audio story)|Dead to the World]]'')
+* Ace uses [[Nitro-9]] against the Sperivores. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et. al)
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