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This is followed by a commercial break advertising trips into space. One of the people doing the voiceover is the Seventh Doctor in a Yorkshire accent. He says if you go into space you can take the weight off your feet as there is no gravity. It is also stated that you'll love eating your first meal in space and not to delay. Then it says to book today. | This is followed by a commercial break advertising trips into space. One of the people doing the voiceover is the Seventh Doctor in a Yorkshire accent. He says if you go into space you can take the weight off your feet as there is no gravity. It is also stated that you'll love eating your first meal in space and not to delay. Then it says to book today. | ||
The Doctor then welcomes his audience back while crouched on his floating platform. He then says next is a colourful [[challenge]]. What is yellow or red or brown or black or orange or blue? he asks. He then says there is thirty seconds to solve the challenge and zooms away. K9 states it's an easy question. He then produces a floating video in space and says things change colour as they get [[hot]]. Firstly it goes [[red hot]], the [[orange hot]], then [[yellow hot]] and eventually [[white hot]]. The Doctor states it's true, but the answer he is looking for is something in space. | The Doctor then welcomes his audience back while crouched on his floating platform. He then says next is a colourful [[challenge]]. What is yellow or red or brown or black or orange or blue? he asks. He then says there is thirty seconds to solve the challenge and zooms away. K9 states it's an easy question. He then produces a floating video in space and says things change colour as they get [[hot]]. Firstly it goes [[red hot]], the [[orange hot]], then [[yellow hot]] and eventually [[white hot]]. The Doctor states it's true, but the answer he is looking for is something in space. K9 acknowledges this and states a piece of debris is heading towards him. K9 states it isn't colourful, but declares it no problem as he can make it colourful by heating it with his laser. The debris then gets red hot, yellow hot, bluey white however it isn't the answer the Doctor is looking for. What about the stars? he asks. | ||
The Doctor then sends K9 to a metallic looking building in broad daylight. Much to K9's confusion as there are no stars there. He declares it a funny place to look for stars. K9 strolls across a bridge only to see a blue [[Smarties|smartie]] on the floor. He says it must be a clue. Ace, watching him on a videolink, says to think colours. K9 states it is supposed to be a bluey white star which is a [[new born star]]. The Doctor asks if K9 can work out the others before the time runs out to which Ace and Cedric cheer him on. K9 says a yellow smartie is a [[middle aged star]] like the Sun. K9 then races across the bridge. The orange smartie represents a [[weaker star]] getting near the end of its lifetime. He then races to the next one. K9 finds a red star which is a [[red giant]] which is a star that's burned up all is fuel and is getting cooler. He then sees a brown smartie and during his confusion Cedric and Ace continue to scream at him. The pressure gets too much for K9 so he teleports away. Ace cries about it. | |||
The Doctor says K9 has failed and that he's lost K9 and seems annoyed that he's got to go and rescue him. K9 then floats in space towards the Sun and says he's getting too hot. His circuits are overheating and he says he was happier when he was cooler. The Doctor materialises his [[TARDIS]] at the right moment for K9 to come aboard. K9 states it was a bit warm and the Doctor says it isn't surprising as the temperature of the core of the Sun is 15 million degrees. He then adds that if a person was even 2 million [[Mile|miles]] away a [[pinhead]] at that temperature would still kill you. The Doctor then starts flying the TARDIS too close to the Sun still, much to K9's distress. K9 warns that it's getting hotter and the Doctor replies it would do as they get closer. K9 wishes it would stop and the Doctor scoffs saying that the Sun is the energy source of the [[Solar System]] and without it they'd be two lumps of [[frozen carbon]]. K9 asks the Doctor if he's intentionally flying the TARDIS into the Sun, he replies he hopes not as he dematerialises at the right moment. | |||
We then cut to a commercial break declaring Earth as "probably the most beautiful planet in the solar system". As it's stated we see a shot of Earth from space as well as scenes of [[Mountain|mountains]], [[Ocean|oceans]], [[Bird|birds]], [[Hippopotamus|hippos]], [[Elephant|elephants]] and [[Tree|trees]]. It was advertising "Holidays on Earth with [[Galactic Getaways]]". | |||
The Doctor then runs across space as he says congratulations as they've reached the final question in ''The Ultimate Challenge'', the most ultimate challenge of them all, [[Key to the Universe|the Key to the Universe]]. The Doctor says the key to the universe is hidden somewhere in the universe and, in thirty seconds, where is it? Ace then scans a map of the universe with a [[magnifying glass]]. K9 says in every galaxy are billions of solar systems. Cedric says every solar system could contain a dozen planets. Ace says in every planet could be room for a billion keys. We then see a planet full of aliens and a [[Dalek]] is amongst them. From the TARDIS K9 says it is impossible as he doesn't know what the key looks like and couldn't find it in thirty seconds. He then declares the task hopeless. The Doctor says this is the right answer and bizarrely produces an [[ice cream]], which he says isn't hopeless, as if by magic. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Saturn]] is a gassy planet with rings. | * [[Saturn]] is a gassy planet with rings. | ||
* The Doctor mentions a [[lunar month]]. | * The Doctor mentions a [[lunar month]]. | ||
* The Doctor says the temperature of the core of the Sun is 15 million degrees. If a person was even 2 million miles away a [[pinhead]] at that temperature would still kill them. | |||
* The Doctor says the Sun is the energy source of the [[Solar System]] and without it him and K9 would be two lumps of [[frozen carbon]]. | |||
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* K9 says the [[depths of space]] are very cold, very dark and very empty. | * K9 says the [[depths of space]] are very cold, very dark and very empty. | ||
* K9 mentions [[red hot]], the [[orange hot]], then [[yellow hot]] and eventually [[white hot]]. | * K9 mentions [[red hot]], the [[orange hot]], then [[yellow hot]] and eventually [[white hot]]. | ||
* The Doctor refuses to explain the | * K9 sees different coloured [[smarties]] on the floor. They are used to represent stars in their various colours. | ||
* The blue smartie represents a bluey white star which is a [[new born star]] that's very hot. | |||
* The yellow smartie represents a [[middle aged star]] like the Sun which is cooler than the bluey white star. | |||
* The orange smartie represents a [[weaker star]] getting near the end of its lifetime. | |||
* The red smartie represents a [[red giant]] which is a star that's burned up all is fuel and is getting cooler. | |||
* K9 sees a brown smartie. | |||
* The advert for [[Galactic Getaways]] featured footage of [[Mountain|mountains]], [[Ocean|oceans]], [[Bird|birds]], [[Hippopotamus|hippos]], [[Elephant|elephants]] and [[Tree|trees]]. | |||
* K9 says in every galaxy are billions of solar systems. | |||
* Cedric says every solar system could contain a dozen planets. | |||
* The Doctor refuses to explain the [[Key to the Universe]] and instead shows an [[ice cream]]. | |||
== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
