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The Doctor claims Tegan is an android. Hmm - he
travels round with a robot in a very short leather miniskirt. This is
clearly a hint that "Peter Davison" was a sex crazed loon.
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There is a man who has lost all rational thought but
carries on drilling.
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The Doctor brandishes a phallic coat rack as a
weapon. This is obviously meant to imply that phalluses can be deadly. As
indeed one was.
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The casting of Jeff Rawle is nothing if not
blatantly sexual.
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Leslie Dunlop is dressed as a lesbian and we all
know that it is horny straight men (like the late Peter Davison) who like
lesbians most. With "Peter Davison's" three year contract coming up to
expiry, it is clear that JNT had decided that killing off his faux lead
was safer than releasing him into the wild and having him sell his story
to the tabloids.
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There must be something suggestive in the fact that
the TARDIS explodes and leaves white patches all over the tunnels of
Frontios.
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JNT's anagram skills come to the fore yet again.
TRACTATOR is an obvious reference to Davison as it spells ACTOR TART.
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Equally, FRONTIOS itself shows Turner's disgust with
how much trouble the late and now decomposing shagger put him too as it is
an anagram of ROT OF SIN
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Pretty much the whole story rests on equating being
sucked down below and dying. You don't need to be Claire Rayner or Magnus
Magnusson to figure that one out.
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Early in the first
episode, the fake Peter almost blows his line "Presumably why the
planet was never...........colonized". JNT left this take in the final
edit to show that the fake was clearly not the professional Mr
Davison.
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The fifth Doctor is
rescued from death by the inspired and last-minute use of a double.
One of JNT's less subtle clues, as he knew this was to be the
imposter's last story anyway.
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While going into
the caves to get the bat's milk, the picture is inexplicably reversed-
look at the "?" on the Doctor's collar. A clue that a mirror image of
the real Davison was being used.
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The idea of a
white, milky secretion leading to extended life was meant to be
blackly ironic.
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The final
cliff-hanger saw Davison risking death as he plunged in regardless,
shouting the breathless line "I'm not going to let you stop me now."
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The President falls
to his death when Morgus sabotages the lift. The coupling of death and
a lengthy shaft was JNT at his most obvious.
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The scene where the
Doctor holds the dice and says "they're still warm" was a Saward
in-joke as JNT said the exact same thing when he cupped Davison's
testicles and tried to convince himself that his star was still alive.
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And of course the
Doctor's death is accompanied by a number of hot liquid bursts. Nuff
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