The Leisure Hive

109[1]The Leisure Hive
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byLovett Bickford
Written byDavid Fisher
Script editorChristopher H. Bidmead
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)Barry Letts
Music byPeter Howell
Production code5N
SeriesSeason 18
Running time4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast30 August 1980 (1980-08-30)
Last broadcast20 September 1980 (1980-09-20)
Chronology
← Preceded by
Shada (unbroadcast)
The Horns of Nimon (broadcast)
Followed by →
Meglos
List of episodes (1963–1989)

The Leisure Hive is the first serial of the 18th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 August to 20 September 1980. It marks the return of John Leeson as the voice of K9.

In the serial, a criminal organisation of alien Foamasi, called the West Lodge, attempt to buy the planet Argolis from the Argolin people there as a West Lodge base. Meanwhile, the young Argolin Pangol (David Haig) seeks to start a war against the Foamasi, to whom his people had previously lost, with an army made of clones of himself.

  1. ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this as story number 110. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.