The Robots of Death, Part One

A quick synopsis:

Rich bastards with face paint sit on their arses in a giant miner while creepy robots do all the real work. The Doctor and Leela arrive inside said miner via the TARDIS, get picked up by creepy robots, are accused of killing one of the rich bastards with face paint, but they didn't do it it, hell no, it was one of the creepy robots who get all red-eyed before they kill. The Doctor escapes from creepy robots, loses Leela, and ends up in a giant bin and is covered in falling pebbles then SCREEEEEEE dum de dum de dum DUMDUMDUM....



Things that pop into your head whilst watching The Robots of Death:

--Funny how when the Robots kill someone, they put a 'Corpse Marker' on their hands. A corpse marker looks very much like a bike reflector. The BBC spared no expense back in the Seventies. Surely an extra riding home from BBC Centre would never notice the reflector missing.

--The rich bastards spend a lot of time painting lines on their faces. And wearing funny hats. This, apparently, is what rich people do in the future.

--The Doctor's explanation of how the TARDIS is bigger on the inside than out makes no sense, and even Leela thinks he's completely full of it.

--Ah, the secondary TARDIS console room. All wood, brass, and Hinchcliffe era Gothicness. Pity we never saw it again.

Oh, wait...



--When the Robots go all murder-wurder, their eyes turn a blazing red. Such a good effect, pity the BBC never used it again.

Oh, wait...



--Why would the Doctor--who fully understands that he is in a mining facility, climb into a hopper without propping the door? Especially when people are being found dead with bike reflectors on their hands.

However will he get out of that particular death-trap? Will Leela stab someone with her knife, which she brandishes quite willingly even after the Doctor gives his 'No weapons' speech? A speech even he seems to think is rather idiotic, but says it anyway? And will the Robots really reveal themselves to be from Death, or is it just a family name? Or is it a brand name, and if so, who in hell would ever buy one?