Target - The Leisure Hive

It's as if David Fisher is standing there on page 1 saying 'So, you didn't like my sub-Adams whimsy in Creature from the Pit, eh? Well, how about this - chapter 1, observational Adamsery about Earth beaches and household appliances. THOKK! And now this - chapter 2, the humorous Hitcheresque history of the Argolins. POW!'

Suffice it to say that the Argolin tradition is of chivalry, whereas the Foamasi one is of stealth and assassination. The wind blowing across the surface of Argolis is 'as cold as charity', which is a nice simile although I always thought of the planet as a hot place.

The Doctor and Romana watch the squash game on a screen when they arrive, rather than running through it later.

There's an extra bit showing Hardin and Mena leaving Earth, watched by a humorous pair of journalists. (And they really are very amusing fellows indeed).

We follow 'Brock's' thoughts several times during his negotiations on Argolis - I feel this to be cheating, as it is of course not actually Brock and his thoughts would really be Foamasi ones.

Pangol's demonstration of the Recreation Generator - detaching his own limbs etc - is better paced and funnier. So for example he's waving goodbye to the viewers and is disconcerted when his arm comes off. When Loman's arm comes off, there's blood everywhere, and it even sprays onto the inside of the display screen. Remarkable proposition.

The things that fall off the Argolins' heads when they age are actually ornamental jewels, not parts of themselves as it appears on screen.

Hardin's initial meeting and subsequent work with Stimson is recalled in a flashback.

The statue that the Doctor ties his scarf to is made of crystal, not plastic.

Stimson's purpose in entering Brock's room is to persuade him to let him have one of his flight bookings. He then searches the room in search of documentation that he might be able to use to get off Argolis.

Instead of zonking Vargos with warp mechanics equations written on the TARDIS, the Doctor renders an anonymous security guide unconscious by showing him the computer language they use on Hermes-4a. I remember my first encounter with APL had much the same effect.

The 'alien witness' and 'So that's why you're telling me all this' lines are not present, though the scene itself serves the same purpose.

The Foamasi agent is the only Foamasi to enter the boardroom with the Doctor and Romana: on screen, although one Foamasi leaves the lab with them, two arrive at the boardroom. On the page, the other one is seen carrying out an arrest in the service area. Interestingly, the Argolins don't recognise the agent for what he is, since none of them has actually ever seen a Foamasi before.

The Argolins who survived the war were almost all crewmembers of Morix's ship. The Foamasi on the other hand were all either prisoners (Black) or prison officers (White). We don't get the bit about the Foamasi government and private capitalism, by the way.

When Romana is mentally preparing herself for the possibility of being aged 500 years, she fingers her hair and wonders whether it will turn white, or leave her bald. Which is odd, as she'd only be about 700 and hence younger than the Doctor is normally.

At the end we see a TARDIS interior with K9 still in a pool of seawater. I particularly like Targets that give us extra interior shots.