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Anyway. The TARDIS soon materializes on the dusty, cave-pocked planet of Logopolis, home of the maths monks. It is, we learn, an enormous analogue of a computer: a task is broken down into a series of calculations; each monk performs a single calculation and passes the result on to the next monk over. Operations are overseen by the Monitor (get it?) in a sort of large workroom. After reuniting with Nyssa, who is here for no very good reason, the TARDIS crew finds the Monitor. He explains that the universe is actually well past its sell-by date, and is kept from flying apart into chaos only by the power of their mighty minds, as they do... something mathematical... to keep the universe together.
Of course, it's time for the Master to show up and start mucking about with things. He starts small, with such pranks as shrinking the TARDIS (with the Doctor inside) and throwing a [[Spanner in
Like any good computer installation, Logopolis has a backup system: it's on Earth, at a giant radio telescope called the Pharos Project. So back to Earth we go, with the TARDIS landing perfectly for once. But it turns out the Master has double-crossed the Doctor (which has [[Idiot Ball|never happened before]]) and is holding the universe hostage to his demands by threatening to knock out the backup system. To show he's serious, he [[Apocalypse How/Class X-4|lets a fair chunk of the universe dissolve into chaos]]... including Nyssa's home world, Traken. While she watches. No class, Master.
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* [[Didn't See That Coming|Didn't See That One Coming]]: Oops. The Master didn't actually ''intend'' to destroy so much of the universe... including Nyssa's homeworld.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Evil Hand]]: Nyssa's bracelet
* [[Finale Credits]]: Since Part 4 is Tom Baker's swan song, his face is visible during the [[Closing Credits]] for only the briefest of moments.
* [[Good
* [[Go Out with a Smile]]: We get one last glimpse of [[Tom Baker]]'s big toothy smile before the regeneration.
* [[Grand Finale]]: For [[Tom Baker]]'s era as The Doctor.
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* [[Planet of Hats]]: Their hat is genius, universe-maintaining mathematicians.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Writer Christopher H. Bidmead seems to have done more reading up on computers than on entropy. The monks of Logopolis work and communicate in hexadecimal (base 16), just like real computers. At one point, the Doctor mentions "bubble memory"--which is real, and was the subject of a lot of research in 1981.
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* [[The Stars Are Going Out]]: the entropy spreads and consumes part of the universe.
* [[Wetware CPU]]
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