2. Citizen 327KL

Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful was a short mini-episode broadcast in four parts in 1979 to raise awareness of the growing litter problem in Australia, to aid the Western Australian Litter Act of 1979, also known as Keep Australia Beautiful. It featured the Fourth Doctor, or rather, Dr. Who, if one takes into account the title of the story.

Notably, this story was referenced to in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel Festival of Death, wherein the Doctor repeated the message "keep Australia beautiful".

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Back in the space station, the Doctor resumes reading The Wind in the Willows, until his is interrupted by a distress call from "Citizen 327KL" from 1999. The Doctor gets the man to tell him his real name, which used to be Bruce.

The Doctor, while telling him that he is called the Doctor, he replies "yes" when Citizen 327KL asks "Doctor who?". 327KL tells the Doctor that Australia, in his home time, is in danger of being "eliminated", due to lack of resources. The Doctor tells Citizen 327KL that he will have to help himself, as the Doctor is currently twenty years prior, in 1979. The Doctor asks 327KL if he dropped litter as a child, which 327KL confirms, not realising that his irresponsibility, combined with the irresponsibility of everybody else, lead to Australia being polluted. 327KL begs for the Doctor's help, and the Doctor simply tells him to keep Australia beautiful. 327KL repeats this message back to himself a few times, however he chokes, and falls silent. The Doctor then says, sadly, "poor Bruce".

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