gordon@uw-june (Jamie Green) (05/04/85)
Two, count 'em two, followups for the price of one! First, from fung@daemen.UUCP (Kenneth Worzel Fung @ Daemen College, Amherst NY): > Even more bizzare, Can you imagine a new Doctor, as John Cleese!?! Oh, no, Basil Fawlty in Time and Space! He screams the oogy monsters into submission? I can't wait to see what he'd do when (not if :-) ) the TARDIS conked out!! and, next, from gts@wjh12.UUCP (G. T. Samson @ Harvard MicroWizards HQ): > How about the episode "Seeds of Doom" (it might be "Seeds of Death")? > Lots of violence in that one... the Doctor actually knocks someone out, > accidentally feeds someone into a sort of meat-grinder/composter, and > the monster in this episode is taken out by an air strike! The title of this was The Seeds of Doom, The Seeds of Death was a Patrick Troughton story. That episode was not an isolated occurence. During Phillip Hinchcliffe's reign as producer of the show, the stories took on a definitely more "gothic" approach, with dark, forboding sets, truly frightening monsters, (remember The Brain of Morbius?) and yes, violence. This was the Mary Whitehouse's high-water mark :-), and it eventually led to Phillip Hinchcliffe's replace- ment by Graham Williams. Yours in Time and Space, \ oo uucp: \____|\mm Jamie Green {ihnp4,decvax}!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon //_//\ \_\ / / \/_/ The Great Green arpa: /___/_____\ Arkleseizure gordon@uw-june.arpa -----------
gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis) (05/07/85)
> > > Even more bizzare, Can you imagine a new Doctor, as John Cleese!?! > > Oh, no, Basil Fawlty in Time and Space! He screams the oogy monsters into > submission? I can't wait to see what he'd do when (not if :-) ) the TARDIS > conked out!! > > Yours in Time and Space, > > \ oo uucp: > \____|\mm Jamie Green {ihnp4,decvax}!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon > //_//\ \_\ > / / \/_/ The Great Green arpa: > /___/_____\ Arkleseizure gordon@uw-june.arpa > ----------- Actually, John Cleese was IN a Tom Baker Dr. Who episode. Remember the one that takes place in Paris? -- in one scene the TARDIS is sitting among other pieces of art... With John and a woman discussing it's artistic merrits! Or was it all in my head........ ?