hazard@ihuxe.UUCP (Bryant S. Hazard) (12/14/84)
It seems that between the 20th and 21st season
("The King's Demon" and "Warriors of the Deep")
the TARDIS console received a major upgrade.
A new agitator (thats what I call the part in the middle
which bobs up and down), hundreds more buttons and controls,
a color monitor and a new door control lever.
It sure would be nice if the script gave some reason for
these changes; instead of having them magically appear.
Bryant S. Hazard
ihnp4!ihuxe!hazardron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) (12/17/84)
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It seems that between the 20th and 21st season
("The King's Demon" and "Warriors of the Deep")
the TARDIS console received a major upgrade.
A new agitator (thats what I call the part in the middle
which bobs up and down), hundreds more buttons and controls,
a color monitor and a new door control lever.
It sure would be nice if the script gave some reason for
these changes; instead of having them magically appear.
Bryant S. Hazard
ihnp4!ihuxe!hazard
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Aha! Finally one I can answer! The new console made it's first
appearance in "The Five Doctors", where the crew arrives at long
last at the Eye of Orion mentioned in the closing sequences of
"The King's Deamons". You probably haven't seen "The Five Doctors"
because your local PBS station is saving it for pledge night.
They did that here at KTEH. (Mucked it up badly too, with voice-overs
during some of the action and fifteen minute begging breaks every
half hour. Aggghhh!)
Anyway, the show opens with the Doctor polishing the new console.
Tegan makes a comment about the Tardis's continued unreliability
despite the changes which the Doctor passes off. The Doctor throws
the new door lever...and...nothing happens! Great stuff.
--
Ron Christian (Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif.)
{pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix}!wjvax!rongordon@uw-june (Jamie Green) (12/18/84)
Hello all, I'm back. I haven't had much time since I posted the results of
my quiz oh so long ago to post much, but now finals are over and I should
have some free time...
Before I go sticking my neck out, I should mention that I haven't seen the
episodes leading up to The Five Doctors (first episode of Season 21). I
can, however, state from certainty (and videotape) the following scene from
same story:
After the opening titles, we see the Doctor walking around the shiny
control console, dusting it off and admiring it. Tegan walks in and
whether the TARDIS will be more reliable now. The Doctor goes through
various assuring motions, and then switches the door-opening lever.
When the doors fail to open, the Doctor hits the console with his hand,
causing the doors to open and Tegan to smirk...
I think this indicates that the console was changed for The Five Doctors,
which certainly goes along with the usual practice of changing something at
the beginning of a season. I'll know in a few weeks for sure, when the
episodes are shown (now that Channel 12 has decided to show something other
than the first four Baker seasons...).
"Brigadier, a straight line may be the shortest distance between
two points, but it is by no means the most interesting!"
-- The Time Warrior
The Great Green Arkleseizure {decvax,ihnp4}!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon
Jamie Green gordon@uw-june.arpa
(Put "To Jamie" in the subject line)stumpf@homxa.UUCP (P.STUMPF) (12/18/84)
Having seen "Enlightenment" last night, I'll second the general idea that the Eternals reproduced a TARDIS, in the fashion desired by the Doctor, upgrades and all. Doctor: Where's the TARDIS? Eternal: In the Doctor's mind. Tegan: Will it work? The console blew up. Doctor: I'm sure it will be okay. -- Pete Stumpf ..!ihnp4!homxa!stumpf
ajlill@watrose.UUCP (ajlill) (12/29/84)
Since you mentioned TARDIS console upgrades, they just restared the Pertwee
series of Dr. Who (starting at Inferno, where the Doctor had removed the console
from the TARDIS) and it is markedly different from the one one sees in the later
Pertwee and Baker shows. It is much less cluttered, with more LARGE toggle
switches, and missing the large red door switch. The "agitator" is also
much different. All in all it looks much more tacky than the one during the
Baker episodes.
This also reminds me that at some point during late-Pertwee/Baker/Davidson
(I don't remember exactly where) the console was rotated. During some shows
the door switch was on the side closest to the door (the original position
I think) and during the Davidson (they are playing the Visitation now on
TVO) it was rotated to be on the far side from the door!
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For your amusement...
--
Tony Lill
539 Grand Valley Dr.
Cambridge, Ont., Canada
1-519-653-9735
{allegra,linus,decvax,utzoo}!watmath!watrose!ajlill
ndsss@ihuxx.UUCP (Alfred R. Zantow) (12/31/84)
The "instant upgrade" puzzled me too. There was not a hint of any explination, the modifications were just thrown in. I have no problem wiith the fact that there were changes made ( I like the new look), just the way they were tossed at us. This seems to tie in with the sloppy management that let a copy of a tape that had no sound effects (voices were fine) for the last half of show get on the air last week (12-23-84) in Chicago, maybe elswhere too. IF this trend toward sloppy plots and careless distribution of tapes continues, the show will soon be unbearable. Hoping for the best, Al Zantow