bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) (09/30/84)
Hi,
Just saw the episode "City of Death" for the second time.
One thing that caught my attention this time around was the presence
of John Cleese in a walk-on role.
Cleese and a companion were in the Louvre in the last scene, admiring
the Tardis as an objet d'art. In the middle of their pseudo artsy
spiel, Romana and the Dr. leap into the tardis and take off with
sirens flashing. Has anyone else noticed this?
Have there been any other celebrity walk-ons?
Regards,
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Send Flames, I love mail.darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer) (10/04/84)
I don't know of a celebrity walk on off hand (but in 22 years??) besides
Cleese in City of Death, but there was another person connected with Cleese
in the same episode.
The browbeaten scientist was played by the same actor who played Manuel
in Cleese's Fawlty Towers series. (almost the same accent for both roles).
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VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPAmsc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (10/05/84)
> ...with sirens flashing.
That's a neat trick.
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"Nothing shocks me. I'm an Engineer."guest@duke.UUCP (John Q. Public) (10/05/84)
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okamoto@ucbvax.ARPA (Jeff Okamoto) (10/06/84)
> The browbeaten scientist was played by the same actor who played Manuel > in Cleese's Fawlty Towers series. (almost the same accent for both roles). NO HE WASN'T! Professor Theodore Nicholai Jerensky(sp?) was played by one of the production staff of Dr. Who. His exact name escapes me, but I think it was David Graham. Manuel of "Flowery Twats" was played by someone entirely different, Andrew Sachs. "I am the Doctor! Friend! Friend!" Jeff Okamoto okamoto%ucbmiro@Berkeley.ARPA ucbvax!ucbmiro!okamoto
andie@cvl.UUCP (Diane Donaldson) (10/07/84)
Waaayy back in the Hartnell days (first doctor), the Beatles showed up for a bit part in the longest Dr. Who serial of all time. I think it was either 10 or 12 episodes, and starred the Daleks (who else?). I'd give you the name, but my Dr. Who books are all at home...... Diane "Eldrad MUST live!"
acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) (10/08/84)
[Saved by Zero] > Waaayy back in the Hartnell days (first doctor), the Beatles > showed up for a bit part in the longest Dr. Who serial of > all time. I think it was either 10 or 12 episodes, and starred > the Daleks (who else?). I'd give you the name, but my Dr. > Who books are all at home...... The episode Diane was thinking of was "The Dalek Master Plan", which did last 12 episodes. However, the Beatles were not in that one. They appeared briefly in another Dalek story, "The Chase", where the Doctor was chased through time and space by the Daleks, who had built their own time machine. (I remember reading that in Jean-Marc Lofficier's Programme Guide.) I'm not sure if this was the story which included the Mechanoids, who had defeated the overgrown pepper-pots in a Hartnell Dalek story. I wonder if there are any plans to feature another popular British band in an episode in the near future...... -- From under the smogberry trees.... Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters) uucp: [decvax,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!acsgjjp ARPAnet, CSnet: acsgjjp%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY "You waste too much time reading news!"
guest@duke.UUCP (James T. Kirk) (10/10/84)
The Dalek Master Plan!