good@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (07/10/84)
Dear Everybody:
Hello!
Re Tom Baker: if there's one thing I've concluded about Mr. Baker,
it's that he is an extremely complex and "eccentric" individual, about
whom it's better not to make any hard-and-fast judgments at all...except
that he's certainly interesting! He does seem to be very self-absorbed
and introspective; also he seems to like children very much. I once
read that he changes his phone number once a month or more, which I
guess is certainly rather reclusive...
Is it true that the Pertwee serials with black-and-white episodes
won't be available for syndication??!! (as was reported on the net
some time ago). Doctor Who Magazine doesn't seem to
think so; recently they ran a bulletin to the effect that the one missing
Pertwee episode (from "Invasion of the Dinosaurs") had been found, in black
and white. And then they added that this meant that all of the Pertwee
serials would be available for syndication, at last; they gave a list of
all the serials--including "Frontier In Space"--which would have to be
partially broadcast in b&w, and said that the BBC was planning
to just preface those episodes with a short explanatory notice,
or something like that. I hope that's true!
By the way, that magazine (Doctor Who Monthly) has become a rather
nice little affair- they used to be tacky and cheap-looking, no color
pictures, lots of typos, etc., but recently it's become much more
glossy and professional; it is a good source of reasonably up-to-date
British information (and the pictures are pretty!)
Here in the San Francisco area, we have two stations that carry
Doctor Who: KTEH in San Jose and KQED in S.F. KTEH is marvelous;
they show Baker, Davison, and Pertwee. Unfortunately, they can only be
gotten on cable in most of the area (I have to watch every night at a
friend's house). KQED, the area's major PBS station, is stuck in a time
loop: they only show the "Key to Time" and "Logopolis" seasons, skipping
almost all of the "City of Death" season (in fact, they're soon to
drop Doctor Who altogether, the scum!).
Julia Lawrencechuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (07/11/84)
I should point out that after watching the last of the 'Key to Time'
episodes on KQED last Saturday they announced that it was the final Dr.
Who. Starting next week they are replacing it with I, Claudius. fortunately
I live in the local area for the REAL bay area home of the Doctor...
chuq
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standing oh so near, I kinda lose my mind...hartwig@stolaf.UUCP (Shoonie Hartwig) (07/25/84)
In "The Five Doctors", the fisrt doctor encountered the Master. This
was when the Master had conned a bunch of cybermen to walk onto the
electrocuted floor. However, when the Master saw the Doctor, he realized who
he was. The wrong part was that the Doctor did not recognize the Master, while
in another episode(The Deadly Assassin?) the Doctor said that he and the
Master had gone to the academy together. The other thing I don't understand is
that the Master made no hostile move torwards the Doctor; he actually helped
him! He said that, "It's as easy as pi(e)!"
There are some serious flaws in either my memory or the scripts; I
think it's the latter, considering that Tom Baker didn't understand the script!
Any comments(except nasty ones) are welcome.
Kurt Hartwig