jrb@wdl1.UUCP (jrb ) (06/05/84)
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wdl1!jrb Jun 4 15:39:00 1984
As a recent Doctor Who addict, I have a couple of queries:
1. What I want to know is: who is the sixth Doctor? I understand that Peter
Davison is no longer the Doctor.
2. a. Is this list correct:
1. Troughton (What is his first name?)
2. William Hartnell
3. John Pertwee
4. Tom Baker (19??-1980)
5. Peter Davison (1981-198?)
6. ???
b. Can anyone give dates for each of the Doctors?
Much obliged.
John R Blaker
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blaker@FORD-WDL2acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) (06/11/84)
I tried sending this to the person who asked the question.
However, it was returned to me by the Postmaster at !seismo.
Plus, this may be of some interest to some other Who fans out there.
This also includes the one-word descriptions of the doctors (someone
else's, not mine (except for Colin B.)).
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To: jrb@wdl1.UUCP
Subject: Re: Some random queries
References: <307@wdl1.UUCP>
Here is a list of the six doctors (according to my Dr. Who 20th Anniversary
Special, published by Starlog Press).
1) William Hartnell (1963-1966) "Crochety"
He left the show due to ill health.
2) Patrick Troughton (1966-1969) "Whimsical"
The clown with the flute.
(He also played one of the priests in "The Omen".)
3) Jon Pertwee (1969-1974) "Elegant"
(Later known as the scarecrow, Worzel Gummidge.)
4) Tom Baker (1974-1981) "Zany"
"He looked sane enough, well maybe
With a floppy hat, and a long multicolored scarf
He offered me a jelly baby
But his curly hair just made me laugh." (*)
5) Peter Davison (1981-1984) "Blond"
(Also plays Tristan Farnon in "All Creatures Great And Small.)
6) Colin Baker (1984- ) ("Outrageous")
(Perhaps best known (on the Isles) as Paul Marriney in "The
Brothers".) There have been a few articles concerning Colin;
you might want to do a 'news -x -n net.tv.drwho' to read them.
(spoiler: "I am the Doctor, whether you like it or not!")
I am looking forward to seeing him at Panopticon West 1984,
in Columbus, Ohio this weekend (June 15-17).
Peter Cushing played the Doctor in two movies, "Doctor Who and the
Daleks", and (I think it was called) "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". We
know Mr. Cushing better as Grand Moff Tarkin in SW.
I hope this information can be of great use.
Yours in Time,
Jim Poltrone
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By the way, the verse about Tom B. was from a song called "The Doctor", sung
by Jim Burrill. It is on his album "Vortex". (I don't have the album;
I heard it on Dr. Demento some time ago.)
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ARPA, CSnet: acsgjjp.buffalo@rand-relayjrb@wdl1.UUCP (06/14/84)
Nf-From: wdl1!jrb Jun 13 14:50:00 1984 There is a Filk-song published in the collection _The_Westerfilk_Collection_ called _The_Doctor's_Pockets_ which is very funny. I believe that the song is copyrighted. _The_Westerfilk_Collection_ and a companion volume are published by Off Centaur Press in Berkeley, CA. I'll look up the address when I get home. They usually have a table at the West Coast re- gional Science Fiction conventions (Probably at Worldcon this year, too). The collections are good basic collections of filk songs. John R Blaker UUCP: ...!fortune!wdl1!jrb ARPA: jrb@FORD-WDL1 and blaker@FORD-WDL2