wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (02/01/86)
From: Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI <wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA> Re the reference to the BBC radio version of Dr. Who (SFL #24): I've been listening to the Dr. Who serial that has been being aired on BBC shortwave for a few weeks, and I can only say that, so far, it's been awful. It is Baker with Peri, and all it seems to be is a silly computer straight out of "Hitchhiker" (similar voice, but feminine, to "Larry the shipboard computer" from HGttG), and a lot of screaming. They seem to have spent the first three episodes running from some indescribable horror lurking in the airshafts of some spaceship. No particular plot has yet emerged. Part of the problem is that the BBC is airing this in 7 or 8-minute-long segments, far too short. I had expected 15-minute segments, and was astounded when the first one ended at what would have been the halfway point. Though, if they were not going to do anything any better than this has been, maybe I should be happy that they are short! :-) Anyway, if you have a shortwave radio, and want to catch the last one or so of these (by the time you read this, there will probably be only one left to go), try tuning on 9510 kHz or 5975 kHz at 0445 GMT Mondays. (That's 10:45 PM CST Sunday nights.) Ironically, this is on at the same time my local PBS station shows Dr. Who TV programs! One other comment: A BBC publicity photo for this series, reproduced in at least one of the shortwave-listener magazines, shows Peri in a very sexually suggestive pose with Baker, with her clutching him from the side and with her thigh lifted up and grinding into his groin. Seemed entirely improper for Dr. Who to imply that he has a sexual relationship with his companions. Is *that* how the later TV series portrays it? (I haven't seen anything later than the first episode with Peri.) Will
ins_bjab@jhunix.UUCP (Jessica A Browner) (02/03/86)
> and all it seems to be is a silly computer straight > out of "Hitchhiker" (similar voice, but feminine, to "Larry the shipboard > computer" from HGttG) . . . Ouch! Sorry to complain, but Eddie ("hi guys!") was the shipboard computer. :-)
Wahl.ES@Xerox.COM@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (02/05/86)
From: Wahl.ES@Xerox.COM A friend of mine from England sent me a tape of the Doctor Who radio series, entitled "Slipback" I believe, and I quite enjoyed it. Certainly, it was geared for a younger audience, and it gets rather silly at times. But, like Doctor Who in general, if you don't try to take it too seriously, it's a lot of fun. For me, the biggest problem with the radio series is Peri's voice. She's always sounded like fingernails on a blackboard to me, but it's far more easily tolerated when watching episodes than when just sitting and listening to a tape. I suppose the British don't notice as all Americans sound that way to them! I haven't seen of heard of the publicity photo Will mentions and find it quite shocking. I don't think the episodes with Peri imply any sexual relation with the Doctor, although she's obviously there as a sex object for the male audience, so I'm rather surprised that the BBC would make such a photo. Wasn't it they (or was it John Nathan-Turner) who said, "No hanky-panky in the TARDIS"? --Lisa
percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus) (02/15/86)
> No, sorry, Romana will never dress the way Leela did (and neither will > anyone else, for that matter). But if you keep watching, you still have > Tegan's leather mini-skirt and Peri's bikini to look forward to! Or Nyssa's dropping her skirt in "Terminus" :-) Why don't y'all c'mon over to net.tv.drwho, where the action really is. It makes things difficult for me to have to read BOTH net.tv.drwho and net.sf-lovers for notes of interest. . ------- |-----| A. G. Percus |II II| (ARPA) percus@acf4 |II II| (NYU) percus.acf4 |II II| (UUCP) ...{allegra!ihnp4!seismo}!cmcl2!acf4!percus |II II| -------