WADA@SANDIA.ARPA (02/09/84)
From: Michi Wada <WADA@SANDIA.ARPA>
From a newspaper article by Charles Catchpole from England:
"...Dr. Who's famous police box time machine is set to fade away forever.
BBC chiefs plan to axe the battered blue box--which has housed the Tardis
for 20 years--because young viewers do not know what it is supposed to be.
Dr. Who producer John Nathan-Turner said yesterday: "Police boxes are a
thing of the past. I think the last one in England went about four years
ago and a whole generation of children has grown up believing the box to be
a Tardis and nothing else."
He plans to phase out the police box during the next series of Dr. Who..."
>From the article it looks like the blue police box shape for the Tardis will
disappear sometime in 1985. For those unfamiliar with English terminology --
a series in England is the same as one TV season in the U.S.
Michi Wada
-------myers@uwvax.ARPA (02/11/84)
Please post articles about Dr. Who to net.tv.drwho also. The Tardis just won't be the same with the Chameleon Circuit fixed! Wonder if it really will get fixed, or re-jam in another configuration? A breadbox, perhaps? Jeff Myers@wisc-rsch
jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) (02/13/84)
Jeff Myers@wisc-rsch writes: > Please post articles about Dr. Who to net.tv.drwho also. Not "also". "instead". [Wouldn't fuss about an occaisional wandering article but this has gotten out of hand lately] -- Dr Memory ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!jdb
wombat@uicsl.UUCP (02/13/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1656600:uicsl:10700084:000:283 uicsl!wombat Feb 13 14:31:00 1984 ***** uicsl:net.sf-lovers / uwvax!myers / 12:15 am Feb 11, 1984 Please post articles about Dr. Who to net.tv.drwho also. ---------- Modify that to "Post articles about Dr. Who to net.tv.drwho ONLY." That's what it was created for, right, to get it out of sf-lovers??? Wombat
mlf@dartvax.UUCP (Mary Felley) (02/18/84)
How can they get rid of the police box? The new generation of kids may
not recognize the thing as a call box, but then I imagine that young
American viewers of a few years back did either, and they haven't
complained. What with the Doctor becoming so painfully serious and
solemn these days, a TARDIS shaped like an outdated, incongruous
artifact is a badly needed touch of whimsy.
Yes, they can take away the sonic screwdriver, they can unravel the
scarf, but by God they should not trash the call box. After all, what
is sacred, anyway?mlf@dartvax.UUCP (Mary Felley) (02/18/84)
Sincere apologies on my part. I will not trouble your eyes with any more Doctor Who drivel. I wrote a public message reply before I saw all the nasty threats and warnings against so doing. Never again, never.
andree@uokvax.UUCP (03/01/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1656600:uokvax:5400044:000:392 uokvax!andree Feb 27 20:17:00 1984 Will all of you people suggesting that somebody@arpa (that's whats on the header I saw!) please tell me how some person on the ARPANet - and possibly not on a USENet site - is supposed to post to net.tv.drwho? The people on the ARPANet have to put up with us USENetter's violating ARPANet protocol, and they don't groan to loudly about it. The least we could do is return the favor. <mike