emjej@uokvax.UUCP (11/27/83)
#N:uokvax:5400012:000:407 uokvax!emjej Nov 24 10:55:00 1983 Re the twentieth anniversary *Doctor Who* show, some questions: Was I not looking closely, or did Sarah Jane seem rather too familiar with K-9 at the beginning? After all, K-9 is of Leela/Romana vintage. How did the Brigadier get to know Tegan? (When the Doctors and their companions meet in the Tomb of Ras[aeiou]*n[aeiou]*n (sp?), he exclaims, "Miss <whatever Tegan's last name is>!") James Jones
twt@uicsl.UUCP (11/28/83)
#R:uokvax:5400012:uicsl:10700062:000:660 uicsl!twt Nov 27 09:32:00 1983 Since I'm not *really* a Who fan, don't expect too much detail, but for how the Brigadier knew Teegan, there was an episode with Peter Davidson where they were going to Heathrow, and somehow ended up on some far away planet. Anyway, if you remember that episode, that's where he met Teegan, and if you didn't see it, then you wouldn't know they had met. Mary I also remember something along the lines that the airport wasn't there, so you couldn't think about it (everyone on the 'far away planet' saw Heathrow) and you wouldn't see the airport. Didn't see all the parts, and I don't know the name, but I'm sure someone will fill in the blanks.
jgd@ih1ap.UUCP (pp) (11/28/83)
>Was I not looking closely, or did Sarah Jane seem rather too familiar >with k-9 at the beginning? After all, k-9 is of Leela/Romana vintage. Correct. In the Dr. Who series Sarah Jane Smith did not appear with k-9 in any episodes. However the BBC did air a special program called "k-9 and friends" or something like that, in which Sarah, while visiting her aunt finds a crate in her aunts attic which contains a k-9 Model III. Along with a note of explanation from the Dr. It was a gift to Sarah. If you recall the first episode that Sarah was in with Jon Pertwee she is pretending to be a scientific resercher so that she ( a journalist) can sneek into the UNIT project. This aunt she was impersonating is the same aunt who's home in which she discovers k-9. Darn, I which I could remember her name. The special program was intended to be k-9's own series but it would have been too hard and expensive to produce with a robot as the main character. So since it was documented in that special that Sarah was familiar with k-9, I would guess that is why it was used in the five doctors. PS: I saw the special and got the other information from Elizabith Straton in person at a Dr. Who convention at the Granada theatre in Chicago last August. Jerry Donovan AT&T Western Electric ih1ap!jgd
msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (12/06/83)
> PS: I saw the special and got the other information from Elizabith > Straton in person at a Dr. Who convention at the Granada theatre in > Chicago last August. I think you mean Elisabeth Sladen. -- From the Tardis of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{ittvax,amd70}!qubix!msc