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Subject:  Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

27/01/2006 12:11 GMT

I've been reading back issues of Dr Who magazine, and have found out that I still know so little about the show.



Can anyone answer these:



1) Who was the actor that appeared in both "The Claws of Axos" and "The Tomb of the Cybermen"?



2) Barry Letts didn't just produce all Pertwee's stories (except "Spearhead Form Space"), he also directed a number of them. What were all the Barry Letts directed stories?



3)Delia Derbyshire apparently wrote the original theme of the signature tune. Why does Ron Grainer always get the credit for this theme?



4) Why was Tom Baker against the Doctor having a companion? Why did they cast Leela when "The Deadly Assassin" was such a great success?



5) Is/was Peter Pratt Lis Sladen's husband?



6) I've always had problems with this one:

The Doctor fires the rifle at the end of Part One of "The Deadly assassin". The President falls down dead. In Part Two, the Doctor explains that the sights of the rifle were 'fixed' and that he was trying to kill the real assassin. So did the Doctor kill the President or not? Can some one please explain!



7) Why do the BBC take so long to release Dr Who titles onto video and DVD? Will we have to wait nearly 10 years for them all to be available on DVD? If so, why?!?

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

27/01/2006 12:38 GMT

4, i didn't know Tom Baker was against having a companion. I thought he just wanted to do a story without one.



3, I thought Rob Grainer wrote the basic notes on a piece of paper and went on holiday or something like that, leaving it with Delia Derbyshire who slogged away making a spacey them tune before synths were even invented. And  Grainer returned quite pleased with the result.



I could be wrong

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

28/01/2006 03:22 GMT

1. no

2. no

3. no

4. no.

5. no

6. no

7. yes



you ask if I knew the answers.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

28/01/2006 05:18 GMT

1. I don't know, that's a look up type of question.

Mmmm. My copy of The Terrestrial Index...

Lofficer has it down as Bernard Holley

I hope that was important to you; I had to pollute my mind to answer it..



2. Again TTI...he started with The Face of Evil, shared Inferno with Douglas Camfield, then Terror of the Autons, Carnival of Monsters, Planet of the Spiders and The Android Invasion.. He co-wrote The Daemons, and was executive producer for season 18.



3. Grainer wrote it, Derbyshire performed and arranged it.

Trstram Cary gave me an insight into this when I interviewed him in 2003. Grainer would apparently work in his kitchen (!), then record himself playing the piano, turning in the tape.

The quote I've heard elsewhere when he'd heard what she'd done with her square wave generators is "Did I write that?" to which she responded "Most of it."

There's a similar dispute over the James Bond theme. John Barry and Monty Norman went to court over this six years ago, Norman won as he'd reused an existing score for the Bond theme! Norman also sued a newspaper for libel when they attributed the theme to Barry.



4. Big head? He claims the Doctor worked well enough on his own, and asked for an entire season without a companion. He was sued to getting his own way by this point, and got more so when Hinchcliffe and Holmes left.



5. No, but Geoffrey Beevers is married to Caroline John...?



6. As he says in the novel, he saw one of the high council draw a gun on the president, but couldn't tell who it was because of the high collars. He shot the wall behind the state trying to stop him, and the president was shot by the gunman (Goth).



7. I'm sure I don't know anything about merchandise!

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

28/01/2006 19:08 GMT

Thank you Martin!!!!!



But two questions still remain (sorry!) -



1) Who the heck is Bernard Holley?



2) Why did the transmission of "The Deadly Assassin" make it look like The Doctor shot the President???? And why don't they ever show Goth doing it??? They make it look like it was The Doctor (very convincingly)........I find it difficult to fathom that he shot something behind the President. And I've watched that story carefully so many bloody times!!!!!

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

29/01/2006 00:53 GMT

bernard holley is an actor he was in things like, The Tripods (85 tv series), The Bill, Birds of a feather and A touch of frost

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

29/01/2006 03:20 GMT

Or indeed, why does part three show Goth drown the Doctor to the point where Mary Whitehouse campaigned against it, Tom felt uneasy about it and Philip Hinchcliffe lost his job?



I had the novel in 1977, and it wasn't until 1984 I actually saw a copy (on video). Let me assure you that this works better.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

29/01/2006 03:42 GMT

I cant see why all the fuss over the Deadly Assassin. it is a attempt by Dr Who to become darker and a bit more sensationalized. It is not one of my favorite stories.



PS it the Doctor still the President. I know he is the only one left but before and during the war, this would but him charge.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

29/01/2006 04:13 GMT

And when I say "Face of Evil" I mean "Enemy of the World".

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

29/01/2006 05:36 GMT

"Deadly Assassin" - inspired by "The Manchurian Candidate" > fantastic story (in my opinion), just wish I could understand how The Doctor didn't kill the President....but this is getting way too complicated!!!!



"Face of Evil" - a frigging classic!!!! Doctor Who does into Freudian and Jung psychoanalysis.



"The Enemy of the world" - from what I've seen/read of this story, it can stay missing!



I thought Philip Hinchcliffe was thinking of moving on before MS. Whitehouse's outbursts - was she just the linchpin that spurred Hichcliffe to move on???

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

29/01/2006 07:12 GMT

The Manchurian Candidate is particuarly interesting to me as it appears to have gone uncritically into public consiousness as proof that POWs were brainwashed in Korea.



In reality some Americans had to explain why they confessed while prisoners to participating in biological warfare. One came up with the explanation that the captors had used "menticide" on him. The other prisoner's accounts demonstate that the "brainwashing" was stock standard communist self criticism--you get together in groups, and take turns confessing how bourgeois you've been. The rest is out of the novel.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

29/01/2006 08:25 GMT

Possibly he was going to move on, but management decided to swap him and Graham Williams from Williams' cop show Target.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

29/01/2006 21:53 GMT

jimmy maybe the doctor's first shot was a blank and with live ammo in the magazine so when caught it look like he had shot at the president.



or its all a story and not to be look at to closly or the fabric of time will disappear and soon th eworld will implode.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

30/01/2006 02:05 GMT

OK. This isn't going away.

At the end of episode one, we see TomDoc find a rifle overlooking the stage where the president (not you, Jamie!) and High Council are to appear in the Panopticon. For no apparent reason he shoots, and we see the president fall over.



At the beginning of episode 2 the Doctor is in custody. We meet Castellan Spandrell, the Gallifreyan chief of police, who has an unusual ethnic variation: a nigh impenetrable German accent. He comments on the the Doctor's file having been interfered with and this is the reference to the Celestial Intervention Agency. The Doctor claims he was trying to shoot another gunman, and dares Spandrell to shoot out a light with the rifle. He misses. The Doctor points out that the sight on the gun has been tampered with, so his "staser mark" would be on the wall above where the president was shot. They go to look for it. Together.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

30/01/2006 05:46 GMT

Hye Jestear. You said you know the answer to 7. Were you just joking around? If not I'm dying to know.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

30/01/2006 05:56 GMT

7. They are arseholes who don't like Dr Who or it fans so they try to annoy them so much that the will just go away.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

30/01/2006 05:59 GMT

Yeah okay thanks

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

01/02/2006 11:24 GMT

Martin,



Did Spandrell and The Doctor find the staser blast mark?



I can't be bothered getting my video out and watching it - what you have written makes sense and corroborates with the 'snippets' of information I get from Dr Who Magazine.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

01/02/2006 21:46 GMT

if they were shooting blanks there would be no burn mark.

 
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Subject:  Re: Do any 'Whovians' know the answers to these questions?

02/02/2006 09:32 GMT

Yes, they found it in the spooky dark Panopticon. First Runcible found his camera technician all shrunk and shoved into the camera, then he himself was stabbed and the film was stolen.



This is very much from the book, which I'm more familiar with than the episodes.

 

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