RB> I remember an incident during far-off college days, when Dr.
RB> Who was in competition with the Test Match. After a vote, Dr.
RB> Who won...

 Nobody wanted to watch England get murdered by Australia? I can
remember back in the 70's when Thompson and Lillie were bowling
bullets at the Poms. We too took a vote in the lab, and stopped work
to watch to the test match... then stayed till after midnight making
up the loss.

BL> SF that allowed *any* plot to work (electronic music and all),
BL> a ptheme that could go on forever without repeating itself. I
BL> loved it!

RB> I think they ended up with at least three different
RB> explanations for the demise of the dinosaurs :-))

 But with the Dr Who format, all three could have been true!

BL> I realise that I must have been crazy in the 60s! And I wasn't
BL> even on drugs.

RB> You were 40 years younger! :-))

 It's a frightening thought. Marijuana and LSD weren't even illegal
in Oz, then.

BL> Dr Who is either Pommie soldiers running around looking serious
BL> (in berets... but nobody does a whoopsy in their beret)

RB> They had a long spell of that, but eventually kicked UNIT
RB> because the format was tending to limit the kind of stories.

 I gave up Dr Who around then...

RB> Some of the monsters fairly bizarre and scary, especially if
RB> you were 10 years old at the time.

 But I was in my twenties... and I *still* thought it was brilliant.

BL> But I'm grateful for one thing. The ABC hasn't reached that
BL> twit with the long scarf.

RB> Evidently you don't like Tom Baker ;-) 

 Arrgh! You've made me remember his name! I swore that I'd remove him
from my memory (but the scarf remains).

RB> The fright-wig was I think real hair, belonging to the
RB> flamboyant John Pertwee. If you could keep your eyes off Katy
RB> Manning, of course :-)

 Aha! I think you may have hit on the real reason I thought Dr Who
was brilliant... the little dolly-birds in the short skirts (but my
heart belongs to Mrs Peel).

RB> BTW, just heard that Alice Liddell - the Alice of ALICE IN
RB> WONDERLAND - died in 1934, the same year that Bonnie and Clyde
RB> the bank robbers died. 

 What a strange mind you have. How do you segue from Alice to Bonny
and Clyde?

RB> They didn't say how old Alice was by then, but... what a gulf
RB> in world view.

 Not so great. Bonnie and Clyde were on J Edgar's most-wanted list,
and I'm still trying to get my head around the idea of J Edgar Hoover
in a party frock. Reality? Lewis Carroll made more sense than that. At
least his Queen was mostly female.

Regards,
Bob


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