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

RB> I think either the next Dr - Colin Baker, the burly one, no
RB> relation to the one you don't like - had to have a scarf to
RB> start with.

 The ABC has been running the episodes with *three* Dr Who's in them:
Hartnell; the one in the fright wig who ran around withh soldiers
in berets; and the little fussy one I rather liked. The SCARF has not
appeared yet, which surprises me because it's in colour now. At the
time, I always suspected the SCARF appeared *because* of colour.

 I can remember when Colour TV was first broadcast in Oz in 1970.
We'd been working on colour for a while, using signal generators and
a *huge* video tape machine with ten minutes of a boring old fart
walking through a forest glade, but Channel Ten had just upgraded
their transmitter and they sent test signals at three in the morning
so we could see how the colour signal affected B&W sets off air.

 Of course all the labs had a colour set running and it was boring
until the end when they sent the Black and White Minstrel Show. The
impact was amazing. I'd always *hated* that show, but in colour it was
magnificent! right then, I knew that when colour came, people would
kill to get any sort of colour TV set.

 In fact, I did. I pinched the old Pye set that ran about a kilowatt
and almost caught fire, using a remote set of buttons on a wire to
chase the colout burst which the TV stations were not allowed to
transmit, even though all programs (incluuding Dr Who) were in colour
at that time. that was when I first saw the ... SCARF.

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

RB> If you were in your twenties at the time, they would have a
RB> certain appeal :-)

 You ought to be ashamed... that's awful!

RB> Was Ms. Peel Diana Rigg, or am I thinking of another series? 

 That's the one,... in leather. How could you forget? There was a Mrs
Peel before Diana Rigg, I think... Honour Blackman? But Diana was the
horny one (or maybe it was just me).

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

RB> I didn't, Radio 3 (BBC classical music network) did. They were
RB> looking at composers who died in 1934 and then looked around a
RB> bit wider. No, I don't know why they picked that year, unless
RB> maybe several composers happened to fall off their twigs then.

 A conspiracy theory? Bonny and Clde were killing them... because
they didn't like Classical music.

RB> Well... it was before drag queens were -officially- invented...
RB> ;-)

 I thought the Greeks invented that sort of thing. Of course they're
keeping it quiet for the Olympic Games (but don't drop the soap in
Athens).

Regards,
Bob


    

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