Hello, Bob;

14 Jul 04 11:09, Bob Lawrence wrote to Robert Bull:

 BL>  The ABC here in Oz has been running Dr Who from the beginning, B&W
 BL> and all, in competiton to the evening News at 6:00. Only Aunty ABC
 BL> could see the logic in that, but I used to be a real fan so I taped
 BL> the News and watched... Dr Who ("cutting edge" electronic music
 BL> plays...)

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

 BL>  I always preferred the original Hartnell Dr Who, at the time I
 BL> thought that the Dr Who time-travel format was brilliant; cutting edge

That was before we had a TV...

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

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

 BL>  I realise that I must have been crazy in the 60s! And I wasn't even
 BL> on drugs. Whatta heapa crap! How did I ever think that crap was

You were 40 years younger!  :-))

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

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

 BL> staggering around like Boris Karloff as Frankenstein, in funny monster
 BL> suits. It's pathetic! No wonder Hartnell died. I'd have killed myself.

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

 BL>  But I'm grateful for one thing. The ABC hasn't reached that twit
 BL> with the long scarf. They're still working their way through the Dr
 BL> Who in the white fright-wig.

Evidently you don't like Tom Baker  ;-)  The fright-wig was I think real 
hair, belonging to the flamboyant John Pertwee.  If you could keep your 
eyes off Katy Manning, of course  :-)

BTW, just heard that Alice Liddell - the Alice of ALICE IN WONDERLAND - 
died in 1934, the same year that Bonnie and Clyde the bank robbers died.  
They didn't say how old Alice was by then, but...  what a gulf in world 
view.

     Regards,

              Robert.

CBIP:  (still)  MOBY DICK  by Herman Melville

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