From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Subject: Re: THE SCIFI CHANNEL
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:35:00 GMT

In article <2111.130.uupcb@ssr.com> doug.vermes%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Doug Vermes)  writes:
>Well, is this new SciFi channel going to have a logo in the corner of
>the screen throughout Doctor Who? I hear it's owned by USA, a channel
>which constantly uses such a logo, so.........
>      - Doug
>

This is something which is worrying a lot of people, but there may be
a light at the end of this dark tunnel, in that although USA *owns* the
Sci-Fi Channel, the same people who began the campaign in the first place
will be *managing* and *running* the channel.  We have already heard that
Doctor Who is to be run completely uncut (there will be breaks for commercials
but nothing actually missing), so I would tend to suspect that the managers
would not want to run the stupid corner logo unless USA really puts the
thumbscrews on them to do  it.  USA will probably have less reason to do
this on Sci-Fi since the very subject matter of the shows themselves should
be enough to let a channel-zapping viewer know what channel he or she is 
on right now.  Such is not the case with USA where their programming looks
much like an ordinary commercial network's shows.

>P.S. I don't see how anyone expects to get their cable company to pick
>it up just like that... Don't they usually wait until they do a complete
>overhaul of their lineup?
>
Yes, they do usually wait a little, but I think the "smart" cable companies
(does there exist such a thing?) will not wait too long to add this channel
as I think this channel above all other recent additions could really do
very very well for itself.  The Cartoon Channel is something I don't think
will work, and is the type of channel the cable operators will be wary of.
Once Sci-Fi starts and teh operators at large take a look at how it is 
doing on those systems that *do* pick it up right away, and if it is doing 
well, then I think the probability of smaller or more stubborn systems 
picking it up will rise enormously.

>The Doctor Who Episodes released on video are pretty good, actually...
>The Troughton years has the first regeneration scene ever... Also, what
>NEW material was added to Curse of Fenric between the time it was on TV
>and the time it went on video?


There were just a little over six minutes of new scenes added in to the
video.  In my plot synopsis of that story earlier this summer I marked
off all the additions with (* and *), but here I'll list them again anyway
as best I can off the top of my head:

PART ONE
Two new scenes with the English soldiers reporting to Captain Bates on
the Doctor and Ace's approach to the Naval Base.  They are believed to be
"the House Guests."
One new scene in the church just after the Doctor and Ace have met the
vicar for the first time.  Mr Wainwright is explaining how Dr Judson 
spends his time studying old carvings.
One new scene featuring Ace, Jean, and Phyllis on the beach as Ace tries
to teach the other girls how to rock-climb using her rucksack-ladder.
One new scene outdoors in the camp, where the Doctor and Ace see
Commander Millington walking to another building.  Ace wants to "sort him
out" since he has just told Dudman to get her baby off the camp.
The scene ends with the Doctor suggesting they have a quick recce in his
office.

PART TWO
One brief addition to the front end of the scene where Millington leads 
the Doctor and Ace down the passageway at gunpoint.
One brief addition to the end of Mr Wainwright's scene rehearsing his sermon
where he nearly breaks down and cries.

PART THREE
One brief addition to the scene where, in the rain, the Doctor, Ace, and
Judson go off in their different directions and Wainwright decides to 
brave it out against the two girls and they will go and look at the parih
records.
A small but good addition to the end of the scene where Ace tells her
grnadmother to "take care" as there are some dangerous things happenning
around here.

PART FOUR
A new scene when Judson/Fenric materializes before the Haemovores in the
tunnel, and he demands to see the Ancient One, but he isn't here as Jean
and Phyllis tell him.  he tells them to go and get him, so the girls and
the other Haemovores turn and go back down the tunnel the way they came toward
the ocean, to have their way slowed down by two British soldiers who try
to gun the vampires down.  The bullets slam into Jean and Phyllis but they
just smile and keep on coming, surrounding the soldiers and killing them.
Later, another scene still in the tunnel.  Fenric and the Haemovores look
over the dead bodies and Fenric comments how English this is that everyting
stops for tea.  He tells them again to fetch the Ancient One, and they leave.
(Some scenes in this episode swapped order as well)
A new scene in the radio room where Sorin looks over the smashed and disabled
equipment, to be cornered by Jean and Phyllis.  they taunt that he doesnt
have the emblem to protect him self this time but he still has his faith
which he uses to scare the girls off.
Two new scenes between the Doctor and the Ancient One, perhaps the most important additions to the whole thing, where the Ancient One explains how in his
world, our future, he is the last living thing as all others have dies of
a chemical slime.  The Doctor explains that his act now, the dumping of
the chemicals in the oceans, will be the beginning of that end and thus 
turns the Ancient One to his side.
And one brief addition to the start of the scene by the shore where Ace
cries over the picture of her baby mother.







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