From: swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Texas Bob or Eddie Froman depending on the moon)
Subject: Merchandise availability (books, tapes, videos, etc)
Summary: Help! Reliable semi-local and/or mail-order sources req'd!
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:23:45 GMT

Greetings!

A long-time Doctor Who fan but a recent subscriber to rec.arts.drwho, so
please no flames (or chants of "Exterminate!") for the following question
(which probably is covered in a well-formed FAQ in circulation):

What are some reliable mail-order Dr. Who/Sci.Fi. shops (USA)?  I've become
very frustrated at how difficult it is to order the "New Adventures"
series (but finally have all the Timewyrm and Cat's Cradles!), and the
video's are impossible!

Thus, PLEASE -- some addresses and/or phone numbers of places in the States
which deal in mail-order (unless they're in the metro-Detroit area, then
I can just go there! :^> )... Thanks!

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This month's Dr.Who Magazine lists all the New Adventure titles and authors
for the first half of next year (they're going MONTHLY with those!!!) and
also lists all the nifty video's and audio tapes (the "lost episodes"
series which features the audio/soundtracks of two Troughton stories); these
items would be next to impossible to track down via conventional stores
(like B-Daltons and BlockBuster Video, altho both occasionally can help find
something, but you can't always count on them, and it takes forever)...

ALSO looking for the store which sells "HitchHiker's Guide" video (VHS);
AND a bunch of videos incl. Shada, Pertwee & Baker Years, the new Dalek and
Cybermen Early Years tapes, etc; AND the "Curse of Fenric" CD/Cass/LP; AND
the "TimeLord" RPG recently release; AND... (etc)  Hopefully this stuff is
available from the same place(s)!

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Anyway, not much of a first post here I'm afraid; Dr.Who is, after all,
perhaps the single greatest "sub-conscious" influence on my life.  That
may sound a bit hokey, but it's hard to put into words the relationship
I've had with the series over the last fifteen years (yes, I did say Long-
Time Dr. Who fan, and there's a few original Whovians I know, too!)
Staying up late on Saturday nites to tape Dr.Who on WTVS Ch. 56 here in
Detroit area; before that, Ch. 32 (Canadian) and Ch. 62 WGPR used to show
them in the original half-hour episodes 5 days a week, etc... having grown
up with the show, and collecting all the books and records as they were
released, etc... wow, I'll have to elaborate more on the psyche-type life-
influencing stuff later, cos that's a whole bunch of posts by itself!

THUS, thx in advance (cos in the future I'll have already rec'vd some
info from people out there, so might as well thank them now!); PLEASE
help me out...

(PS, I'm still in the _Dr.Who Fan Club of America_, but I think they're
sort-of dead by now, thus there goes one potential source of stuff; anyone
have the address for _Friends of DW_ handy?)

Steve
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