From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Subject: Re: Results from Quiz 5 and Now Quiz Part 6
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 18:47:10 GMT

In article <wPTuPB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee) writes:
>ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
>
>- Dave, this is completely wrong.  I know my title sequences, and
>- the Troughton update did *not* take place until the story immediately
>- after this, The Faceless ones, as I said in my answer to the question.
>
>  On the contrary, quoting DWM 113, p.12, verbatim:
>   " Craig Kendrick, from Atherton in Lancashire asks which stories heralded
>     new title sequences, and when the title and end music changed.  Obviously
>     the first sequence started with An UnEarthly child and went through
>     unchanged until the last part of The moonbase.
>     The Macra Terror saw the first use of the Doctor's face in the title
>     sequence... "
>  Sorry, the above answer is upheld.

Sorry, it isn't.
This certainly wouldn't be the first time DWM has got something a bit
wrong.  Here's an excerpt from Peter Haining's "Key to Time:"
April 8 - The first appearance of the now-familiar title graphic
for te show featuring the Doctor's face - in the perhaps inappropriately
titled story - ""The Faceless ones" by David Ellis and Malcolm Hulke!

I have seen this also stated in other references as well (don't have time
to look them up right now).  This is the first and only time I heard
that it was Macra Terror that was the first face-sequence story.
I think it would be wise for the both of us to check immediately later issues
of DWM for a retraction or correction of that goof, for I think I can 
recall seeing this the first time and then a retraction later.


>
>-
>- > 8) Describe the Master of the LAnd?
>- >
>- >    A Master computer in the Land of Fiction which needed human imagination
>- >    to operate on.
>- >
>-
>-       Also wrong here Dave.  The Master in "The Mind Robber" was
>- not the computer but the old man plugged in to it.  That is the person
>- who was called "the Master" and is called nowadays "the Master of the
>- Land" to avoid confusion with the Master we all know and love to hate.
>- The computer was never called anything other than "the computer."
>-
>  From the Prgramme Guides, under the heading of "The Mind Robber", both
>  editions,  Jean-Marc Lofficier writes "Meanwhile, Zoe finds the true Master
>  of the Land: a giant computer."  And upon watching Part 5 of The Mind Robber,
>  this is confirmed.
>
>- and don't try pulling out novelization answers to these, as they are
>- non-canon.

Jean-Marc Lofficier's Programme Guides are just as non-canon as are 
the novels, and I still say the "master" was the old man, the person.
There is not one occasion in episode 5 where Zoe, the Doctor, or anyone
call the computer "the Master of the Land."  What they do call it is
"the Master Brain" which is a completely different name from what you
asked in your quiz question.


>   If their are any furthur questions, please post and I will try to justify
>them similarly.  No problem, Iain, I am NOT perfect, however I do have the
>sources at hand ready to be reach at home.
>
>Dave Shariff Yadallee
>yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca, userLIBE@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca
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