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From: doctor@k9.UUCP (Paul Broe)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: DRWHO:Computer Game
Date: 2 Jan 93 21:38:44 GMT
Organization: Mostly Harmless...
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In article <1993Jan1.205214.19977@midway.uchicago.edu> tc26@quads.uchicago.edu (Tim Clark) writes:
> I am posting this for my friend Chris Ratliff, who does not have
> New access:  Please e-mail responses to me at <tc26@midway.uchicago.edu>

[Dalek Attack description deleted.]

> 	DALEK ATTACK can be played as either a one person (Doctor) or
> two-person (Doctor and Companion) game and comes in two formats; a 16 bit
> version at (** I don't have a pound note sign **) #16.99 and a cheaper 8 bit
> version at #7.99. It will be available on most home computer formats,
> including IBM PC, Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad, Atari ST and Amiga.

I came across a game for the Amiga on BIX a few months ago. It is available
on amiga.physik.unizh.ch [or the aminet mirror site nearest you]. Here is
the description:

**Begin description**

Short: a very good game based on Doctor Who characters.

The description from BIX:
------------------------------------------------
drwho.lha      318464  Approx time: 0:41 at 2400 baud, 1:22 at 1200 baud
Contributed by: amolina  Date: Tue May 19 20:51:26 1992
Doctor--a monster-chase arcade game based on Dr. Who (British SciFi TV show)

  This is a 1 (you play Dr. Who) or 2 player (Dr. Who + cooperative Companion)
  monster-chase arcade game.  Your mission is to collect the 5 parts of a
  Time Key.  You must avoid contact with various monsters that "track" your
  movements.  You can destory monsters by forcing them to run into each
  other.  You can temporarily "freeze" them with "sonic screwdrives" that
  you can obtain.

 Features: joystick #1/#2 or numeric keypad control, sound effects,
  Dr. Who theme music, Dr Who/Companion players look like miniatures of
  actors from TV show, ditto for monsters (main nemesis is the Master).

 Probably need 1 Mb, worked on A2000/KS 2.04/1MB Agnes/ECS Denise/4MB RAM.
 This is "promoware" for a (different) commercial game.

Keywords: $binary accursed arcade doctor dr game monster-chase toys who

**End description**

Dalek Attack does sound more full-featured though.

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From: jsanders@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (John Eric Sanders)
Subject: Re: The Scarf--need pattern, please
Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:29:22 GMT

In article <BzMu1n.L0u@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jsanders@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (John Eric Sanders) writes:
>Could some kind soul please send me the directions for knitting the
>Tom Baker scarf, please?  I have a friend who wants it, but doesn't
>have access to the net.  Since I don't read this group, please
>respond via e-mail.
>
Thanks to those who have responded.  I now have about 4 different
versions 
of the scarf.

Oh well, as long as its incredibly long and with multiple colors I
guess it is OK.


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From: ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: UNIT Was Re: some dates needed
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:57:32 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls

In article <1992Dec21.120734.27614@cs.ucf.edu>, wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson) writes:
> Estimated some dates if you know them:
> 
> 1. year when UNIT was created

Sometime between "The Web of Fear" (1968) and "The Invasion" (1972)

> 2. last known year that UNIT existed (i.e. what's the latest date in a story
>    that UNIT definitely still exists)

We know it existed for "Battlefield" which is probably sometime in the
mid-1990s.
The UNIT Special by DWM suggests rather convincingly that UNIT may have
been actually disbanded by Thatcher and Reagan during the mid-80s but
reformed after certain events like Mondas' arrival showed just how important
they were.

With all the "intervention" that seems to be needed in the world these
days after the end of the Cold War (Somalia, Bosnia, etc.), would you
people think that some sort of real-life UNIT is now a possibility?
United Nations Intervention Taskforce?  A real military body set up along
the same nationality lines (i.e. local control usually but Geneva in charge
in emergencies, etc.) to do the sorts of things we're doing now in Somalia
and we're talking about doing in Bosnia.  
If such a thing were to be proposed (and Clinton has talked about doing this),
I think we should at least write some letters encouraging its name to be
some permutation of the letters U, N, I, and T.  After all, "Who" did it
first....   :)  (big smiley, but this would still be cool, wouldn't it?)

> 3. year in The War Machines
> 

1966

> I think UNIT was created some time before when The Invasion took place. I
> have no idea about #2.
> 
> Tom


Steven.K.Manfred
From: ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: (WS)  Who wuz that companion...
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:36:24 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls

In article <tal691.724971568@huxley>, tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald) writes:
> Hello, folks.
>  
> Today (21st December 1992), I was listening to one of my favourite
> radio programs, the _Science Show_.  This is a program that
> features interviews with scientists, and reports about science.
>  
> In today's show the writer and sceptic Richard Dawkins was
> interviewed.  He wrote the book _The Blind Watchmaker_, and lives
> in Oxford, England.
>  
> At the end of the interview, the interviewer said that he was
> served coffee by Mr. Dawkins' girlfriend, who once was "one of
> Doctor Who's glamourous companions."  The question is, which
> companion?  I'd be very interested to hear who it is.

Hm.  Interesting.  Well, I don't know who it is, but we can maybe narrow
the field a bit with a little run-down of the female companions and their
known whereabouts:

Carole Ann Ford (Susan) definite could-be, I know she has kids
Jacqueline Hill (Barbara) could-be, but I wouldn't call Barbara "glamorous."
Maureen O'Brien (Vicki) another could-be
Adrienne Hill (Katarina) another could-be, since I have absolutely no idea
				where she is
Jean Marsh (Sara Kingdom) I don't think so.  She's still quite an active
			actress so I wouldn't think she'd spend a lot of
			time in Oxford.
Jackie Lane (Dodo) She works as a secretary in the BBC and I think she's
			already married.
Anneke Wills (Polly) She's living in Canada, so it isn't her.
Deborah Watling (Victoria) another could-be
Wendy Padbury (Zoe) She's married, so I don't think it's her
Caroline John (Liz) Definitely married.  
Katy Manning (Jo) Living in Australia, not her.
Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah) Definitely married.
Louise Jameson (Leela) She's got kids too, so probably not her.
Mary Tamm (Romana) Possibly the best possibility yet.
Lalla Ward (Romana) Well, if it was her, I think the reporter would have
			put more of a spin on the word "companion"
Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) Don't know what she's up to, could-be.
Janet Fielding (Tegan) She's had some unusual boyfriends in her past, so
				it could be her.
Nicola Bryant (Peri) Certainly fits the "glamorous" description, and she's
				still available as far as I know.  Could be.
Bonnie Langford (Melanie) This guy is supposed to be a cynic, right?  
				He wouldn't be anywhere near Bonnie then.  :)
Sophie Aldred (Ace) Don't know what she's up to.  Could be her as well.

Hope that helps narrow the field a bit.

Steven.K.Manfred




>  
> Please post to the board.
>  
> Thanx muchly.
>  
> Widya Santoso
> (not...)
> -- 
> Tonio Loewald | tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au | Life is short. Be nice.
> "You can lie/You can cry/For all the good it'll do you, you can
> die/But when it's done/And the police come/And they lay you down
> for dead/Just remember what I said" (Paul Simon-not the senator)
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Arrrrghhhhh!
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:43:11 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>>   I was just mentioning the fact why don't you ask your cable company to
>>get the Sci-Fi channel (G5-4) insteed of starting a expensive collection of
>>videos
>
>Because some cable companies answer "No," like ours did.  Blast it.
>
>Trying to assemble a collection of episodes of a TV show that isn't shown in
>the state you live in, nor has it been for years, is, to say the least, a
>trying and mostly ineffectual experience.
>
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It's not worth it. The Sci=Fi Channel edits *everything*
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From: wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
Subject: Re: YALEM - "The Time Warrior"
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:15:48 GMT

yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee) wrote:
>ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu writes:
>>[coments about video editing deleted]
>Ah! The importance of taping things off the television set at the time of
>transmission.

Gee Dave, I don't think anyone has invented cable thousands of miles long
that can travel back in time to pick up old TV broadcasts. Where are your
video copies of the missing episodes?

The only legal means of obtaining high quality video of old broadcasts is by
buying the videos. We have to rely on the people producing the video to
deliver the whole story. Your dumb comment also brings to mind an article in
an old issue of DWB. What is broadcast is not always the complete story.
Examples are Curse of Fenric, Ghostlight, and Planet of Giants. The article
says that the "extended" version of 'Fenric is not the complete version since
only 10 of a possible 20-25 minutes were included. The movies Alien and Aliens
had awesome footage deleted that was supposed to be included on the special
edition releases, but that has been axed.

Those of us who are willing to pay the money for the videos shouldn't be
cheated by an inferior product. Why buy an edited video when that is what is
broadcast on TV through repeats?

Tom
From: krim@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Karl Rim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: The Doctor's Love Interest
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:54:07 GMT
Reply-To: krim@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Karl Rim)
Organization: Columbia University Center for Computing Activities


For those who are confused with the Susan-Grandfather relation between
the Doctor and Susan, if I remeber she is NOT related in any way to the
doctor, but rather she calls him Grandfather as a sign of affection.
If I remember correctly, from the book: The Five Doctors,
Susan was just another of his companions he picked up and decided that she
needed schooling and enrolled her into school in England.
That's where he picked up Ian and Barbara, her school teachers.

As for the subject of a female Doctor, I always thought that ROMONA,
fit the bill.  After all, in a lot of ways she shares very similar
qualities.  She's extremely clever and intelligent (in some ways more
so than the Doctor), she has an air of charisma, class and charm, 
and most importantly a deep curiosity and a tendency to but into affairs that
do not concern her.  Opinions?
From: yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: The Doctor's Love Interest
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 05:09:21 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

mpease@dream.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Michael David Pease) writes:

- On Sat 26-Dec-1992  1:03p, Dave Shariff Yadallee Wrote:
-
- DY>  This is Cameca played by Margot van der Burgh
-
- DY> Dave Shariff Yadallee (B. Sc. (Econ/Math) (U of Alberta 1990) )
- DY>  (yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca, userLIBE@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca)
- DY> God Save the Queen, God Bless us All! Remember! Jesus Saves!!
- DY> Happy Christmas and Merry New Year to One and All - John Lennon
-
-
-         Well, what do you mean by that? Was she some Love Interest that I
-  missed? What Doctor was she with? And What occured between them?
-
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   This is from the Season 1 from the show "The Aztecs".

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From: wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
Subject: Re: Arrrrghhhhh!
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 21:38:18 GMT

xyzzy@imagen.com (David McIntyre) wrote:
>The good Doctor has been stricken from my airwaves.  My local PBS has cancelled
>Dr. Who for "lack of interest".  I guess I'll just have to get my weekly 
>fix off the several backlogged videotapes from now on.

Ok.

Tom


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From: mholtz@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark A. Holtz)
Subject: The Gorgons
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 01:56:58 GMT

Whelp, I was watching Monstervision last Saturday night on TNT, and
there was a movie coming up titled "The Gorgons". I thought, "Why
not, I have time to kill......." Lo, and behold, while watching the
opening credits, there was an also starring PATRICK THROUGHTON.
And, i didn't have to wait long for him to appear, as he was
playing a police inspector.

The movie was so-so.
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From: wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
Subject: Re: The Doctor's Next Regeneration...
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:46:06 GMT

tagg@hg.uleth.ca wrote:
>One
>of the great things about the Doctor is that he is compleletly sexless...

Where did you learn this? What we see on the screen is not all that the
Doctor does. How do baby Timelords come about? If the Doctor did get
romantically involved with someone in the slightest, everyone would rant and
rave to the end of all else. But that doesn't mean he couldn't.

Tom
From: 00bwanderson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Love and War gripe...*SPOILERS*
Date: 3 Jan 93 11:06:17 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

(lotsa space here for spoiler protection)













































OK.  Sorry about all the spaces, but I have no clue about how to insert a form
feed. 8^P

Anyway, I finished Love and War last night, and I must say I hate it.  Well,
hate may be too strong a word.  I will say, however, that I disliked it.  These
books have been pushing the image of the Doctor as some sinister, manipulative
thug...half deranged and completely self-comsumed.  According to "Love And War"
Ace is now gone.  Is Bernice now to be his companion?  I can't say as I love
Ace; she's brash, impudent and loud.  On the other hand, she is a capable
companion; able to get herself out of most scrapes.

I think I may not buy Transit when it is released over here.  I'm beginning to
feel like these people are turning the Doctor into a depraved lunatic rather
than a proud Time Lord.  It's as if all the fun were gone...

One nice thing I can say about the books is that I like the "inside jokes" the
authors put it.  "Lake Woebegon"???  8^)  Keillor fans everywhere smile real
nice for me, ok?  And how about the obvious Python references? 8^)  Ya gotta
love that...

*sigh*

I'm going to bed.  Wake me for Ren and Stimpy, please...

Bruce
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From: "dale clayton" <dale.clayton@canrem.com>
Subject: david prowse
Reply-To: "dale clayton" <dale.clayton@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 30 Dec 92 11:51:23 EST

-> I was watching the Dr. Who episode last week with John Pertwee and
-> Katy Manning, the one where they battle the Master and try to
-> save Atlantis,  the person who played the Minotaur was David Prowse
-> this seems to be the same person who played Darth Vader in
-> Star Wars.

 Yes, it is the same David Prowse. The story was The Time Monster (OOO).

dc
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From: vcz40@jester.usask.ca (Charles T. Sedgewick)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Who Base Seven
Date: 28 Dec 1992 17:09:13 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: jester.usask.ca
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Does anybody here remember advertisements for a Doctor Who Database called
Who Base, by (I think) a company called Who Base Seven? I think it was
advertised in DWM, and was supposed to have a complete listing of all the
Doctor Who shows, stars, etc. plus blanks for your rating, the number of
the video tape you have the show on, etc. I seem to remember that, if
sales warranted, a Star Trek module would also be made for the program.

Now, if anybody >does< remember it, does anyone know how to:

	a) Get hold of the program
	b) Get hold of the company
	c) Get hold of someone who has used it, and get their impression
	   of it?

Thanx in advance.
From: ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles Rubio)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: David Prowse
Date: 30 Dec 92 02:10:45 GMT
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.armory.com
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Dec29.113747@ece.arizona.edu> evans@ece.arizona.edu (Glen Evans) writes:
>I was watching the Dr. Who episode last week with Jon Pertwee and
>Katy Manning, the one where they battle the Master and try to 
>save Atlantis,  the person who played the Minotaur was David Prowse
>this seems to be the same person who played Darth Vader in
>Star Wars.


He played Vader's body, yes.

He can be seen in a speaking role as Hotblack Desiato's bodyguard
in the television version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

"I'm the guy that's telling you to beat it, before it gets beaten for you."

(he's listed in the credits as `Dave Prowse')

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From: ecohn@indyvax.iupui.edu
Subject: Re: Dalek can climb
Organization: Purdue University, Indianapolis
Date: 27 Dec 92 16:59:00 -0500

In article <alien.0224@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>, alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
> In article <9212182050.aa10558@macbeth.ocpt.ccur.com> hartnett@ocpt.ccur.com (Robert Sean Hartnett) writes:
>>       How many scenes like that have in Who have made such a
>>lasting impression on you?
> 
> Hmm, let's see now...
> 
> The climax of "Battlefield", where the Doctor made Morgaine realise what a
> nuclear weapon would do, and she surrendered rather than use it.
> 
> The death of Adric, as several other people have mentioned.
> 
> The tragic end of "Warriors of the Deep".
> 
> ...Anyone else?

Sixth Doctor stuff:

The Doctor's reaction to the death of the DJ in "Ressurection of the Daleks"
  (or was it Revelation?  I always get those two titles confused )-: )

The Doctor's attack on Peri in "The Twin Dilemma".

The Doctor's reaction to Lytten's death in "Attack of the Cybermen"

Ellen - the Crime Doctor
aka Ellen G. Cohn
    ecohn@indyvax.iupui.edu
From: yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: patrick troughton club AND CLUB's Listings Report.
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 08:32:28 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

vlad@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Vlad G. Pohnert) writes:

- gregoryf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Greg Fink) writes:
-
- - does anyone out there (especially toronto area) know if the
- - patrick troughton appreciation society is still in
- - operation?  If so I would like to get ahold of it's new address
- - and rejoin the club.  For those who don't know they are a group
- - of second doctor fanatics who maintain a small bi-monthly newsletter
- - and also put out a yearly fanzine called the cosmic hobo.
- - Very interesting group, but I lost track of them a while
- - ago and need to track them down.
- - reply here please!!
-
-
- Well.....One can always start a "New" Patrick Troughton Club...right?
-
- Vlad
-
- < Vlad G. Pohnert                            >> The best cure for  >
- < "BAKA no baka" Fanzine Co-ordinator        >> Hentism is to have >
- <                                            >> a date with Madoka >
- < BAKA no baka goes color!!                  >>                    >

GENTLEMEN!! The club, FORMERLY known as PTAS,  is NOW known as the cosmic
Hobos.  MORE? INFORMATION  courtesy of the last Club's listing posting.

Speaking of which people, due to a number of issues, I had to split the Club's
Listings up into national Block, and I am Still anticipating problems, esp from
UK and the USA.

Needed: A geography lesson in the US and UK.

Dave Shariff Yadallee (B. Sc. (Econ/Math) (U of Alberta 1990) )
 (yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca, userLIBE@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca)
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Birthdate: 29 Jan 1969, Redhill, Surrey, England, UK
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: DW paperbacks for sale
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:41:01 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

From burrhus!isr.harvard.edu!glazier Tue Dec 29 11:08:43 EST 1992

 I have a boxful (approximately 60-70) paperbacks, most of which have never
been read. Most of them are 3rd or Fourth doctor stories, with a few
earlier than that. None later than 5th doctor. I will sell them for $4
apiece. Please email with any specific requests, and I will respond & tell
you if I have the book. 


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these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.