From: ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles Rubio)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Dr Who Movie
Date: 5 Jan 1993 06:37:19 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.armory.com
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In article <1603@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> cwa@oasis.icl.co.uk (Chris Adams) writes:
>Ok, if you can't post the script for copyright reasons, could someone do a
>synopsys(sp?) of it so we can get the idea. (and see what's so godawful about
>it)

`synopsis'

Anyway, first of all, there were two.  The first was called
"Doctor Who and the Daleks" and is based on the first Dalek
story in the television series.  The second has the annoying
name "Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D." (annoying because
`A.D.' is supposed to go before year numbers).  It is based
on the second Dalek story in the television series (`The
Dalek Invasion of Earth').

Second of all, both are available on video.  (Well, they are
over here, so certainly should be over there.)

People in the U.S.: Public television stations can get the
rights to air them, and the second film I've seen listed on
independent (commercial) stations a few times (like part of
the movie-at-noon so many stations have).  If you can't get
them on video, ask to have them aired.

I still think my favourite scene is the very first.  Susan
is sitting down reading a book on science, Barbara is sitting
down reading a book on science, and the Doctor is sitting
down reading a comic book.

Susan (or `Susie' as she's often called in the second film)
is Doctor Who's granddaughter (and, yes, he calls himself
`Doctor Who').  Barbara I think is his daughter or something.
But Susan doesn't call her `Mum', that's for sure.  Ian is
Barbara's klutzy current potential boyfriend.

In the second film, Susan is still there, but she and the
Doctor don't have Barbara any more.  They have the Doctor's
niece, Louise, and they get joined by a policeman who enters
the TARDIS.  His name is Tom.

Oh, I should reword that.  Tom enters `Tardis' -- that's how
it is referred, as a ship name.  The word `the' is omitted.
"This is TARDIS," the Doctor -- a human scientist, apparently -- says.

Susan is a young girl in the films, instead of an adolescent as on TV.



The Daleks are quite colourful, with long flashing lights and claws instead
of plungers.  Their weapons are fire extinguishers, really.

What I find most interesting about the whole thing -- or rather most
amusing -- is that the television version of the second story comes off
much better as being futuristic.  In the movie, they use real Earthly
switches, knobs, dials, microphones etc., with English words written
on them.  On television, they couldn't afford fancy stuff like that,
so just made really weird, totally alien devices, which are much more
apt.  Also the deserted streets in the movie are strewn with 1960s
automobiles.  Again, on television they couldn't do that, and in fact
the characters get the van they use from a museum.  The movie just doesn't
come off as being in the future -- an alternate universe, perhaps, but not
the future.


The Dalek spaceship in the second film looks like a '55 Chevy to me...

Woo! Lookit them tailfins!

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