--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: DDW00020Date: 09/25/96 From: STEVEN BAGLEY Time: 05:08pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: New BBC Sci-fi Seeing as this echo is about all British sci-fi I thought I'd mention these shows. Neverwhere ---------- This is a quite interesting fantasy series on BBC2 about a parallel London beneath the real one. The Demon Headmaster -------------------- This one is amazing. Based on the books by Gillian Cross, its a childrens SF drama which is about this Headteacher who wants to take control of the world by hypnotising people. It centres around a group of children around 10-13 I'd say who try to stop him. This is currently on its third series and has some triffid like plants in it. Its on Children's BBC1 at 4:30 on wednesdays with a repeat on Sundays. This one is well worth catching. Now if the BBC could produce Doctor Who to these standards, it'd be better the McGann movie, which is very good. The trouble is I don't think Doctor Who would work in anything but its 25min episodes with cliff-hangars. See you earlier, Steven InterNet: sbagley@innotts.co.uk FidoNET: 2:2501/101.12 ... NeST: 90:102/203 ..."These shoes, they fit perfectly" - The Doctor, The New Doctor Who Telemovie --- IOS-Mail 0.91pl9 lpha * Origin: The Village (2:2501/101.12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: DDW00021Date: 09/25/96 From: STEVEN BAGLEY Time: 05:17pm \/To: WILBUR HOOKS (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: The Master & Other Timelo "Ambassador Hooks," asked Steven. "Do you really want to know what's going on down there right now?" "Yes, absolutely," replied Wilbur. Steven moved forward, and whispered something. DGR>> So to avoid future confusion, had The Monk made appearance in DGR>> later televised episode entitled The Dalek's Master Plan, where it DGR>> was established that his name was Mortimus, or was that a novel DGR>> too? WH> The first time the Meddling Monk is called Mortimus is in the novel WH> No Future. Whether it is his real name or a nickname is not WH> established as it depends on which author you're reading. Some say WH> Mortimus, Magnus, and Theta Sigma are the real names of the Monk, the WH> Master, and the Doctor respectively, others say those are their WH> nicknames. Theta Sigma is the doctor's college grade or something its said so on screen I believe. Certainly not his name or he still would be Sigma as in GL he says I was a sigma once. See you earlier, Steven InterNet: sbagley@innotts.co.uk FidoNET: 2:2501/101.12 ... NeST: 90:102/203 ..."These shoes, they fit perfectly" - The Doctor, The New Doctor Who Telemovie --- IOS-Mail 0.91pl9 lpha * Origin: The Village (2:2501/101.12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: DDW00022Date: 09/28/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 12:05pm \/To: PHILL ASH (Read 3 times) Subj: The Founding Three On (25 Sep 96) Phill Ash wrote to Maureen Goldman... CH> My personal theory is that the Doctor only recently found out himself. MG> I didn't see anything to indicate that this was a discovery made MG> in the course of the 2-hour show. To me, his ancestry appeared MG> to be something that he knew but hadn't mentioned earlier. PA> The 2nd Doctor could play the recorder - other incarnations PA> showed no ability or interest... PA> The 3rd Doctor knew Venusian Akido - other incarnations showed PA> no ability or interest... PA> The 1st Doctor had only 1 heart... PA> The 7th Doctor could juggle, exert mind-control and teleport - PA> others showed no ability or interest... One does become bored after a while. Picks up skills, puts them down. Drops a heart ... picks up a spade. ... "I'm not born again - my mother did it right the first time." --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: DDW00023Date: 09/29/96 From: STEVE QUARRELLA Time: 10:15am \/To: CHARLES DANIELS (Read 3 times) Subj: RD VII??!? Salue, Charles! Saturni dies September 28 1996, Dixit Charles Daniels ad Steve Quarrella: CD> If you guys really wanna know all the grizzly details I will post them CD> with a HUGE spoiler space so I don't get flamed. Bring it on. :) --- GoldED 2.51.A0901+ - Spank Our Wombats! * Origin: Valencia: "Smarter than the average bear." (1:124/9005) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: DDW00024Date: 09/28/96 From: JOE MASON Time: 07:21pm \/To: PETER GODDARD (Read 3 times) Subj: Are the Borg a Cyberman r "Are the Borg a Cyberman r", declared Peter Goddard from the Vogon ship: PG>This subject has been going round the Rec-arts DW group for a bit. PG>What does anyone here think?? PG>Personally I think the writers of Star Trek couldn't invent an PG>original idea if you payed them. PG>Unless it's a shite one like that crappy farpoint station. ;) There was a movie quite a while ago (came out before ST:TNG, I'm pretty sure) by Disney called Earthstar Voyager or something about that. It was, in some ways, a Star Trek clone, but the interesting that is that the Next Generation stole a whole bunch of stuff from it. Like, for instance it had a boy genius (Wesley Crusher style) and I'm pretty sure there was other stuff that showed up in some episodes. The reason I mention it is there were these creatures called "Shells" which, physically, were just like the Borg. They also had that dogged never-give-up thing that characterizes the Borg, except they were more mindless automatons. The Borg were, physically at least, copied pretty directly off them. Mentally, though, the Borg are a bit different, and that may well be the Cybermen influence. Joe -- Coming soon: "In the End", a work of Interactive Fiction -- -- More about the 1996 IF Contest at rec.arts.int-fiction -- -- Oct. 10 at ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96 -- CMPQwk 1.42 9550 Devoted to the study of cat bathing as a martial art. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/10 * Origin: Timmins Area Bulletin Board (1:225/401) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: DDW00025Date: 09/28/96 From: JOE MASON Time: 07:21pm \/To: PETER GODDARD (Read 3 times) Subj: Hero "Hero", declared Peter Goddard from the Vogon ship: PG>I went to see Independence day - a film about the world fighting an PG>alien menace. PG>Instead it centred around a small section of the world. Interesting historical note - the very first alien-invasion story did the exact same thing! Yep, the second part of _The War of the Worlds_ is entitled "The Earth under the Martians", and it contains the line "Across the Channel, across the Irish Sea, across the Atlantic, corn, bread, and meat were tearing to our relief." Apparently it was only England that was actually under the Martians. Let the Americans have their fun - it would have been better if it was a world-wide conflict, yes, but an American movie being American centred is hardly a killing evil. Or even a surprise. War of the Worlds survived being England-centred (and Doctor Who survived it for all those years), if ID4 was a good movie otherwise it would do fine; if not, being global in scale wouldn't have saved it. Of course, I didn't see the movie, so I'm probably not qualified to comment. Joe -- Coming soon: "In the End", a work of Interactive Fiction -- -- More about the 1996 IF Contest at rec.arts.int-fiction -- -- Oct. 10 at ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96 -- CMPQwk 1.42 9550 Genius is perseverence in disguise. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/10 * Origin: Timmins Area Bulletin Board (1:225/401) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: DDW00026Date: 09/25/96 From: BART BROWN Time: 11:42pm \/To: RICHARD WEGNER (Read 3 times) Subj: Female Doctor The guy in Washington St who directed and generally put together the video with a female Doctor is Ryan K Johnson. If you want a copy of the tape (4 episodes), simply email him at: rkj@eskimo.com and he will tell you what to do from there (basically send him the cost of posting the tape--that you send him--back to you). It is good stuff. In fact, it made me wonder what Universal/FOX spent their millions on--except for the actors and, oh yea, a few sets. Take care, Bart --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: ShanErin (1:109/104) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: DDW00027Date: 09/25/96 From: MICHAEL COOKE Time: 11:42am \/To: MIKE ARNDELL (Read 3 times) Subj: The Founding Three Hi Mike! Sunday September 15 1996 17:09, Mike Arndell wrote to Michael Cooke: MA> Sorry to jump in, but this subject interests me. There has never been MA> any evidence to support this, unless you assume that the Doctor's MA> interest in Earth is evidence. And there was me thinking it was just to make the location shoots cheaper :) MA> It is quite silly that being half-human would never have come up MA> before now, and even sillier considering that the Master didn't know, MA> given their history together. Sutekth would have found out when he Exactly. Why on Earth did they have to put that stupide idea in. It completely ruins a whole lot of so-called 'continuity'. I know this isn't going to be a popular thing to say in here, but I blame the American involvement! TTFN Michael (michael@norwood.karoo.co.uk) --- FMail 1.02 * Origin: The Cookie Jar (2:259/18) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: DDW00028Date: 09/29/96 From: CLAY EVANS Time: 08:22am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: New BBC Sci-fi On 25 Sep. 96 17:08 Steven Bagley expunged to All... SB> The trouble is I don't think Doctor Who would work in anything but its SB> 25min episodes with cliff-hangars. Well, we poor sods in the States here have been dealing with Who in what Auntie Beeb calls "movie" form for most of the time we've been able to see it. There are some stations that are lucky enough to get the episodic ormat, but sadly few. Clay E. --- * wsOMR 1.00 [NR] * The world is coming to an end. Please log off. * Origin: Wheels BBS - Beast and a half! (1:289/86)