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From: gordon@uw-june (Jamie Green)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: John Cleese and More Violence
Message-ID: <19@uw-june>
Date: Fri, 3-May-85 21:29:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 21:29:45 1985
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Two, count 'em two, followups for the price of one!

First, from fung@daemen.UUCP (Kenneth Worzel Fung @ Daemen College, Amherst
NY):

>        Even more bizzare, Can you imagine a new Doctor, as  John Cleese!?!

Oh, no, Basil Fawlty in Time and Space!  He screams the oogy monsters into
submission?  I can't wait to see what he'd do when (not if :-) ) the TARDIS
conked out!!

and, next, from gts@wjh12.UUCP (G. T. Samson @ Harvard MicroWizards HQ):

> How about the episode "Seeds of Doom" (it might be "Seeds of Death")?
> Lots of violence in that one... the Doctor actually knocks someone out,
> accidentally feeds someone into a sort of meat-grinder/composter, and
> the monster in this episode is taken out by an air strike!

The title of this was The Seeds of Doom, The Seeds of Death was a Patrick
Troughton story.

That episode was not an isolated occurence.  During Phillip Hinchcliffe's
reign as producer of the show, the stories took on a definitely more "gothic"
approach, with dark, forboding sets, truly frightening monsters, (remember
The Brain of Morbius?) and yes, violence.  This was the Mary Whitehouse's
high-water mark :-), and it eventually led to Phillip Hinchcliffe's replace-
ment by Graham Williams.

			Yours in Time and Space,

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