Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!pucc-j!pucc-h!ags From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: WTTW Chicago announces new acquisitions Message-ID: <2512@pucc-h> Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 14:22:00 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.2512 Posted: Fri Dec 6 14:22:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 04:44:49 EST References: <2491@pucc-h> <453@nicmad.UUCP> Reply-To: ags@pucc-h.UUCP (Dave Seaman) Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 60 Keywords: C. Baker, Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee In article <453@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes: >There are only 17 complete Hartnell stories available. There are 6 stories >that are 6 parts or more, which could make for 23 showings. If I understand >your definition of showings, ie, takings 6 or more parters and showing them >in two sections. I checked the figures I posted against the ones I wrote down when the announcement was made, and they agree. I notice that at least one other person has already posted the same figures to the net. If there is a mistake, it is Channel 11's mistake. I also counted only 23 Hartnell stories, but I notice that "The Tenth Planet" has only the last episode missing, and that the regeneration scene is preserved. It seems possible that they might have built a show out of that, especially since some Pertwee stories have been shown with parts missing. >There are only 5 Troughton stories available. 'War Games' is being shown >in two parts of 5 episodes each, for a total of 6 showings. I have never seen a 5-parter on WTTW, but I think it is possible the two Troughton 5-parters may be shown in two parts each and 'War Games' in three parts. That would make nine showings. The tenth may be a reconstructed version of a story that has one episode missing. >There are 24 Jon Pertwee stories available. All that he ever made. There are >14 stories which are 6 parts or more, which could make 38 showings. There is also a Pertwee 5-parter, which might make two showings. Total: 39. >There are only 7 Colin Baker stories available. One of which is a 3 parter, >equal to the old 6 parters. That could make 8 showings. I don't know about Colin Baker. One possibility is that they somehow(?) counted "The Five Doctors" as a Colin Baker story. They apparently did not count it as a Peter Davison story, since that should have made 20. Last time they showed "The Five Doctors" on Channel 11 (January, 1985) it came after "The Caves of Androzani" instead of in its proper place at the beginning of the twenty-first season. This is even harder to figure out when you realize that they would have shown "The Five Doctors" during their special fundraising "Doctor Who Week" in December, 1984, if they had not disrupted the sequence. Another possibility is that they counted "The Caves of Androzani" as a Colin Baker story. >I get a total of 140 showings. I get: 24 William Hartnell 10 Patrick Troughton 39 Jon Pertwee 46 Tom Baker 20 Peter Davison 8 Colin Baker -- 147 total -- Dave Seaman {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h!ags