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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
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Subject: Re: "The Five Doctors" (partial reposting)
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 13:01:46 EST
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>I saw the first epiosde of the broken-up version of "The Five Doctors"
>last night, and watched the beginning of a taped copy of the all-one-
>episode version right afterwards.  Despite contrary informration from
>a number of people, I noticed that there WAS a difference between the
>two -- a number of scenes were cut in the all-one-episode version to
>trim it down to 90 minutes when broadcast on BBC.

Is the "all-one-episode" version you saw an original off the BBC
broadcast?

>For example, in the broken-up version, after K-9 tries to warn Sarah
>Jane Smith not to leave her house ("Danger, mistress"), the camera
>pans to the right and a "Beware of the Dog" sign, written in the same
>computer-style lettering as the symbols "K-9" on K-9's body, is noticed
>on the gate.  I checked, and this was not in the all-one-episode form.

The version I have, taped in PAL off BBC-Scotland (transmitter near
Edinburgh), Friday night, 25 November, 1983, does indeed have that.

>I'm sure, also that the "Come on, Doc" scene was NOT in the all-one-episode
>form, whereas I know it was in both the broken-up form and the novelisation.
>(There I go with my British spelling again -- "novelization" for purists...)

The version I have, taped in PAL off BBC-Scotland (transmitter near
Edinburgh), Friday night, 25 November, 1983, does indeed have that.

>So, it seems that the BBC actually put back some of the cut scenes for
>us U.S. viewers.

Really?  Or perhaps they cut out some scenes in the movie version
distributed in the USA?

>         [Name the LAST time to date that the quote
>          "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow"
>          has been used.]

"Timelash," if my memory serves me right, when he is working on the
contron crystals to set up the time delay.  Herbert is being a pest at
the time as well, but we expect that.
-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	{ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa

"Getting a bit rough, is it?"
"Remain silent, or you will die"  Who said them, what story?