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From: percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus)
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Subject: Why didn't people like "Gunfighters"?
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Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 22:50:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 11 22:50:00 1986
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Peter Haining, in "Celebration," describes "The Gunfighters" as
"bad and ugly."  I must object to this; it seems that Haining has
missed the fact that much of the satire was meant to be distasteful.

"The Gunfighters" now ranks as one of my favorite Hartnell stories
(which, I have to admit, is not very hard), and I can not
accept the reaction to the story by the British public (which
shared Haining's view, for the most part).

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