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From: barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards)
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Subject: Re: Dr Who and "Saved by Zero" by Fixx - related?
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 13:32:25 EST
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In article <256@uw-june> ewan@uw-june (Ewan Tempero) writes:

>This reminds me that I've seen comments in some other TV shows/songs
>that seem to be related to the Doctor. Unfortunately I can't think
>of the specific instances at the moment but I remember being somewhat
>amazed at the time. Has anyone else noticed this?

One specific example I can think of is a skit I saw on the show Dave Allen
At Large. (For those unfamiliar with Dave Allen, he had a show on the BBC
in the mid and late '70s featuring himself sitting on stage smoking, drinking,
and telling tall tales, interspersed with filmed skits.

One of these skits opened with a priest walking up the aisle of an empty
church, towards the altar. About half way up the aisle, he passes a marble
pedestal, about three feet high, vaguely conical, with a flat top, which
looks like the sort of thing a baptisimal font might be set on. After he
passes it, it begins to move, following him.

The priest stops. The pedestal stops. The priest pauses a moment and then
continues up the aisle. The pedestal follows. Again the priest stops.
The pedestal stops. This time the priest looks behind him, shruggs, and
continues walking. The pedestal follows. The priest pauses yet again and
looks behind him, but this time the pedestal continues moving towards him.

As the priest continues up the aisle with rapidly increasing speed, he
keeps looking back over his shoulder at the steadily advancing pedestal
from which a metalic voice is now eminating, saying "EXTERMINATE!!
EXTERMINATE!!"

The priest finally reaches the front of the church and dives behind the
pulpit, whereupon a familiar whooshing-grinding noise is heard and the
pulpit dematerializes.


				Barth Richards
				Tellabs, Inc.
				Lisle, IL