Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!caip!daemon From: wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Dr. Who radio Message-ID: <1141@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 16:11:00 EST Article-I.D.: caip.1141 Posted: Fri Jan 31 16:11:00 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 06:58:41 EST Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 32 From: Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI Re the reference to the BBC radio version of Dr. Who (SFL #24): I've been listening to the Dr. Who serial that has been being aired on BBC shortwave for a few weeks, and I can only say that, so far, it's been awful. It is Baker with Peri, and all it seems to be is a silly computer straight out of "Hitchhiker" (similar voice, but feminine, to "Larry the shipboard computer" from HGttG), and a lot of screaming. They seem to have spent the first three episodes running from some indescribable horror lurking in the airshafts of some spaceship. No particular plot has yet emerged. Part of the problem is that the BBC is airing this in 7 or 8-minute-long segments, far too short. I had expected 15-minute segments, and was astounded when the first one ended at what would have been the halfway point. Though, if they were not going to do anything any better than this has been, maybe I should be happy that they are short! :-) Anyway, if you have a shortwave radio, and want to catch the last one or so of these (by the time you read this, there will probably be only one left to go), try tuning on 9510 kHz or 5975 kHz at 0445 GMT Mondays. (That's 10:45 PM CST Sunday nights.) Ironically, this is on at the same time my local PBS station shows Dr. Who TV programs! One other comment: A BBC publicity photo for this series, reproduced in at least one of the shortwave-listener magazines, shows Peri in a very sexually suggestive pose with Baker, with her clutching him from the side and with her thigh lifted up and grinding into his groin. Seemed entirely improper for Dr. Who to imply that he has a sexual relationship with his companions. Is *that* how the later TV series portrays it? (I haven't seen anything later than the first episode with Peri.) Will