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From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Sonic Screwdriver Fails
Message-ID: <2707@pucc-h>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 08:49:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 08:49:49 1986
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In article <182@daemen.uucp> fung@daemen.uucp (Kenneth Worzel Fung) writes:
>	What about in Jon Pertwee episode 1 of "Carnival of Monsters".
>	The good Doctor and Jo Grant materialized in a ship's hold and
>	discovered that the lock on ship's hold was a cast-iron lock.
>	Try as he might, the sonic screwdriver could no move anything
>	of the lock. "Ha, I knew I would finally come in handy(or words
>	to that effect) Jo exclaims, producing bobby-pin, and picks the
>	lock without a problem.

It was a skeleton key, not a bobby pin, and she had to use it several times,
probably in at least 3 of the 4 episodes, because they were stuck in a
time loop.
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