Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tellab1.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!tellab1!barth
From: barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: basics AND A POLL-- please reply
Message-ID: <840@tellab1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 09:42:58 EST
Article-I.D.: tellab1.840
Posted: Tue Mar 18 09:42:58 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 03:28:28 EST
References: <874@sfmag.UUCP> <5020165@acf4.UUCP>
Reply-To: barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards)
Followup-To: net
Distribution: net
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL
Lines: 38

In article <5020165@acf4.UUCP> percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus) writes:

>> Well, that should kill several years seeing that the Dr. Who series is 
>> over twenty years old.
>
>Yes, but seeing a story a week throughout the year is over ten times
>as fast as the way the Britons see it.  The whole sequence of the
>six Doctors will probably not take longer than two years.

Currently available in the U.S. are 147 "features:"

          24 Hartnells

          10 Troughtons

          39 Pertwees

          45 Bakers (Tom)

          20 Davisons

           9 Bakers (Colin)

(a feature being one week's showing--a 4 episode story, half of a six to
eight episode story, or a third of a longer story.)

This works out to 2.819178 years (approximately) not taking into account the
fact that many PBS stations show 5 features during subscription drive week.

So it would take at least 2.5 years to get through everything that is
currently available, but then, of course, in two and a half years, many more
Colin Baker episodes will doubtless be made available.



			       Barth Richards
			       Tellabs, Inc.
			       Lisle, IL