Dr Who

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Derek

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• Jul 9, 2006

• #21

"SpamTrapSeeSig" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Karen Gallagher <[email protected]> writes
>
>>Jon Pertwee was the cutest by far. And had the best vehicle
>
> I can't comment on Pertwee, but the car was called Bessie.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Simonm.
>
> --

Don't forget he also had the "Who-mobile"
http://www.imps4ever.info/specials/whomobil.html
you would need a brain transplant to attempt the maximum speed I fear.
I am fond of Pertwee as the Doctor the only issues I have ( I make
allowances for gravel pits and dodgy monsters ) is Violet Bott playing an
assistant now that did make me squeem and be sick

 

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Karen Gallagher

Guest

• Jul 9, 2006

• #22

Peter A wrote:
> Karen Gallagher wrote:
>> You're not alone, my sister & I watched from behind the sofa.
>
> Ah, you had back-up then...
>
> Funny, haven't thought about this for aeons... but I grew up in Ireland
> and back then, I was born in '57, we had those (Tardis) boxes dotted
> around the countryside... only they were AA boxes, not police. Every AA
> member had a key, and inside was an old black bakelite 'phone that you
> could call the AA on.. who, incidentally, tooled around in bike/sidecar
> combos and saluted your car if you had the AA badge on the front.

And did NOT salute if there was a speed cop lurking round the next bend
.... you instantly knew something was wrong & slowed down

Karen


--
"Sometimes I think I have a Guardian Idiot - a little invisible spirit
just behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile" -
Jake Stonebender

 

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Austin Shackles

Guest

• Jul 10, 2006

• #23

On or around Sun, 9 Jul 2006 18:46:16 +0100, "Nige"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Srtgray wrote:
>> Peter A wrote:
>>> Richard Brookman wrote:
>>> I can't see any of today's youngsters finding them
>>>
>>>> anything but laughable. Younger people I have talked with seem
>>>> to find them very tame and even funny. Good or bad thing? Dunno.
>>>
>>>
>>> They're desensitised, don't you think? They're bombarded with
>>> visual imagery from day one, almost. One kid trying to out-scary
>>> the next. Back when the first series ran though, the tv was the
>>> only day to day source of imagery, and it was mostly talking heads
>>> or the flower pot men or for lucky Irish viewers, Val Doonican
>>> sweating under the studio lights in an Aran sweater and bobble
>>> cap. So the very idea of something scary on the tv was kinda scary
>>> in itself. Wouldn't mind betting though, that for today's kids, that
>>> unexplained shadow in the night-time bedroom gloom is still *more*
>>> scary than anything the screen can throw at them, as they stop
>>> being passive observers and start to use their imagination.
>>> Hitchkock had it right - he would *never* have allowed the special
>>> effects people to come up with the blobby thing that lived inside
>>> the Daleks... they were *far* more scary when you *didn't* know
>>> what was inside. Pity the youngsters in a hundred years time when some holographic
>>> type 3D image generator conjours up their worst nightmare and has
>>> it crouch on the end of the bed!
>>>
>>> I agree with you ref the Excorcist and Deliverance - they had that
>>> power I suspect, because they were going off in directions that
>>> hadn't been explored in mainstream cinema up to then. Green
>>> projectile vomiting not being a big feature in Mary Poppins or
>>> Chitty Chitty Bang etc., as I recall.
>>>
>> One of the scariest movies I ever saw was the original Alien. Why?
>> Because you had *no* idea what it was that was taking the people,
>> except that it started life as a small joystick handle that burst
>> out of people*. Tense, psychological stuff
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> *interesting trivia: that particular scene (alien bursts out of John
>> Hurt) was not scripted. Ridley Scott told actors + film crew that
>> they were filming some filler, to go behind the titles or
>> something. The only people who knew what was really going to happen were Scott,
>> Hurt and the SFX person. The screams that the actresses came out with
>> were real.
>
>Indeed, a true classic, one i watch again & again.
>
>Duel is another classic.
>
>Nige
>

and the original Jaws.
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If somebody is watching, stop touching yourself.
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Srtgray

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• Jul 10, 2006

• #24

Austin Shackles wrote:
> On or around Sun, 9 Jul 2006 18:46:16 +0100, "Nige"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
<snip>
>>Indeed, a true classic, one i watch again & again.
>>
>>Duel is another classic.
>>
>>Nige
>>
>
>
> and the original Jaws.

Oh yes, the girls head appearing in the submerged window still has me
jumping in the seat!

Stuart

 

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Ian Rawlings

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• Jul 10, 2006

• #25

On 2006-07-09, Srtgray <[email protected]> wrote:

> *interesting trivia: that particular scene (alien bursts out of John
> Hurt) was not scripted. Ridley Scott told actors + film crew that they
> were filming some filler, to go behind the titles or something. The
> only people who knew what was really going to happen were Scott, Hurt
> and the SFX person. The screams that the actresses came out with were real.

Hmm, this story seems to be growing. When the film was released, the
story was that the unscripted bit was the fake blood squirting over
one of the actresses, who recoiled in genuine shock as she wasn't
expecting to get hit by the blood but was expecting the puppet.

There were some deleted scenes on the special edition I bought, one of
the captain of the ship (who was crawling through the tunnel and got
scoffed by the alien) re-appearing later, encased in goo and begging
to be killed.

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Jul 10, 2006

• #26

On or around Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:14:52 +0200, Srtgray
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Austin Shackles wrote:
>> On or around Sun, 9 Jul 2006 18:46:16 +0100, "Nige"
>> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>>
><snip>
>>>Indeed, a true classic, one i watch again & again.
>>>
>>>Duel is another classic.
>>>
>>>Nige
>>>
>>
>>
>> and the original Jaws.
>
>Oh yes, the girls head appearing in the submerged window still has me
>jumping in the seat!

In the case of Jaws and Alien, it's the clever use of suspense. You get
shark music (you know... daaa-dum....daaa-dum...) and it builds to a
crescendo which should have the shark charging up and grabbing someone, and
then it juts dies away again with nothing happening. Then when you've
calmed down again the shark grabs someone with no music whatever. ditto the
bit in alien with the cat.

--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Too Busy: Your mind is like a motorway. Sometimes it can be jammed by
too much traffic. Avoid the jams by never using your mind on a
Bank Holiday weekend.
from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.

 

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David G. Bell

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• Jul 10, 2006

• #27

On Saturday, in article
<[email protected]>
[email protected] "Austin Shackles" wrote:

>
> anyone been watching it?
>
> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin amazing.
>
> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A LAND
> ROVER!!"
>
> (that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile tug, I think
> it was...

Series III

There's a still on the BBC website. where the leaf-springs are clear
enough, and the front views in the episode show the radiator grille.
Definitely ex-MoD, but it does look as though the rear springs are
sagging.

--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

"I am Number Two," said Penfold. "You are Number Six."

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Jul 11, 2006

• #28

On or around Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:19:49 +0100 (BST), [email protected]
("David G. Bell") enlightened us thusly:

>On Saturday, in article
> <[email protected]>
> [email protected] "Austin Shackles" wrote:
>
>>
>> anyone been watching it?
>>
>> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin amazing.
>>
>> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A LAND
>> ROVER!!"
>>
>> (that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile tug, I think
>> it was...
>
>Series III
>
>There's a still on the BBC website. where the leaf-springs are clear
>enough, and the front views in the episode show the radiator grille.
>Definitely ex-MoD, but it does look as though the rear springs are
>sagging.

Yeah, definitely SIII now I look. twas the camo paint that had me fooled at
a quick glance, as of course it's supposed to.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or
drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear the
flying chariot through the field of air.- Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)

 

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GbH

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• Jul 11, 2006

• #29

Austin Shackles wrote:
> On or around Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:19:49 +0100 (BST),
> [email protected] ("David G. Bell") enlightened us thusly:
>
>> On Saturday, in article
>> <[email protected]>
>> [email protected] "Austin Shackles" wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> anyone been watching it?
>>>
>>> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin
>>> amazing.
>>>
>>> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A
>>> LAND ROVER!!"
>>>
>>> (that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile tug,
>>> I think it was...
>>
>> Series III
>>
>> There's a still on the BBC website. where the leaf-springs are clear
>> enough, and the front views in the episode show the radiator grille.
>> Definitely ex-MoD, but it does look as though the rear springs are
>> sagging.
>
> Yeah, definitely SIII now I look. twas the camo paint that had me
> fooled at a quick glance, as of course it's supposed to.

Giv'us n'URL blowed if I can find it!

--
"He who says it cannot be done would be well advised not to interrupt
her doing it."

If the answer is offensive maybe the question was inappropriate

The fiend of my fiend is my enema!

 

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Austin Shackles

Guest

• Jul 12, 2006

• #30

On or around Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:08:01 GMT, "GbH"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Austin Shackles wrote:
>> On or around Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:19:49 +0100 (BST),
>> [email protected] ("David G. Bell") enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>> On Saturday, in article
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> [email protected] "Austin Shackles" wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> anyone been watching it?
>>>>
>>>> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin
>>>> amazing.
>>>>
>>>> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A
>>>> LAND ROVER!!"
>>>>
>>>> (that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile tug,
>>>> I think it was...
>>>
>>> Series III
>>>
>>> There's a still on the BBC website. where the leaf-springs are clear
>>> enough, and the front views in the episode show the radiator grille.
>>> Definitely ex-MoD, but it does look as though the rear springs are
>>> sagging.
>>
>> Yeah, definitely SIII now I look. twas the camo paint that had me
>> fooled at a quick glance, as of course it's supposed to.
>
>Giv'us n'URL blowed if I can find it!

not got it handy but if you get the page about the last episode there's a
gallery link top right, one of the "goodbye" pictures has the landy in the
background.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Confidence: Before important work meetings, boost your confidence by
reading a few pages from "The Tibetan Book of the Dead"
from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.