After a morning on battle field knowledge systems I returned to my flat to discover that Blue Peter (an institution in any British Childhood) had interviewed Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister. He had compared his official residence 10 Downing Street to the Tardis in Dr Who. When I was growing up Dr Who sent you behind the sofa, while Blue Peter taught you how to make it into a functional automobile with the addition of two toilet roll holders and an empty detergent bottle. Next to this article was a body of speculation about Tony Blair’s successor. He has announced he will stand down within a year and a day (the period in medieval Europe after which an escaped serf was considered free by the way).
Light dawned. The current Doctor Who is the ninth incarnation (Troughton, Baker and Eccleston were the best, with Zoe and Jamie the best assistants). When stress gets too much the Doctor physically changes to allow the series to continue…..
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Troughton was OK, but Baker? The best had to be Hartnell. And the assistants were so posh in those days...
Posted by Steve Freeman | October 3, 2006 11:16 PM
Posted on October 3, 2006 23:16
Baker was the weaker of the three I mentioned. Pertwee was the pits! But Hartnell - the series would not have survived, he was a throw back to the cultural attitudes of the 40s
The think I liked about Zoe (aside from what any teenage male would have liked) was that she was the first intelligent assistant - who actually knew more about some subjects than the Doctor
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October 3, 2006 11:56 PM
Posted on October 3, 2006 23:56
That was the thing about Hartnell, he was this cantankerous old throw-back in the middle of white-heat technology (flashing buttons, spinning tape drives, that sort of thing).
So, is this one of those Chicken/Cow/Grass tests?
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Not yet but you have given me an idea ....
Posted by Steve Freeman | October 6, 2006 8:37 AM
Posted on October 6, 2006 08:37