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From: hobbit@sunybcs.UUCP (Thomas Pellitieri)
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Subject: Re: Black Orchid
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Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 10:21:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 22 10:21:24 1984
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In article <2363@sdcc3.UUCP> ee173xcb@sdcc3.UUCP (ee173xcb) writes:

>It's not that not everything is explained,
>but rather that almost nothing is explained!  They never really say
>what happened to the professor, and don't even explain the
>significance of the black orchid in the title.

The title of the episode is also the title of the book that the
guy had written.  I know I didn't catch it the first time!  Does
anyone know if there really is such a book?

>I notice that the show was only two episodes long.  The only other
>two episoder that I am aware of, "The Sontaren(sp?) Experiment,"
>was only two episodes because Tom Baker broke his leg during the
>filming.  The Black Orchid certainly seems to me that something
>interupted the filming, and they just sort of edited together the
>pieces as best they could.  Does anybody know if this is the case?
>
>	    Greg Vaughan (University of California, San Diego)

Tom Baker broke a collar bone, not his leg, during "The Sontaran
Experiment".  You can catch where this happens when watching, since
Styre almost throws Baker to the ground while he's trying to rescue
Sarah Jane.  All of Davisons seasons have six four-part episodes and
one two-parter to cover the 26 episodes.  John Nathan-Turner doesn't
like the six-part episodes because they tend to be too long and are
really a four-part and a two-part story with some common link.  Each
of the Baker 6-parters are this way.

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