Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!hobbit From: hobbit@sunybcs.UUCP (Thomas Pellitieri) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Black Orchid Message-ID: <749@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 10:21:24 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.749 Posted: Mon Oct 22 10:21:24 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Oct-84 00:49:56 EDT References: <2363@sdcc3.UUCP> Reply-To: hobbit@gort.UUCP (Thomas Pellitieri) Distribution: net Organization: State University of New York @ Buffalo,NY Lines: 39 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. From the Headquarters of the Campaign for Real Time, -The Parker Hobbit -- decvax!sunybcs!hobbit or seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!hobbit "'Once Upon a Time' should be in the future Storytellers keep it in the past Dreaming's what improves us, Motivates and moves us, You won't be my first love, but you might be my last!"