Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Origin of Turlough and more on companions Message-ID: <7188@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 15:44:11 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7188 Posted: Thu Jan 10 15:44:11 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 07:41:16 EST References: <922@ihuxn.UUCP> Organization: USAMC ALMSA Lines: 27 Not until the episode Turlough left did I see any explanations as to why he didn't act like an ordinary Earth person; then, of course, it was revealed that he was from Trion (or something that sounded like that) and was sent to British public school as an exile to the worst place in the universe... What I'm wondering is whether this level of confusion was the way it was intended in the original British showing -- or were there other, not in the show, sources of information, like in whatever the British have instead of TV Guide, to explain this to the original audience? Turlough's odd behavior spoiled my enjoyment of all the intervening episodes; I kept wondering why he did what he did, or said what he said, if he was a British schoolboy picked up as a tool by the Black Guardian. And now for something completely different... Which is better - Peri in a bikini or Nyssa in a slip? (Turlough really bungled that bit -- when he took the Trionic device out of Peri's plastic bag of clothes, he could have thrown away the bag, so she would have had to remain in the bikini the rest of the episode... Where is the Black Guardian when we really need Him?...) Will USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA