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From: vid@astroatc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: BBC CANCELS DOCTOR WHO!!
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Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 13:28:09 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  2 13:28:09 1985
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[Sacrificial Line........]
> [I don't care what the Guide says..........PANIC!]
> 
> On 27 Feb 85, the Controller of BBC-1 annouced that Doctor Who has been
> cancelled! (This information is from fan-artist Gail Bennett, who received
> a 'phone call from Gary Downie, John Nathan-Turner's best friend and author
> of _The Doctor Who Cookbook_).
> 
> ARE WE GOING TO ALLOW THIS??????
> 
Well, I for one did say NO............. I decided to use some of my contacts
and see if I could find more info so I passed the original article on to my
friend "Mr Video" (he doesn't get the news yet). What follows is his reply
(reprinted with permission).

>>Date: Sat, 2 Mar 85 11:21:01 cst
>>From: nic_vax!brown (Mike Brown)
>>Subject: Dr Who
>>
>>Good news all of you whovians.  I just finished talking with my mother-
>>in-law in England and the show has NOT been cancelled.  Actually it was,
>>but they did an about face.  It raised as big a stink over there as it was
>>raising over here.  I do not know any of the details.  She is sending me 
>>the paper telling the story of the whole incident. 
>>
>>Just a side note, I have seen the first two stories of the 22nd season,
>>"Attack Of The Cybermen" and "Vengeance On Varos".  Varos was not as bad
>>as they seem to make it out to be. 
>>
>>A fellow whovian since 1972 (when I was stationed in Scotland for 2 years).
>>
>>Mr. Video

Sounds like the world may have been spared a major revolution :-) .
By the way "Mr Video" can be reached via e-mail as
...!uwvax!astroatc!nic_vax!brown .

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