Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site astroatc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!astroatc!vid From: vid@astroatc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: BBC CANCELS DOCTOR WHO!! Message-ID: <134@astroatc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 13:28:09 EST Article-I.D.: astroatc.134 Posted: Sat Mar 2 13:28:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:08:53 EST References: <1242@sunybcs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Astronautics ATC, Madison, WI Lines: 40 [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 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dave Greunke Astronautics Technology Center Madison WI ...!uwvax!astroatc!vid