Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!nsc!voder!kevin From: kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Questions about Tom Baker's `Underworld' Message-ID: <809@voder.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 18:20:10 EDT Article-I.D.: voder.809 Posted: Wed Jul 3 18:20:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 05:48:16 EDT Reply-To: kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter) Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 24 KTEH here in San Jose showed Tom Baker's `Underworld' last Saturday and there were some strange things going on with this story. The first episode was alright but the second had a narrator explain what happened in the first (even called The Doctor `Doctor Who'). The big surprise was about three 10 second gaps when the screen and sound just went blank. At the end they didn't even have closeing credits, just ran a short piece of the opening again! Episode three was the same way, three or four blackouts and another nar- rator. The blackouts were almost as if the episode was too short and they were trying to stretch it out, or if scenes were missing. This story takes place in Doctor Who's fifteenth season and is the episode just before Leela and K9 MK1 leave. It's about a race of people who died out 100,000 years ago except for a small group on board a space ship searching for an earlier colonizing ship which contains a genetic `race bank' with which they can recreate their race. The searchers keep regenerating themselves so as to continue the quest. `The Quest is the Quest'. Anyone know why this story is so screwed up? --- Kevin Thompson {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin "It's sort of a threat, you see. I've never been very good at them myself but I'm told they can be very effective."