Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnji.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxh!mhuxv!abnji!nyssa From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Revenge of the duff episodes Message-ID: <726@abnji.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 11:03:57 EDT Article-I.D.: abnji.726 Posted: Sat Jul 6 11:03:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 06:07:43 EDT References: <809@voder.UUCP> Organization: Terminus Hospital, Incorporated Lines: 21 > 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. Doctor Who was originally marketed in the US by Time-Life, who edited some episodes for comercial television, ie they had a narrator at the ends of the episode and spots for comercial breaks. (Apparently, in Iowa, a station was showing them with subtitles!) It would be supposed that you saw one of these copies. -- James C Armstrong, Jnr. ihnp4!abnji!nyssa "I know a computer when I talk to one." -The Doctor. (Anybody know which episode???)