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From: percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Favorite Romana & Doctor (sidetracked to Shada)
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 09:25:00 EDT
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> On a side note, I, too, would love to have seen what there is of Shada, but
> Douglas Adams thinks that it is better buried.  Then again, he always seems
> to have a negative attitude towards his own work...

For a very simple reason:  In the case of Dr. Who, most of the time,
it isn't his own work.  Tom Baker had a lot of fun throwing Douglas
Adams' scripts out into the center of the Space-Time continuum
(the window of the BBC studios, actually), and rewriting it the
way HE liked it.  Therefore, you can assume that an episode like
"City of Death" was 80% Tom Baker stuff.
                                         A. G. Percus
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              Back again in net-land.  What happened while
              I was away?

                                [That's NOT a quote, it's a
                                 question!]