Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site drux3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!drux3!pcf From: pcf@drux3.UUCP (FryPC) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: More trivia: where did the name DALEK come from? Message-ID: <1352@drux3.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 14:31:38 EDT Article-I.D.: drux3.1352 Posted: Thu Aug 22 14:31:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:53:32 EDT References: <118@ulose.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 16 > Having noticed the question of where the name TARDIS comes from, I couldn't > resist asking if anyone on the net really knows how Terry Nation came up > with "DALEK" and under what circumstances. Terry Nation tells several stories. My favorite is that he just invented the name but so many people asked how came up with the name he later invented a story that one volume of his encyclopedea was "DAL-EK". Peter Fry drux3!pcf Really Trivial Question: In one episode of "Inferno", the doctor (Jon Pertwee) and the brigadier are in the bragadier's office listening to a (nasty little) radio. They listen, quite briefly, to a news reader. Who played the news reader?