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From: scs@wucs.UUCP (Steve Swope)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Dr Who movie
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 21:58:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 21:58:24 1985
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In article <639@hou2a.UUCP>, pjk@hou2a.UUCP (P.KEMP) writes:
> 
> The first movie is based on the series story "The
> Daleks" a.k.a. "The Dead Planet" (#2).
> [This is supposed to be available on videocassette now.]
> 
> The second movie (*) is based on the series story "The
> Dalek Invasion of Earth" (#10).
> 
> Is there going to be a third movie?

Although the rights to make a third Dalek movie are still owned by the
makers of the first two, there has been no word of it that I have heard.

> By the way, in the movie versions, the right side
> door of the TARDIS appears to have a "clover leaf"
> type design on it, but I haven't noticed it in
> the TV series TARDIS.  Is it the same prop?

If you look closely at the door in "An Unearthly child", you can see the
emblem there, although it is more faded. I doubt they were the same, since
the one in the movie was very clean looking, while the one in the series was
not (this is only speculation).

> Also, on the subject of early Dr. Who, the book
> "Doctor Who - A Celebration," lists in the back
> that there was a "Pilot" and then "An Unearthly Child."
> Is this a mistake?  I thought that "An Unearthly Child"
> was the first show (repeated the next week) with
> "The Tribe of Gum" episodes following it.

The pilot was made to help sell the show (a practice which has all but
discontinued, due to rising production costs), but was remade to tighten
it up a bit, and change a few details. (In the pilot, I'm told, Susan is
seen wearing a futuristic garment inside the TARDIS. This was changed to 
a schoolgirl outfit for some reason.) I have read that the pilot still
exists. I, for one, am curoius to see it.

> One more question - Is the "proper" name of the
> second show (prod. code B) "The Dead Planet" or
> "The Daleks"?   I think it is "The Daleks" and that
> "The Dead Planet" is only the name of the first episode.

According to my sources, you are correct.

				Steve Swope (aka scs@wucs.UUCP)

"Brigadier, A straight line may be the shortest path between
 two points, but it is by no means the most interesting!"