Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!WADA@SANDIA.ARPA From: WADA@SANDIA.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Dr. Who - Good-bye Tardis Message-ID: <16566@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 11:44:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16566 Posted: Thu Feb 9 11:44:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 09:47:34 EST Lines: 20 From: Michi WadaFrom a newspaper article by Charles Catchpole from England: "...Dr. Who's famous police box time machine is set to fade away forever. BBC chiefs plan to axe the battered blue box--which has housed the Tardis for 20 years--because young viewers do not know what it is supposed to be. Dr. Who producer John Nathan-Turner said yesterday: "Police boxes are a thing of the past. I think the last one in England went about four years ago and a whole generation of children has grown up believing the box to be a Tardis and nothing else." He plans to phase out the police box during the next series of Dr. Who..." >From the article it looks like the blue police box shape for the Tardis will disappear sometime in 1985. For those unfamiliar with English terminology -- a series in England is the same as one TV season in the U.S. Michi Wada -------