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Subject: Dr. Who - Good-bye Tardis
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 11:44:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 11:44:00 1984
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From:  Michi Wada 

     From 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
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