Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!hlexa!shz From: shz@hlexa.UUCP (shz) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Background info wanted Message-ID: <1186@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 18:42:49 EST Article-I.D.: hlexa.1186 Posted: Mon Feb 6 18:42:49 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 09:00:59 EST References: <5432@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 27 Additional info may be found in the Doctor Who monthly magazine if you have a store esoteric enough to deal in such things! Also, many of the TV episodes (for several of the doctors) have been published as novels (like Startrek), which are rather juvenile in style, but amusing. The ones I saw follow the tv scripts very closely. The american editions are published by Target and I have seen them in many bookstores. (Walden and B Dalton are 2 chains that may carry them) One other comment on the 20th anniversary show (the Five Doctors): Tom Baker declined to appear in the show. As previously mentioned, his scenes were taken from a never finished/shown episode called Shada, which wasn't finished due to strikes by bbc workers. Tom Baker's public reason for not appearing in Five Doctors was that he had been very involved in Doctor Who, and had just made the somewhat traumatic decision to retire from the show just when the Five Doctors was begun. He said "I felt very proprietary about the role" and didn't want to see others playing it. Sally Handy-Zarnstorff ihnp4!hlexa!shz "just soot, there'll be no charge"