Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!decwrl!daemon From: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: The Who Movies Message-ID: <5360@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 08:24:21 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.5360 Posted: Wed Feb 1 08:24:21 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 07:34:21 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Los Altos, CA Lines: 30 From: nacho::lynch (Go ahead...Make my day) There is a chapter in the book "Dr Who - A Celebration" dedicated to the two Dr Who movies. I don't have the book with me, but I'll attempt to sketch the story from memory. When the Daleks became something of a sensation in England, an independent producer obtained the rights to make 3 movies based on the TV series. Two were made (I don't recall the names -- I'll check the book). They starred Peter Cushing as the Doctor (you may recall Cushing from the Hammer horror movies made in the sixties with Christopher Lee (Cushing also played Sherlock Holmes in some sixties films also (made by Hammer Studios??)). The producers were very free with the characters and stories. They turned the Doctor from a Timelord to a sort of potty English professor-type and changed his companions from the TV series. The basic stories were, I believe, simply tales of invasions of Earth by the Daleks. As I said, two films were made and another could be made if the producers wish to cash-in on the current popularity of the series. The films have appeared on American TV. Basically they bear little if any relationship to the series. -- Bill Lynch Digital Equipment Corp Nashua, NH {decvax,allegra,ucbvax}!decwrl!rhea!nacho!lynch