ScrapbookBy Murray JacksonHmm!! Apologies for there being no Scrapbook last issue. I (to my shame) totally missed the deadline for issue 30. C'est la vie and on with the show. My thanks go to Ian Davies who very kindly photocopied several articles from the NZ TV Times Weekly including one or two that I didn't already have. Nice one, Ian, I hope to display these in coming issues. Please, please, if any of you out there have any articles (especially from your regional newspapers), send them in and we'll print 'em. This issue we look at an array of clippings from the Auckland Star that appealed to me. The first introduces what, at first glance, appears to be Doctor Who's first spin-off series. No marks to the Auckland Star who didn't check their facts before going to print! The second set highlights the agony some viewers endured when the NZBC dropped the programme from their schedules for months on end. Presented are three letters from people who couldn't wait to find out what had made the giant footprint at the end of The Edge of Destruction when it screened in Auckland in January 1965. Little did they realise that they'd be waiting one year and nine months before they got their answer when Marco Polo was finally aired. After a brief return of seven episodes they then had to wait one and a half years for the next story! Makes you wonder when The Claws of Axos will screen - next century, perhaps? Just out of interest the other science fiction programmes mentioned in the letter signed "12-year-old Fan" have the following Doctor Who connections: I Can Destroy the Sun: produced by Sydney Newman (creator of Doctor Who); The Big Pull: produced by Terence Dudley (director of Meglos and writer of Four to Doomsday, Black Orchid and The King's Demons); A For Andromeda: co-produced by Michael Hayes (director of The Androids of Tara, The Armageddon Factor and City of Death). All of the above programmes featured actors who at one time or another appeared in Doctor Who. See ya next issue... This item appeared in TSV 31 (November 1992). | |