Thread: Okay Let's Clear This Up!
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9th Aug 2007, 1:59 PM #1
Okay Let's Clear This Up!
Okay, this needs sorting!
Growing up with Doctor Who in the early eighties, I can clearly remember the evening when they showed THE WRONG EPISODE BY MISTAKE!
No-one ever mentions this! It's never in any books or documented anywhere. And yet I'm SURE it happened. I'm also sure that I remember reading about it in a book or fanzine ONCE but I can't remember where.
The episode was either during "Arc of Infinity" or "Snakedance". We were due for an episode of one of those stories, and an episode of the other one came on instead. I can clearly remember leaping up and yelling "They've shown the wrong one!". After Doctor Who finished, the announcer apoologised and they then showed the correct episode, possibly even replacing the evening news.
Does anyone else remember this? Tell me it wasn't a dream! Because I'm sure it happened! Yet the day they did the unthinkable and took off the news to show an extra episode of Doctor Who is never recalled!
Si.
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9th Aug 2007, 2:15 PM #2
I don't remember, I don't recall, I have memory of that happening at all.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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9th Aug 2007, 2:30 PM #3Pip Madeley Guest
Ask Bignell on the RT Forum...
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9th Aug 2007, 3:35 PM #4
Bignell has no recollection! My mind is doomed!
Si.
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9th Aug 2007, 4:00 PM #5
Episodes 2 and 3 of 'Arc of Infinity' were shown correctly as I taped them on audio and I would have recalled if there had been a problem at the time.
Ok, that doesn't help much but at least you can say that the mistake wasn't on the days that those 2 episodes were shown!!!
Mind you I bet you all remember UK Gold showing State of Decay when they should have shown Meglos!!!! The continuity announcer had fun trying to explain Adric's appearance and subsequant disappearance!!!!
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9th Aug 2007, 4:48 PM #6
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9th Aug 2007, 5:15 PM #7
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In the words of a certain T. Baker, "AAAAHHHH, well it's not my fault the boy opened the TARDIS door in flight just as we were leaving Alzarius and I happened to push him out accidentally-on-purpose, is it K9?"
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9th Aug 2007, 5:36 PM #8
Apparently I invented it. Bizarre.
Si.
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9th Aug 2007, 5:42 PM #9
Si Hunt's mind is dooooooooomed!!!
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9th Aug 2007, 6:40 PM #10
They did it with an episode of "Crossroads" Si, if that helps, but I don't remember it happening with Who. I'm sure if it had then Ian Levine's reaction would have lived in infamy - plus there might have been a mention or two on the DWM letters page.
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9th Aug 2007, 7:01 PM #11Captain Tancredi Guest
It also happened on BSB's Who-themed weekend in the late 1980s- 'The Brink of Disaster' was shown before 'The Edge of Destruction', and a repeat in the correct order was inserted into the schedule at short notice. I used to have a copy of the repeat until I had a Pamela Nash tribute night with most of my VHS collection.
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9th Aug 2007, 7:01 PM #12Dave Lewis Guest
I remember back in 1982, they forgot to put Doctor Who on and instead put on some shite with a time-travelling Concorde and a wizard with a face covered in sputum. That's got to be a dream, surely?
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9th Aug 2007, 7:06 PM #13
I remember that Dave. I rushed home from seeing my new born baby brother to watch that.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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10th Aug 2007, 10:43 AM #14
Well, that cleared that up! Mr.Hunt, you appear to be wrong. But perhaps it was a regional thing? Or maybe you had an incident with a video recorder. Who can say?
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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10th Aug 2007, 10:46 AM #15
It's bizarre the number of people on the RT who have said "I've got it - it happened in Australia! That must be what you are thinking of!"
Which doesn't QUITE explain how I remember it, unless they think I momentarily forgot an upbringing in the outback.
Si.
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10th Aug 2007, 11:17 AM #16
I think I heard you say "G'day" once.
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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10th Aug 2007, 1:25 PM #17
Maybe Si was brought up by a pack of dingoes.
I don't remember this at all. But then I remember Logopolis as having Nyssa and Tegan wandering in a darkened Tardis meeting all sorts of weird things and I didn't remember Turlough at all. He was a complete surprise the first time I saw him.
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10th Aug 2007, 5:50 PM #18
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Mark Strickson has a surprising effect on most people. So do I to be fair.
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10th Aug 2007, 7:43 PM #19Dave Lewis Guest
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17th Aug 2007, 2:51 PM #20
I think that my Logopolis memory is a mixture of actual Logopolis and Tegan's Mara dream sequence in Kinda.
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17th Aug 2007, 4:02 PM #21
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20th Aug 2007, 7:52 PM #22
Well I also had a "clear memory" of the early Colin Baker episodes still using Davison's opening credit sequence. When I was a little older and started getting DWM or the Programme Guide or whatever, and saw that his debut story was just one story at the end of a season, I assumed that they must have just done it for that story, before giving him a new title sequence when he started "properly". I was convinced any reference to a new title sequence with the Twin Dilemma was wrong, and even when I finally got the video I was semi-convinced they had just changed it for the video release.
I also clearly remember seeing ET at the cinema and seeing my sister cry, but everyone else in the family tells me I didn't go at all because I was too young.
The mind is a funny thing.
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21st Aug 2007, 1:38 PM #23
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22nd Aug 2007, 12:32 PM #24Well I also had a "clear memory" of the early Colin Baker episodes still using Davison's opening credit sequence
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22nd Aug 2007, 12:48 PM #25
I remember Battlefield being absolutely astoundingly brilliant on its first broadcast. A real action-packed, fun-filled piece of brilliance from start to finish.
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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