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Number 112 Newsletter established 1991, club formed June first 1980 The newsletter of the South Australian Fan Club Inc., also known as SFSA

STATE STATE , May--June 2008 WEATHER: Cooler, cooling, coolest Free We fooled tax, selves! by staff writers Not criminal, merely criminally insane.

In a telling interview, the wife of 's favourite tax-cheat and occasional Telstra spruiker, Glenn Wheatley, has revealed herself innocent of any wrong doing by reason of extreme stupidity.

Wheatley expressed her surprise that they hadn't made several hundred thou- sand dollars by “sleeping on the floor” and sticking to a budget.

In related news, she was also surprised to hear that fire is hot and water is wet. O ut t N No Gaynor Wheatley—blond. ow ! Tristram Cary dead at 82 by staff writers

Composer and friend to this club will be missed.

The world of music, Doctor Who fandom and this club suffered a dreadful Chameleon Factor # 80 loss on April 24 2008 when Tristram Cary passed away. O u N t No ow Only the preceding Saturday the committee had discussed the possibility of ! holding a day event to invite Tristram as the Guest of Honour.

Mr Cary had been very generous with his time and expertise. He continued to give help to the BBC’s unofficial Restoration Team, overseeing reissues of his scores for a wider audience.

One happy memory will remain of the time an episode with Tristram’s music was found. The club informed him of the recovery of The ’ Master Plan: Day of Armageddon in 2002, confirming this was an episode he’d con- tributed the incidental music to. His delight was tempered by the fact he’d retained the master tapes for almost 40 years. SFSA magazine # 21/22

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Tristram Ogilvie Cary OAM was born in on 14 May 1925 and died from a heart attack while convalescing from an operation at the Royal Adealaide Hospital on 24 April 2008.

For Doctor Who he composed the score for , , The Daleks' Master Plan, and The Mutants, and had his scores reused for , and Power of the Daleks. He was also under consideration to compose the title music.

News of his passing was surrounded by the usual media errors in relation to fandom, despite being a mainstream story. Claims of him dying at home 19th century view of cometary collision. were common. One Australian Associated Press story was particularly fruit- ful, getting the year he emigrated to Australia wrong, crediting him with authorship of the Doctor Who theme music and "Hollywood films", where Sky Watch he worked exclusively in European, Canadian, and Australian movie scores. Were the dinosaurs bounced?

Preservation Issues A NEW THEORY states Earth is due for a cometary LoC terabytes hand that feeds it! bombardment. The Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology has designed a computer model to describe the by staff writers Earth's travel around the galaxy and through its spi- Contacts ral arms. In a press release dated May 3, the Cardiff AN IBM REPRESENTATIVE at the April team outline the paper to be published by the Royal Jamie Stidiford 2007 Storage Networking World conference in Orlando, Florida has Astronomical Society. As detailed by Professor (President) told how an unnamed customer has William Napier and Dr Janaki Wickramasinghe, this [email protected] fallen afoul of technology migration: has the Earth travel through the thickest part of the “I met with a large national library galactic disc every 35-40 million years. This in turn over in Europe and they have a disturbs the cloud of comets which orbit the outer Martin Dunne series of content that they have reaches of the solar system, leading to a cometary (The Wall of Lies editor) stored using applications that no bombardment of the inner system. [email protected] longer exist.” One good result from the bombardment could be Laura Campbell, chief information the spread of life through the universe, albeit on a Tammy Vogel officer for the Library of Congress microscopic level. Centre director Professor (Magazine editor) defined the problem; ”We estimate Chandra Wickramasinghe is a champion of the the- that in the current digital age, the ory of panspermia, as was his mentor Fred Hoyle, [email protected] amount of information produced with whom he developed the theory that comets every 15 minutes is equivalent to all could be the medium of transfer. Postal address: the data and information now in the Library of Congress. The library can PO Box 3227 A previous periodic bombardment theory posited a no longer collect everything.” red dwarf companion to our sun, which would dis- Rundle Mall SA 5000 turb the cometary sphere. This theory and the phan- (08) 8281 3995 The library currently has more 500 tom sun, named Nemesis, are now considered terabytes of digital data, which is unlikely. The old theory's predicted extinction inter- estimated to expand to 650 Tbytes val of 26 million years was not borne out, but the Mailing list by 2013. A terabyte is trillion bits of new theory's interval of ~35 million years does subscription: information, user driven video con- tent site YouTube is estimated to seem to fit the crater record of impacts on Earth. [email protected] hold 45 Tbytes.

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2 www.sfsa.org.au May-June 2008 Printed by the Federal Printing House Publications The Wall of Lies issue 52 June/July 1998 Chameleon Factor # 81 (First Fazakerley issue) Doctor Who on ABC-2 Theme: Our Doctor Who year book. A lot of rumours...and not a 8:30 PM Friday lot of truth. SFSA # 23 In the history of Doctor Who, May 2008 Theme: Things we have rejected until now! there is only one thing that has Discounts caused more controversy, Series one (repeats) rumours and lies that the TV series itself – films based on Pulp Fiction ~ The Doctor Dances 2/5/08 the TV series. 10% off comics and graphic novels Not only is the existence of ~ Boom Town 9/5/08 Events negotiations for said movie in question; now doubt has been ~ Bad Wolf 16/5/08 cast as to exactly who is May 3 Pub meeting 5.00pm involved in those discussions ~ The Parting of the Ways Venue: The Buckingham Arms and if they do indeed exist. (There was no second tele- 23/5/08 May 17 General meeting 3 to 10pm movie, Fox liked the “Enemy Venue: Adelaide High School Within” so much they have Check local or daily listings. Cost: $3 members/$4 others never repeated it.) ABC1 have viewed Voyage of the June 7 Pub meeting 5.00pm Damned and series four, and will broad- Venue: The Buckingham Arms Chameleon Factor 42 cast them from “late June”, TEN HD has June 1988 yet to schedule . June 21 Annual General Meeting 3 to 10pm Remembrance of the Daleks Venue: Adelaide High School Club Cost: $3 members/$4 others Filming for this story began on Easter Monday at Waterloo July 5 Pub meeting 5.00pm near the Thames. The noise of Venue: The Buckingham Arms explosions that were filmed is reported to have terrified local July 19 General meeting 3 to 10pm residents. Other locations used Venue: Adelaide High School include an English pub, a Cost: $3 members/$4 others warehouse and a school. The story starts with a spaceship landing outside the junkyard just as the first Doctor Archive leaves and as the Daleks investigate, the Tardis returns but with the seventh Doctor. (Widely publicised, including in the mainstream press, there is no such scene in this story.)

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Chameleon Factor: How did you get wasn't an electronic sort of person- CF: There have been significant into Doctor Who? and he took it into the Radiophonic recoveries of material from pro- Workshop. And I think it was Delia duction people. What sort of Tristram Cary: I got a phone call Derbyshire who did most of the work material do you hold yourself? from a director I'd worked with, Rex on it. Say for Marco Polo, which has Tucker. We did a lot of work in the But yes, I suppose I would have been utterly destroyed? later sixties, but at that the time we'd done and I have no idea if I would only done the one thing, but it was a have done anything as good or worse [Since then telesnaps for six fairly major thing, Jane Eyre, a major or whatever. You can't tell until you episodes have been found.] classic serial. So we got to know start working on something. each other pretty well. And he said, The person who writes the sig tune TC: I have the scores for Marco "They're doing a pilot for a kids new makes much more money than any- Polo - for which the working title low budget kind of space thing, and it body else, because the sig tune is was Cathay, incidentally, I have looks like electronic to me, are you paid on a different rate from the main the scores and sketches. Mark interested?" And I said yes, in princi- body of the music. [Ayers] has copies of the scores. . I very rarely refused work in at I took Xeroxes when I saw him in that time; I needed every penny I CF: How did you work with directors England recently. If there's could make. The next thing I heard like Tucker, Chris Barry, and Waris enough money, it could be was that Rex had been taken off it Hussein? recorded again. I think its three So I didn't do the first serial in the or four people, and I'm making end. I did the second one. TC: Every director's different. Some imitation Chinese noises. of them believe in you in a sense that I used to record some of my CF: So if Rex Tucker had stayed with they know you have a reputation for own work off air. Just my music- Serial A you'd have done the title doing scores and you'll probably do it I couldn't afford the tape! I know music? all right. Others want to work very I have stuff the BBC don't. closely with you. Occasionally they contact me to TC: Probably. I certainly wouldn't In television you work to a script, beg for pirate tapes! have done it any better than Ron and first you have a script confer- I didn't get a tape of that one. Grainer. (He) was a marvellous tune ence, coffee or a drink, depends on writer and he wrote very catchy the time of day. And go through, say [At this point Tristram checks melodies. He managed to get the feel it's a six part serial then most of the on the length of the score, find- of a tune, which you can almost sing; scripts won't be written, but say the ing it is 48 pages. This over- well you can sing it, in a way, in an first couple will probably be there. whelms our interviewer with electronic medium, which was hard to He may already have definite views the existence of the artefact do in those days. on how it may go and you might have and the casual way he exam- to disagree with that and say I don't One of his best known tunes is ines it.] Steptoe and Son, you know, a very really see it like that. And on bad good, catchy sort of cockney tune. cases you might have to refuse the job, which only very rarely would you Portion of interview originally in But he put together a rough tape- he Chameleon Factor 77 2002. do. Pulp Galactic Video

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