The Wall of Lies Issue 95 Established 1991 The newsletter of SFSA incorporating the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club Inc.
FINAL Adelaide, July-August 2005 WEATHER: Cool, damp Free Ecclestone out, Tennant in by staff writers Pet Shop Boy cast as Tenth Doctor. FOLLOWING the shock resignation of F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone as the Ninth Doctor, the BBC has revealed Neil Tennant as his replacement. We inter- viewed him via a “best of” collection in a large chain record store--
Your reaction to being cast? “Absolutely Fabulous!”
What do you think of Billie Piper as Rose? “West End girls, West End girls...”
Any hints as to where you’ll be travelling? “(Go West) O ut Life is peaceful there t N No ow Tenth Doctor: to be seen in the (Go West) In the open air ! company of a knobby thing. (Go West) Where the skies are blue (Go West, this is what we're gonna do)” DOCTOR WHO TRIUMPHANT!
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Ratings success sees a further two years commissioned. Chameleon Factor # 79 As the club celebrated its 25th anniversary on the first of June, the success of the television show is never better. O ut t N No ow A mere thirteen weeks after it started, the new series of Doctor Who has already ! finished in the UK. The departure of star Christopher Eccleston has led to the new episodes (variously known as “series one” or “season 27”, after the 1989 season 26) being derisively named “the Eccleston three months”, and the star as “EccleQuit”. At thirteen episodes this latest series is the shortest yet, with seasons 23 to 26 running to fourteen episodes albeit of 25 minutes duration.
ABC have confirmed they will not play the remaining Dalek stories, and will edit The Five Doctors for transmission. This is to comply with the terms of the 2003 agree- ment, made when the BBC and the Nation Estate were disputing their use. The contract the ABC signed then is still valid and thus prevents them from broadcasting Dalek stories post 1967. To drive the irony further, Hancock’s have stated that they SFSA magazine # 18 are not concerned with this use.
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The Monday to Thursday repeats are also performing well, with ABC P reporting a peak audience of 350,000. Fans continue to be annoyed at the amount of adverts preceding the episodes since Roger Ramjet was taken off the 6 PM slot in January 2004. Roy Wilke rang ABC Brisbane to be told that they expect to broadcast 30 minutes of “promotions” between 5 PM Sunspot 720, 15/01/2005 and 7 PM. The new Doctor Who is also currently screening in Canada, South Korea and New Zealand (from July 7th), and has been purchased by The Sky watch Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Hungary and for in-flight entertain- ment by Thomsonfly and other airlines. Repeats from the earlier series Solar storm fries Earth are also screening in the UK, Canada and the USA.
Preservation Issues AN IMMENSE explosion over a sun spot termed “720” showered the Earth with proton particles on The Who seek bootlegs January 20th. The speed of the storm was particu- by staff writers larly concerning to space scientists. Proton storms Contacts generally occur over hours or days, this new fast THE WHO have requested any type had radiation arriving within minutes. This bootleg material from the band’s means any astronaut beyond the Earth’s Van Allen Jamie Stidiford career to be included in a feature Belts would have had no warning before receiving a (President) film The movie, titled My Generation: high dose. NASA is supporting research into electri- [email protected] Who’s Still Who and due out next year is to include a theatrical feature, cally charged force fields which are hoped to be a CD and a multi-disc DVD set. able to neutralise such radiation hazards. Martin Dunne Director Murray Lerner, who filmed Scientists are at a loss to explain the high speed (Wall of Lies editor) the band at the 1970 Isle of Wight and energy, but note it occurred at solar latitude 60° festival, has called for footage that west, in line with Earth. It is believed the last time a [email protected] shows concerts or interviews where storm of this magnitude occurred was February things go wrong. "We're looking for 1956, nineteen months prior to the first successful material like fights between them, on satellite launch. Matthew Fazakerley and off the stage, unruly fans that (SFSA & CF editor) make it difficult, weird incidents on [email protected] the stage, interviews with ex-wives and girlfriends." The resulting Isle of Cosmos 1 lost Wight film included footage of Joni Postal address: Mitchell bursting into tears when THE US BASED Planetary Society’s experimental PO Box 3227 heckled and Kris Kristofferson walk- soar sail probe Cosmos 1 was destroyed within ing off stage mid-song. minutes of its Tuesday June 22 launch. Despite Rundle Mall SA 5000 In breaking news Pete Townshend some initial optimism that signals had been has boycotted the project following received from the craft in orbit, it is now certain that Mailing list the call, and has issued a statement this was not the case. The booster failed 83 sec- denying the documentary access to onds after launch and the vehicle broke apart over subscription: The Who’s back catalogue of music: the Arctic ocean, the Russian space agency has [email protected] “I'd rather offer it to sell soap than been quoted by the AP news service. have it turned into a 'soap' by Lerner.” This is a publication of SFSA: the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club Inc., a non profit organisation. No attempt has been made to supersede the copyright of any holders of trademark or copyrighted 16/7, 20/8, 15/10/2005 images, text, or information. Whilst every care has been taken to ensure that the contents of the newsletter is accurate at the time of printing, SFSA cannot accept any liability for inaccura- cies that may appear. Meeting details are subject to change at short notice.
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The June 18 AGM has seen the following new committee elected: President: Jamie Treasurer: Tammy Secretary: Martin JJuullyy----AAuugguusstt 22000055 General: Blake, Brenton, James and Tim.
Doctor Who on ABC-TV July 16 General meeting 3 PM to 10 PM 6:05 PM Monday to Thursday Venue: Adelaide High School Chameleon Factor 69, ABC has purchased the rights to the full Cost: $3 members/$4 others July 1995 series but will not broadcast the three August 6 Pub meeting 5 PM Special 15th anniversary edition remaining Dalek stories History in the making Venue: Goodwood Park Hotel 8272 9185 Season eighteen 75 Goodwood Road, Goodwood Craig White’s history of the club from this issue with additions by Steven ~ Leisure Hive 22, 23, 27, 28/06/05 August 20 General meeting 3 PM to 10 PM Cook and others now online at ~ Meglos 29, 30/06/05, 4, 5/07/05 Venue: Adelaide High School
Reference Site of Value Uh oh. Why does that South Australia’s Only headline always Science Fiction Video Rental Store SF Star Trek Japanese Animation The best dip in reading I’ve appear? Is the street a gossip * * * found on the Net, should be merchant or does anyone truly *Horror *Dr Who *Fantasy/Adventure used more often and updated care which radio employee Weekly Hire on all Videos continually, and available in works for which station? 102 Gawler Place, Adelaide schools. Well here’s a rumour for you: the Open Mon-Sat 11am - 7:30pm www.world-sex-records.com Melkur is EVIL! Nyah Ha Ha! Phone 8224 0466 Fascinating Blog Their Names Rhyme with Of course it’s good--I’m there! Bottom It’s not exactly a blog, but there’s certainly plenty of me. This John Howard, Kim Beazley, Mike should be expanded to include Rann, Rob Kerin, Rove all my adventures including out- McManus, that guy that owns side the State of Virginia. Channel Nine, Shane Warne, www.sex-offender.vsp.state.va.us Delta Goodrem, Tom and Nicole and Schappelle Corby. Pointless Fan Site At least I say they do.
Fans of the good Doctor. Why Nyah Ha Ha can’t they be fans of the evil Melkur!?! And where’s the sex? None of this is true, I’m an evil www.sfsa.org.au TARDIS! Which my evil Master has evilly broken. The Evilest of Them All Ouch.
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