The Wall of Lies Number 124 Newsletter established 1991, club formed June first 1980 The newsletter of the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club Inc., also known as SFSA

SStaTATE STATE Adelaide, May--June 2010 WEATHER: Cool jazz, periods of hot jazz Free Closet fan seen, heard, tasted by staff writers Graham Norton is the biggest Who villain ever.

THE BBC HAS apologised after receiving five thousand complaints from Doctor Who fans, irate when an animated graphic (or “strap”) of Graham Norton advertising Over the Rainbow was played over the climax of The Time of Angels on April 24.

Speculation that the incident was deliberate was driven by memories of the premiere of Rose on 26 March 2005. This first episode in fifteen years was marred by Norton’s voice emanating from the first Auton Rose encountered.

O BBC employee Ross Fitzpatrick confirmed it had ut t N No Over the Rainbow strap appears at been an error: the BBC mistakenly asked Aardman ow the climax of The Time of Angels, to design a Norton strap, sign off on it, delivered it ! and (right) the real Graham Norton. to Red Bee, scheduled it and then transmitted it. Who wins in iView coup by staff writers

ABC finds online content pleases viewers. THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION was pleased with the response Chameleon Factor # 80 to The Eleventh Hour on iView, recording 112,000 views from Friday April 16. The tv premiere the following Sunday rated 1,033,000 viewers. The O u S t record is held by Voyage of the Damned (1,248,297) and Rose (1,109,686). So on n! ABC denied it was motivated to release the episode early online to prevent illegal downloads, saying research indicated it was irrelevant. Doctor Who is the most popular item on iView, with 378,000 views from April to December 2009. An ABC spokesperson said: “Premiering the first episode of Doctor Who on iView seemed a perfect opportunity inform an even wider audience about the service, and give them a real incentive to experiment with using it -- perhaps for the first time.”

TEN have refused to release ratings information for K-9, saying “Science Fiction has a very loyal following of fans and the Network is happy with the SFSA magazine # 26 audience that K-9 is getting on Saturday mornings.” Continued Page 2 Alas poor Yorrick, Sophie Aldred goes Les, page 4. Your tape got wiped, page 2. Who wins in iView coup from Page 1

Title Date Adelaide 5 City Metro Share

The Next Doctor 25/01/2009 87,421 738,362 18.4

Planet of the Dead 31/05/2009 103,626 1,056,881 19.3

The Waters of Mars 06/12/2009 75,324 731,720 16.1

The End of Time 14/02/2010 63,338 803,262 16.1 Pt 2 21/02/2010 68,565 841,549 16.5

AC The Eleventh Hour 18/04/2010 108,455 1,033,082 18.6 Isaac Newton, from a portrait The Beast Below 25/04/2010 92,908 850,787 18.0 by Godfrey Kneller. Victory of the Daleks 02/05/2010 102,357 910,259 16.3 The Time of Angels 09/05/2010 96,245 908,712 17.0 Sky Watch

Source: ABC Herschel’s surprising

Preservation Issues THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY’S Herschel Space Observatory has celebrated the first anniversary of Tape research proves Deadly its launch with a raft of discoveries. Orbiting the by staff writers Earth-Sun Lagrange two point 1.5 million kilometres Contacts FORMER SAS-10 program manager in the direction away from the Sun, its telescope has Steve Hayter has spoken to SFSA imaged stars forming in our galaxy and others. Jamie Stidiford Magazine about his 2005 recovery Some oddities have baffled scientists. One ”impos- (President) of Adelaide horror host Deadly sibly large” young star is already eight to 10 times [email protected] Earnest clips. These join one clip of the mass of our sun and still growing. The nebula at the Melbourne Deadly Earnest, and NCG 1999 has been found to contain a massive one guest appearance by each of void, which had been taken for a black cloud. Martin Dunne the Melbourne and Sydney hosts (The Wall of Lies editor) on other programs. None exist of Newton’s apple tree for space, hype. the Queensland host. [email protected] The Adelaide film introductions were recorded by Hedley Cullen on BRITISH BORN astronaut Dr. Piers Sellers has excited Tammy Vogel Tuesdays between 1967 to 1978 on much press interest with the claim he will take a 2’’ video tape, broadcast on piece of Newton’s apple tree into orbit on the space (Magazine editor) Fridays, and then reused the next shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-132. [email protected] Tuesday. One clip survived as it Less clear is which tree this should be, if it has was on the end of a Umatic tape died or if the tale of Newton formulating universal Postal address: sent to Perth’s TVW-7, and two had gravitation after watching an apple fall was been dubbed onto “funny reels”. metaphorical in nature. The claim first appears in PO Box 3227 Hayter has revealed he is the print in 1752, some 25 years following his death. Rundle Mall SA 5000 source of some Number 96 DVD Several trees are claimed to be the correct one, extras, Don Dunstan’s introduction amongst them one which was replanted at to colour from SAS’s 40 years of Grantham, and one at Woolsthorpe Manor. This Television documentary, and holds appears to be the tree the Royal Society has taken Mailing list more material. He has offered his a 10cm cutting from. All candidate trees are Flower collection to the National Film and of Kent, which gives an acidic cooking apple. subscription: Sound archive, but has a problem-- STS-132 is the final scheduled mission of Atlantis, [email protected] ”They want me to catalog it all first.” and the third last shuttle mission overall.

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 15/5, 19/6, 17/7 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.

2 www.sfsa.org.au May-June 2010 Printed by the Federal Printing House Events Chameleon Factor 54 June 1990 May 1 Pub meeting 17.30 Transmission schedule Venue: Buckingham Arms Hotel EDITORIAL May to June 2010 May 15 General meeting 15.00 ...I have an even better reason Venue: Adelaide High School to put Mel on the cover -- I Doctor Who on ABC1 won’t be around to cop it after- 19.30 Sundays June 5 Pub meeting 17.30 wards! I’m no longer president/ Followed by Doctor Who Confidential Venue: Buckingham Arms Hotel editor as of next AGM, so it’s K-9 on TEN 09.30 Saturdays time for you all to think about June 19 Thirtieth anniversary and AGM where you want the club to go 15.00 Adelaide High School from here. ~ Sirens of Ceres 1/5 ~ Victory of the Daleks 2/5 July 3 Pub meeting 17.30 [Edited by Paul Masters. There ~ Fear Itself 8/5 Venue: Excelsior Hotel, Brompton is no mention that this issue ~ The Time of Angels 9/5 marks the 20th anniversary the ~ Fall of The House of Gryffen 15/5 July 17 General meeting 15.00 club. Additionally, pages seven ~ Flesh and Stone 16/5 Venue: Adelaide High School and eight appear twice, appar- ~ Jaws of Orthrus 22/5 ently at the cost of pages five ~ Vampires in Venice 23/5 Dr Who club 30th anniversary competition and six; a Mark Strickson inter- ~ Dreameaters 29/5 view!] ~ Amy's Choice 30/5 12 and under: Design a Dr Who monster. ~ The Curse of Anubis 5/6 Wall of Lies ~ The Hungry Earth 6/6 Over 12: Doctor Who themed text story, ISSUE 64 Jun/July 00 ~ Oroborus 12/6 500 words or less. [This issue is missing, can you ~ Cold Blood 13/6 help find these publications?] ~ Alien Avatar 19/6 Open category: Write or draw something ~ Vincent and the Doctor 20/6 Doctor Who themed/inspired. SADWFC News sheet ~ Aeolian 26/6 4*^, 10 ~ To be announced 27/6 Winners will be announced at the AGM. The Wall of Lies Current committee ineligible for entry, 29^ (not 29/30), 36, 38*^, 53, Check local and daily program listings judges decisions are final. 54, 56, 60, 61^, 62^, 63^, 64, 76

Prize: a Doctor Who t-shirt Chameleon Factor Club 1, 3, 30, 38, 48*^, 50^, 51^, 54^, 56^, 57*^ 68, 70*^, 75^, 77

Membership *Photo master found Annual membership rates are $15. Archive ^Copies held in private hands This entitles you to one year’s subscrip- tion to the club’s publications: bimonthly The Wall of Lies and SFSA magazine, and the Doctor Who themed yearbook Chameleon Factor. Also included are discounted entry fees to SFSA meet- ings, and discounts at various stores around Adelaide.

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