The Wall of Lies Number 157 Newsletter established 1991, club formed June first 1980 The newsletter of the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club Inc., also known as SFSA Final STATE Adelaide, November--December 2015 WEATHEr: Southern summer and perihelion Free Malcolm Turnbull or Malcolm Tucker? by staff writers Man doesn’t watch Doctor Who, fans shocked. As reported in The Wall of Lies 155 (July 2015), then-Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull responded to us within his brief -- “I’ve never watched Doctor Who.” Now in some other less relevant portfolio, Mr Turncoat has expanded on his apathy to The Show, “I haven't been a Doctor Who aficionado and haven't been able to see much of the new series given pressures of work.” O u “I hope your club is enjoying Malcolm Tucker as S t So the new Doctor!” on n! Malcolm Turnbull also travels through time and space. K9 film for 2017! by staff writers First Dr Who spinoff film. SFSA magazine # 33 On 24 October 2015 Bob O u Baker and Paul Tams N t No ow attended the Doctor Who ! Appreciation Society 'Back to the 80s' event in Manchester, signing copies of The Essential Book of K9. K9: Timequake concept logo. This was the venue they chose to announce their new film, K9: Timequake. Paul Tams told The Wall of Lies, “Pre-production design images are available on our Facebook page. I stress they are very early designs of the title logo and K9, all will change dramatically within the next year and will of course be kept under SFSA magazine # 32 wraps.” q Continued Page 2 Magnetic tape Craig Hinton apocalypse, page 2. interviewed, page 4. K9 film for 2017! Paul Tams revealed further details. “The film was, in fact not planned. We were formulating a reboot TV series and were approached to make a movie instead; this took place in early 2015 with all new partners in conjunction with Bob and my production company. We cannot discuss locations or studios at present until after the New Year when the Director and some of the principle cast will be announced. We will be announcing some of the casting of principle characters in the New Year, I cannot discuss this at present.” Paul continued on characters, “The film is to be an all new reboot concept with new characters Bob and I have created. Bob owns the intellectual property rights to Omega and as his character, his develop- ment is what we shall be using for that character's motivations etc, any Spooky: skull-like image may be a dead comet ‘fictional’ development of that character and it's usage elsewhere has nucleus, Halloween 2015. (NASA). no bearing on our use. He concluded, “The main thing we can say is we are looking forward Sky Watch to seeing the way that K9 will develop as a character given a bigger budget with a larger canvas on which to appear.” Halloween dead Spooky Preservation Issues ASTerOID 2015 TB145 flew past earth at a distance 70% of Australian tape will be lost of 480,000 kilometres (1.3 times the distance of the Moon) at 17.05 UTC, 31 October 2015. From its by staff writers eccentric orbit above and below the ecliptic plane it Contacts THe NATIONAl FIlM AND SOUND was assumed to be a dead comet nucleus. At closest ArCHIVe launched an initiative approach Arecibo Obervatory imaged it with radar, called Deadline 2025 on 27 Martin Dunne (editor): finding a 600 metre object resembling a skull. This October 2015. The consensus with has been informally renamed “Spooky”. [email protected] other archive bodies is all magnetic Further away, the rosetta mission to comet tape not preserved by 2025 will be 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has been extended Postal address: lost, current rates saving only 30%. from December 2015 to September 2016. The Philae PO Box 870 They hold a backlog of 45,000 lander passed out of contact after touching down on hours of video tape and 54,000 North Adelaide 14 December 2014 but briefly communicated again SA 5006 Australia hours of audio formats with conver- sion costs of $6 million and $1.2 between 13 June and 9 July 2015 and may not be million, respectively. heard from again. The 2014 discovery of a magnetic Email list subscription: The NFSA is calling for a National field has been withdrawn, it is now believed the [email protected] Framework for Digitisation of comet has no innate magnetism and the detection Audiovisual Collections. CeO was of interference by solar winds. Twitter: Michael loebenstein said: “'Unless On 29 July 2015 a cometary eruption of water vapour allowed rosetta to perform more spectro- SA Dr Who Fan Club we act swiftly to invest in digitisation infrastructure and capability, we will scopic analysis of the material. The isotopic makeup @SADWFCinc be facing a 'second mass extinction' of cometary water is quite different to earth water; The Wall of Lies when tens of thousands of hours of with the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen three times @WallofLies music, spoken word, news and cur- that of terrestrial H2O. This suggests the water found rent affairs, drama and comedy on earth did not come from short term comets origi- The Hourly Telepress become inaccessible only a decade nating in the Kuiper Belt such as 67P. It is believed @HourlyTelepress from now.” long term comets from the Oort Cloud have a bal- The NFSA and this column ance twice that of earth, also ruling out this region as Facebook groups: worked together in identifying the the source of terrestrial water. If the theory that water was seeded late in earth’s development is true, it South Australian Doctor Who 2010 recovery of Deadly earnest outtakes from ATV-0’s Deadline may be this came from a closer source such as local Fan Club Inc. and SFSA. 1970. asteroids. 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 21/11, 19/12, 20/2/2016 images, text, or information. $5.00 $4.00 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 November-December 2015 Printed by the Federal Printing House Archive The Wall of Lies 97, Transmission schedule November-December 2005 November-December 2015 ABC has now purchased the first Doctor Who Christmas special, The Christmas New series nine, Sundays 19.40 ABC1 Invasion as well as the first two seasons. episodes repeat ABC2 19.30 Mondays They have the rights to one repeat and midnight Tuesdays screening of the first season. They have not committed to the second ~ The Zygon Invasion 1/11 Doctor Who spinoff, Torchwood. The ~ The Zygon Inversion 8/11 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has ~ Sleep No More 15/12 also bought series 2 and The Christmas ~ Face the raven 22/12 Invasion. In a move not even the BBC have ~ Heaven Sent 29/12 performed, they have announced this will Chameleon Factor 29, December 1985 ~ Hell Bent 6/12 be broadcast on December 26, hosted by Billie Piper. CBC is a partner in the BBC The reason for the change to the UKTV plays three episodes Sundays, Wales production. repeating from Journey's end at 6am on plan from last issue is that the ABC news program, The National 1 November. Syfy has season 13 (The [CBC pre-purchased the first three series but has been scrapped and the news Brain of Morbius) weekdays, and series quietly stopped with series four, the CBC logo will be moved back to 7.00pm. three (The Family of Blood) and no longer appearing in the end credits. Cable Torchwood series three weekends. channel Space took over from the following It appears that several of the sto- Christmas special, The Next Doctor.] ries will be cut including “Attack”, Check local and daily program listings “The Two Doctors” and “revelation of the Daleks”. Club Chamelleon Factor 29, December 1985 [ABC National was a one hour news bulletin which ran from Membership 6.30pm to 7.30pm from 4 March December 9th, 1985 will be the date that Annual membership rates are $20. 1985, taking Doctor Who’s 6.30 Doctor Who returns to our screens. It will run This entitles you to one year’s subscrip- slot. Its last edition was Friday 6 Monday to Thursday between 6.30pm and tion to the club’s publications: bimonthly December. The Two Doctors and 6.55pm. The first story to be shown will be revelation were cut, Attack was The Wall of Lies and SFSA magazine, “Attack of the Cybermen” followed by the rest rated M by the ABC’s new in and the Doctor Who themed yearbook of the 22nd season. Then the two Troughton house classification board. The Chameleon Factor. Also included are stories should be shown plus the Pertwee sto- upcoming Troughtons were The discounted entry fees to SFSA meet- ries as reported in the last issue. ings, and discounts at various stores Mind robber and The Krotons around Adelaide. from 29 January 1986, the first sixties episodes broadcast since 1973.] Discounts Pulp Fiction 10% off comics and graphic novels Fandom The British Broadcasting Events Corporation and Single Market events present In September we played Timeline. In October we enjoyed Codenames, DOCTOr WHO Between Two Cities and Bellz.