The Wall of Lies Number 163 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 2016 WEATHEr : Summer at Galactic South Free Class a “goodie”: ABC . by staff writers Class returns to where Doctor Who left in 1963. Class inverts the Doctor Who pilot episode, where an alien female pupil named Susan Foreman is being hidden at Coal Hill School by a morally questionable guardian, The Doctor. In Class the genders have been reversed in the forms of Miss Quill and Charlie, but it is otherwise sur - prisingly true to this premise. Will Miss Quill turn out to be good or evil?
ABC has shown faith by giving it a dedicated O u publicist. “I'll be looking after Class and my S t So Class; no running in the Coal Hill Academy colleague Kim will look after any Doctor Who on n! corridors. (L to R) Tanya, Charlie, Miss Quill, content,” Safia told The Wall of Lies . “ Class April, and Ram. looks like it'll be a goodie!” BBC gets with the Power! by staff writers
Cinema, DVD release for 50 year lost classic!
Following The Wall of Lies 162’s exclusive story on The Power of the Daleks animation, the BBC announced on 25 October 2016 SFSA magazine # 33 that the adventure will get a cinema release in Australia. Distributed by Sharmill Films, it will screen for one week from 12 November. In Adelaide it will be at Wallis cinemas, Event Marion, O Ou Greater Union Adelaide and Glenelg, Hoyts Tea Tree Plaza and ut N Palace Nova Eastend. The story will be available for download ow w! from the BBC Store from 5 November, the 50th anniversary of its ! sole UK broadcast, then released on DVD from 21 November. In North America the Fathom Events cinema release will be on 14 November, and BBC America will play it on 19 November. The BFI London screening (with Anneke Wills and Frazer Hines) sold out immediately. BBC Worldwide told The Wall of Lies : "The tickets went on sale this morning and we're already having a great response. This Power conveyor belt. animated series really is unique and a great event for Doctor Who fans to share in." Power was only sold to Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, with all six ABC episodes returned for destruction on 4 June 1975. This consignment of black and white prints contained episodes from 24 stories, 15 currently missing. Seven recovered episodes may have been part of this hord; Galaxy 4: 3, The Daleks' Master Plan 2, 5 and 10, The Underwater Menace 2, The Faceless Ones 3, and Deadly Earnest Annual The Evil of the Daleks 2. q Continued Page 2
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The Power of the Daleks played weekly on Fridays from 14 July 1967 in Adelaide, Perth and Hobart, following in the other capitals a week later, except Melbourne which had to wait until 8 September. It was repeated only once in each state in May and June 1968. All Troughton stories were purchased and repeated once in this era, only the now-complete stories survived until the 2004 repeat series with the exception of The Enemy of the World , found in 2013. The Mind Robber and The Krotons were repeated in January and February 1986, Monday to Thursday from Wednesday 29 January 1986. The episodes were audio recorded by at least five different fans in the UK on its single broadcast, and unknown times on broadcast in other countries. Christopher Barry showed researcher Jeremy Bentham his file of Tele-Snaps in 1984, which included all six episodes of The Power of the Daleks . In 1987 Artist’s impression of a planetary sized impact in the richard Landen created the first ever Tele-Snap reconstruction for a Doctor Vega system. (Credit: NASA). Who episode; using Christopher Barry's Tele-Snap collection and richard's own audio recording of The Power of the Daleks 2. The result was shown at Sky Watch Birmingham's Telly-Con in April that year. Marcus Hearn and Stephen James Walker independently found Tele-snaps for this story and 20 others at the BBC Trick or threat, Theia Written Archives' Centre in 1993. Preservation Issues SCIENCE JOUrNAL NATURE PUBLISHED a Halloween story to make the blood run cold. ‘Tidal evolution of the The Avengers: Tunnel of Fear found Moon from a high-obliquity, high-angular-momentum by staff writers Earth’ presents additional evidence for the Giant- Contacts ON MONDAy 3 October 2016 Chris impact hypothesis. This postulates that Earth formed Perry of UK television group with a Mars sized companion which has come to be Martin Dunne (Editor): Kaleidoscope announced they had called Theia. Theia ran into the proto-Earth around [email protected] recovered The Avengers: Tunnel Of 4.5 billion years ago, at least partly vaporising both, Fear . The recovery was described which then reformed into the Earth and Moon. as a 16 mm print returned by a pri - Postal address: Theia may have formed in one of Earth’s Lagrange vate collector. points where three bodies can have a stable co-orbit. PO Box 870 This is the third complete episode Lagrange four and five are at points 60 degrees North Adelaide of series one to be found. A clip of before and after the secondary body, and it has long SA 5006 Australia The Frighteners was used in Ian been recognised Jupiter has clouds of asteroids in Hendry’s edition of This is Your Life these zones, called Trojans. Earth has a L4 body Email list subscription: in 1978, leading to its recovery. In called 2010 TK. Theia would have been disturbed 2001 a superfluous copy was found from this area through some other interaction, possi - [email protected] at the University of California, Los bly Venus or Jupiter’s gravity. Angeles along with Girl on the ‘Tidal evolution’ models the resulting scenario, with Twitter: Trapeze and 20 minutes of Hot emphasis on the Moon’s orbital inclination. Other Snow , the first episode. SA Dr Who Fan Club bodies orbit the Sun in a plane called the ecliptic, the Chris Perry attributes this recovery @SADWFCinc moon has a five degree tilt to this. The paper shows the title Discovery: 63, reflecting the The Wall of Lies volume of success Kaleidoscope is this to be symptom of the impact and reformation. @WallofLies experiencing. It will be screened at The NASA Scout system analyses worldwide the next Missing, Believed Wiped observations and spotted near Earth asteroid 2016 The Hourly Telepress event, Saturday 12 November at Ur36 on 25 October. B612 Foundation CEO Ed Lu @HourlyTelepress Birmingham City University. They welcomed this, and a second system called Sentry have expanded the available tickets which will look for larger and more distant bodies. Facebook groups: to a maximum of 250. The Foundation takes its name from the asteroid home of The Little Prince and was set up by Apollo South Australian Doctor Who The Avengers was a spy series astronaut rusty Shweickart in 2002 to lobby for Fan Club Inc. and SFSA . which ran from 1961–1969, featur - ing Patrick Macnee in all seasons. detection of potential impactors.
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Transmission schedule January 7 Pub meeting 17.00 Venue: Buckingham Arms Hotel October – December 2016 January 21 Annual picnic 11.00 ABC2 plays Doctor Who spin off Class Venue: Adelaide High School at 19.30 Mondays, repeating Wednesday evening around 22.48. Archive Episodes available on ABC iview from Saturday prior television broadcast. The Wall of Lies 103 , First week has two episodes. November-December 2006 ~ For Tonight We Might Die and The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo 24/10 A FILM FEATUrING the character Vampira has come to light. Previously the only known footage ~ Nightvisiting 31/10 was the actress’ mute role in the film Plan 9 from Outer Space . ~ Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart 7/11 Maila Nurmi attended a fancy dress party Wall of Lies 43, December 1996. ~ Brave-ish Heart 14/11 dressed as Morticia Addams where she was ~ Detained 21/11 spotted by producer Hunt Stromberg Jr. The ~ TBA 28/11 Vampira Show premiered on Los Angeles Wall of Lies 43, ~ TBA 5/12 KABC-TV on the 1st of May 1954 and ran for one year before Nurmi was blacklisted. In the December ‘96/January ‘97 late 1980s she unsuccessfully sued Cassandra Check local and daily program listings Peterson for copyright infringement with her BBC Video are planning a video Elvira character. release of the infamous Hartnell While there is still no evidence any of The story The War Machines , after Club Vampira Show was recorded on film, KABC footage lost from the BBC copies made a sales reel featuring Nurmi repeating her surfaced amongst a collection of Membership script from the 14th of August 1954, Vampira Doctor Who clips found in Annual membership rates are $20. introduces the film Mystery of the Thirteenth Australia recently. The material This entitles you to one year’s subscrip - Guest . There is an outtake from this film, and (which also includes the few these along with Plan 9 are all that is known to tion to the club’s publications: bimonthly missing bits from The exist. Site:
Events Fandom Aus SciFi and Fantasy In September we enjoyed determining Club the number of a lost cheque and paid to have the floor polished.
In October we watched The Lost Missile Hillcrest Community Club (1958), a Deadly Earnest film presented 27-31 Queeensborough Street in Adelaide on 14 August 1970. Hillcrest.
November 5 Pub meeting 17.00 Venue: Buckingham Arms Hotel Second Sunday of the month unless otherwise advertised November 19 General meeting 15.00 from 2pm until 6pm. Venue: Adelaide High School
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Martin Dunne On 31 October the club published three months’ worth of research in the form of a fanzine on the Australian horror host Deadly Earnest. This character was employed by Channels Seven, Ten and Zero to introduce horror films in all states save Tasmania, between the years 1959 and 1978.
The research started in the aftermath of the first listings article for the South Australian Doctor Who Club, inc., 'A Separate Adventure' in Chameleon Factor # 78, October 2003. Above, Hedley Cullen. Left column, Roland Barnes, Ian Bannerman. Below, Shane Porteous, Ralph Baker. Months of copying newspaper and listings magazines entries by hand from paper and microfilm at the State Library of South As with any large project, freakish events have occurred. Australia gave an article that tracked all screenings of Doctor Potential interview subjects have died heartbreakingly recently, Who in Australia from 1965 to 1972. This was for the fortieth but more than once a search in death indexes has instead led anniversary, the fiftieth saw the article ‘Doctor Who 1995 to to them, hale and hearty. This is a list of some surprises. 2013’ researched in the two weeks before the club’s birthday party. A month later ABC purged its website, deleting all listings Ian Bannerman’s 1965 Immigration Card came out of copyright older than two weeks. The SLSA microfilms are still there. in 2016. This was not known when it was decided to reproduce it on the reverse side of his fan card, but is quite convenient.
Dimitri Kourutz posted the Burke’s Peerage passages on Ian’s adoptive father Mordaunt’s marriages and younger son to the Facebook Deadly Earnest group on 11 April 2011. Ian is absent from the text, and Dimitri apparently shared the information
The first Deadly article took a few weeks and shared the issue drawn from an internet search on the name Bannerman. 1 with a story on The Night Stalker . ‘Deadly Earnest’ in SFSA Magazine 14, January 2004, was four pages long and devoted Ian Bannerman has a “Mordant” wit on the Deadly Earnest to Adelaide host Hedley Cullen. Some of it seems strangely Wikipedia page. Editor Dunks58 has been contributing to the archaic, but with the benefit of hindsight it is quite prescient for subject going back to Usenet threads on our first article, but its time. Some things have not changed; Hedley gave two didn’t know how close this was to Bannerman’s father’s name. major interviews touching on the character before his death in November 1994, and that will never change. Sources Ian Cullen and Chris Keating are still informative on Hedley and film collecting, respectively. rod Scott’s website has moved but is still the best Index for Deadly.
Many sources have only become available online in the last The Canberra Times announced Ian Bannerman was making a couple of years. The Ryerson Index is a free guide to death film named The Hill with Sean Connery on 31 August 1964. notices appearing in Australian newspapers, drawing from the They apparently misprinted the name Ian Bannen. work of Gerald A Savill in South Australia. The Savill Index of The Advertiser Funeral Notices 1971 – 2015 went online via roland Barnes was involved with a scandal in 1945. This one the State Library on 7 January 2014. is true, but it is another case of mistaken identity. This roland Barnes migrated to Australia with his family in 1926, and had to Inspiration was gained from identify his brother’s corpse. John Hedley Barnes and Dorice the approach of the fiftieth retallack drove over a cliff and into the sea on 26 May 1945. anniversary of the first The scandal was that while they were married, it was not to broadcast of Ian Bannerman each other, leading to newspaper headlines that they had in Sydney on 22 July 2016. “Dined Together Hour Before Death” ( The News , 29 May Disaster struck the plan to 1945). The police theory was they had taken the wrong road announce the project on and the coroner retuned an open verdict. social media by the way of a birthday celebration at mid - The 1960s electoral rolls are printed by division then by sub night that date. On 20 July division then alphabetically, where modern ones are held on Daniel Best announced he microfiche alphabetical by state. The searches performed were was also writing on Deadly only feasible this way around, if it had been ordered differently Earnest, albeit as a section in either decade this would not have been possible. in a book. However Daniel was a good sport and has Without planning, the fanzine was ready for printing on become another important Halloween 2016, an appropriate date. Proofing was interrupted source for the fanzine. by neighbourhood children trick-or-treating. Deadly Earnest would approve. SFSA 14 , January 2004
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