The Wall of Lies

Number 113 Newsletter established 1991, club formed June first 1980 The newsletter of the South Australian Fan Club Inc., also known as SFSA

STATE STATE Adelaide, July--August 2008 WEATHER: Cold. Free Brigadier in Peru, Earth in Peril! by staff writers Not a real news story..

Viewers of The Poison Sky would have been surprised to hear that Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was located in Peru. Speculation about the army politics which has seen him given one paltry promotion in the last 40 years has run rampant, despite the evidence that he has been knighted.

Now these can be laid to rest as The Wall of Lies’ exclusive investigation reveals the facts. The evidence it irrefutable: the Brigadier is in fact Paddington Bear. Which explains the hair. O ut t N No Optical illusion — watch lines ow ! then a dorky head appears. Doctor Who rates by staff writers

Voyage of the Damned set a new Australian record for Doctor Who.

Overnight OZTam figures show the 2007 Christmas special received Chameleon Factor # 80 1,248,000 viewers in the five mainland state capitals, making it the seventh O most watched program of the day and 23rd most watched of the week. By u N t No ow contrast the previous record holder, Rose, had 1,109,686 and was the 48th ! most watched show of the week.

BBC Worldwide were “thrilled with the ratings for Voyage of the Damned”.

Head of Programming for ABC TV, Marena Manzoufas, confirmed the move to Sunday was anticipated to bring in better ratings--”We thought that there is often a broader audience available on Sunday at 7.30pm. Yes we’re very happy at the preliminary figures.”

ABC has not viewed The Sarah-Jane Adventures yet. SFSA magazine # 21/22

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Metropolis recovered, page 2. The Five Doctors 25th anniversary DVD reviewed, page 4. Doctor Who rates q from Page 1

The first Double Gamma awards since 2000 were presented at the SFSA AGM on June 21. Neal and Melanie were rewarded with Best Artist and Best Article (for '5 things' in SFSA 21/22). Sonic Screwdriver won Best Issue for #163 and David Saunders was named Best Editor. Strange Matter was awarded Best Fanzine and The Wall of Lies won Best Newsletter. The rules are available on the club site, and a Wikipedia entry has been started to collate the award history from 1984 to 2000. The same meeting saw the election of the committee: Anthony, Ashlee, Brenton, Neal and Tim. Jamie, Tammy and Martin remain president, treasurer and secretary, respectively. In June the Ten Network requested that its producers supply television programmes without credits, which will be available on their web site. The forthcoming K9 Adventures will be likely effected by this change. On June Trees flattened by the Tunguska event. 26 Foxtel and BBC Worldwide announced a deal which would see the BBC acquire UKTV. In return for the cable company broadcasting three new BBC channels, the British corporation's stake in UKTV would increase from Sky Watch 20 to 100 percent. The BBC assured The Wall of Lies that there would be “No change to our current content licensing”. Tunguska mystery to be solved?

Preservation Issues ONE HUNDRED YEARS after the mysterious impact in Metropolis all found, nearly! Siberia and the main contenders are still an aster- oid body or a fragment of comet. The asteroid theo- by staff writers ry was reinforced in the 1990s when scientists drew Contacts tree resin indicating meteorite residue. In the 1970s ZEITMAGAZIN, THE MAGAZINE of Lubor Kresak suggested a midair explosion of a German broadsheet Die Zeit aston- Jamie Stidiford fragment of Comet Encke which would be consis- ished the world on July 2 when they (President) revealed the recovery of Metropolis. tent with the lack of impact crater. An Italian team by [email protected] This 1927 film, famous for its depic- Luca Gasperini believe that Lake Cheko may be the tions of a future city and a female site of a fragment impact, and intend to look for it. robot had recently been assembled An even more radical theory was put forward by Martin Dunne into 75% length, now all but five Wolfgang Kundt in the June 29 issue of New (The Wall of Lies editor) minutes has been recovered Scientist. He suggests the lack of impact site and [email protected] unusual shape of Lake Cheko point to a terrestrial Die Zeit tells that film distributor cause, and nominates an escape of 10 million tons Adolfo Z. Wilson's company Terra of methane gas as a possible scenario. Tammy Vogel brought the long Metropolis to (Magazine editor) Argentina. The reels fell into a pri- Mercury MESSENGER to the Gods! vate collection, were sold to the [email protected] National Art Fund in the 1960s, then MESSENGER’S 2008 FLYBYS of Mercury were came to the Museo del Cine analysed in the July 4 issue of Science. Papers (Cinema Museum) in Buenos Aires Postal address: dealt with the planet's flat plains, chemical compo- in 1992. PO Box 3227 sition of both surface and thin atmosphere, and Rundle Mall SA 5000 New curator Paula Félix-Didier's ex charged particle interaction. The imaging of Mercury's surface showed the planet's history to be (08) 8281 3995 husband checked the film length, which she then copied onto DVD complex. Volcanic vents appear to have caused the and sent to Germany for verifica- surface to shrink. Water vapour was detected, and Mailing list tion. it may be that Mercury has ice at its poles. subscription: MESSENGER will fly past Mercury again in The Die Zeit frames are scratched September 2009 before going into orbit around the [email protected] with some restoration needed. planet in March 2011.

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DVD Extras: Best Bit:: Cyber Massacre, Yeti The main documentary Celebration is Attack, Who wants Immortality? very good and reveals a lot about the production and The Ties that Bind Us Worst Bit: The Phantoms doco is excellent and goes over the continuity seen in the story. The stu- Funniest Bit(s): Zoë’s bubble dio recordings also gives an insight of wrap dress, Oh no! Sarah has how the three doctors seen were fallen down something that’s together. supposed to be a cliff! The TV Spots and Continuity Announcements are enjoyable and the hidden Easter Egg is quite good (I Extras: YYYY wont say what it is). The second Review: One of the greatest hits of Easter Egg by the way is a complete Story: YYYY Davison era, The Five Doctors, waste of time though, in short a very brings the first five incarnations of the fun lots of special features but noth- Doctor (Well three of them with an ing special. impostor and a wax dummy) and cho- sen companions to battle across the Death Zone on Gallifrey against his deadliest enemies. The Daleks make a very disappoint- ing short appearance at the start and the Cybermen get massacred by a rather impressive Raston Robot (who strangely made an appearance in Earthshock in which two of them helped the Cybermen) The Cybermen also get completely destroyed on the platform of death that makes no sense. So the monsters make no impact on this story so what exactly does? The answer is the plot, which is quick and doesn’t drag on for seven mind- numbing episodes. The Five Doctors isn’t really a good episode for new fans it’s more for the fan based com- “You think that’s short? I’m from the Sixties. I am!” munity who would get more out of it. Pulp Galactic Video

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