The Wall of Lies Number 156 Newsletter established 1991, club formed June first 1980 The newsletter of the South Australian Fan Club Inc., also known as SFSA

Final STATE Adelaide, September--October 2015 WEAThEr: Celestial spring Free Doctor Who steals the Tardis by staff writers

“Doctorin' The Tardis” sing The Timelords.

The Tardis is based on the most familiar version of the Metropolitan Police police box, designed by Gilbert MacKenzie Trench in 1929. In 1996 the BBC filed a trademark request for the image, with the Met responding with its own claim in 1998. In 2002 the UK Patent Office ruled in favour of the BBC because: “... since the Police Call Box was taken out of service, the only sight the public at large would have had of this item of street furniture” was from Doctor Who.

The Tardis has gone from being a piece of police O u N t equipment, to a prop in a television show, to a No ow From 1929 to 1963 this was a police box, merchandiser’s dream, to a symbol for adven- ! since then it is a door to the imagination. ture and justice. ABC Shops gone! by staff writers

ABC announced on Thursday 23 July 2015 it was closing its shops. 50th Programme Both ABC Shop Myer Centre and National Operations Retail said there are no current closing dates; the latter writing telling The Wall of Lies “At this time we do not have any dates to confirm regarding closures in O ABC Shop logo u N t Adelaide” No ow ! Robert Patterson, Director of ABC Commercial said: “The ABC Shops have been an important part of the ABC’s relationship with its audiences for the past 35 years and this decision has not been taken lightly. However, this strategy will create a more cost effective, nimble and flexible approach to servicing customers.”

The first was ABC Shop Hobart which opened in 1981 and first SA shop was Adelaide Myer Centre in 1983. ABC Retail is part of the ABC’s Commercial Division. ABC Retail is currently comprised of 50 stores, ABC Shop Online and 78 ABC Centres located in other retail outlets. The ABC employs up to 300 people in its Retail operations. SFSA magazine # 32

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ABC continues to run out repeats of series eight week- days, Monday to Friday at 19.30, ending with Last Christmas on the 8th of September. The new episodes of series nine will begin on BBC1 on Saturday 19 September. BBC America, now 49.9% co-owned by AMC Networks, will receive it the same day. Australian viewers will see it on ABC1 at 19.40, Sunday 20 September. Their program guide describes the premiere thus, “During this electrifying new series, the Doctor and Clara Oswald are having the time of their lives. The pair meets new and old monsters, and go on a journey that takes them to the very end of time itself.” The now wholly BBC-owned UKTv is the only other Australian chan- nel with any Doctor Who content at the moment. A spokesperson said, “We have Doctor Who from the Christopher eccleston series, however Brian holds a roll of ten inch data tape. A life size it appears that we no longer have Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, model of the DDE is mounted in foreground. K-9, Doctor Who Confidential or any related factual content under licence. We will continue to show triple episodes of Doctor Who on Sky Watch Sundays on UKTv.” Lunar Dust and data recovery

Preservation Issues DATA ReCOveRy from Project Apollo spacecraft is still Battlefield Intelligence Computer speaks continuing, some 42 years after the last flight. Professor Brian O’Brien is an Australian physicist by staff writers who flew two types of experiments to the lunar sur- Contacts SPeCTRUMDATA (see story right) face; the Dust Detector experiment (DDe) on Apollo have recovered 50 year old data 11, 12 14 and 15 and the Charged Particle Lunar from vietnam battlefields. This was Martin Dunne (editor): environment experiment (CPLee) on Apollo 14 generated by a PDP8/L housed in a (these were both on Apollo 13 but lost when the lunar [email protected] 3039 kilogramme enclosure taken module was jettisoned to fall back to earth). to 1st Australian Task Force Over 170 data tapes from these were sent to Brian Postal address: Headquarters in Nui Dat by a at the University of Sydney. He plotted out about 100 PO Box 870 Hercules aircraft, and called the graphs of the most interesting times and events he “Battlefield Intelligence Computer”. North Adelaide wanted to analyse, such as sunrise and of rocket SA 5006 Australia It created a searchable database of records, held on 67 DeC tapes. ascents. In 1972 he took them to Curtin University. They were transferred to three reel- In late 2006 NASA Website stated that the tape Email list subscription: to-reel tapes in 1987, and held by recordings of the Dust Detector data had been mis- [email protected] the Australian War Memorial. placed. So Brian contacted NASA and announced he This was the first battlefield com- had kept his copies. In 2009 he published a highly Twitter: puter used by the Australian acclaimed report of half a dozen discoveries from the paper plots. SA Dr Who Fan Club Defence Force, and is estimated to have sped up intelligence analysis The top few centimetres of the Moon consist of very @SADWFCinc by a factor of 20. fine dust, as fine as talcum powder. In the vacuum of The Wall of Lies Stuart Bennington of the War the Moon, it is easily kicked up in a cloud by an astro- @WallofLies Memorial said a change in manage- naut boot step, and is then inescapable, clinging to ment at the Weapons Research spacesuits and equipment. Astronauts found it the The Hourly Telepress establishment saw computing used number one environmental problem on the Moon. yet @HourlyTelepress for payroll rather than intelligence even now, the only measurements and discoveries analysis for the next 20 years. about its movements have been those by the four Facebook groups: Director of SpectrumData Guy C matchbox-sized dust detectors. O’Brien says there was a “school of thought which says the tiny particles South Australian Doctor Who Homes says “I can tell you the transmissions on those tapes were of dust levitate up to fifty kilometres above the moon Fan Club Inc. and SFSA. horrifying in many cases.” ... at sunrise and sunset.”

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 19/9, 17/10, 21/11 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 September-October 2015 Printed by the Federal Printing House September 5 Pub meeting 17.00 Chamelleon Factor 28, venue: Buckingham Arms October 1985 Transmission schedule September 19 General meeting 15.00 September-October 2015 venue: Adelaide High School Series eight, weekdays 19.30 ABC2 October 3 Pub meeting 17.00 ~ Mummy on the Orient express 1/9 venue: Buckingham Arms ~ Flatline 2/9 ~ In the Forest of the Night 3/9 October 17 General meeting 15.00 ~ Dark Water 4/9 venue: Adelaide High School ~ Death in Heaven 7/9 ~ Last Christmas 8/9 November 7 Pub meeting 17.30 venue: Alberton Hotel New series nine, Sundays 19.40 ABC1 November 21 General meeting 15.00 ~ The Magician's Apprentice 20/9 venue: Adelaide High School ~ The Witch's Familiar 27/9 ~ TBA 4/10 December 5 Pub meeting 17.00 ~ TBA 11/10 venue: Buckingham Arms Chameleon Factor 28, October 1985. ~ The Girl Who Died 18/10 ~ The Woman Who Lived 25/10 December 19 General meeting 15.00 The 23rd season will consist of only ~ Invasion of the 1/11 venue: Adelaide High School fourteen twenty-five minute episodes. ~ Inversion of the Zygons 8/11 There will be three four-parters and one two-parter in the order 4-4-4-2. Robert Holmes has been commis- Archive sioned to write both the first and last UKTv plays three episodes Sundays, stories. The writers for the other two repeating from Gridlock on 6 September. stories will be chosen out of Pip and The Wall of Lies 96, Jane Baker; Philip Martin and Doctor Check local and daily program listings September-October 2005 Who newcomer David Halliwell. The Philip Martin story is called 'Mission to Magmer' and features the return of Sil Deadly earnest lives again from varos. It is believed that Pip and Club Jane Baker have given permission for Footage of the Adelaide horror host Deadly character to be used even if earnest has been uncovered for a documen- their story is not. Holmes' story Membership tary ... has been dropped as has Martin's Sil/ story and the Celestial Annual membership rates are $20. Toymaker story 'Nightmare Fair' by This entitles you to one year’s subscrip- [The Wall of Lies continues to seek Deadly Graham Williams. 'The Ultimate evil' tion to the club’s publications: bimonthly Earnest footage.] by Wally K. Daly has also been The Wall of Lies and SFSA magazine, shelved. and the Doctor Who themed yearbook [The Nightmare Fair/The Ultimate Chameleon Factor. Also included are Issue 96The Wall of Lies South AustralianEstablished Doctor W ho1991 Fan Club Inc. evil/Mission to Magnus were pub- discounted entry fees to SFSA meet- The newsletter of SFSA incorporating the STATE Adelaide, September-October 2005 WEATHER: Cool, damp Free lished in novel form. Newsletter for- ings, and discounts at various stores mat changes to A4 from this point.] around Adelaide. Serial Kisser at Festival Theatre by staff writers Club member runs amok at Inside the Tardis. Fandom DOCTOR WHO fans were shocked at the July 23 Inside the Tardis stage show to be confronted with a membership table for SFSA: the South Australian Discounts Doctor Who Fan Club. The British Broadcasting They were also surprised to be confronted be an apparent science groupie Pulp Fiction running wild. Corporation and Single Market The Wall of Lies can reveal that this was none other O ut than long time member Katy Manning. We thank the t N No ow events present 10% off comics and graphic novels Manning: always approachable concerned witnesses for their reports, but believe she ! by fans. is not dangerous to the public.

WHO RATES FOR ABC DOCTOr WhO by staff writers FESTIvAL Events The new series is a winner, ABC has bought the Christmas special. Chameleon Factor # 79 With a Christmas special in the can, a second series filming and third year commissioned it seems the good Doctor is back to stay! O ut t N No ow In July we played Age of Discovery. ABC has committed to the second series of the new Doctor Who, but is yet to ! sign an agreement with the BBC. They have suggested it may return in the 21 -- 22 November 2015 same slot in 2006, and commence around the same time of year. ABC has the rights to a repeat of the first series, and has indicated that will use this for a run in to series two next year.

In August we enjoyed Doctor Who Trivial ABC has bought The Christmas Invasion, but has no broadcast date yet. A Royal Hall of Industries and spokesperson for ABC Publicity comments “If it is screening in the UK on Pursuit. Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or Boxing Day I doubt very much that they will release it to overseas buyers before it screens there.” With current rumours Hordern Pavilion, Sydney favouring a Boxing Day transmission in the UK, Australian viewers may have to wait for the Christmas special. SFSA magazine # 18

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www.sfsa.org.au September-October 2015 3 Subscription due if Spiderman: Phantom from the a red dot appears Depths of Time (1967) in this box By Martin Dunne In 1968 Ralph Bakshi recycled an episode of Rocket Robin Hood into his new series, Spider-Man, with mixed SFSA 19, October 2005. results. We start with the stock images of Spider-Man swinging above New york city (in some shots he is above the skyline, raising the question of what the web is attached to?). We cut to a typical Bakshi background cell; a swirl of browns and pinks. And a castle. Some rounded green spotted shapes appear in the foreground, and to the sound of an organ dischord they change into green spotted insects. There is a cry “The hills! They walk again!” and the insects proceed to cast red beams from their eyes. Suddenly they advance on structures which suggest some kind of city, and we see the rays are reducing the populace to unfinished animation cells. They pick them up in their mandibles, and we meet the villains, the insectoid Dr. Manta and his hunchbacked sidekick ygor (who is coloured white or green).

Manta declares he will soon have enough “lavasite” to fulfil his schemes, and we gather that the insect raid was to get slaves to dig this fanciful mineral for him. One slave sends out a distress call via a small transmitter, before ygor crushes it. We cut back to New york city, to more stock Spidey. He pauses to inform us his spider sense is picking up a message from the direction of the open ocean, and concludes that the sender must have a “special transmitter”. To transport himself to the source, Spider-Man finds a delta winged experimental flying craft, quipping that he’s tried everything except being a test pilot until now. After it launches, the vehicle turns into Rocket Robin Hood’s bubble domed spaceship, Dr. Manta has a moment of introspection, cruelly spurn- complete with the black silhouette of Robin at the wheel. ing ygor’s declaration of loyalty, and possibly more. The somewhat forlorn villains are surprised by Spider-Man’s Dr. Manta spots Spidey landing, and plays the dischord appearance. Manta plays his organ before Spidey cov- we’ve heard before on a pipe organ. “The hills will walk ers it in webbing, then declares that his ultimate monster, again,” the villain cackles, and sure enough we get the formed from an entire mountain, cannot be stopped from same sequence of the green spotted globes turning into destroying this “asteroid”. insects. Spider-Man is surprised to find the vehicle under attack, and with no effort the monsters have opened it up Spider-Man mentions he saw an entire spaceship loaded like a tin can. But Spidey is quick to notice that they are with “lavasite” on the way in, to which Manta replies that in fact giant robot insects, and ygor correctly predicts his he can’t have it. Spidey takes it anyway, and is soon fly- ability to gain access to the control room of one though a ing towards the mountain monster, easily the blobiest handy and not-at-all apparent before hatch door (“He’s and least defined image in this whole cartoon full of such climbing into one of our robots!” seconds before this drawings. He bails out, and the “lavasite” ship runs into actually occurs). There he remarks upon the simplicity of the monster, leaving what appears to be a child’s con- the control being one knife switch marked automatic and cept of what a mushroom cloud should look like. The manual, and engineers a collision between the insects. hero assures the slaves that the bad guys won’t give them anymore trouble, and one of them repeats parrot Furious at Spidey, Manta plays his annoying dischord like that they won’t give them any more trouble. Then in and a grey rock transforms into a rhino like rocky crea- a stunningly different voice the slave asks Spidey where ture with two unconvincing stubby legs. This rushes he’s from. Spider-Man gives a start as he recalls he isn’t Spider-Man over a cliff, which he survives by clinging to native to this island/asteroid/bad drug trip, and leaves the rock in a not entirely unforeseen resolution. Manta without saying goodbye. He swings back to his now continues to send in his creatures, next some gargoyles undamaged and delta winged craft, and soon is flying with amusingly goofy faces force Spidey into the moat, home as Rocket Robin Hood again. where he is attacked by a crocodile like monster. From SFSA 19, October 2005 (Edited). 4 www.sfsa.org.au September-October 2015