The Wall of Lies Number 169 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 2017 WEAThEr: Summer Love Free Contact has been made! by staff writers Doctor Who: The Invisible Edmundy. On 21 October 2017 the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club was entertained by local actor Edmund Pegge. We enjoyed his anecdotes at the fiftieth anniversary event (23 November 2013) and he has since written his memoirs, Forever Horatio.
Edmund spoke for an hour and then took questions and signed copies.
Highlights of his career include appearing in O u Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy, working S t So with Robert Mitcham in The Winds of War on The two faces of Edmund Pegge; Titan n! (1983) and a stint in the Seventies as villain shuttle pilot (left) and author (right). of the week for Crawfords police dramas. Shada in the Cinema! by staff writers BBC: new Doctor contest, details page 2.
BBC Worldwide ANZ announced on 27 October 2017 that a SFSA magazine # 33 reconstructed version of Shada would be released in Australian cinemas. Shada is the only Doctor Who story to be abandoned during filming, with about two thirds of the principal photography O u N t completed before a 1979 strike stopped production. No ow ! Jacinta Palmer of distributor Sharmill Films told The Wall of Lies, "We're proud to enjoy a fantastic long-standing relationship with The animated Tom the BBC and Doctor Who, and with the upcoming release of Baker (BBC). Shada we're thrilled to have an opportunity to give fans the big screen cinema experience that these long-lost adventures deserve."
At time of printing only sessions at Greater Union Event Cinemas at Marion and Glenelg on 24 November 2017 had been announced.
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the BBC has very generously given us some prizes for a contest celebrating the new Doctor; clothing valued at over $100 and a tablet cover. Write a description of a missing twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) story, between one and five hundred words. Contest closes 31 December 2017. A request by Ian Phillips on the Missing Episodes Forum
Preservation Issues LAtE 2017 MARkS tHE fortieth anniversary of the Voyager program. Voyager 1 was launched on 5 JFK mania over odd reports. September 1977 and Voyager 2 on 20 August 1977. by staff writers the late 1970s alignment of the outer planets was first Contacts tHE LAtESt RELEASE OF JFk files discovered by Gary Flandro in 1964. the Jet reveal the mundanity of secret Propulsion Laboratory proposed the Grand tour to Martin Dunne (Editor): keeping. the pro-conspiracy 1991 exploit this and visit the gas giants plus Pluto. [email protected] film JFK led Congress to pass the the Grand tour was cancelled in 1971 and replaced JFk Records Act on 26 October with the cheaper Mariner Jupiter-Saturn, which would Postal address: 1992, creating the Assassination only target Jupiter, Saturn and titan but leave the Records Review Board and man- option of the second probe to continue on to Uranus PO Box 870 dating the release of all documents and Neptune. this sleight of hand also reduced the North Adelaide within 25 years. On 26 October overall cost of the program. SA 5006 Australia 2017 President trump announced Voyager 1 successfully encountered titan on 12 he would block all files identifying November 1980, allowing Voyager 2 to continue on to Email list subscription: living informants for six months. Uranus and Neptune. the Voyager 2 scan platform the records are downloadable [email protected] froze immediately following Saturn encounter, but was from the National Archives and con- freed up through vigorous shaking. the day before sist of 2,891 withheld or redacted Twitter: the Uranus encounter, the Challenger Space Shuttle files, many with very slim rationales was destroyed on launch, casting a pall over the SA Dr Who Fan Club for suppression. Financial records event. In 2010 the computer experienced a bit flop for assassinations of foreign lead- @SADWFCinc and was successfully reset on 19 May. the remaining ers, a list of passengers who rode science instruments will be shut down by 2025 and The Wall of Lies the bus to Mexico with Oswald and the signal may remain detectable until 2036. their @WallofLies an FBI memo claiming the Soviets fate will be the same as Pioneer 10 (program ended thought Lyndon Johnson was The Hourly Telepress 2003) and 11 (1995): continue their trajectory while responsible have all been secret @HourlyTelepress their radioactive batteries decay. until now. Some 3,810 files were released the probes have 70 kilobytes of memory; the ROM Facebook groups: on 24 July 2017 and 88% were is plated wire (a form of core memory) and RAM in the form of digital 8 track magnetic tape. the initial soft- South Australian Doctor Who released by 1998. the total still ware program was Fortran 5, then they were repro- Fan Club Inc. and SFSA. held are less than 1%, partially blacked out or entirely suppressed. grammed during flight to Fortran 77, and finally C. 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 , 18/11, 16/12 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.
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Doctor Who, tuesday 26 December Name: Blake Spearman Age: 20 ~ twice Upon a time Committee Position: treasurer Occupation: Biomedical Engineering Student ABC will only confirm broadcasts four (Flinders University), (Chief architect of the weeks ahead of time, but say they will Cybermen’s 5th column here on Earth) follow previous years practice. Attributes: Big Fan of Nikola tesla (AkA Check local and daily program listings. GOD). Occasionally weird with a capital 3 (but very, very carefully). SPEARMAN from Wall of Lies 49. Fav. Doctor: Sylvester McCoy and Peter Davison Club Interests: Sci-fi stuff, Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Blake’s 7 (not biased, honest!), the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, building own Membership interstellar space craft (pedal powered to Annual membership rates are $20. preserve environment). this entitles you to one year’s subscrip- What I would do if I had a million dollars? tion to the club’s publications: bimonthly Build own pedal powered interstellar space The Wall of Lies and SFSA magazine, craft (with working projected energy and the Doctor Who themed yearbook weapon. Chameleon Factor. Also included are discounted entry fees to SFSA meet- Name: Jamie Stidiford Age: 24 ings, and discounts at various stores Committee Position: General around Adelaide. Fav. Doctor: the One With Hair Fav. Companion: Ace or Leela - if combined STIDIFORD from Wall of Lies 49. Discounts you’d have the almost perfect woman. hobbies: Watching ... Pulp Fiction Fav. TV Programs: Play School, Sesame The Wall of Lies 109 10% off comics and graphic novels Street, Johnson & Friends, Red Dwarf November–December 2007 Fav. Who quote: Arrrrrrrrrgh! Events Fav. Music: the Wiggles/Slayer K9 takes a turn to the ‘Stralyian. What I would do if I had a million dollars? I’d spend it. As reported last issue, Network In September we watched Doctor Who: tEN has bought The K9 The Space Museum. Adventures (now being referred to as K9) ... Andrew Nicholls, a In October we enjoyed a talk by Edmund writer who was attached to the Pegge on his career. project prior to the Australian involvement says the style of the November 4 Pub meeting 18.00 new production is described as Venue: the Elephant and Castle looking like “Sydney, 10 years in the future”. November 18 General meeting 15.00 Venue: Adelaide High School [Ten bought k9 and ran it twice, from 3 April 2010 and 7 July December 2 Pub meeting 18.00 2012. A feature is planned.] Venue: the tower Hotel Fandom December 16 General meeting 15.00 Venue: Adelaide High School Swancon 2018 January 6 Pub meeting 17.00 National convention Venue: the Buckingham Arms 29 March – 2 April 2018. January 20 Annual picnic 12.00 Pan Pacific Hotel in Perth! Venue: Adelaide High School
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