The Wall of Lies Number 121 Newsletter established 1991, club formed June first 1980 The newsletter of the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club Inc., also known as SFSA SStaTATE STATE Adelaide, November--December 2009 WEATHER: Fires of Hell Free Windows 7 scare, bad smell by staff writers Bill Gates sneaks into your house and does naughty things The recent horror of the Windows 7 release has been compounded by “Windows parties”, sales outlets and businesses installing the new system crashing. Not the computers (a given), but the buildings physically falling in. Scientists have conjectured that much as the ancients thought cold was an active force rather than merely the absence of heat, stupidity may be a real thing. The extraordinary amounts of stupid have acted like a black hole, increasing local gravity to the point where nothing can resist. Windows 7: stupid, and Microsoft: evil. O As this has only affected people who pay for, sell ut t N No or install legitimate Microsoft software it isn’t very ow important. ! ABC leaks like sieve by staff writers Leak responses go from turgid to tepid. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s plans for upcoming first run Chameleon Factor # 80 Doctor Who specials and Torchwood: Children of Earth have leaked up to O Ou three months ahead of time. ut So oo n! No one from the national broadcaster was willing to go on the record about ! this leak, however they have repeated that their policy is they will only con- firm broadcast dates up to four weeks ahead of time. They will go further unofficially and with the guarantee of press embargo, neither of which occurred this time. An update appeared on a television gossip site on 3 November, outlining broadcast plans through January. Until recently ABC took this sort of leak very seriously and threatened disciplinary action up to dismissal for staff. ABC’s responce has lessened to the point of indifference in this instance. SFSA magazine # 25 q Continued Page 2 Goody Goody Goodies, News from yesteryear, page 4. page 2. ABC leaks like sieve q from Page 1 I m a The good news is that following the BBC’s 15 November broadcast of The Waters g e of Mars, ABC1 will transmit it in the second week of December. This is signifi- c . cantly less than a month and is comparable to the turnaround on Planet of the M Dead. The final two Tennant specials will however take the usual full month to e t r reach Australian audiences, and can be expected in late January. Torchwood: o T Children of Earth will play weekly on ABC2 from the first week in January. The V rights to series four of Doctor Who expire in 2010, and ABC2 will repeat the episodes. Despite the TEN network being a production partner in K-9, they still have no public schedule for the programme. UK viewers of cable channel Disney XD received a Halloween treat in the form of the first episode, Regeneration. TEN is at the bottom of seven co-producing bodies; Disney XD (formerly Jetix), Park AC Entertainment, Stewart & Wall Entertainment, the Australian Film Finance Screen cap of smoke trail attributed to Corporation, the Queensland government’s Pacific Film and Television meteor on Indonesian TV station. Commission and Bob Baker’s company K9 Films. The BBC are not affiliated with the production. TEN say they plan to screen the show early in the new year. Press Sky Watch claims that it will be broadcast in “Spring 2010” may refer to northern spring, or be entirely wrong. Things that Fall from the Sky Preservation Issues Goodies Clip Completes Episode A METEOR EXPLODED IN THE atmsphere above Indonesia on 8 October. The resulting cloud was by staff writers visible from Sulawesi island, and the audible shock- Contacts AS ANNOUNCED ON October 19 on wave led witnesses to believe they had heard an Anthony Harvison's site wiped- earthquake or aeroplane crash. The Jet Propulsion Jamie Stidiford news.com, an excised clip from a Laboratory estimate the body to have been 10 (President) Goodies episode has been recov- meters in diameter and the explosion to have [email protected] ered in Australia. The episode is released 50 kilotons of energy. By comparison the Commonwealth Games (AKA bomb that destroyed Hiroshima is estimated to have Sporting Goodies) and the only sur- been between 13 to 18 kilotons. Martin Dunne viving copy is a censored black and (The Wall of Lies editor) white version from Australia, so the The last meteorite known to have crashed on land recovered clip completes the print. [email protected] fell on the Peruvian shore of Lake Titicaca in 2007. Researcher John Williams Claims the crater outgassed causing mass sickness checked what was missing with the in the crowds drawn by the incident are still unde- Goodies Rule OK site, then fol- Tammy Vogel termined, but may have been caused by vaporisa- lowed the paper trail at the National tion of arsenic contaminated groundwater. (Magazine editor) Archives of Australia. This resulted [email protected] in access to a viewing tape includ- ing censored clips from Radio A meteorite which reputedly fell in Latvia on 25 Goodies, Caught In The Act and October was determined by authorities to have Postal address: The Greenies. The missing material been a publicity stunt. The government have vowed PO Box 3227 on this tape was a 40 second clip to pursue mobile phone company Tele2 for costs associated with the investigation. Rundle Mall SA 5000 from Commonwealth Games. The recovery was presented to Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme The Australian contribution to the international sur- Garden, visiting Australia for their vey of space bourn threats (Spaceguard) was Mailing list gigs at the World's Funniest Island ceased under the Howard federal government, Comedy Festival. The most com- which seemed actively hostile to telescopes. It has subscription: plete list of missing clips has been not been reinstated by the Rudd administration. [email protected] compiled by Matthew K. Sharp on . his site The Goodies - Censored! 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, 16/1/2010, 20/2 images, text, or information. 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 2009 Printed by the Federal Printing House Wall of Lies Events ISSUE 60 Oct/Nov 99 Transmission schedule [No editor attributed.] November to December 2009 Latest News: November 7 Pub meeting 5.30pm The BBC have stated as fol- Doctor Who on ABC2 Venue: Buckingham Arms Hotel lows: “Doctor Who cannot con- 21.30 Mondays tinue with the programme as a Followed by Doctor Who Confidential low budget enterprise as this November 21 General meeting 3 to 10pm would serve neither Doctor Who ~ Utopia 2/11/09 Venue: Adelaide High School itself or the BBC's reputation for ~ The Sound Of Drums 9/11/09 Cost: $3 members/$4 others quality programming. Also, audi- ~ Last Of The Time Lords 16/11/09 ence expectations for the effects ~ Voyage of the Damned * 23/11/09 produced in science fiction pro- * no Confidential, 72 minutes scheduled December 5 Pub meeting 5.30pm grammes are much higher than Venue: Buckingham Arms Hotel they once were – and as you Torchwood on ABC2 know the new technology which 20.30 Fridays is available is expensive... Followed by Torchwood Declassified December TBA, Annual picnic Venue: Botanic Gardens park Nothing is cut and dried as far Cost: free as this series is concerned. We ~ A Day in the Death 6/11/09 appreciate that the 1996 movie ~ Something Borrowed 13 was a long time coming but it ~ From Out Of The Rain 20 January 2 Pub meeting 5.30pm may well be that there will be ~ Adrift 27/11/09 Venue: Buckingham Arms Hotel more of the Doctor in the future. ~ Fragments 4/12/09 ~ Exit Wounds 11/12/09 What we cannot do is make any January 16 General meeting 3 to 10pm promises about the programme Check local and daily program listings. Venue: Adelaide High School at this particular moment in Cost: $3 members/$4 others time.” Club More recently, on the BBC News site, a spokesperson (whom DWM speculates is Alan Ayers) was quoted as saying “We're in talks about a possible feature film for the cinema... Scripts have been prepared, but the film Archive will be at least two of [sic] three Membership years away if we decide to go Chameleon Factor 50 Dec 1989 Annual membership rates are $15. ahead with it.” This entitles you to one year’s subscrip- tion to the club’s publications: bimonthly [As reported last issue, Russell The Wall of Lies and SFSA magazine, T. Davies was connected with- and the Doctor Who themed yearbook the revived show by this stage. Chameleon Factor. Also included are Rumours of a cinema movie discounted entry fees to SFSA meet- predate the 1989 hiatus.] ings, and discounts at various stores around Adelaide. Fandom Publications SYDNEY FREECON Chameleon Factor # 81 2009 Theme: Our Doctor Who year book. 28-29 November 2009 SFSA # 25 Theme: Things that walk convenor2009@ sydneyfuturian.org Discounts http://www.freecon2009. Pulp Fiction sydneyfuturian.org/ 10% off comics and graphic novels www.sfsa.org.au November-December 2009 3 Subscription due if a red dot appears News from yesteryear in this box from Chameleon Factor issue 50, December 1989 Corey McMahon 4 www.sfsa.org.au November-December 2009.