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Abacus, Blabacus! by Staff Writers Slide Rule with Pretensions Goes Haywire The Wall of Lies Number 135 Newsletter established 1991, club formed June first 1980 The newsletter of the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club Inc., also known as SFSA Final FINAL Adelaide, March--April 2012 WEATHER: Autumn Free Abacus, blabacus! by staff writers Slide rule with pretensions goes haywire. We ran a figure of 1000 miles through Wolfram|Alpha, the computational knowledge engine, to receive “= distance the Proclaimers would walk, just to be the man that walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door.” So aside from useful yet boring things such as the speed of sound at 100,000ft, Fermat's little theorem or the distance from San Francisco to Tokyo, you can now enjoy the entertaining but frivolous “How many times can a man turn his head?”, “What have I got in my pocket?” or “What's the first rule of Fight Club?” Or input “They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother ...” O to return “Shut your mouth! I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft ut t N No (Then we can dig it)” ... ow Stephen Wolfram gets down ! “According to the theme from the 1971 film Shaft.” and gets funky. ABC renews BBC deal by staff writers BBC Worldwide must offer ABC Doctor Who exclusively. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has renewed its first-option deal (also known SFSA magazine # 29 as an output deal) with the British Broadcasting Corporation for a further three years. This ensures ABC will continue to receive first refusal on drama such as Doctor Who, O Ou but not on programmes they have already rejected such as Sherlock. ut So oo n! The second series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ take on Sherlock Holmes ! received an average rating of 781,000 (five city metro, rounded to nearest 1000) on first broadcast on Nine from 15 February. By contrast the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas special The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe received 749,000 viewers on its Australian premiere on 26 December 2011. The Monday to Friday Doctor Who repeats rate below 160,000, placing the show about 20th of digital only programs. The Wall of Lies asked the BBC Worldwide spokesperson cited in the press release announcing the renewal for clarification and if there was any other Doctor Who news, and received this comment: “No 'fraid, not, but you should keep an eye on the Doctor Who Convention in the next couple of weeks if you can.” SFSA magazine # 30 . q Continued Page 2 Hammer’s true horror, page 2. Archive, page 3. ABC renews BBC deal q from Page 1 The ABC2 controller said, “The intention is to show Doctor Who Confidential on ABC2 after Doctor Who every weeknight, where the episode is a regular series episode. Occasions where the Doctor Who episode has a longer-than- usual duration will be assessed individually as they arise and a decision made based on schedule timing requirements. Specials will not be followed by Confidential.” Ten said repeats of K-9 series one would commence from 08:00, Saturday 7 Image credit: NASA July, leading into series three from 1 September. Eleven say they still have no plans for Torchwood: Miracle Day. Nickelodeon began The Sarah-Jane Adventures series five from Saturday 17 March. The last three double part sto- ries were not intended to be the end of the series, but production was ceased following Elisabeth Sladen’s death on 19 April 2011, during a mid series break. Lunar magnetic map, note magnetic anomaly On 23 January Russell T Davies announced a new show called Aliens Vs at left of South Pole-Aitken basin. Wizards. Described stylistically as ”'Doctor Who meets Harry Potter”, it appears to be intended to replace Sarah-Jane as a production, taking over its studio space and crew in Cardiff. This replacement is the result of a second Sky Watch disaster; Davies’ partner’s Andrew Smith brain tumour prompting the couple to return from the US where Davies was producing Torchwood. Rock out moon lodestone Preservation Issues SCIENTISTS HAVE LONG BEEN puzzled by the inconsis- The Hammer horror cuts lost to history tent magnetic field of Earth’s moon. Already recog- nised as having a weak crustal field rather than an by staff writers Earth-like strong dipolar one by the time of the Contacts HAMMER FILM PRODUCTIONS issued a Apollo missions, the astronauts found widely diver- public appeal on 8 March 2012 for gence magnetic values at the different landing sites. Jamie Stidiford missing scenes cut from their horror The lunar rock typically has a low iron content, mak- (President) features. Executive Peter Naish has ing its retention of magnetic charge unlikely, and [email protected] identified six films with missing heightening the question of a strong initial magnet- scenes, most famous being The ism . Curse of Frankenstein (1957). The Similarly, the gravity map of the moon demon- Martin Dunne other titles are The Mummy (1959) strates a lumpy disposition, leading to the theory (The Wall of Lies editor) The Reptile (1966), Rasputin: The that massive concentrations or ‘mascons’ of heavy Mad Monk (1966), The Viking [email protected] matter beneath the lunar surface may be the result Queen (1967) and Frankenstein of impacted iron based meteors. This suggests a and the Monster from Hell (1974). possible similar origin for the varying magnetism. Hammer would offer the British Tammy Vogel Mark Wieczorek and his team put forward this the- Board of Film Censors the scripts sis in an article published in Science on 9 March (Magazine editor) before production, however some 2012, ‘An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic [email protected] scenes would still be deemed too horrific and excised. While often Anomalies’. For the first time a theory has been described as a “studio”, Hammer published with evidence of an extra-lunar origin for the errant magnetism. New postal address: was an independent producer with no permanent facilities, hence film The team ran computer models drawing from sur- PO Box 870 trims and other artefacts weren’t veys of the South Pole-Aitken basin, the 2500 km North Adelaide SA 5006 necessarily stored. diameter crater at the lunar south pole. The shape Hammer ceased feature produc- is elliptical, suggesting an oblique impact from a tion in the late 1970s, was acquired substantial asteroid. Modelling the impactor at up to Mailing list by Charles Saatchi in 2000 then by one third iron and 100 times more magnetic then Cyrte Investments in 2007. This the average lunar rock leaves material in the form of subscription: version has seen the company a mascon deep under the crater, which corresponds [email protected] return to production with Let Me In with the orbital surveys (see image above). (2010) and others. 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 17/3, 21/4, 19/5 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 March-April 2012 Printed by the Federal Printing House Chamelleon number four, April 1982 Transmission schedule adric ‘leaves’ March to April 2012 Matthew Waterhouse who we have only recently seen intro- duced as one of the Doctor’s Doctor Who 19.30 Monday to Friday on companions, Adric in “Full ABC2, followed by Confidential Cutdown Circle” will bow out in episode when time permits, and Torchwood four of “Earthshock”. ~23.10 Tuesday ABC2, followed by Chameleon number four, April 1982 It is unlikely he will be replaced. Torchwood Declassified (series two). March 3 Pub meeting 17.00 [Paul Snarksis waxes philo- ~ The Next Doctor 19/3 Venue: Buckingham Arms Hotel sophical on the unique Adric.] ~ Planet of the Dead 20/3 ~ To the Last Man 20/3 March 17 General meeting 15.00 NEWS-SHEET ~ The Waters of Mars 21/3 Venue: Adelaide High School No: 13 April of 1992 ~ The End of Time part one 22/3 [Editors: Kerrin White & Austin ~ The End of Time part two 23/3 April 7 Pub meeting 17.00 Boothey] ~ The Eleventh Hour 26/3 Venue: Buckingham Arms Hotel ~ The Beast Below 27/3 TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN ~ Meat 27/3 April 21 General meeting 15.00 The waiting is over! Released ~ Victory of the Daleks 28/3 Venue: Adelaide High School in Britain on April 6th, Tomb of ~ The Time of Angels 29/3 the Cybermen is set to hit the ~ Flesh and Stone 30/3 Membership stands here within the next few ~ The Vampires of Venice 2/4 Annual membership rates are $15. weeks ... ~ Amy's Choice 3/4 This entitles you to one year’s subscription ~ Adam 3/4 to the club’s publications: bimonthly The [Only four more episodes have ~ The Hungry Earth 4/4 Wall of Lies and SFSA magazine, and the been recovered leaving the ~ Cold Blood 5/4 Doctor Who themed yearbook Chameleon number lost at 106.] ~ Vincent and the Doctor 6/4 Factor. Also included are discounted entry ~ The Lodger 9/4 fees to SFSA meetings, and discounts at ~ The Pandorica Opens 10/4 various stores around Adelaide. ~ Reset 10/4 ~ The Big Bang 11/4 ~ A Christmas Carol 12/4 ~ The Impossible Astronaut 13/4 Discounts ~ Day of the Moon 16/4 Pulp Fiction ~ The Curse of the Black Spot 17/4 10% off comics and graphic novels ~ Dead Man Walking 17/4 ~ The Doctor's Wife 18/4 ~ The Rebel Flesh 19/4 ~ The Almost People 20/4 CF 61, [no date] 1992 ~ A Good Man Goes to War 23/4 Archive ~ Let's Kill Hitler 24/4 Fandom ~ A Day in the Death 24/4 ~ Night Terrors 25/4 ~ The Girl Who Waited 26/4 ~ The God Complex 27/4 Continuum 8: Craftonomicon ~ Closing Time 30/4 Queen’s Birthday Weekend, Doctor Who season 19 (Peter Davison) June 8-11 2012.
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