The Wall of Lies Number 171 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, March–April 2018 WEATHEr: Autumn Free Trump saves students, almost! by staff writers The forty fifth president offers supreme sacrifice. After the latest mass shooting in the United States, President Donald Trump made a big offer to take serious action, just not the gun control laws which might be expected. Addressing state governors, he said; “You don’t know until you test it, but I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.” The scientific community are electrified at his O u selfless offer and some are believed to have S t So gone straight into testing prototype time on n! machines. “Win—win.” said one laconic nerd Donald Trump pictured as sent in to in a lab coat. shooting massacre. New Logo for Who! by staff writers The BBC launch new logo and media at television sales fair. On 19 February 2018 the BBC revealed a new logo for Doctor Who. This was SFSA magazine # 33 accompanied by a press release, an image of the thirteenth Doctor and TARDIS with the new logo, a sixteen second trailer with the logo appearing over some red rocks in space, and a second design described as “DW hero insignia”. O u N t No ow The event was BBC Worldwide Showcase 2018, ! an invitation only industry event held from 18 to 21 February 2018 at the Arena and Convention New logo, insignia and trailer. Centre Liverpool. The logo, insignia and movie were unveiled by Jodie Whittaker on the second evening, the Doctor Who night. The logo and insignia were designed by London based agency Little Hawk, who have also designed a new BBC logo with emerging rays, and the current ITV joined text logo. Deadly Earnest Annual q Continued Page 2 South Australian in The Master’s Hollywood success, page 2. Dalek Plan, page 4. New Logo for Who. q from Page 1 The insignia proved to be unpopular with fans on social media, with many taking it to be the new logo and asking if the character had become mononymous like Cher or Sting. Some claimed to see a Venus symbol in the capital O and H, when viewed at a right angle. A BBC spokesperson said, ”At this stage we only have the press release and the images to share, I'm afraid.” The BBC Worldwide Executive Creative Director, Rafaela Perera said, “The Doctor Who logo The controversial insignia, ICRAR diagram of Andromeda and Milky Way and insignia are the quintessential signifier galaxies colliding. for the brand. Our aim was to create modern detail of “Venus symbol”. and elegant designs that were anchored in Sky Watch the things that we love most about Doctor Who.” Little Hawk added, “I’m afraid we can’t go into any specific details about the project or provide any assets. In Andromeda equal. due course there will be a case study on the project on our website.” Preservation Issues A new estimate of Andromeda’s mass puts it as equal to the Milky Way, eight hundred billion suns. The railroad Man from Terowie. The Need for Speed: Escape velocity and dynamical by staff writers mass measurements of the Andromeda galaxy was Contacts John Paterson McGowan was the published in Monthly Notices of the Royal first Australian success story in Astronomical Society on 14 February 2018. Co- Martin Dunne (Editor): Hollywood. He wrote, directed and author Prajwal Kafle is a researcher at The [email protected] acted in some 140 railroad pictures, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, then in westerns from the 1920s a joint venture between Curtin University and the Postal address: when that genre became popular. University of WA. The Wall of Lies asked about his Research by local film historian method. PO Box 870 David Donaldson and author John North Adelaide “Escape velocity is related to the gravitational force McGowan has turned up a lost that one is trying to escape. For example, a rocket SA 5006 Australia Kalem Company railroad film, The needs to go at about 11 kilometres per second to Conductor's Courtship (released 23 escape the Earth. Someone standing on Mars can June 1914). This and a show Email list subscription: measure that speed and easily figure out how heavy [email protected] describing JP McGowan’s career is exhibited twice during the Adelaide Earth is. Similarly, I used very high speed stars in Fringe; 24 February and 3 March Andromeda to measure its weight. The Idea being Twitter: 2018. the observed high speed stars in Andromeda are SA Dr Who Fan Club The Conductor's Courtship was close to escape velocity (about 550 kilometres per @SADWFCinc played across Australia from August second). 1914 in Perth to the east coast in Prajwal continues: “It was applied in the case of our The Wall of Lies November, paired with Vitagraph own galaxy, but there was no knowledge to as such @WallofLies drama Her Husband. In Adelaide how it can be applied in a distant galaxy. I came up The Hourly Telepress they were joined by the Charles with new sophisticated approach to do so. The other @HourlyTelepress Urban comedy A Model of factor that makes this method superior is that it does Perseverance and Keystone come- not demand for the side-wise or proper motion of the dy Fatty’s Finish from 19 stars, which is otherwise essential. Because there is Facebook groups: September at The Pavilion Theatre, no direct observation of the proper motion other South Australian Doctor Who 121 Rundle Street. This cinema had approaches have to always make some educated Fan Club Inc. and SFSA. an all-day program and included guess. Our method is free from that assumption.” newsreel The Australian Gazette. 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 17/03, 21/04, 19/05 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 March–April 2018 Printed by the Federal Printing House Archive The Wall of Lies 111 March – April 2008 Transmission schedule March – April 2018 Doctor Who tapes lost ABC repeats at 19:50 on ABC3, and 15:20 and 00:00 on ABChd/ABC1. by staff writers Series Five (Cold Blood, 2010) Even today episodes can go missing. screens from 1 March. Check local and daily program listings. Mystery surrounds the fate of Doctor Who screening tapes for 2008, with the ABC and British Broadcasting Corporation arguing over who has them. Club From Chameleon Factor 41 April/May The BBC report they arrived in the first week 1988, unknown artist. of January, and were sent at this time. ABC Membership say they had not received the tapes by time of WWaallll ooff LLiieess 5511 Annual membership rates are $20. publication in March. February/March 98 This entitles you to one year’s subscrip- It Won't Be Cheap... This recalls the loss of viewing film prints of tion to the club’s publications: bimonthly The Daleks Masterplan in 1966, with the The Wall of Lies and SFSA magazine, Attendees (of Gallifrey 98) asked unaired Australian copies including some of and the Doctor Who themed yearbook Stephen Cole (BBC Project Editor, the most sought after missing episodes. Chameleon Factor. Also included are Sci-Fi Titles) ... about the rumours Three episodes have been recovered, with that quite a few production houses discounted entry fees to SFSA meet- the other nine and teaser Mission to the were interested in Doctor Who. ings, and discounts at various stores Unknown probably gone for good. Cole replied in the affirmative and around Adelaide. added that nothing could be done In that case the film prints were unique, while about any of those bids until Discounts today the tapes will require very little effort to Universal Television's rights Pulp Fiction replace. expired at the end of the last year. 10% off comics and graphic novels The oft-made suggestion that the [The BBC and ABC never cleared up the show return to its low budget ori- mystery of the missing tapes, which had no gins was dismissed as unlikely by Events apparent effect upon the schedule. Cole, and he said that BBC The Wall of Lies 111 was distributed to all Worldwide considers the show has too much profit potential for In January we enjoyed our annual picnic. South Australian public high schools.] them to enter a deal to make new episodes on a shoestring budget. In February we watched two episodes of ... if a new series were to be The Of Show (1977). made, BBC Worldwide would probably insist that the show tar- get a more “family” audience than some of the novels of the recent March 3 Pub meeting 18.00 past. Venue: Reepham Hotel (Paul) McGann told UK paper March 17 General meeting 15.00 The Independent in March that he Venue: Adelaide High School considered his time in the role was over. “I gave it my best shot,” April 7 Pub meeting 17.00 he said, “Now I'm going to move Venue: The Alberton Hotel over and someone else will take it on.