The Wall of Lies Number 142 Newsletter established 1991, club formed June first 1980 The newsletter of the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club Inc., also known as SFSA MFinal STATE Adelaide, May--June 2013 WEATHER: Cold, wet, some oxygen Free Austerity Budget for Rich, Evil by staff writers Australian budget mildly inconvenient for terrible people. The Tuesday 14 May 2013 federal Australian budget has upset miners, their friends and well wishers around the world. Miners have claimed $11 billion in tax breaks, largely for purchasing smaller companies who have spent on exploration. Across Europe, countries suffering severe austerity cuts have looked beyond their own suffering to reach out to the maggots unable to use this scam any more. In Cyprus a protest march of malnourished children wound its way through Nicosia, Greeks self immolated and an ensemble of Latvians showed solidarity by playing The Smallest Violins In The World. “Come on, what else are you going to do with the rocks? Leave them in the ground until someone who’s O ut willing to pay to dig them up comes along?” asked a t N An untended consequence of No bloated mining executive. ow the severe budget involves pets ! unable to afford faces. But then apparently choked on their own bile. BBC/ABC Divorce, Dr Who Love Child by staff writers BBC cancels ABC contract, Doctor Who excluded. News broke on 17 April 2013 via a joint BBC/Foxtel press release that BBC Worldwide (formerly BBC Enterprises) had decided to Chameleon Factor # 80 finish its output deal with the ABC when the current three year O contract expires mid-2014. This had guaranteed that ABC was u S t offered most BBC Worldwide sales prior to commercial or cable So on channels. n! An ABC spokesperson said they had only been notified the day before and the Corporation had been “disappointed that this deci- sion was taken without any consultation”. Managing Director Mark Scott announced via Twitter that Doctor Who had been excluded from this change. The Wall of Lies asked why Doctor Who had been singled out Image of Matt Smith and Mark Scott replied; “We knew that there would be particular from the front cover of concern from fans of the Doctor -- but we had signed a different BBC Worldwide Annual kind of deal on the show a few years ago -- so it is not affected Report 2009/10. SFSA magazine # 30 by recent news. Glad the fans are happy.” q Continued Page 2 Pan’s People out Martian mystery of the pipes, page 2. solved?, page 2. BBC/ABC Divorce, Dr Who Love Child q from Page 1 An ABC spokesperson said “When Doctor Who was re-booted, the ABC was very keen to be the home of this iconic show and agreed to a ‘life of series’ deal ... I can confirm that the ‘life of series’ agreement overrides any subse- quent output deal that the ABC negotiates with the BBC which means that Doctor Who will remain with the ABC for the foreseeable future.” Some content A S which appears on the BBC in the UK is sold by other distributors. A N Consequently Grand Designs and QI, as well as children's, arts, news, current : affairs and natural history programming are unaffected. e c The Foxtel channels are owned by the BBC and include: the unnamed new r u BBC channel (drama and comedy), CBeebies (children’s) UKTV (general o entertainment), BBC Knowledge (documentaries), and BBC World News. BBC S Worldwide has cited the success of Doctor Who in its last three annual reports November 2007 image of Ptolemaeus Crater, as helping increase global programme sales 7.0% in 2009/10, 7.8% in 2010/1 with candidates for lost Mars 3 probe (right). and 12.3% in 2011/2 and profit 36.5%, 14.7% and 13%, respectively. Sunday ratings for Doctor Who new episodes on ABC1 (series 7b) average 728,000 across five capitals, placing it at tenth most watched programme of Sky Watch the day, and approximately 45th most watched weekly. Mars 3 found after 40 years? Sources: BBC Annual Reports, BBC, Digital Spy, TV Tonight and ABC. Preservation Issues AN UNUSUAL use of crowd sourcing has resulted in an Pan’s People Return to Top. ambitious result. Following the 2006 imaging of the Curiosity rover by by staff writers the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Vitali Egorov used Contacts RECORD PRODUCER and collector Ian his Curiosity forum <http://vk.com/curiosity_live> to Levine has turned over 20,000 search for the lost Mars 3 lander. Forum users pored Jamie Stidiford tapes to television research group over a 2007 MRO picture of Ptolemaeus Crater, the (President) Kaleidoscope. While cataloguing expected landing zone. The image comprised some continues on this trove, the first 1.8 billion pixels. Candidates for the lander, its heat [email protected] recovery is a dozen Pan’s People shield, and parachutes were located on 31 December dance numbers. The troupe was 2010. A second image was taken on 3 March 2013, Martin Dunne formed in 1966 and began semi- although neither have been universally accepted. regular appearances on the BBC’s Mars 2 and 3 were launched in May 1971 and took (The Wall of Lies editor) Top of the Pops in 1968. A common advantage of the same Mars launch window as [email protected] component in music shows of the Mariners 8 and 9. Mariner 8 fell back to Earth and era, go-go dancers were used to Mars 2 crashed on Mars, with Mariner 9 and Mars 3 perform to hit numbers where the arriving in orbit in November and December 1971, Tammy Vogel band or a video were unavailable. respectively. Mars 3 detached its lander which suc- (Magazine editor) The performances date from cessfully soft-landed on 2 December, but only [email protected] 1973-5 and feature performances returned data for 14.5 seconds before ceasing. to I Want You Back by Jackson 5 Meanwhile the Mars 3 orbiter and Mariner 9 imaged a and For You by Barry White. Troupe planet wide dust storm. It is assumed the lander was Postal address: member Patricia Wilde said destroyed by extreme winds and dust. NASA used the PO Box 870 "Considering that Pan's People Viking orbiters to scan the planetary surface before danced on Top of the Pops week in, successfully landing in 1976. North Adelaide week out, for so many years, it's Mars 3 followed the same design philosophy of the SA 5006 Australia such a pity that most of our routines then Soviet Lunar probes; a spherical lander with petal have been lost, wiped by the BBC opening panels. Included was a 4.5 kilogram rover, back in the 70s.” attached by a 15 meter umbilical cord to the lander. Mailing list The clips will screen at a Computer processing of the returned data resulted in subscription: Kaleidoscope event in June. Pan’s one image, but the Soviet Academy of Sciences [email protected] People last appeared on Top of the analysis stated the image was unidentifiable. Pops in April 1976. 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 18/5, 15/6, 20/7 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 May-June 2013 Printed by the Federal Printing House Archive Chamelleon Factor 11, 1983 [misprint as “1982”] Transmission schedule May to June 2013 [Carole Gibbs and Brian Alford] Sundays 19.30 ABC1 The next meeting is at the T.S Repeated 20.30 Mondays ABC2 hall [Theosophical Hall] on Sat Followed by Doctor Who's Greatest 9th July ... Just a reminder about Moments the Convention, Don’t forget to register, its [SIC] getting dearer ~ The Crimson Horror 5/5 all the time. ~ The Crimson Horror 6/5 SFSA Magazine 12, June 2003. Parody of The Day the Earth Stood Still cover by Neal Powell. Janet Fielding will be leaving the ~ Doctor Who's Greatest Moments - series sometime in the next Time Travel (21st) season. ~ Nightmare in Silver 12/5 [The convention was Conpanion, ~ Nightmare in Silver 13/5 Events the first ever Doctor Who con in ~ Doctor Who's Greatest Moments - Australia. Janet didn’t go far; Hostile Humans In March we played Cards Against returning as a companion in the Humanity. Jim’ll Fix it sketch In a Fix with ~ The Name of the Doctor 19/5 Sontarans, playing a companion ~ The Name of the Doctor 20/5 In April we enjoyed going through club and villain in Sylvester McCoy’s ~ Doctor Who's Greatest Moments - The boxes and splitting up the assets. screen test and representing Paul Aliens McGann as a theatrical agent.] May 18 General meeting 15.00 The SCI-FI and Nickelodeon cable Venue: Adelaide High School channels have no more Doctor Who rights, TEN has yet to schedule June 1 Pub meeting 17.00 Torchwood: Miracle Day and series two Venue: Buckingham Arms of K-9. June 15 Annual general meeting 15.00 UKTV repeats The Sarah Jane Venue: Adelaide High School Adventures series one and plays Davison Who episodes through May on July 6 Pub meeting 17.00 Sunday afternoons with Kinda, Venue: Buckingham Arms Earthshock, Snakedance, Frontios, Ressurection of the Daleks and The July 16 General meeting 15.00 Caves of Androzani.