The Wall of Lies Number 149 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, July--August 2014 WEATHER: Venus, pre-1957 Free Who’s not coming to Adelaide? by staff writers Time Lords have been messing with the dematerialisation circuit. On 11 June 2013 the BBC announced a worldwide tour of the current Doctor Who regulars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Doctor Who: The World Tour will visit such far off locales as New York, Mexico City, Seoul, Sydney and Rio de Janeiro. High on the list of places they are not visiting is Adelaide. Steven Moffat, show runner who is accompanying part of the tour, is understood to have been a strong advocate for Metebelis III and Gallifrey. However compromises have been made, and visits O u N t to London and Cardiff are also planned. Doctor Who No ow Moffat; trapped in a rectangle, fans in the UK and also Great Britain are understood ! but quite well dressed. to be overjoyed at this unprecedented contact with the stars. ABC: It’s 24 August for Doctor Who! by staff writers ABC plays new Who as soon as possible. ABC announced the fast track of Doctor Who series eight on 29 June, only two days after the BBC confirmed the premiere date 50th Programme of 23 August on BBC One. This will follow the 2013 repeats in the schedule and be only fourteen hours after the UK premiere. O u ABC Managing Director Mark Scott told The Wall of Lies, ”I think S t So on we welcome a continuous series not a split one. It is better for n! building a consistent audience habit. There will be massive inter- est with the new Doctor of course, and we wanted as close a window as possible to the original UK screening. As the 50th anniversary show demonstrated -- there is a worldwide audience now that is unwilling to wait for the next instalment of the Doctor¹s adventures.” Capaldi: fan boy done good. Scott continued, “There has long been a tension between the peak viewing times in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere -- their peak viewing times -- in winter -- are the times when Australian audiences are smaller -- mid-summer. Still -- we will not keep audiences waiting -- and we are very happy with our iView initiatives in recent years. And, just a reminder -- while there will be more BBC content on pay-TV this year, Doctor Who will pre- SFSA magazine # 31 miere exclusively on ABC1.” q Continued Page 2 Floyd in the Park, Cassini’s great page 2. hit, page 2. ABC: It’s 24 August for Doctor Who! q from Page 1 On 4 August BBC First joins other BBC Worldwide Australian cable chan- nels BBC Knowledge, BBC World News, Cbeebeies and (since 2008 wholly BBC owned) UKTV. Despite Worldwide’s description of First as their home for “first-run drama and comedy”, ABC’s life of series contract for Doctor Who prevents it premiering there. The Wall of Lies asked if any documentaries, spin offs or other Who material would end up on First. The BBC replied they had no plans; “No, nothing coming up from our end.” Paul Tams reports he and Bob Baker are busy but will reveal their plans for K-9 this year. Channel Ten say they had no information on production or broadcast of the second series. Eleven premieres Torchwood: Miracle Day from 27 July. Syfy repeats Doctor Who classic seasons fourteen and nineteen and new series daily, with series six Matt Smith episodes and Titan from Cassini. North polar belt discovered by Doctor Who Confidentials at 21.30 Fridays. UKTV and Nickelodeon have Voyager 2 visible at top right. Source: NASA/JPL. no upcoming repeats for Doctor Who or The Sarah Jane Adventures. Sky Watch Finally, some twenty three years after the advent of the World Wide Web and thirteen years after registering our trading name SFSA as a URL, we Titan’s origin, Cassini’s finale have now taken our incorporated name as an address: sadwfc.org.au. Preservation Issues DOUBT HAS BEEN cast on the on the origins of Titan. An Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother on DVD analysis of Cassini research into the ratio of nitrogen isotopes in the moon’s atmosphere indicate it may by staff writers predate Saturn. Isotopes are variants of the same ele- Contacts A DVD of Pink Floyd performing ment with a different number of neutrons. While Atom Heart Mother in a free Hyde change is associated with radioactive elements, such Jamie Stidiford Park concert has been released. “stable” elements as nitrogen can alter over time. (President) "The Blackhills Garden Party" The team led by Kathleen Mandt of the Southwest occurred on 18 July 1970 and also Research Institute found the balance of nitrogen-14 to [email protected] featured Blackhills Enterprises tal- -15 would have taken longer than the age of the solar ent Roy Harper and Kevin Ayers. It system to have significantly changed. This implies Martin Dunne was known to have been boot- Titan did not form from the proto-Saturn disc. The ratio legged and vinyl recordings are is common to the outer solar system; found in comets (The Wall of Lies editor) common. from the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Earth’s ratio is [email protected] The band was experimenting with different again, suggesting its nitrogen did not come concept albums and orchestration, from a cometary bombardment as theorised. performing here with both orchestra As we went to print NASA announced Titan’s sub- Tammy Vogel and a choir. This piece had been surface ocean showed evidence of salt and may be as (Magazine editor) performed with augmented musi- saline as the Dead Sea. [email protected] cians on 27 June at the Bath On 1 July 2014 NASA announced their plans for Festival of Blues and Progressive Cassini’s retirement; ramming it into the planet Saturn. Music. The earlier performance was The plan calls for 22 orbits between Saturn and its Postal address: also bootlegged, via a video tape innermost ring from 2016, with a projected destruction PO Box 870 machine added to a closed circuit in September 2017. NASA had called this the “proxi- projection of the performance. mal orbits”, but opened the nomenclature to the public North Adelaide The Hyde Park performance was in April 2014. Of 2,000 submissions, “Cassini Grand SA 5006 Australia filmed by Hoppy Hopkins, and Finale” was chosen. transferred to a digital format in Cassini was launched in 1997, arriving at Saturn on 2006. It was not baked to fix the 30 June 2004. The mission scientists cite Titan and Mailing list magnetic particles to the tape, and Enceladus as being potentially life bearing, and thus subscription: the owner has reputedly refused to the probe will be destroyed to avoid contamination, [email protected] allow a second recording. much as Galileo was sent into Jupiter in 2003. 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 19/7, 16/8, 20/9 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 July-August 2014 Printed by the Federal Printing House August 2 Pub meeting 17.00 Chamelleon Factor 19, Venue: The Windsor Hotel July 1984 [Edited by Brian and Carole] Transmission schedule August 16 General meeting 15.00 Venue: Adelaide High School July-August 2014 NEWS Doctor Who on ABC2 19.30 Saturdays September 6 Pub meeting 17.00 22nd Season started in May - Torchwood on Eleven, Mondays 21.30 Venue: Buckingham Arms 1st story “Attack of the Cybermen” to be set on pres- ~ The Angels Take Manhattan In June we elected a new committee at our The Snowmen 5/7 annual general meeting. ent day Earth and Telos - 2nd ~ Day Three 7/7 story NOT “Space whale” ~ The Bells of Saint John NEW COMMITTEE: could be “Leviathan” based on The Rings of Akhaten 12/7 President: Jamie “Moby Dick” - 3rd story ~ Day Four 14/7 Secretary: Martin “Invasion of the Sontarans” ~ Cold War Treasurer: Tammy Hide 19/7 General: Brenton, David R., Jo, Melanie [The second story of season ~ Day Five 21/7 22 was Vengeance on Varos ~ Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS OLD COMMITTEE: and fourth story The Two The Crimson Horror 26/7 President: Jamie Doctors featured Sontarans. ~ The New World 28/7 Secretary: Martin Song of the Space Whale was ~ Nightmare in Silver Treasurer: Tammy an unproduced script by Pat The Name of the Doctor 2/8 General: Brenton, David R., Melanie, Ross Mills and John Wagner. The ~ Rendition 4/8 space whale was used in ~ Day of the Doctor 9/8 Archive 2010’s The Beast Below, the ~ Dead of Night 11/8 The Wall of Lies 28 same year the script was used ~ Time of the Doctor 16/8 for the Big Finish audio play [Undated, July 1994?] ~ Escape to L.A. 18/8 The Song of Megaptera.] [Edited by Matthew Fazakerley] New series eight (Peter Capaldi), ABC New Who ~ Deep Breath 24/8 ~ The Categories of Life 25/8 The latest rumours on Amblin Who is that ~ TBA 31/8 Alan Rickman (Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) is now Check local and daily program listings tipped for the role of the Doctor.