The Wall of Lies Number 145 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, 23 November 2013 WEATHER: PARTY!!! Free Contact has been made! by staff writers Radical fashions are the future, age of the virus has begun. High fashion house The Swarm says styles are set for the upcoming season; grey hairs around the eyeshairs around the eyse and hands, and scales. When asked about the label designer known as the Nucleus, a spokesperson said, “The Nucleus does not wish to be harmed. Set temperature and humidity rate for optimum breeding conditions. The purpose is all important! “ “Wrong? There is nothing wrong. This is most suitable for our purpose.” O u N t No ow I wear big eyebrows now. ! Big eyebrows are cool. Doctor Who turns 50, fans celebrate by staff writers Party goes international, intergalactic, interdimensional. The South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club celebrates the milestone 50th Programme with a birthday party, our guest is Edmund Pegge (Meeker in The Invisible Enemy). We have published a guide to every broadcast of The Show and spin offs in Australia. However the joy is tempered, for the Christmas special will feature Matt Smith handing the role O u over to Peter Capaldi in an adventure with the Cybermen. N t No ow ! A more succinct reason to celebrate is the guarantee of the show continuing on free to air via ABC. As revealed in The Wall of Lies 142 (May 2013) despite the BBC ending their output contract in 2014, ABC signed Doctor Who to a life of series contract in 2005. ABC Edmund Pegge. Managing Director Mark Scott singled out The Show for attention as excluded from the change and told us “Glad the fans are happy.” As The Show enters its sixth decade it has never been more successful. The BBC regards it as its sole dramatic “super brand”, along Top Gear, BBC Earth and Strictly Come Dancing. Lonely Planet was sold in March for ₤51.5 million, after costing £130.2 million across the preceding six years. While this does allow us to place a cash value on the worth SFSA magazine # 31 of a “super brand”, the goodwill is incalculable. q Continued Page 2 Scientific Adviser, Navel gazing, page 2. part two, page 4. Doctor Who turns 50, fans celebrate A q from Page 1 S A N Eleven Doctor Who episodes have been recovered from the Nigerian city of Jos. They had been cycled to Africa from Hong Kong in 1974 and apparently held by the Benue-Plateau Television Corporation for 39 years. The six episodes of The Enemy of the World and episodes one, two, four, five and six e t u of The Web of Fear were found by Phillip Morris of Television International t i Enterprises and Archives Ltd. Episodes three of Enemy and one of Web were t s n redundant, so nine had been missing. In response to rumours he had found I ninety episodes, Morris told The Wall of Lies in July 2013 “I'll believe it when I T I see it.” E A story in The Sunday People on 6 October 2013 claimed that 106 missing S episodes had been recovered from the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency. A repudiation was posted on our club website and the reporter contacted for a Image stack of composite Neptune system with retraction, which was pointedly ignored. However the BBC took notice of this, Naiad circled, and (inset) Voyager 2 image. and consequently invited The Wall of Lies to participate in the embargoed press conference on 10 October. We asked for clarification on the figure of Sky Watch eleven recovered versus nine named episodes, and were the first to reveal the redundant episode recoveries. Naiad nearly not Preservation Issues AS REPORTED IN The Wall of Lies 143 (July 2013), Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute has led a team using ABC recovers space television, opera the Hubble Space Telescope to provide surprising by staff writers new data on the outer solar system.. Finding two more Contacts TWO RECOVERED ITEMS have recently moons of Pluto demonstrated an orbital resonance featured on ABC. Shock Horror order, and Hubble imagery has given two more rings Jamie Stidiford Aunty broadcast two seconds of an and two satellites around Uranus. (President) eleven second shot of a go-go Rather than a discovery, Showalter had a recovery for the American Astronomical Society conference on [email protected] dancer from in Over the Equator, a 1968 satellite link up with NHK 6 October 2013. By stacking Hubble images from Japan (called a “belly dancer” on 2004, analysis located Naiad, a 90km long moon of Martin Dunne “space TV” in contemporary Neptune. Found by Voyager 2 in 1989, the satellite was imaged 80 degrees away from where it was (The Wall of Lies editor) media). Director John Walker was suspended for six months over the expected. The probe detected the moon eleven times, [email protected] scandal. and this data gave a presumptive orbit. The Neptunian Presenter Craig Reucassel told system is more dynamic than previously thought. Mark Showalter told The Wall of Lies, “The Neptune Tammy Vogel The Wall of Lies “We found it in the director's garage.” Producer Andy image [above] was constructed by overlaying red, (Magazine editor) Nehl expanded “The footage was of green and blue-filter images of Neptune taken around [email protected] the band with the go-go dancer cut the same time as the Naiad recovery.” out ... The two seconds were from Naiad is the innermost satellite of Neptune, and has an overlay compile tape.” been spotted only 23,500 km above the cloud tops. Postal address: On Sunday 20 October 2013 This is close to its Roche limit and given the irregular PO Box 870 ABC1 played Autopsy on a Dream, orbit may exceed it. The tidal forces will pull it apart to form an inner ring unless it falls into the planet. Due to North Adelaide John Weiley’s 1968 BBC2 docu- mentary on the building of the its irregular shape of 90x60x52 km it is believed to be SA 5006 Australia Sydney Opera House. The film was composed of re-accreted rubble and may be frag- reputedly destroyed after broad- ments left over from Neptune’s original moons and the violent capture of Triton, possibly a Kuiper Belt object. Mailing list cast, but a silent copy was found by ABC producer Sam Doust while Voyager 2 flew 4400 km over Neptune’s north pole subscription: searching BBC archives online. on 25 August 1989. The planet is unlikely to be visited [email protected] Weiley kept the raw soundtrack again in our lifetimes. tapes, allowing reconstruction. 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 21/12, 15/2/2014, 15/3 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 November-December 2013 Printed by the Federal Printing House Archive Chamelleon Factor 14, November 1983 Transmission schedule November-December 2013 20th ANNIVERSARY To celebrate the 20th anniver- Doctor Who Monday to Friday 19.40 sary of Doctor Who the BBC has Repeated ~ midnight ABC2 made a 90 minute special enti- tled the Five Doctors. This spe- ABC2 plays series seven from The cial will be screened in South Wedding of River Song on 1 November Australia on the ABC on to The Name of the Doctor on 22 Tuesday 13th Dec at 7.30 PM, November. The Day of the Doctor will be so don’t miss it. simulcast on ABC1, 24 November: [ABC co-produced The Five ~ 3.50 Western Australia Doctors. Even in 1983 the club ~ 5.20 Northern Territory published tv listings.] ~ 5.50 Queensland Chameleon Factor 65, November 1993 ~ 6.20 South Australia ~ 6.50 AEDT Discounts Repeats ABC118.30all regions, then An Pulp Fiction Adventure in Space and Time at 20.50, 10% off comics and graphic novels which repeats 13.00 25 November. The Day of the Doctor repeats again on Events ABC2 at 19.30 and 23.20 on the 25th. In September we played Cards Against The Time of the Doctor is the 2013 Humanity. In October we planned our Christmas special, and will play on Doctor Who 50th anniversary celebration. ABC1 19.30, 26 December. December 7 Pub meeting 17.00 There is no further Doctor Who on ABC. Venue: Buckingham Arms ABC iView features old and new series. CF 14, November 1983. December 21 General meeting 15.00 The Wall of Lies 24 Eleven stopped Torchwood with Dead Venue: Adelaide High School Man Walking on 7 October 2013. They [Undated, November 1993?] have no more scheduled. January 4, 2014 Pub meeting 17.00 Venue: Buckingham Arms ABC screening An Unearthly UKTV has a fiftieth anniversary Child! & Rumoured American DW marathon of classic Doctor Who. From January annual picnic TBA New Season of ? 24 November they repeat the TV movie At the meeting we will be holding and the new series. They have the rights The Wall of Lies numerous special activities, to The Sarah Jane Adventures.