DL> ones of the Hartnell, Troughton, and Pertwee era. I'm missing a couple
DL> of Davidson episodes, and the first episode of "The Trial".
A friend of mine in the Canadian Forces talked to a guy in the British
Army recently who is a big fan. He said the BBC made several TV movies of
Doctor Who as seperate episodes connected loosly to the series. These are not
movies simply made up of the episodes, but original movies. The guy said they
aired only in Britain and were never exported.
GN> If I may take a stab at explaining the Eye Of Harmony.
DL>
DL> Only if you use a Janis Thorn...
GN> The prime powersourse for the time lords
GN> is a great black hole in the center of the planet.
DL>
DL> That sucks...
GN> It was never
GN> mentioned how the tardes receives this energy especially if they go
GN> back in time befoure the time lords. From looking at it it looks like
GN> a white hole. In theory a white hole is the point in space where all of
GN> the material that is suked into a black hole is releaced. A bit of a
GN> streach but I like it. :)
DL> Then why was the Master sucked in?
I knew you would say that. :)
Nexis@Offsprng.Takeone.com
Gerry.Normandeau@Offsprng.Takeone.com
cn754@Carlton.Freenet.ca
"If you save the world too often, it starts to expect it."
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From : Frank Swarbrick 1:104/825 .ят 24 .ай 96 22:57
To : All
Subj : Nowhere Man season finale
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[Do not read this message if you have any intention of watching the
first season of Nowhere Man now or any time in the future and do not
want to be absolutely spoiled about the major twist in the season
finale.]
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
What a killer episode! I've seen all but one NM episode and I've
enjoyed the series fairly well, but it hasn't been as enthralling as
perhaps it could have been. One problem being some of the episodes
were just a tad too, well, boring. The other being that the whole
premise of the show seemed so outlandish as to be totally
unbelievable. But this episode seems to have solved that little
problem!
Now take for instance Tom's wife Allison. It's one thing for the bad
guys to threaten her and tell her to pretend she doesn't recognise Tom
or they'll kill her. But it's quite another for her to actually seem
to become part of the conspiracy, and in not just one but *three*
different episodes.
Getting back to this episode, it was obvious from the previews that
something big was going to happen, and that Tom Veil was perhaps not
what even *he* believed. I personally theorized that maybe Tom was
actually the assassin who killed the four men in "Hidden Agenda."
Even though that didn't come to pass (well, actually, who knows!),
what we did find out was just as good, if not better. Finding out at
the end that Tom was this "Gemini" wasn't a total suprise, as they
were pratically telescoping this to us (and finding the other set of
negatives while trying to hide his set was the absolute giveaway), but
the end of the final scene fairly blew me away. To find out that he's
not even married to Allison, and in fact doesn't seem to be Tom Veil at
all, woah!
As I was saying, this makes the whole Allison thing absolutely
believable. She's been working for "them" the whole time! Not to
mention the fact that Tom always seemed to keep one step ahead. They
most likely *let* him, just so they could see how far his implanted
memories would take him. He's a guinea pig in their little
experiment. I wonder how much of the pilot episode even actually
"happened", and how much was implanted. For instance the Larry Leavy
thing. We saw him dead in "Absolute Zero" (the pilot), but in "Zero
Minus Ten" (the recent one with his "real life" back) here he is alive
again (well, for a while). It could be that the whole first part of
the pilot, maybe up until he ended up in the funny farm, was part of
the implanted memory. (I can't remember if he found Leavy dead before
or after he escaped, but I'm betting it was before.)
Which brings me to pondering one of their best episodes (IMHO),
"Something About Her." This is the one where Tom is attached to some
sort of virtual reality device (no, not the one where he's sucked
into a computer! ), and is given false memories of another life,
with a different girlfriend, etc. Now that we know his "Tom Veil"
memories aren't real, why implant a false memory on top of a false
memory? And why one that's less successful than the first? The only
reason I can think of is to test how well ingrained the Tom Veil
personallity is.
As a final note, though Nowhere Man has not been doing very well in
the ratings (usually in the bottom 10), I think that it's actually
pretty likely the show will be renewed. The main reason being that
it's on UPN, where most of their shows are in the bottom ten! :-) I
had kind of been wearing down on the "they erased my life and they're
out to get me" thing, but with this new twist I can visualize the show
going on for a lot longer. Maybe with another huge twist and the end
of each season. I have most of the shows on tape and it might be
interesting to rewatch them with this new information at hand.
Frank
... Her love was like a wave-division multiplexor.
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From : Frank Swarbrick 1:104/825 .ят 24 .ай 96 23:06
To : All
Subj : Nowhere Man episode list
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I have tried to record every episode of Nowhere Man all the way from
the beginning. I have not be absolutely successful (especially when I
was without cable for three weeks), but I have managed to see all of
the episodes save one (and that was only because the darn cat turned
the cable box off while I was recording it and was out of the house!)
In any case, I'm going to post an episode list and ask a few questions
of anyone in the know...
NOWHERE MAN
~~~~~~~~~~~
Ep#. Air Date Episode Title
==== ============ ================================
1. Aug 28, 1995 "Absolute Zero" [90 minutes]
2. Sep 4, 1995 "Turnabout"
3. Sep 11, 1995 "The Incredible Derek"
4. Sep 18, 1995 "Something About Her"
5. Sep 25, 1995 "Paradise On Your Doorstep"
6. Oct 9, 1995 "The Spider Webb"
7. Oct 23, 1995 "A Rough Whimper of Insanity"
8. Oct 30, 1995 "The Alpha Spike"
9. Nov 6, 1995 "You Really Got A Hold Me"
10. Nov 13, 1995 "Father" *
11. Nov 20, 1995 "An Enemy Within"
12. Nov 27, 1995 "It's Not Such A Wonderful Life"
13. Jan 15, 1996 "Contact"
14. Jan 22, 1996 "Heart of Darkness"
15. Feb 5, 1996 "Forever Jung" *
16. Feb 12, 1996 "Shine A Light On You"
17. Feb 19, 1996 "Stay Tuned"
18. Feb 26, 1996 "Hidden Agenda"
19. Mar 18, 1996 "Doppleganger" *
20. Apr 8, 1996 "Through A Lens Darkly" *
21. Apr 22, 1996 "The Dark Side Of The Moon" *
22. Apr 29, 1996
23. May 6, 1996 "Zero Minus Ten"
24. May 13, 1996 "Marathon"
25. May 20, 1996 "Gemini"
I have formatted this list for 6 episodes per tape, except for #1 with
only 5 because of the 90 minute pilot. An * means I wasn't able to
record it, for whatever reason.
The Apr 22 episode was the one that I missed. I'm not sure whether or
not this episode, or the next one (the one where Tom is locked in a
house and keeps having weird memories when he looks into a mirror) is
called "The Dark Side Of The Moon," but I would appreciate knowing the
title to the episode who's name is missing. (I somehow managed to
through away the TV listings before writing it down.)
Of course I'm probably the only one paying the least bit of attention
to all this, but here's hoping!
Frank
... No one can hear when you're Screaming in Digital!
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Msg : 29 of 154
From : Frank Swarbrick 1:104/825 .ят 24 .ай 96 23:24
To : All
Subj : SF on TV
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On 05-22-96 13:53 Earl Green, the heir to the kingdom of idiots, said:
EG> Geez, it gets WORSE.
EG> If anyone's going to save Doctor Who now, it will have to be the
EG> BBC and/or an American syndication distributor.
EG> The word came in from Fox this morning - Doctor Who BOMBED in the
EG> ratings. It was their lowest rated Movie of the Week for the May
EG> sweeps period, and one of the lowest rated Fox broadcasts overall for
EG> that same period. There were numerous cartoons that topped it
EG> ratings-wise. As you probably know if you read my earlier diatribe
EG> about ratings and how seriously American networks and distributors take
EG> them, you will know that this makes a second movie outing for the Doc
EG> on U.S. TV *very* unlikely. Even the theoretical prospect of
EG> syndication of new shows is not promising, for the same reason. In the
EG> eyes of the networks, distributors and TV stations, Doctor Who proved
EG> itself to be a total wash-out...and then, they'll argue, why should we
EG> pick up a show that won't pull in the needed numbers?
EG> I'll be interested to see Segal's take on this, as well as any word
EG> from the BBC. It's not completely impossible for the entire
EG> production to move back to England, though I wonder if that would
EG> affect emigre' McGann's involvement. The standard of effects today,
EG> even at the Beeb and especially with computer image processing and
EG> effects (witness RD6), means that a new series made in Britain in '96
EG> or '97 would not be far behind the quality of the Fox movie, though it
EG> would probably be shot on video.
EG> This just isn't a banner week in Doctor Who history. 8-{
My message is not specifically about Doctor Who, but about science
fiction on TV in general. Why, except for Star Trek, and now the
X-Files, does SF seem to do so poorly on TV, yet so well (seemingly)
in movie theaters? I mean look at the top three grossing movies of
all time. If I'm not mistaken these are E.T., Jurassic Park, and Star
Wars (or maybe one of the sequels). There are plenty of blockbuster
SF movies (witness the hype over Independance Day, and it still has
over a month before anyone even sees it!), so why don't these same
people watch it on TV?
Sure, each show has it's little cult following, and there've been
plenty of bad SF tv shows, but there are also good/great ones that
were cancelled before their time, like Alien Nation, VR.5, Max
Headroom, Space: Above and Beyond, even Quantum Leap should have gone
on longer and I don't think ever did all that well ratings wise. (Dare
I mention the just cancelled Forever Knight. Not really SF, but many
of the same fans). Even currently running shows like Sliders and Babylon
5 don't do very well in the ratings.
So why is it that people will watch the movies but not the TV shows?
On a related subject, I've been watching the Planet of the Apes series
