Posted by Jerry Brown on 09/22/90 11:37

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:33:39 -0500, Daniel Dreibelbis
<dreibel@EATHOTDEATHSPAMMERSsympatico.ca> wrote:

>In article <1137205285.882020.184040@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> "Varizo" <varizo@yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
>
>> > What do you mean boring... I thought it was a great laugh. I guess we
>> > all appreciate different things.
>>
>> Well i havent seen it, but the way that it was described to me, i dont
>> want to. Its not the sort of thing that intrests me at all, i like
>> somthning with a proper story and atmosphere and characters who you can
>> actualy care wot happens to, not stupid shite that is using somthing
>> [the daleks] that its got no right to use anyway. Its a insult to ppl
>> who realy do like Dr Who, the ppl who made it will probaly get into
>> troubel cos wot they hav done is illegal .
>> V.
>
> and not just with the BBC, but also with Terry Nation, who owns the
>rights to the Daleks and is very, very protective of that (he nearly
>prevented the use of the Daleks during the most recent Doctor Who
>series,

He died in 1997! Do you perhaps mean the Paul McGann pilot from 1996,
where the daleks' presence was implied by an offscreen cry of
'Exterminate!'?

> after the BBC did a sketch about gay Daleks,

They appeared on the show, Inside Victor Lewis-Smith, with their
rallying call of 'White Wee-Wee, White Wee-Wee!" to an underscore of
Tom Robinson's 'Glad to be Gay' in the style of Ron Grainer. It was
amusing in a schoolboy way, but it got a bit repetitive after 6
episodes.

> as well as a
>kerfuffle over their use in the move _Looney Toons: Back In Action_)

Jerry Brown
--
A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)

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