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Somewhere between Jennifer Eccles and King Midas In Reverse."},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/-\/william+hartnell?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=4"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/william%20hartnell"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/-\/william+hartnell\/-\/william+hartnell?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=5\u0026max-results=4"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"12"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"4"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-1398149670888769868"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-07T12:16:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-07T12:16:44.437+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1964"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"carole ann ford"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"doctor who"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jacqueline hill"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"peter r. newman"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the sensorites"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"william hartnell"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"william russell"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Doctor Who - The Sensorites"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2017\/09\/21\/theres-not-an-ounce-of-curiosity-in-me\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Doctor Who - The Sensorites (1964).\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"600\" data-original-width=\"834\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgavNnKRxiOVSP611v3hjjKlbVX2fsfwg53iKXBi77sSmTtOBqy1xXq0mx9hWeSBF7A_tbDlH2eiQ5-haicI0oBGzuUjIUHUitfBIx6jqq7pziMqULUwiYAqYMOgKXjGs4e83HdgSwl6xH-\/w400-h288\/sensorites1.png\" title=\"Doctor Who - The Sensorites (1964).\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo a certain kind of viewer and enthusiast of 'old stuff', there are few things more exciting than early black and white \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, particularly at the height of 'Dalekmania'. Unfortunately, there are also a handful of stories that for various aren't \u003Cu\u003Equite\u003C\/u\u003E\u0026nbsp;as exciting, and 1964's \u003Cb\u003EThe Sensorites\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;is one of them. After a spooky and atmospheric first episode, it never really gets going and I have to admit that, despite the fact that it's got pretty much everything I'm looking for in sixties television and I really, really want to like it, it fails to hold my attention to the extent that whenever I try to watch it, I usually end up forgetting which episode I'm up to and have to look it up; sometimes even when I start watching the same episode again by mistake, I don't even notice until halfway through.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThere's Not An Ounce Of Curiosity In Me!\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a light-hearted feature on my attempts to make it through \u003Cb\u003EThe Sensorites\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;without losing my place, and to find out if there are actually reasons worth persevering with it after all, which you can read on my site \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2017\/09\/21\/theres-not-an-ounce-of-curiosity-in-me\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or find in a longer form in my book \u003Cb\u003ECan't Help Thinking About Me\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/books\/cant-help-thinking-about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E. If you're interested in early \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, you can also listen to me debating its supposed 'problematic' reputation with Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding on the politics-meets-pop-culture show \u003Cb\u003EThe Zeitgeist Tapes\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/10\/25\/the-zeitgeist-tapes-dr-pod\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/1398149670888769868"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/1398149670888769868"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/doctor-who-sensorites.html","title":"Doctor Who - The Sensorites"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgavNnKRxiOVSP611v3hjjKlbVX2fsfwg53iKXBi77sSmTtOBqy1xXq0mx9hWeSBF7A_tbDlH2eiQ5-haicI0oBGzuUjIUHUitfBIx6jqq7pziMqULUwiYAqYMOgKXjGs4e83HdgSwl6xH-\/s72-w400-h288-c\/sensorites1.png","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-7457902471846159378"},"published":{"$t":"2017-07-03T20:47:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-07-04T16:42:03.460+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bob monkhouse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bruce forsyth"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"carole ann ford"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jon pertwee"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"millicent martin"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"paul mccartney"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"satire"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the avengers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the beatles"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the strange world of gurney slade"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tony hancock"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tv times"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"william hartnell"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There's So Much More In TV Times Part 12: The Changing Face Of Cyril Shaps"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgeGu4yKvIpU3rrMXRpoEOwa13JTAdnL0ESCzo8Or7hkKSUw5Pf-ULyZnx1zzbDT6hfdi3KSwbEdWpKSN5cIVzAW8-lF43xYZbNJtRX9KOulPfHRa-zOQcRS86cSbSOqJ8VqzHpRT_hJFWz\/s1600\/pertwdown.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1160\" data-original-width=\"921\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgeGu4yKvIpU3rrMXRpoEOwa13JTAdnL0ESCzo8Or7hkKSUw5Pf-ULyZnx1zzbDT6hfdi3KSwbEdWpKSN5cIVzAW8-lF43xYZbNJtRX9KOulPfHRa-zOQcRS86cSbSOqJ8VqzHpRT_hJFWz\/s400\/pertwdown.png\" width=\"317\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFrom the very earliest days of \u003Cb\u003EGala Night At The Mayfair\u003C\/b\u003E and \u003Cb\u003EInaugural Speeches By The Lord Mayor, The Postmaster General And The Chairman Of The Independent Television Authority Sir Kenneth Clark\u003C\/b\u003E, if there was one thing that ITV's top television stars could count on, it was full page photo ahoy cover to cover coverage in \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E. Whether it was soap stars 'opening up' about their 'personal struggle', newsreaders hilariously trying their hand at an 'ordinary' job for a day, or Brucie making something out of 'leftovers' in an oversized comedy chef's hat, each issue was crammed with page after page after page of features on commercial television's all too often here-today-gone-tomorrow headliners - seriously, you won't believe how many people who warranted a three page interview in the average fifties or sixties edition are almost impossible to find out anything about now - and everyone was happy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf there was anything else that they could count on, though, it was that \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E would not allow them to self-promote in any way that at all afforded scope for the retention of a sub-atomic amount of self respect. Or that they would make any effort to avoid printing letters from viewers saying you were rubbish and should be thrown off television and into a skip with immediate effect. Here, then, are just a handful of the series-promoting profiles that probably nobody in their right mind will ever be allowing anywhere near any DVD extras...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjFplHBeneYJmQEzh-Mur4ZeDQiIdouXSo7SeN9mlBCVORfhLQY0MLbO5gIjZmRZJkCUzo9f14CcIoJv-HdtkvSwHM5p9PRP27d5f1rpEOPvh2FJEOc6mTgXMWS0I_BBvD4GIEdvdmcdhjP\/s1600\/ingridhafner.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"893\" data-original-width=\"663\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjFplHBeneYJmQEzh-Mur4ZeDQiIdouXSo7SeN9mlBCVORfhLQY0MLbO5gIjZmRZJkCUzo9f14CcIoJv-HdtkvSwHM5p9PRP27d5f1rpEOPvh2FJEOc6mTgXMWS0I_BBvD4GIEdvdmcdhjP\/s400\/ingridhafner.png\" width=\"296\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; 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text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nIf there was one programme that dominated \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E more or less throughout the sixties, it was \u003Cb\u003EThe Avengers\u003C\/b\u003E; indeed, they were right behind it right from the outset, as you can see from this interview with original 'Avengers Girl' Ingrid Hafner in which she is charmingly asked about virtually nothing apart from her two male co-stars. We've seen plenty of examples of the barely disguised perving over her more catsuit-inclined successors in previous instalments of this series, so this time let's turn our attention instead to Patrick Macnee, whose sporting of a bowler hat on television apparently qualified him as a somewhat baffled and reluctant expert on any and every matter related to 'style' and fine gentlemanly living. Here, for example, is an interview in which he's keen to play down any resemblance between himself and John Steed, followed by his struggling to get a word in edgeways in the thick of someone else's breathless opinions on wine and when he does get to spear appears to try and steer the conversation towards whiskey instead, a plaintive 'they're not my real clothes, you know' conversation about his on-screen attire, and finally a frank admission that he knows absolutely nothing about the Football Pools and that if you see fit to adopt his gleefully randomly and panic-strickenly chosen tips then more fool you. With this sort of nonsense going on, you can understand why actors worry about being typecast. Mind you, he was not without his fans, as evidenced by this clear, concise and doubtless warmly received praise from schoolteacher Miss Margaret Tully, and a bewildering missive from (Miss) Jean Higson, which elicits a para-intelligible response that can only be described as purest refined goobledygook. So much so that it's a wonder that they didn't ask Patrick Macnee for his opinion on it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiOZsmDcuzJ4gN8-U5WoM6ub7tnPmhQSmwMY0ZfopeZbB8Qhk1Qnoiot9X6ieGdTKDd7WL62IvsfwnsaigyqRPIC0LYwJ5EFsxPI-y4CK_2NayyMOgCTsnhBW2qBPPpAwQGnlQUKhTjkX1G\/s1600\/itvhancock.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"803\" data-original-width=\"683\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiOZsmDcuzJ4gN8-U5WoM6ub7tnPmhQSmwMY0ZfopeZbB8Qhk1Qnoiot9X6ieGdTKDd7WL62IvsfwnsaigyqRPIC0LYwJ5EFsxPI-y4CK_2NayyMOgCTsnhBW2qBPPpAwQGnlQUKhTjkX1G\/s400\/itvhancock.png\" width=\"340\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi7PeSezxL_HvPmNMA_sWcX3UqZy8VB316QN5PHVEgXD6-gzjQMuTSjOJ2tytuC4wn2s8hfzKI5qDTddm57M9X5OLE7-sxRK3fRSScCnZqbLGfhZhNxQEe76pk_Vt5UTAQxsdnWAKz0Zxog\/s1600\/fancock.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"235\" data-original-width=\"207\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi7PeSezxL_HvPmNMA_sWcX3UqZy8VB316QN5PHVEgXD6-gzjQMuTSjOJ2tytuC4wn2s8hfzKI5qDTddm57M9X5OLE7-sxRK3fRSScCnZqbLGfhZhNxQEe76pk_Vt5UTAQxsdnWAKz0Zxog\/s400\/fancock.png\" width=\"351\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNot all stars of the brand spanking new commercial channel enjoyed quite so enthusiastic a level of support, though. \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E initially got right behind Tony Hancock when he pioneered the invariably disastrous 'Going To ITV' manoeuvre, but as soon as his ratings slumped in true When They Went To Thames At The End fashion, suddenly they became a touch more wary and each new series came and went with a simple 'oh and apparently there's been some sort of summit this week as well'-hued throwaway feature, such as a the alarmingly negative and accusatory one seen above. He still had his fans, though, and one took the trouble to write in fuming that even if you didn't like his new material, you should just say you did because reasons. Yes, that usually works out just fine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjt7aPeN0k8tT4vEJzruaIeHXK4aMWOAApGH17ntoIqL2LFYnmD0ZdeUZ9yerQ7ct1T3SuUwbxNjGQBEttJAGbww0EVIrSI4FXspn69rAQcad5ZYRx4sE_w5OOA0u51zfI0sgK2J72kgM8k\/s1600\/gurneyletter.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"131\" data-original-width=\"264\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjt7aPeN0k8tT4vEJzruaIeHXK4aMWOAApGH17ntoIqL2LFYnmD0ZdeUZ9yerQ7ct1T3SuUwbxNjGQBEttJAGbww0EVIrSI4FXspn69rAQcad5ZYRx4sE_w5OOA0u51zfI0sgK2J72kgM8k\/s400\/gurneyletter.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg8VwQI6EhtNUDl39kFrDPHU8BqeLE-buV9jVEk5CnZLvD967TYBI6v8R9DpRPv9eXWTGZu45o63bLcr-W3CBQMW3gumsl-aPt_tlDH1SfvfrdUgWAxclsJKWIYQ5BBkTE43d53BxQvMWzI\/s1600\/newleyscript.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"891\" data-original-width=\"685\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg8VwQI6EhtNUDl39kFrDPHU8BqeLE-buV9jVEk5CnZLvD967TYBI6v8R9DpRPv9eXWTGZu45o63bLcr-W3CBQMW3gumsl-aPt_tlDH1SfvfrdUgWAxclsJKWIYQ5BBkTE43d53BxQvMWzI\/s400\/newleyscript.png\" width=\"307\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNeedless to say, widespread viewer bafflement and hastily shifted timeslot antics caused \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E to more or less turn its back on Anthony Newley's short-lived deconstructionist sitcom \u003Cb\u003EThe Strange World Of Gurney Slade\u003C\/b\u003E while it was still on air. Nowadays of course we're all familiar with it as an ahead-of-its-time lost masterpiece rediscovered after half a century of neglect, but back then it had few supporters apart from the young David Bowie. Mind you, Miss V. J. Johnson was sufficiently aggrieved by the mass chorus of 'if it's too hard, I can't understand it' to write in and point out that it actually made perfect sense and was jolly amusing and what in the name of Moogies Bloogies are you all on about etc etc. Her opinion was clearly shared by an undaunted Anthony Newley, who responded to the critics with this fascinating article about how television was a new and exciting artform and should be treated as such, and for that reason \u003Cb\u003EThe Strange World of Gurney Slade\u003C\/b\u003E was a mistake worth making. It's that kind of thinking that got us \u003Cb\u003EThe Prisoner\u003C\/b\u003E. And \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgwq7n49jsg3RPVus2TVA66P65rWZDDe-F_JJ_lufwUv-XlaO1GWPenEM40K7Gh2wm3MSFZ3ukKI3grlNJBqE-Qm3h_VCyl66Zgs6xRa4sNNGsURBt-7_9J9sgDjK6GKN3TSAIZwcuABgOR\/s1600\/milliepull.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"923\" data-original-width=\"681\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgwq7n49jsg3RPVus2TVA66P65rWZDDe-F_JJ_lufwUv-XlaO1GWPenEM40K7Gh2wm3MSFZ3ukKI3grlNJBqE-Qm3h_VCyl66Zgs6xRa4sNNGsURBt-7_9J9sgDjK6GKN3TSAIZwcuABgOR\/s400\/milliepull.png\" width=\"295\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiobJuRxoLux2pobu_-k3P7L8hFjRoiAJw4-ieobs65tyTcuWHF3YLBL9MyA5xzOO800DLCzFB01ptbCgcQUswDbtj_hf1UTYwvgu3ly6Jx_LOI8zUJTgSqtQksbB2JDg6UmJbQuqINJG-R\/s1600\/toomuchmillie.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"253\" data-original-width=\"216\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiobJuRxoLux2pobu_-k3P7L8hFjRoiAJw4-ieobs65tyTcuWHF3YLBL9MyA5xzOO800DLCzFB01ptbCgcQUswDbtj_hf1UTYwvgu3ly6Jx_LOI8zUJTgSqtQksbB2JDg6UmJbQuqINJG-R\/s400\/toomuchmillie.png\" width=\"341\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSometimes, though, you just couldn't win against the viewers. Flirty, zany and not averse to singing filthy songs on the b-sides of her singles, satire's leading redhead Millicent Martin was almost literally everywhere in the early sixties, and you could scarcely move for articles like the one above featuring \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E columnist Dave Lanning practically slobbering over her. But familiarity breeds contempt, and overexposure breeds people writing letters to a listings magazine demanding to see less of you as if that was in some way an achievable objective and the indeed direct responsibility of the hapless layout editors pasting up regional variations for Television Wales And West. Noele Gordon and Troy Tempest must have been \u003Cu\u003Ethrilled\u003C\/u\u003E with the idea that Millie was on every time viewers switch the TV on, though.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjBUJeyxHVLipznDRBP8fnatAlE2TntmNlErz-wp5HebiJ3IXED6jvhznEq7NsrYby1kqxHlXJLNGnFpDrpmA2vX_9TolR63OKQNr8hZO0UsG3DMNSq-bZt9ivrxIuXXTA-GKp3mJ9sw_-p\/s1600\/caroleann.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"871\" data-original-width=\"659\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjBUJeyxHVLipznDRBP8fnatAlE2TntmNlErz-wp5HebiJ3IXED6jvhznEq7NsrYby1kqxHlXJLNGnFpDrpmA2vX_9TolR63OKQNr8hZO0UsG3DMNSq-bZt9ivrxIuXXTA-GKp3mJ9sw_-p\/s400\/caroleann.png\" width=\"302\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj3M_QcG4FJysBE3q4S5-FZSbWvM2FWM1NONis3EURQfZ-dONBmH_ST4jVrsztDc0zOD-WWsENsF3Owoz5ZI62VCRTZR7zfJNHwfceSIkNyOpBAMUdkCeEznyJ3rLbhWk_rbx-QJzPQPrGZ\/s1600\/caroleann2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"651\" data-original-width=\"873\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj3M_QcG4FJysBE3q4S5-FZSbWvM2FWM1NONis3EURQfZ-dONBmH_ST4jVrsztDc0zOD-WWsENsF3Owoz5ZI62VCRTZR7zfJNHwfceSIkNyOpBAMUdkCeEznyJ3rLbhWk_rbx-QJzPQPrGZ\/s400\/caroleann2.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnyway, back to the BBC-to-ITV ship-jumpers, and the cautionary tale of Carole Ann Ford, who left \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E at the absolute height of 'Dalekmania', bringing the never-bettered original Tardis crew to an all-too-hasty conclusion, as she wanted to avoid typecasting. Hence this prominent feature on 'The Back To Earth Girl' to promote her appearance in gritty down-at-heel detective series \u003Cb\u003EPublic Eye\u003C\/b\u003E as what \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E cautiously described as a 'vice girl'. As she herself has wryly reflected, this resulted in angry letters from mothers who had allowed their youngsters to stay up to see the new thing with 'Susan' in, little anticipating the exceptionally mild filth therein. By the end of the year they were still sufficiently taken with their new star to include her in resident astrologer Maurice Woodruff's 'Gemini Prediction Party', but the dazzling lights of fame soon fell elsewhere, leading her to embark on a lower-key career that if \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E fan writers are to be believed consisted entirely of an endless procession of 'comebacks'. Apparently her stars suggested that in 1965, she'd be falling in the sea fully clothed for a film or TV part. That must have been quite a comeback.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhNw70UELeL6aJkBxrhQqrOKPydu9nfl4UawBObOxdP4OEItgpx7pKXL3KmfYqAroqYRsK2PD0ykP4achcVsUFbzwFn29N6xzjjIk_NA_PuANl5mNlMDfW9o2o5DAfndIBlcdJ-J0ftPv7Q\/s1600\/maccapred.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"358\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhNw70UELeL6aJkBxrhQqrOKPydu9nfl4UawBObOxdP4OEItgpx7pKXL3KmfYqAroqYRsK2PD0ykP4achcVsUFbzwFn29N6xzjjIk_NA_PuANl5mNlMDfW9o2o5DAfndIBlcdJ-J0ftPv7Q\/s640\/maccapred.png\" width=\"356\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nQuite what fixation Maurice Woodruff had with 'Geminis' will have to remain a mystery, but here he is taking a fraudulent sham punt at what 1967 might hold for 'Dinners'. Even aside from saying he will put his money in 'building' rather than a big brown bag inside a zoo, it doesn't mention \u003Cb\u003ECarnival Of Light\u003C\/b\u003E once!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgcG5GczXOosvtDNFosxBzEF1xVLid0PnnmjA5DD8BFUBNxwyTUh0SkEuPfPxpsPjBAS_Pn94f6VNomEGXIpQNUYzcJbap87ebe68g94bxJxWG-Wv3jPO5sdCTNYSTss_LcBa8t6vPDZ4YF\/s1600\/hartnellint.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1074\" data-original-width=\"804\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgcG5GczXOosvtDNFosxBzEF1xVLid0PnnmjA5DD8BFUBNxwyTUh0SkEuPfPxpsPjBAS_Pn94f6VNomEGXIpQNUYzcJbap87ebe68g94bxJxWG-Wv3jPO5sdCTNYSTss_LcBa8t6vPDZ4YF\/s400\/hartnellint.png\" width=\"299\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg3wps86RELsWPwqOBOsy_oRi-6aZyjpcFpGef-FZQk_CxZ0ZDpS_fBSoVrY9eBcH9Yc7qVEf6rqLNHlaXonpzz-D0DE-cfo7OTSayGf9qPet_mHDQ6kfc_b-wnb_xz77YJfg8Iaf1jvtIX\/s1600\/hartnellmobbed.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"558\" data-original-width=\"618\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg3wps86RELsWPwqOBOsy_oRi-6aZyjpcFpGef-FZQk_CxZ0ZDpS_fBSoVrY9eBcH9Yc7qVEf6rqLNHlaXonpzz-D0DE-cfo7OTSayGf9qPet_mHDQ6kfc_b-wnb_xz77YJfg8Iaf1jvtIX\/s400\/hartnellmobbed.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOf course, Carole Ann's screen grandfather William Hartnell was a star on ITV long before \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, thanks to his appearances as the aptly named Sergeant Major Bullimore in National Service jape-wrangling sitcom \u003Cb\u003EThe Army Game\u003C\/b\u003E. However, \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E apparently only ever owned one photograph of him. Here we see it called up to accompany some trademark grumbling about \u003Cb\u003EThe Army Game\u003C\/b\u003E not being 'legitimate' acting and how he was sick of authority figure roles and would rather be playing Polonius than policemen, despite revealing right at the end that he was literally just that minute off to make \u003Cb\u003EBrighton Rock\u003C\/b\u003E, followed by a baffling piece about how he gets recognised in the street but something or other about wanting to wear 'civvies' on screen. No, us neither.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhFMoS1Q4_6Y5CC_q2r7dRd_5TznpKCdTap8AoS3rHuueTsp5OqMGpl_ACCZwW1So9ndHnDkSOPQfw7BoQUiBGkOv6YNaYkFuz0LZxF_h0PTaskr3KYFfDs9I0gDsXT9LZ1RyvwiNSBc5qt\/s1600\/cyrilshaps.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1245\" data-original-width=\"935\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhFMoS1Q4_6Y5CC_q2r7dRd_5TznpKCdTap8AoS3rHuueTsp5OqMGpl_ACCZwW1So9ndHnDkSOPQfw7BoQUiBGkOv6YNaYkFuz0LZxF_h0PTaskr3KYFfDs9I0gDsXT9LZ1RyvwiNSBc5qt\/s400\/cyrilshaps.png\" width=\"300\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCharacter Actor Cyril Shaps, as it is apparently a legal requirement to refer to him as, had to wait until Patrick Troughton had taken over to get his first of many roles in \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E - nearly all of them playing 'characters' funnily enough - but he was a regular sight in co-conspirator type roles in ITV series for years before that. In an early incarnation of the time-honoured 'you'll know the face, but you might not know the name' article that still thrives to this day, \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E presents a profile of Cyril and his 'changing face'. Which you have to admit looks practically identical in all of the examples they've chosen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi_8LyC-gnEV-CMsS91J6SQyC3tUnF4fM5wTk28rHjAFXfH0mt38LTWTte6s7O4CHxGKq6f1LTv3TNYPRj9rCxp-osqWRPE8VuxX5Cu-MW9XakfDMVol3dZQBYlI3mP2iKSoqwyLCKyMbFp\/s1600\/monkhousebenn.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"908\" data-original-width=\"1386\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi_8LyC-gnEV-CMsS91J6SQyC3tUnF4fM5wTk28rHjAFXfH0mt38LTWTte6s7O4CHxGKq6f1LTv3TNYPRj9rCxp-osqWRPE8VuxX5Cu-MW9XakfDMVol3dZQBYlI3mP2iKSoqwyLCKyMbFp\/s400\/monkhousebenn.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFar more successful in the 'changing face' stakes was Bob Monkhouse, seen here in the little-remembered flop original live action version of \u003Cb\u003EMr. Benn\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgAnpZ0oC-TalUtK5WM3FYOZYF2-TlriGaWqZCWwyO8gXL5GZ0r1Likac8rObsA2D1S_uwMcAaGOB2Kbrvdj0VI2DgTTBnex05NOQ2AzL366tM_Wtr6X9zhrf17liW0AG0pbWOJXNUmhaON\/s1600\/lowejudo.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"909\" data-original-width=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgAnpZ0oC-TalUtK5WM3FYOZYF2-TlriGaWqZCWwyO8gXL5GZ0r1Likac8rObsA2D1S_uwMcAaGOB2Kbrvdj0VI2DgTTBnex05NOQ2AzL366tM_Wtr6X9zhrf17liW0AG0pbWOJXNUmhaON\/s1600\/lowejudo.png\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe've seen quite a few examples of the much-favoured \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E gambit of getting telly stars to do something zanily unlikely and different for a the sake of filling a couple of column inches, but few can have provoked as much bafflement as this surely spurious filler item about Arthur Lowe, then starring as Leonard Swindley in \u003Cb\u003ECoronation Street\u003C\/b\u003E spin-off \u003Cb\u003EPardon The Expression\u003C\/b\u003E, taking up judo. Answers on a postcard if you've got any idea of how they posed that photo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEilPctAQJ2-9QU4huu8fyDt6nXDjio8ydtFNBn_FUAIm7MvMB6xB6OtKF5ap59hOtZT_AeXUHM_tGUWA2_rd0gantF-bkOP2KKxZz3w3n3hUhhFZAfx_x-qtt3BhqsMNWwA1a-UcEE23BQn\/s1600\/bruceback.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"863\" data-original-width=\"617\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEilPctAQJ2-9QU4huu8fyDt6nXDjio8ydtFNBn_FUAIm7MvMB6xB6OtKF5ap59hOtZT_AeXUHM_tGUWA2_rd0gantF-bkOP2KKxZz3w3n3hUhhFZAfx_x-qtt3BhqsMNWwA1a-UcEE23BQn\/s400\/bruceback.png\" width=\"285\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd finally, here's Brucie, sans comedy oversized chef's hat, managing to get a full-page comic-pose-ahoy feature out of the fact that he's just had his tonsils out. A procedure that they're keen to point out will not affect his weekly presentational schedule in \u003Cu\u003Eany\u003C\/u\u003E \u003Cu\u003Eway\u003C\/u\u003E \u003Cu\u003Ewhatsoever\u003C\/u\u003E. But then again, that's the typical ITV star for you - cheerful, professional, enthusiastic, able to put a positive spin on just about anything, and with bags of the right kind of talent for their chosen mass audience-pleasing niche. Good clean family fun, and with absolutely no reason to suspect they might have been up to no good.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg8VweI-LwKI0Mf6BxhNKFyL0-NkTfGFohxUnsUlutA-C4e9RQziaoKdexm_jjN6sJddM1ZmPQCtdUWsfFRnmy84FkCBfRnEwECg4bCIpsM-yKTaPYfdrYIXDSV9Ixqk-fD7FOZabcnYbmm\/s1600\/spinningsavile.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"883\" data-original-width=\"633\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg8VweI-LwKI0Mf6BxhNKFyL0-NkTfGFohxUnsUlutA-C4e9RQziaoKdexm_jjN6sJddM1ZmPQCtdUWsfFRnmy84FkCBfRnEwECg4bCIpsM-yKTaPYfdrYIXDSV9Ixqk-fD7FOZabcnYbmm\/s400\/spinningsavile.png\" width=\"286\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOh right. Yes. Still, THEY ALL KNEW at the BBC, eh?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBukZ-YGlLBSIzmfQhJD3eQlfsnjxBPNxWsTBKig-rHHRN-DqqGEIqt9cRCL1cC_zNDzrF0eO6gqg4uVISLKLQdNmNqGmcwJ2IQlvJVLvNC6rKlLKHfUChMlzE4Gs7UViA89agsm7OafJ5\/s1600\/whatjoke.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"259\" data-original-width=\"945\" height=\"109\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBukZ-YGlLBSIzmfQhJD3eQlfsnjxBPNxWsTBKig-rHHRN-DqqGEIqt9cRCL1cC_zNDzrF0eO6gqg4uVISLKLQdNmNqGmcwJ2IQlvJVLvNC6rKlLKHfUChMlzE4Gs7UViA89agsm7OafJ5\/s400\/whatjoke.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf you can work out what the joke is here, or how and why it involved Peter Cook, you're doing better than us. Anyway, join us again next time, when we'll be looking at some of the many occasions on which \u003Cb\u003ETV Times\u003C\/b\u003E printed something that made absolutely no sense whatsoever...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhf5tVCiQDncsLLYrprDedkoeUULSMXX7kdHLImowSF1XGkNH0dq0ATjbqAxXqll1YGywdO9kbG8u5SP5V93yyJk7xYmCTTT9zqq9yZZINjvdR5nuXM3zIXwci1TJLMfWYY7utGnE3HQMVY\/s1600\/notonyourtelly.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"320\" data-original-width=\"211\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhf5tVCiQDncsLLYrprDedkoeUULSMXX7kdHLImowSF1XGkNH0dq0ATjbqAxXqll1YGywdO9kbG8u5SP5V93yyJk7xYmCTTT9zqq9yZZINjvdR5nuXM3zIXwci1TJLMfWYY7utGnE3HQMVY\/s200\/notonyourtelly.png\" width=\"131\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EIf you've enjoyed this article, you can find lots more slightly more serious writing about fifties and sixties television in \u003Cb\u003ENot On Your Telly\u003C\/b\u003E, which is available in paperback \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/not-on-your-telly\/paperback\/product-21425873.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or from the Kindle Store \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Not-Your-Telly-Tim-Worthington-ebook\/dp\/B01N942477\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/7457902471846159378"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/7457902471846159378"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/theres-so-much-more-in-tv-times-part-12.html","title":"There's So Much More In TV Times Part 12: The Changing Face Of Cyril Shaps"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgeGu4yKvIpU3rrMXRpoEOwa13JTAdnL0ESCzo8Or7hkKSUw5Pf-ULyZnx1zzbDT6hfdi3KSwbEdWpKSN5cIVzAW8-lF43xYZbNJtRX9KOulPfHRa-zOQcRS86cSbSOqJ8VqzHpRT_hJFWz\/s72-c\/pertwdown.png","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-261549883057304679"},"published":{"$t":"2017-02-23T11:11:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-02-23T11:11:34.219+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1965"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"daleks"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"doctor who"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"robert robinson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"terry nation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"william hartnell"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Dalek Invasion Of RAF Finningley"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh1UH3dlMfsPAB8bO2anP_KHrsHRdvcWDwajOotuLuvsGu6LSxaU7nUqLr7dCn-MJrYfUWBsPkwgiurO0ZNGSAVSzwJZeYSAwpSSNn32t4k22DY1uAIBZYy8D8EGMJ9T-N1S2pDVZukK37e\/s1600\/dalekmag.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh1UH3dlMfsPAB8bO2anP_KHrsHRdvcWDwajOotuLuvsGu6LSxaU7nUqLr7dCn-MJrYfUWBsPkwgiurO0ZNGSAVSzwJZeYSAwpSSNn32t4k22DY1uAIBZYy8D8EGMJ9T-N1S2pDVZukK37e\/s400\/dalekmag.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor all that they might have gone on about their collective fear of typecasting, the various 'classic' \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E lead actors didn't half jump at the chance of an in-character tie-in appearance. Whether it was Jon Pertwee tussling with Aggedor at Glorious Goodwood, Tom Baker dispensing pseudo-scientific facts about his favourite best aliens on \u003Cb\u003EAnimal Magic\u003C\/b\u003E, or Colin Baker going on a ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach for some reason, costumed-up 'canon'-taxing guest spots were a regular and recurring feature of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E in its original incarnation. Even Richard Hurndall got to do his \u003Ci\u003E\"and greetings to you from The Time Lords!\"\u003C\/i\u003E gibberish on a couple of occasions, though nobody has ever been quite sure about what character he was actually 'in'. On rare occasions the companions got in on the act as well, particularly on \u003Cb\u003ECrackerjack\u003C\/b\u003E (\u003Cu\u003Edon't\u003C\/u\u003E) for some reason, and that's not even getting started on Celation from \u003Cb\u003EThe Daleks' Master Plan\u003C\/b\u003E guest-presenting \u003Cb\u003EPoints Of View\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSadly, Celation's little chat - if ever a chat as was - with Robert Robinson no longer exists, but at least it was actually recorded and televised in the first place. During the sixties, before anyone really had the means or indeed the inclination to preserve them in any form, there were literally hundreds of tie-in appearances - particularly at the height of 'Dalekmania' - that came and went and faded into hazy memory with only the odd press cutting to prove they happened, from stage plays to charity events to pop single-plugging to visitors at a \u003Cb\u003EDaily Mail\u003C\/b\u003E-sponsored exhibition being ferried past a collection of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who \u003C\/b\u003Ealiens in a 'Brainy Train', whatever one of those was exactly. And then there was William Hartnell's disconcerting enthusiasm for making appearances at airfields.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPresumably as an adjunct of his previous starring role in long-running ITV sitcom \u003Cb\u003EThe Army Game\u003C\/b\u003E, Hartnell appears to have been invited along to air shows and open days roughly every three minutes, and he also appears to have never turned any of them down. Quite often he would show up in character and costume as The Doctor, sometimes with Daleks in tow, and there was even a vague accompanying 'mini-adventure' narrative of sorts; after his speech is interrupted by an 'Anti-Magnetic Device', The Doctor discovers that the \nDaleks have constructed a 'fort' on the airstrip, and dashes off to alert his good friends at the RAF who promptly unleash a couple \nof torpedoes and blow the malevolent interlopers sky high. Terry Nation's feelings on this somewhat off-agenda use of his creations are sadly not recorded, although the escapade did usually involve the nobody-would-ever-suspect-a-thing deployment of a 'double' for Hartnell during the more action-packed moments, which was at least in keeping with the usual mode of practice for his actual television adventures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNeedless to say, very little evidence of any of these events now remains, apart from - staggeringly - some full colour cine camera footage of one of them. On Saturday 18th September 1965 – the same day that \u003Cb\u003ETrap Of Steel\u003C\/b\u003E, the long-lost second episode of the decidedly Dalek-free \u003Cb\u003EGalaxy 4\u003C\/b\u003E was transmitted by BBC1 – TV’s Doctor Who William Hartnell took part in an RAF Finningley air show along with some Daleks. Well, we say ‘Daleks’, but that's a very loose interpretation of the term. Anyway, we may not have the sights \u003Cu\u003Eand\u003C\/u\u003E sounds of that thrill-packed day, but the few existing seconds of moving footage give us a good idea of... well... not very much at all really.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhgFgH3ly4Cbc3ZXkdDRAOiJlrgpEn5Yf575B-APAzcebxEICJyaJSAnTPiSqxprkSOozmUKPNmuQkRa7iWRU_oH2ol7WD_V3JV_jnZZNKzDUB3jNREbIC3d3GTkr4InBM8SjzD4dB8XD1d\/s1600\/hartnellair2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhgFgH3ly4Cbc3ZXkdDRAOiJlrgpEn5Yf575B-APAzcebxEICJyaJSAnTPiSqxprkSOozmUKPNmuQkRa7iWRU_oH2ol7WD_V3JV_jnZZNKzDUB3jNREbIC3d3GTkr4InBM8SjzD4dB8XD1d\/s400\/hartnellair2.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn an unexpected new twist to the big news story of 1963, William Hartnell arrives at Dealey Plaza; controversy and debate will subsequently rage over whether The Thin White Crochety Old Man was giving an 'inappropriate' salute or simply waving to a fan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh_ltWHvjpXDg3uiKT3vKvwW0Y9OeIvJIKcXk8Y3_7GiVmCaPHUCiGDxEc6E_FGX6SbxWASqGo2r0OEBuWbgCyeHw-UdtCfiERaFRVzn8Ffig9rhBXGZPJmUAe_bIe7dU6I_31YRnwEvhek\/s1600\/hartnellair1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh_ltWHvjpXDg3uiKT3vKvwW0Y9OeIvJIKcXk8Y3_7GiVmCaPHUCiGDxEc6E_FGX6SbxWASqGo2r0OEBuWbgCyeHw-UdtCfiERaFRVzn8Ffig9rhBXGZPJmUAe_bIe7dU6I_31YRnwEvhek\/s400\/hartnellair1.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDangling from a helicopter due to some unspecified 'mini-adventure' plot detail, Hartnell's stunt double puts in an unconvincing bid to secure the role of the next Milk Tray Man. Meanwhile, down on the ground, you can just about make out one of the 'Daleks'. Looks pretty convincing from this distance, doesn't it? Well, just you wait.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiaMm0ULFJbQmmhl-xXSoIYptIlrmlboYISBVkdCi6hXOw68vYKT6iXcFiihKeVRB3f-pLmIslxmd5TlCGr5RyGSrY2RrL6d4LHScLUrlnkyizA5ij9iV6l1789XXo1WA_SLaNZWxBNTShN\/s1600\/hartnellair3.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiaMm0ULFJbQmmhl-xXSoIYptIlrmlboYISBVkdCi6hXOw68vYKT6iXcFiihKeVRB3f-pLmIslxmd5TlCGr5RyGSrY2RrL6d4LHScLUrlnkyizA5ij9iV6l1789XXo1WA_SLaNZWxBNTShN\/s400\/hartnellair3.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWith full strength undiluted 'Dalekmania' taking full effect, the crowds are clearly enthralled by the unfolding spectacle. So much so, in fact, that they haven't noticed The Queen arriving to take a look. She preferred The Voord anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEixJJchxo_YOhra44EiFjUqKsKQBZFGuj3P2-DWbMIwG0g-W_20kpauZXiXWKYfjvKwgRQoFkZZ_h25MWZJ1aauHRimcTSC_LO0X-IEnjpfDFRPFevezLTiIxMmzFCToiQzB9vLXHMIZSFe\/s1600\/hartnellair4.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEixJJchxo_YOhra44EiFjUqKsKQBZFGuj3P2-DWbMIwG0g-W_20kpauZXiXWKYfjvKwgRQoFkZZ_h25MWZJ1aauHRimcTSC_LO0X-IEnjpfDFRPFevezLTiIxMmzFCToiQzB9vLXHMIZSFe\/s400\/hartnellair4.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAfter someone realises that the audience would probably feel a bit short-changed without one, some sort of cage box thingy that we're probably best off not knowing the real purpose of is hastily redecorated as a vague approximation of a 'Tardis', which some high-spirited youngsters promptly attempt to upend. Clayton Hickman is reportedly 'concerned' by this turn of events.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiPhh-F-S8PCsxGbBPAO40ITQiEJZW3-2hP6O8IcFyPsQ4VlNwrcoKCyQyy87PG18KcusOifs4BtQLvPUYNJv-ox4L_zlQX7UYcmpEsmSDvWi5vOaCW1JL1oaiZAPDntFWuWvH4Bq6J4YTQ\/s1600\/hartnellair5.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiPhh-F-S8PCsxGbBPAO40ITQiEJZW3-2hP6O8IcFyPsQ4VlNwrcoKCyQyy87PG18KcusOifs4BtQLvPUYNJv-ox4L_zlQX7UYcmpEsmSDvWi5vOaCW1JL1oaiZAPDntFWuWvH4Bq6J4YTQ\/s400\/hartnellair5.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs everyone knows, Daleks should only be demonstrated to youngsters by qualified experts in lab coats, and the organisers of the air show have gone one better and added to an already star-studded bill by persuading The Prof from \u003Cb\u003EVision On\u003C\/b\u003E to do the honours. Here he is also introducing some young attendees to a haphazardly repainted diving bell with random number labelling and some kind of lurid red jagged symbol on top. Meanwhile if anyone can identify that crater-festooned planet, please get in touch.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjv-2r-c6OPlV9DUGob_U8kNB87J6ow0-Oo1BeVbE5WEIjYzUOXU1ijILpSM3Go_9EDH1vdpoU3k2g5jLs4TqVuAu4yNjua8ZHiSy7A7dD7ZCWrZABhkOgq4egxYIPzYTuVg6TSEA0VVDfC\/s1600\/hartnellair6.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjv-2r-c6OPlV9DUGob_U8kNB87J6ow0-Oo1BeVbE5WEIjYzUOXU1ijILpSM3Go_9EDH1vdpoU3k2g5jLs4TqVuAu4yNjua8ZHiSy7A7dD7ZCWrZABhkOgq4egxYIPzYTuVg6TSEA0VVDfC\/s400\/hartnellair6.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\"But how did the Daleks get up stairs? Eh? Eh? The stairs? How did they get up them? Eh?\"\u003C\/i\u003E. By walking on their feet. A fact so widely known and recognised that these two youngers cannot even be bothered turning their heads to have a look.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgPjkUgThqgKTZxSrVIp09VSDvW1-8rjNigRfQnIMyMryEtShKEJRJHMuPTaYYe-Sv8Kt-CootW8Az8AQYuD03XWaa45bMU1k6-L5VZe8LX7OzzC19XNkLszGOUtjjihlNKP1pVmuYEPK32\/s1600\/hartnellair7.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgPjkUgThqgKTZxSrVIp09VSDvW1-8rjNigRfQnIMyMryEtShKEJRJHMuPTaYYe-Sv8Kt-CootW8Az8AQYuD03XWaa45bMU1k6-L5VZe8LX7OzzC19XNkLszGOUtjjihlNKP1pVmuYEPK32\/s400\/hartnellair7.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe most convincing Dalek yet achieves speeds in excess of 234.9mph, before breaking off and heading for Brand's Hatch, where it effortlessly beat Lorenzo Bandini and Graham Hill into second and third place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhsOdijkfqpzOuZoVJRtncnoCRrBzlwRPpTZv8KEJDexQL2MaXmDk4wQQbQb1Sgj9MN9U-vlOeyf4ZnSfEwzjJ1z0f2eKMULigqqVg9nTJNcr17b5FXuMpMC95M0ozZ9MIjx7Aymc2Xn20Z\/s1600\/hartnellair8.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhsOdijkfqpzOuZoVJRtncnoCRrBzlwRPpTZv8KEJDexQL2MaXmDk4wQQbQb1Sgj9MN9U-vlOeyf4ZnSfEwzjJ1z0f2eKMULigqqVg9nTJNcr17b5FXuMpMC95M0ozZ9MIjx7Aymc2Xn20Z\/s400\/hartnellair8.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn a neat bit of cross-promotion, The Mystery Machine tows two reconfigured shuttlecocks past the awestruck crowds. How this fitted into the 'story' is anyone's guess, frankly.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiJZmwsDOoD4IDNqO7r4zWntS8rySjtADnoI9nvYrZS1_Z1cNQccep9uFTbQc08c1ktNnYwANKCN5vcrWxVR9RBBZEdZI_gOKViA6Y5cfgBVi_sm6mZ1HDQswVSzG7WijTHOfhddsOwpzl6\/s1600\/hartnellair9.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiJZmwsDOoD4IDNqO7r4zWntS8rySjtADnoI9nvYrZS1_Z1cNQccep9uFTbQc08c1ktNnYwANKCN5vcrWxVR9RBBZEdZI_gOKViA6Y5cfgBVi_sm6mZ1HDQswVSzG7WijTHOfhddsOwpzl6\/s400\/hartnellair9.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd finally, the fun family day out concludes with a precision-targeted explosion in which everyone's favourite TV villains are seared from existence in a torrent of smoke and flame. In fairness, it's amazing to think that any visual record of an event of this kind exists at all, let alone in colour. In equal fairness, it's also amazing to think that this and many, many, many other examples of harmless yet decidedly off-message ridiculousness were signed off, approved and authorised where nowadays they would be sent packing at the very first hint of a Brand Awareness meeting. Honestly, providing a bit of cheap and cheerful extra-curricular entertainment for average everyday mainstream viewers of a popular television show - what a thought. It's almost worth writing to \u003Cb\u003EPoints Of View\u003C\/b\u003E about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1qW_K4PS4s_aNxUagwKpDZMX8JZlNhH93w6mTgmC5d3dOzdumLfIyMkxqqzpeGFWJ1BGajtc-aE3Y2LIFnBgYqHIP2H-DuQA2EUjdV3rrslSOEHqx-zYHQLFq00rfjhWU_YO6W-WbkUBz\/s1600\/dalkplane.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1qW_K4PS4s_aNxUagwKpDZMX8JZlNhH93w6mTgmC5d3dOzdumLfIyMkxqqzpeGFWJ1BGajtc-aE3Y2LIFnBgYqHIP2H-DuQA2EUjdV3rrslSOEHqx-zYHQLFq00rfjhWU_YO6W-WbkUBz\/s400\/dalkplane.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EYou can read more about \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E's early extra-curricular activities, including a little-known radio appearance by the Daleks, in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/07\/not-on-your-telly-excursions-into.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENot On Your Telly\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/261549883057304679"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/261549883057304679"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/the-dalek-invasion-of-raf-finningley.html","title":"The Dalek Invasion Of RAF Finningley"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh1UH3dlMfsPAB8bO2anP_KHrsHRdvcWDwajOotuLuvsGu6LSxaU7nUqLr7dCn-MJrYfUWBsPkwgiurO0ZNGSAVSzwJZeYSAwpSSNn32t4k22DY1uAIBZYy8D8EGMJ9T-N1S2pDVZukK37e\/s72-c\/dalekmag.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-5550621628905410998"},"published":{"$t":"2016-07-11T21:00:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-07-06T11:13:19.217+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1966"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1967"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cybermen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"daleks"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"doctor who"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"it's still a police box"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"patrick troughton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"william hartnell"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Five: Well It's A Marvellous Night For The Moonbase"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEidD7crE99iLqY8Q5sHrDMq9h96yg_a-gV0uAPFXgPH89V5gVU2ta3p3W92_k5LKzeayq7l4M3cQKU3FNt2MGbCPYE4sNG9ODWL9cyENe_YfpFo6QyqpVLk18XslxIa4JNvC_cjN4Zsg9-V\/s1600\/evildaleksemp.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEidD7crE99iLqY8Q5sHrDMq9h96yg_a-gV0uAPFXgPH89V5gVU2ta3p3W92_k5LKzeayq7l4M3cQKU3FNt2MGbCPYE4sNG9ODWL9cyENe_YfpFo6QyqpVLk18XslxIa4JNvC_cjN4Zsg9-V\/s400\/evildaleksemp.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E's fourth outing in 1966-67 marked something of a turning point for the show, featuring the first ever change of lead actor, and what at the time was intended to be the last ever appearance of The Daleks. That would-be farewell appearance came at the end of what many consider to be the finest story of the entire sixties, which shared its intricate plotting and eerie old-skool sci-fi atmosphere with another similarly lauded Dalek story earlier in the run. And those three factors have overshadowed pretty much everything else in the series; this includes the debut and first return appearance of The Cybermen, the last 'pure' historical adventure, and three stories about which comparatively next to nothing is known. Oh and \u003Cb\u003EThe Underwater Menace\u003C\/b\u003E, which is fantastic and not rubbish like \u003Cu\u003Eyou\u003C\/u\u003E thought. Once again, there are huge visual gaps - most importantly, we've no way of knowing why Polly suddenly has The Doctor's hat on at the end of \u003Cb\u003EThe Underwater Menace\u003C\/b\u003E - but in most cases there's enough left to get at least a sense of what was going on, and in any case, there's huge swathes of the series that don't get written about enough. So let's not waste any more time and get on with making up for that...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EJimmy Savile References For You, And You And You And You\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhI1fPWGGFCVtIJNxr46J5JDms6vj9l2RjFRdH4lcIYbd21pDRGZg78VmQ7hFzCM30HaPst6k95PvUHA4pM5UwbZW37mP9DymZTlAZGophCM7yiju4sIaQlx5GgnuBRATXXCoGmt0tMzI62\/s1600\/10thplanetjimmy.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhI1fPWGGFCVtIJNxr46J5JDms6vj9l2RjFRdH4lcIYbd21pDRGZg78VmQ7hFzCM30HaPst6k95PvUHA4pM5UwbZW37mP9DymZTlAZGophCM7yiju4sIaQlx5GgnuBRATXXCoGmt0tMzI62\/s400\/10thplanetjimmy.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/05\/its-still-police-box-why-hasnt-it.html\"\u003Ethe previous instalment\u003C\/a\u003E, we tried our hardest to swerve discreetly around the blatant reference in \u003Cb\u003EThe War Machines\u003C\/b\u003E to that most now-discredited of former Radio 1 DJs, \u003Cb\u003ETop Of The Pops\u003C\/b\u003E presenters and general Fixers of 'It', TV's Scrawny Old Bastard. Nicely averted, you may have thought. Neatly swept under the carpet. Now we can move quietly and happily on and not have to think about him ever again. Well, not until \u003Cb\u003EThe Two Doctors\u003C\/b\u003E at any rate. Imagine the 'surprise', then, when \u003Cb\u003EThe Tenth Planet\u003C\/b\u003E opened with Dyson at Mission Control requesting that the astronauts change their communications channel to 'J For Jimmy', complete with suspiciously familiar vocal tremulance and audible quote marks. If you're in any doubt, Williams immediately repeats the line aboard the rocket in an ordinary voice, and the difference couldn't be clearer. There's probably a serious point to be made in there somewhere about how these sorry individuals were once a part of everyday life, but 'serious' isn't really the point of this exercise, and in any case, he's part of the reason behind why we're in the mess we're in right now and would probably be quite pleased if he could see the chaos he's caused, so let's just move on. Hmmm, really not doing too well at this 'not serious' business there. We can but hope that something ridiculous is coming along soon. Maybe even in the same episode...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EKrrrrrrrail And Krang The Finest Cybermen You Ever Wanna Meet\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgjsHaYfAcizuhPOKGjnt1YK9V2_kPowdU7sIBAjEFSR9X_M7XEpwCCULwA2DivPC5d17SCEt54ZQjo9AaKtIB08qqzUhp4denlJ_V2wUEq8xSVUi5OnwjxncLe31r6pPBhTNXP15yAjZLs\/s1600\/krailkrang.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgjsHaYfAcizuhPOKGjnt1YK9V2_kPowdU7sIBAjEFSR9X_M7XEpwCCULwA2DivPC5d17SCEt54ZQjo9AaKtIB08qqzUhp4denlJ_V2wUEq8xSVUi5OnwjxncLe31r6pPBhTNXP15yAjZLs\/s400\/krailkrang.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOne of the most pleasing developments in 'Old' \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E in recent times has been the rehabilitation of the original Cybermen. Time was when - largely on the basis of a handful of not particularly unfuzzy publicity photos - the cloth-faced variants with their impractical chest units were at best the target of derision and at worst as good as written out of Cyber-History; it's possible that David Banks might have given them a fairer crack of the whip in that breakfast bar-sized book he wrote about Cybermen, especially as one of the tie-in audiobooks had a little-known 'Lucozade' variant on the front, though experts are still divided on whether anyone has actually read it. When people actually got to see what's left of \u003Cb\u003EThe Tenth Planet\u003C\/b\u003E in halfway decent quality where you can tell the blizzard-set scenes apart from the rest of it, though, everyone suddenly realised that they looked quite good after all; the more 'human' approach to their design makes them all the more chillingly believable as cyborgs gone too far, not least because in glorious Restoration Team-ed up quality you can actually see their hands and eyes ghosting through. There's only one problem with this. Whenever they appear on the screen, their arrival is heralded by a stock music-derived bit of electronically-treated trumpet, which picks out the exact same notes as the opening fanfare from Jackie Wilson's \u003Cb\u003EReet Petite\u003C\/b\u003E. True, it's not like we then get a claymation Hartnell leaping about the screen singing \u003Ci\u003E\"wellllllll, look about look about look about look about ooo-eee!\"\u003C\/i\u003E, but once you've noticed it, it's hard to hear it without laughing. And while we're about it, why were The Cybermen so intent on invading The BBC Globe? And why does the computer text in the opening titles say 'NXOZ' over and over again? Well, you might find the answers hidden somewhere amongst a load of analogue data if you press that whopping great 'LOAD' button over there, as...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThey Didn't Half Like Their Big Spools Of Tape\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjvCse-8P8Z0roiQghbn4MGfs8Jr_ezMoAuIh5lwloShvpTM6T7-9StE1cf0j44lhpzbML-HsKT7yu8vBWInaJ2cgJfVOZLRSwRsuP8gUVsP_aCuhFgGabNAj_acxfmUv9caDsm-rcERLW9\/s1600\/spools.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjvCse-8P8Z0roiQghbn4MGfs8Jr_ezMoAuIh5lwloShvpTM6T7-9StE1cf0j44lhpzbML-HsKT7yu8vBWInaJ2cgJfVOZLRSwRsuP8gUVsP_aCuhFgGabNAj_acxfmUv9caDsm-rcERLW9\/s400\/spools.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOne of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E's most noticeable weak links, especially in the seventies and eighties, was in its attempts to predict how 'future' technology might look and function. In the sixties, however, it wasn't quite so bad; although there are still some famously risible examples, the 'computers' tended to involve little more than blank flat surfaces, minimalist switches and buttons, and occasional blinking lights. In all honesty this was probably borne more out of budgetary concerns than any attempt at accurately anticipating the microchip revolution, but while they don't exactly look like computers as we recognise them now, they do at least feel a little less comically antiquated and outmoded as a result. That said, they do tend to be liberally decorated with gigantic stop-starting tape spools, whirring merrily away with chunky ferric thickness and nowadays not so much suggesting lightning-speed processing of huge blocks of data as they do George Martin furrowing his brow over those Beatle boys' latest krazy sonic innovation. This was particularly prevalent in Patrick Troughton's first series for some reason, reaching its apex (or indeed Ampex) with the 'four spools to a terminal' madness of \u003Cb\u003EThe Moonbase\u003C\/b\u003E, suggesting that they'd have been much quicker in stopping The Cybermen if Brian Wilson had just come in and pressed a few buttons before shouting \u003Ci\u003E\"top, please\"\u003C\/i\u003E. Actually, you can't help but notice that despite some prominent attempts at moving forwards in late sixties \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, it really does tend to be men who get to press said buttons. Although that said, over in another corner of The Moonbase...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThat 'Sexist' Bit Isn't Actually As Sexist As Everyone Seems To Think \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiJR4wgIFk7XkTVmulaWiwwjEtaVEJPTc1qKZMqGQTJ5pCdR4DG1ElrKpdcUCXsnl5oRBPu_wgfBzp6Lj6aVKZY3ArMvepZD3hdlKHnTg9qCc-4df0tANc_Y6iPrHISGKEjN4gqiGmJ3KbR\/s1600\/pollycoffee.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiJR4wgIFk7XkTVmulaWiwwjEtaVEJPTc1qKZMqGQTJ5pCdR4DG1ElrKpdcUCXsnl5oRBPu_wgfBzp6Lj6aVKZY3ArMvepZD3hdlKHnTg9qCc-4df0tANc_Y6iPrHISGKEjN4gqiGmJ3KbR\/s400\/pollycoffee.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nShe might not look too much like the original Cybermen, but another welcome development in recent times has been the rehabilitation of mid-sixties assistant Polly. Once not so much misrepresented as just plain ignored, to the extent that an official book about 'The Companions' dismissed her with a single sentence that literally said nothing more than that she was in the Tardis once, the fact that it has since become possible to see what's left of her episodes (and hear what isn't) has done much to restore her reputation as something a bit more than just stripy tops and over-washed hair. True, we're still missing some key visual moments like her active plot-dominance in \u003Cb\u003EThe Smugglers\u003C\/b\u003E and \u003Cb\u003EThe Highlanders\u003C\/b\u003E, and those creepy operating theatre scenes in \u003Cb\u003EThe Underwater Menace\u003C\/b\u003E do nobody any favours, but on the other hand there's still her arguing ethics with The Cybermen in \u003Cb\u003EThe Tenth Planet\u003C\/b\u003E, puzzle-solving in (if you count that BBC Audiobooks reconstruction) \u003Cb\u003EThe Power Of The Daleks\u003C\/b\u003E, and at least halfway entertaining over-the-top screaming in the few surviving seconds of \u003Cb\u003EThe Macra Terror\u003C\/b\u003E. And then there's that blisteringly good first episode after The Doctor regenerates, which is largely given over to Polly and Ben fretting about who this mysterious stranger wittering about his fingernails really is. The most frequently seen footage of Polly, however, comes from the second episode of \u003Cb\u003EThe Moonbase\u003C\/b\u003E, and is usually deployed to illustrate allegations of rampant patronising sexism in early \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E. These allegations are not without rock solid foundation, it has to be admitted, but this isn't really the right clip to underline them with. On face value, of course, the exchange \u003Ci\u003E\"You've found something?\"\u003C\/i\u003E - \u003Ci\u003E\"Oh Polly, I only wish I had... why not make some coffee to keep them all happy while I think of something?\"\u003C\/i\u003E looks about as pat-on-the-head leave-it-to-me-dear mansplainy as it's possible to get. That's when you just look at the exchange itself, though. In actual fact, it comes at the end of a scene where The Doctor has been constantly interrupted by tinfoil hat panic merchants (some of them actually wearing tinfoil hats) babbling nonsense while he's trying to analyse a mystery virus striking down the base's crew, and while a more respectful and sensitive way of expressing it could have been found, he's actually enlisting Polly's help in distracting them while he concentrates; something that is entirely in keeping with her espionage-trained subterfugal shenanigans in other stories, even if it is a poor use of her talents. Also, although we don't know this yet, The Doctor wants some coffee made so he can test his theory that it's actually responsible for spreading the virus. This is far from being the most gloriously progressive moment in the entire history of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, but it's also not \u003Cu\u003Equite\u003C\/u\u003E what it gets made out to be either. And while we're blithely raising hackles about sensitive subjects...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ENo, He Reinforced Stereotypes Of His Own Accord \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiHzVV8Iol3IgDU4SC8JtOCT0Ly4paVCHOWGYX13CX_i9B7BhoSxpplPS-cVs64sjldW93CGNxq7PRV9kQZ3QWFh64s1k8LowPcXTqTG8LoG45ijbrJp5RM_L71UOPmt21J_HtA80aDT3Na\/s1600\/jamaica.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiHzVV8Iol3IgDU4SC8JtOCT0Ly4paVCHOWGYX13CX_i9B7BhoSxpplPS-cVs64sjldW93CGNxq7PRV9kQZ3QWFh64s1k8LowPcXTqTG8LoG45ijbrJp5RM_L71UOPmt21J_HtA80aDT3Na\/s400\/jamaica.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Tenth Planet\u003C\/b\u003E boasts a notable first for \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, with sixties TV regular Earl Cameron becoming the first black actor to appear in the series in a straightforward supporting role with absolutely no allusions whatsoever made to race, discrimination or background. And that lengthy qualifier is there because the story before that, \u003Cb\u003EThe Smugglers\u003C\/b\u003E, features poor old Elroy Josephs in a role that is absolutely nothing of the sort. Starey-eyed, maniacally laughing, insultingly named and ignorantly superstitious, 'Jamaica' fills out Captain Pike's motley assortment of cut-throat privateers in a manner that, while certainly far from offensive or bigoted, would look decidedly uncomfortable on modern television. In fact, given that the story also features liberal use of daggers and a morally dubious position on seafaring lawlessness, it's probable that \u003Cb\u003EThe Smugglers\u003C\/b\u003E would cause some serious headaches if it were to be suddenly returned to the BBC now. In fairness, it's probably a realistic depiction of how a real-life 'Jamaica' would have acted, and he does get what sounds like a fantastic scene playing cards with William Hartnell, but it's still a tad unnerving and in some ways it's sad that Josephs - a fine actor and choreographer, an academic, and an individual who did much to change race perception in the arts - is really only known to any significant number of people for this role. Still, maybe we shouldn't expect better from a run of episodes that includes the line \u003Ci\u003E\"Polly, you speak foreign\"\u003C\/i\u003E. Though we should at least be grateful that they never went with Patrick Troughton's original suggestion that he should black up as washerwoman or whatever it was. Anyway, on to slightly less sensitive subject matter...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\"You'll Find That The Whole Plane Conforms Strictly To The International Standards Of Air Safety\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjyIcpTWog8uITTkEeOkKrcumUd79DEole-9LNin2sBjHXWfmtSsHK_ooMYxt1AVqVNsgvlV0EzqmkT0TwUH__Gkvji4ZUSapfGJ7tJ2QKMC4g6Ki08acNofgn8lle9L9899zjv7nDn8xpG\/s1600\/facelessplane.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjyIcpTWog8uITTkEeOkKrcumUd79DEole-9LNin2sBjHXWfmtSsHK_ooMYxt1AVqVNsgvlV0EzqmkT0TwUH__Gkvji4ZUSapfGJ7tJ2QKMC4g6Ki08acNofgn8lle9L9899zjv7nDn8xpG\/s400\/facelessplane.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTee hee hee, say Pappy's Fun Club and their ilk on snorty point-and-laugh clip shows. \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E always had cardboard monsters and rubber walls or something, not like when it came back and it was good. And we say bollocks, frankly. Go away and actually watch some of it, then do a considerable amount of reading about the wider context of television production in the sixties and seventies, and then make up some original jokes that are actually funny and have some semblance of a basis in reality. And then go and jump in a bin. Though, let's be honest about it, there's some occasions when you just have to throw your hands up and admit it. In Episode Three of \u003Cb\u003EThe Faceless Ones\u003C\/b\u003E, there's a scene in which Captain Blade - who we don't yet know is actually a seaweed-faced alien planning to repopulate his home world with humans - is trying to assure suspicious DI Crossland that Chameleon Tours have got nothing to do with the disappearing planeloads of Club 18-30-type revellers. This he does by boasting about how well constructed their planes are, while standing in front of some flimsy-looking panels complete with a gap between two of them that you could fly a Laker Skytrain through, and as an air hostess hefts some luggage onto an already buckling overhead compartment which responds by, putting it mildly, bouncing. Perhaps if they wanted to fool the puny Earthlings into believing that the cunning replicas of their friends and relatives were the genuine article, they ought to have started by using a more convincing-looking plane.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThere Is No Such Thing As Macra!\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjGTY28gjmuIjO4FHnjl-uibSa79RDTjEajyqKIIxsj_JpfRLHngdku-PhkN98a9ClVrxUylQqbqVfhtAL0vOa8pMxNkqGKIuMRBlLzMxgL6U-zDgyV7yehbffDTZlOLPQLVODn85ur113Y\/s1600\/macpolly2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjGTY28gjmuIjO4FHnjl-uibSa79RDTjEajyqKIIxsj_JpfRLHngdku-PhkN98a9ClVrxUylQqbqVfhtAL0vOa8pMxNkqGKIuMRBlLzMxgL6U-zDgyV7yehbffDTZlOLPQLVODn85ur113Y\/s400\/macpolly2.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs you may have gathered from the introduction, I have gone on and on and on many times before now about how much I like \u003Cb\u003EThe Underwater Menace\u003C\/b\u003E, including an entire chapter in \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/01\/well-at-least-its-free.html\"\u003EWell At Least It's Free\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E. So if you want to read my rather forceful singing of its praises, you're probably better headed for there (and it's got loads of other stuff in it about early \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E too). Of course, since \u003Cb\u003EWell At Least It's Free\u003C\/b\u003E was first published, a whole other episode of \u003Cb\u003EThe Underwater Menace\u003C\/b\u003E has been found, and there has been much talk of how this has done much to restore the story's previously Atlantean-depth low reputation; although a quick glance at \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who Magazine\u003C\/b\u003E's 2014 'every story ever' poll reveals that it is still languishing at a shockingly undeserved 224 out of 241. Clearly quite a few things in the world can stop it now. It's interesting to note, though, that with the exception of the two Dalek stories - which we'll be coming back to in a moment - not one story from this series actually appears inside the top one hundred; not even the one with the first regeneration and the first appearance by The Cybermen. Clearly the fact that so little from it still exists - in fact, it's now the only series without a single surviving full story to its name - has some bearing on this, though equally that makes it all the more puzzling that fans aren't more curious about the more tantalisingly obscure stories, and in particular \u003Cb\u003EThe Macra Terror\u003C\/b\u003E. On face value, it would seem to have everything; sinister Orwellian overtones, the over-vaunted 'Base Under Siege' format, Nerve Gas-toting giant crabs, the Tardis crew divided by TV and Muzak-propagated mind control, and Polly roadtesting a brand new Mod Girl 'pixie cut'. And yet, although it got more than respectable ratings and even provoked a bit of controversy with the usual planks writing to \u003Cb\u003ERadio Times\u003C\/b\u003E asking why Dr. Who couldn't ever meet some nice aliens on his travels and share his pie with Itchy and then they both have pie, \u003Cb\u003EThe Macra Terror\u003C\/b\u003E now might as well just not have existed in the first place. In many ways and on many levels, this is the closest that sixties \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E gets to that tantalisingly lost demo take of \u003Cb\u003EThe Girl I Knew Somewhere\u003C\/b\u003E with the newly-recruited Monkees playing their own instruments, and yet to so many fans it's seemingly just something that's \u003Cu\u003Ethere\u003C\/u\u003E. Or \u003Cu\u003Ewas\u003C\/u\u003E there, rather. Frankly, this says a lot about the pointless obsession with 'milestones', 'landmarks', 'classics', 'anniversaries' and all of the other ultimately meaningless labels that dictate what we should and shouldn't be taking notice of, and it would be nice to see it found and watch the story leap up in everyone's estimation like \u003Cb\u003EThe Enemy Of The World\u003C\/b\u003E did. But whatever you do, don't send drunken texts from the pub ordering certain individuals to sodding well give their copy back to the BBC...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWhat Did The BBC Have Against The Highlanders?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhPN_wcalCVLRCTgWcFAFp8LqHycfXVxmJEsO1ykWuKUAK7TKh1YZEPWJdGgXTU00PY0TnOMUgRR-D29wzxxu6myzi4-_HS6DgiKLPJPC-7gC8-vEwVk6U3_I4tpHFd7ard3JQfYEI9pMC-\/s1600\/highlanders_2038.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhPN_wcalCVLRCTgWcFAFp8LqHycfXVxmJEsO1ykWuKUAK7TKh1YZEPWJdGgXTU00PY0TnOMUgRR-D29wzxxu6myzi4-_HS6DgiKLPJPC-7gC8-vEwVk6U3_I4tpHFd7ard3JQfYEI9pMC-\/s400\/highlanders_2038.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd speaking of entirely wiped stories, \u003Cb\u003EThe Highlanders\u003C\/b\u003E might well have been the last of the 'pure' historical adventures, but it was also the first ever story for which the VT transmission masters were wiped. What's more, all four of them were held up against a giant magnet on 9th March 1967, which those of you who have such trivia indelibly drilled into your subconscious will have noticed was less than two months after they were transmitted. Even allowing for the fact most fans just won't accept that wipings were basically a matter of course and down to a combination of technical necessity and nobody realising that anything might have any use beyond one repeat (and even they were rare), this seems suspiciously quick, especially considering that there were dozens of other \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E master tapes knocking about that hadn't been used in up to three years. What could possibly have offended them so much about a fun costumed runaround that looked halfway atmospheric, gave Polly a Hannah Gordon-portrayed sparring partner to get up to girly hi-jinks with, and introduced a young clan piper called Jamie McCrimmon who proved so popular that he was quickly installed as a new regular character (once his accent had 'mellowed' to 'TV Scots', that is)? Well, the answer of course is 'nothing' - BBC Enterprises had already made their film copies (which they held on to until at least 1974), and had placed a 'Retention Order' on earlier stories apparently in order to make better copies using a newer system; once these had been made, the bulk of the preceding adventures were wiped within weeks. True, this isn't quite as exciting as someone somewhere making some obscure artistic point about the lack of popularity of the historical stories, but in some respects the sheer by-the-book form-filling mundanity of it all is all the more chilling. Solicitor Grey would have been proud. As for why that BBC Audiobooks Telesnap\/audio reconstruction never actually came out, though, well that's another story. Although we did at least get to enjoy...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EMedley: Mr Sludge The Snail\/Can You Sew Cushions?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj5NTqEeGXofhyphenhyphen88VaUisC-Vyo9-pw54RKrW3j2yGhpgqA5f56yRq6hN0f7BQfUhC_2Ko-eoicvuBBRs-IJYFdWNePOqIwWNk7HSvv6kDxwunxhrYLVw5N3YxPmj2zE5w9fqEh-E9jYq6y1\/s1600\/recorder.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj5NTqEeGXofhyphenhyphen88VaUisC-Vyo9-pw54RKrW3j2yGhpgqA5f56yRq6hN0f7BQfUhC_2Ko-eoicvuBBRs-IJYFdWNePOqIwWNk7HSvv6kDxwunxhrYLVw5N3YxPmj2zE5w9fqEh-E9jYq6y1\/s400\/recorder.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAlong with his not-actually-that-'Beatlesque' 'Beatlesque mop', and the not-actually-that-loud 'loud' orange and black check trousers that were apparently 'taken in at the rate of an inch a week' (presumably resembling Spandex by the end of his run), the blue and white striped recorder was one of The Second Doctor's most recognisable visual characteristics. Even if inattentive writers and directors kept calling it a 'flute'. That said, he never actually seemed to be that proficient on the instrument, appearing to spend the majority of the time picking out shrill random notes in a manner akin to Roland Kirk collaborating with AMM. However, according to production documentation, he did actually play two recognisable melodies in the first episode of \u003Cb\u003EThe Power Of The Daleks\u003C\/b\u003E, which had the preposterous titles \u003Cb\u003ECan You Sew Cushions? \u003C\/b\u003Eand\u003Cb\u003E Mr Sludge The Snail\u003C\/b\u003E. Some have speculated that songs with such ludicrous names could never actually have existed, but close investigation reveals that they were all too real, if slightly arcane choices. \u003Cb\u003ECan You Sew Cushions?\u003C\/b\u003E turns out to have been a traditional Scottish folk song, which after posing that thorny question goes on to enquire whether the lyrical target can also sew 'sheets' and something about going 'hee' and 'haw' at a lamb. \u003Cb\u003EMr Sludge The Snail\u003C\/b\u003E, on the other hand, was written especially for the BBC Schools' Radio programme \u003Cb\u003ETime And Tune\u003C\/b\u003E by producer and occasional Radiophonic Workshop extra pair of hands Jenyth Worsley, and its inclusion here was presumably an early nod towards cross-platform postmodernism that didn't quite come off. The lyrics, in case you were interested, were essentially concerned with the fact that Mr Sludge was 'medium-sized', which you have to admit in the snail scheme of things doesn't really mean very much at all. Meanwhile, you may have noticed that the colour of Troughton's trouser check and recorder stripes will have been completely immaterial to black and white viewers, thus rendering the entire history of fan cliche lexicon invalid. As you were.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EDALEKS-CONQUER-AND-DESTROY!\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjBWW5jHnSVsv1rDG8vX9fyKkpwMea-ESilZ7SPP06SJbeqwH1_cirBdpJWDP4HC8QnR5yIbRLEZqUhS9H0sdiNq-N9RDXaakWyFpZHvlfmmylVhjr6eOeXVcq2vaIilkOxITyo43P0yY5m\/s1600\/daleksconquer.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjBWW5jHnSVsv1rDG8vX9fyKkpwMea-ESilZ7SPP06SJbeqwH1_cirBdpJWDP4HC8QnR5yIbRLEZqUhS9H0sdiNq-N9RDXaakWyFpZHvlfmmylVhjr6eOeXVcq2vaIilkOxITyo43P0yY5m\/s400\/daleksconquer.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSeries Four doesn't quite \u003Cu\u003Estart\u003C\/u\u003E with a Dalek story, but it certainly ends with one, and between the two they not only overshadow most of sixties \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, but a good deal of what's come since as well. In that \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who Magazine\u003C\/b\u003E poll we mentioned earlier, \u003Cb\u003EThe Evil Of The Daleks\u003C\/b\u003E sits at number thirty four, and \u003Cb\u003EThe Power Of The Daleks\u003C\/b\u003E at number nineteen, voted there by a readership who, for the most part, cannot possibly have seen anything of them bar the lone surviving episode of the former. In some ways, it's not surprising that they enjoy such a lofty reputation. Both stories transplant The Daleks to tremendous effect into atypical styles of storytelling; claustrophobic Cold War-evoking fifties-style far future thriller for \u003Cb\u003EPower\u003C\/b\u003E, and eerie Robert Louis Stephenson-esque Victorian horror for \u003Cb\u003EEvil\u003C\/b\u003E. They are, in many senses, the last stand of the original vision for \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E. What little visual material survives from the lost episodes looks ever so slightly exciting. And above all, they've got absolutely tons of Daleks, even if they do appear to be working to some form of 'only three to be seen at any one time' rule and the majority are either photographic blow-ups or literally blown-up models. But are these positions really warranted? Not so much from the perspective of asking if they are actually any good, but rather would they still have quite as much across-the-board appeal if they suddenly turned up now? These are, after all, thirteen episodes of mid-sixties studio-bound television drama recorded more or less 'as live', and particularly wordy, moody and ponderous ones at that. Given that a worryingly large proportion of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E fans seem utterly unaware that there were any other television programmes ever, it's hardly surprising that a lot of them don't seem to grasp the context and (cough) 'grammar' of early television, and then on top of that there's those that do get it but just simply - and entirely reasonably - don't like it. If they had to sit through over seven hours of the stuff, how many of them would even make it to the end? Yes, the sort of fans who would gleefully set fire to every last second of television made in the last twenty years to get hold of a single episode of \u003Cb\u003ER.3\u003C\/b\u003E or \u003Cb\u003EOn The Margin\u003C\/b\u003E would be too excited for words, but how many others would be so underwhelmed that both stories immediately plummet to the bottom of the poll to keep \u003Cb\u003EThe Macra Terror\u003C\/b\u003E company? Well, we've no way of knowing. It's not like anyone has found them and is refusing to give them back, is it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMeanwhile, you may have noticed that there have been no further additions to the ongoing \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/01\/its-still-police-box-why-hasnt-it_21.html\"\u003EThey Like Big Butts And They Cannot Lie\u003C\/a\u003E saga. This is purely because so much of this series is missing that it's proved near-impossible to find any examples, though it's a fair bet that the booty-crazy cameramen would have been falling over themselves to get to the rear of the majorettes in \u003Cb\u003EThe Macra Terror\u003C\/b\u003E...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj_9e7gPvmnCgaBKC-OSr1qXrecZiA1ym2icQs7iD-veNT772UGSNudG0yRlZZgqA8V_YRSMAzWEW7vgiOGeGd7paSX-fRxrNR2jpVIEFaRT2GEbq6EpJ4z6jrkOcPDcxyfmLPlI29As512\/s1600\/majorettes.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj_9e7gPvmnCgaBKC-OSr1qXrecZiA1ym2icQs7iD-veNT772UGSNudG0yRlZZgqA8V_YRSMAzWEW7vgiOGeGd7paSX-fRxrNR2jpVIEFaRT2GEbq6EpJ4z6jrkOcPDcxyfmLPlI29As512\/s400\/majorettes.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnyway, join us again next time for Jamie presenting The Clothes Show, \u003Ci\u003E\"AND-YOU-WILL-BE-THE-NEXT\"\u003C\/i\u003E, and of course Padmasambhava, Padmasambhava and not forgetting Padmasambhava...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhXGCgDJLqfBAehyQy-Q_LIGRUSPY9pILH7j42mmiGfvPVbkCQZjSWgoknMjqmEKOqObhoerqVtZpn7mYeLxeJMk904s8DRGune44n4y5PhrpVnBrH9vYzRXQ6SRSrSmsWT2ZeSGdxogyP5\/s1600\/pollyhat2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhXGCgDJLqfBAehyQy-Q_LIGRUSPY9pILH7j42mmiGfvPVbkCQZjSWgoknMjqmEKOqObhoerqVtZpn7mYeLxeJMk904s8DRGune44n4y5PhrpVnBrH9vYzRXQ6SRSrSmsWT2ZeSGdxogyP5\/s400\/pollyhat2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjODCS2A3xYPiXzk3VxTgTKngMX2j2LPHSbk-DkeNjzEb_QLIFZ49I8kEyFq6v1x_pEM_G8_JFP7wjWMM1rIg02PKr-7W96nRD6sCqE-Yvezvv6lwQHQVPZR3KJnQIkEK2zQqe3g_fyRvx-\/s1600\/wellatcov2b.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1067\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjODCS2A3xYPiXzk3VxTgTKngMX2j2LPHSbk-DkeNjzEb_QLIFZ49I8kEyFq6v1x_pEM_G8_JFP7wjWMM1rIg02PKr-7W96nRD6sCqE-Yvezvv6lwQHQVPZR3KJnQIkEK2zQqe3g_fyRvx-\/s200\/wellatcov2b.png\" width=\"133\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EAnd if you want to read a great big nothing-in-ze-world-can-stop-me-now feature on \u003Cb\u003EThe Underwater Menace\u003C\/b\u003E, as well as a\u0026nbsp;detailed feature on \u003Cb\u003EThe Highlanders\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;and all of the other sixties historical stories, you can find one in my book \u003Cb\u003EWell At Least It's Free\u003C\/b\u003E, available in paperback \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/well-at-least-its-free\/paperback\/product-22018388.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or from the Kindle Store \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Well-At-Least-Its-Free-ebook\/dp\/B01M6BBQ9J\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/5550621628905410998"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/5550621628905410998"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2016\/07\/its-still-police-box-why-hasnt-it.html","title":"It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Five: Well It's A Marvellous Night For The Moonbase"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEidD7crE99iLqY8Q5sHrDMq9h96yg_a-gV0uAPFXgPH89V5gVU2ta3p3W92_k5LKzeayq7l4M3cQKU3FNt2MGbCPYE4sNG9ODWL9cyENe_YfpFo6QyqpVLk18XslxIa4JNvC_cjN4Zsg9-V\/s72-c\/evildaleksemp.png","height":"72","width":"72"}}]}});