[Pro-Fun] Who has the Doctor befriended?
ann
the Doctor gone?" That brings to my mind a follow-up question:
"Which figures in Earth history does the Doctor feel close to?"
I can't catalog the ones who are mentioned, the way Luke did with the places
(except I know for certain he befriended Da Vinci (City of Death) and Kublai
Kahn (Marco Polo)), so I'll give the question a different spin:
Based on what we know about the Doctor, who do you imagine he has met and
admired, but has yet to show up in the stories?
(and if you *can* catalog historical personages mentioned in the tales, go for
it!)
I, for one, imagine that he would have befriended Louis Armstrong, and other
jazz musicians of that circle [the Seventh Doctor's love of Jazz is well
documented, and the Second Doctor loved music and was always out to learn new
instruments]...
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ann <capr...@aol.commonSense> kirjoitti
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> "Which figures in Earth history does the Doctor feel close to?"
I Imagine JonDoc hanging out in the gentlemens' clubs of Victorian/Edwardian
England. Nothing naughty about that , I assure you, I just can see him
lounging on a big comfy chair with a cigar. TomDoc--maybe fin-de-siecle
Paris, that's almost a given. Downing a few pints of absinthe with
Toulouse-Lautrec?:)
PeteyDoc probably knows all the famous cricketers from the dawn of time!
Colin--er, did the Doc know Hieronymous Bosch? *ducks*
I agree about 7th Doc and Louis Armstrong:).
Auntie Krizu
ann
>ann <capr...@aol.commonSense>
>> "Which figures in Earth history does the Doctor feel close to?"
>
>
>I agree about 7th Doc and Louis Armstrong:).
So, do you think they had jam sessions together? And if so, what instrument
would the Doctor have played (I'm guessing piano... there was that scene in
Ghostlight...)
David Brider
>From: "Auntie Krizu"
>
>>ann <capr...@aol.commonSense>
>
>>> "Which figures in Earth history does the Doctor feel close to?"
>>
>>
>
>>I agree about 7th Doc and Louis Armstrong:).
>
>So, do you think they had jam sessions together? And if so, what
instrument
>would the Doctor have played (I'm guessing piano... there was that scene in
>Ghostlight...)
I could be wrong, but I *think* it has been stated that the Doc met Louis
Armstrong - possibly only in one of the books rather than onscreen, but it
rings a bell with me.
Somehow I can't really see the Doc as a pianist (and I'm one myself) -
really the only instrument that springs to mind is Patrick's flute/recorder
(hey, maybe the Doc's chums with James Galway?). Possibly he might play sax
from time to time?
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> Somehow I can't really see the Doc as a pianist (and I'm one myself) -
> really the only instrument that springs to mind is Patrick's
flute/recorder
> (hey, maybe the Doc's chums with James Galway?). Possibly he might play
sax
> from time to time?
A reference to the TVM casting couch? :-D
The Fifth Doctor plays a harp in "The Five Doctors" (and indeed reads music)
as well as singing musicals in "Black Orchid". The first Doctor's singing
is inflicted upon a sunbathing Barbara in "The Chase". Can't remember any
other musical moments offhand, save the Sixth Doc tinkling some Bach on the
TARDIS ivories in "Attack of the Cybermen", when it was an organ. Perhaps
he could play piano then. :-D
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>
> ann <capr...@aol.commonSense> kirjoitti
> viestissä:20010201003101...@ng-fk1.aol.com...
>
> > "Which figures in Earth history does the Doctor feel close to?"
>
> I Imagine JonDoc hanging out in the gentlemens' clubs of
Victorian/Edwardian
> England.
And the 1970s -- as he knows Tbby thingummy the Minister in Terror of the
Autons.
Nothing naughty about that , I assure you, I just can see him
> lounging on a big comfy chair with a cigar. TomDoc--maybe fin-de-siecle
> Paris, that's almost a given. Downing a few pints of absinthe with
> Toulouse-Lautrec?:)
Well, his costume was from a Lautrec poster!
Gavin Winters
"Auntie Krizu" wrote
>
> I Imagine JonDoc hanging out in the gentlemens' clubs of
Victorian/Edwardian
> England. Nothing naughty about that , I assure you, I just can see him
> lounging on a big comfy chair with a cigar.
This actually happened (minus the cigar) when JonDoc made a brief cameo in
the NA 'All-Consuming Fire' as a member of a gentlemen's club frequented by
Sherlock Holme's brother Mycroft.
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painted:
>"Which figures in Earth history does the Doctor feel close to?"
>
>I can't catalog the ones who are mentioned, the way Luke did with the places
>(except I know for certain he befriended Da Vinci (City of Death)
And if you get Missing Pieces (plug, plug), you'll find a story in
there written by my other half that features the Eighth Doctor with da
Vinci :)
I rather like to think Billie Holliday would be on the Doctor's list
of friends :)
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<ask.fo...@the.newsgroup> had painted:
>I agree about 7th Doc and Louis Armstrong:).
And as for the Eighth...
Sipping Guinness with Bill Shankly in a pub :)
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>
> "Auntie Krizu" wrote
> >
> > I Imagine JonDoc hanging out in the gentlemens' clubs of
> Victorian/Edwardian
> > England. Nothing naughty about that , I assure you, I just can see him
> > lounging on a big comfy chair with a cigar.
>
> This actually happened (minus the cigar) when JonDoc made a brief cameo in
> the NA 'All-Consuming Fire' as a member of a gentlemen's club frequented
by
> Sherlock Holme's brother Mycroft.
>
The Diogenes Club? A club for the most unclubbable men, where talking or
activity are banned? Can't quite see PertweeDoc going for that. He was
both active and sociable - usually. Generally the books misjudge the
Doctor's character.
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> And as for the Eighth...
>
> Sipping Guinness with Bill Shankly in a pub :)
>
Jerazk
Others include:
Gilbert and Sullivan
Houdini
Beau Brummel
Mt Mauler of Montana
Hans Christian Anderson
Richard Coeur De Lion
James Watt
Charles Preslin?
Tom Mix?
Robert Burns?
King Edward VII
Mao Tse Tung
Sir Walter Raliegh
Horatio Nelson (that'd make a crossover!)
John L Sullivan
Rembrandt?
the Vandals
Samuel Pepys and/or his wife
Madame Nostradamus
Alexander Graham Bell
Marie Antionette?
Vanderbelt?
Duke of Marlborough
Franklin Adams
Cleopatra and her bodyguards
Florence Nightengale
William Tell
Gertrude Stein
Titanic passengers?
Venerable Bede?
Harry Champion
Issac Newton
Einstein
Izaak Walton
Nellie Melba
Thomas Huxley
Shakespeare
Da Vinci
Theseus and Ariadne
Samson?
Prof Stein
Wordsworth, Rutherford, Chris Smart?
Andrew Marvel?
Judge Jeffries, Owen Chadwick?
Sir Francis Drake
Wisden, Pilch, and the Lion
Praxiteles or his student?
George Stephenson
artist Turner?
Dante
Brunel
Archmedes
Columbus
Pasteur?
CP Snow
Michaelangelo?
Madame Curie
Freud
Puccini
Been to : Samoa, Timbuktu
Anyone know : what's a birastrops?
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Phi1ip Legge
portrayed in the series - I think Ann's original post was concerned with the
Doctor's appalling habit of name-dropping people he once met :-) I think the
list below represents a fair amount of name-dropping, though I find it
difficult to imagine he could have befriended everyone on the list.
There's one person who (I will have to be adroit in not referring to by
name) is name-dropped by Jon Doc in The Daemons; he refers to him as a
"bounder", which is arguably a monstrously inaccurate description of the
most evil man of the last century - some would argue every century. Is it
possible then that the Doctor might have met him not as a dictator but as a
young man, but failed to leave any positive impression?
> He probably befriended Machaivelli in his 7th incarnation and possibly his
> 6th.
>
> Others include:
> Sir W.S. Gilbert and Sir A.S.Sullivan
and of course, Sir Richard D'oyly-Carte. I'd imagine amongst the players
he'd have had an affinity with George Grossmith.
> Harry Houdini
> Beau Brummel
> Mt Mauler of Montana
forgive my ignorance - a fictional character?
> Hans Christian Anderson
> Richard Coeur De Lion
> James Watt
> Charles Preslin
> Tom Mix?
sorry, who?
> Robert Burns
> King Edward VII
> Mao Tse Tung
> Sir Walter Raliegh
> Horatio Nelson (that'd make a crossover!)
if not Horatio Nelson, why not Forester's Horatio Hornblower too...
> John L Sullivan
> Rembrandt
> the Vandals
> Samuel Pepys and/or his wife
> Madame Nostradamus
> Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Alva Edison
> Marie Antoinette
> Vanderbelt
who? variations of this might be vandervelt, van der Welt, etc...
> Duke of Marlborough
> Franklin Adams
> Cleopatra and her bodyguards
> Florence Nightengale
> William Tell
> Gertrude Stein
> Titanic passengers?
Presumably not John Jacob Astor... it would be like the Doctor befriending
Bill and Melinda Gates. What about Benjamin Guggenheim instead?
> Venerable Bede
> Harry Champion
> Issac Newton
> Albert Einstein
> Izaak Walton
> Nellie Melba
> Thomas Huxley
and Aldous too!
> William Shakespeare
> Leonardo da Vinci
> Theseus and Ariadne
> Samson?
> Prof Stein
> William Wordsworth, Rutherford, Christopher Smart?
> Andrew Marvel?
> Judge Jeffries, Owen Chadwick?
> Sir Francis Drake
> Wisden, Pilch, and the Lion
> Praxiteles or his student?
> George Stephenson
> J.M.W.Turner
Perhaps he also knew the "trinity" of French Romantic art:
Eugene Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Hector Berlioz
> Dante Aligheri
> Isambard Kingdom Brunel
what a name!
> Archimedes
> Christopher Columbus
Fernão Magalhães, whom we know as Magellan...
Most probably he knew Henry the Navigator (Prince of Portugal) too.
> Louis Pasteur
Don't forget Joseph Lister - he took a medical degree in 1870 or so!
> C.P. Snow
J.B.S Haldane, J.D.Bernal, Bertrand Russell
> Michelangelo Buonnaroti
> Pierre and Madame Marie Curie
> Sigmund Freud
> Giacomo Puccini
No, Jon Doc has to be a Giuseppe Verdi fan - he sings La donna e mobile from
Rigoletto at the start of Inferno. (So does Tito in Tenth Planet,
incidentally, and he gets more of the words right...)
> Been to : Samoa, Timbuktu
> Anyone know : what's a birastrops?
No idea. I put the word into a search engine, and it suggested I look for
brastraps instead!
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I have to think that the Doctor would have met Sir Isaac Newton. If he made a
point to visit Da Vinci he must have also visited with Newton. Born on
Christmas day, the genius behind discovering the mathematics of motion through
the study of gravity and inventor of calculus (during a break(!) from
University while the bubonic plague raged), he also provided knowledge into the
nature of light and even interpreted Biblical end times prophecy. All of the
scientific and mathematical breakthroughs that Newton discovered are of keen
interest to the Doctor. His sense of history would have compelled him to visit
with Newton. My money is on Sir Isaac Newton.
Great thread, BTW.
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> I have to think that the Doctor would have met Sir Isaac Newton.
He did. "I dropped an apple on his head". (The Pirate Planet)
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>"Alan S. Wales" wrote:
<snippage>
>> I have to think that the Doctor would have met Sir Isaac Newton.
>He did. "I dropped an apple on his head". (The Pirate Planet)
YES! Thanks, John, that was bugging me. I saw that someone had listed Newton as
a person the Doctor had met, but I couldn't recall the story, so I went ahead
with my post anyway.
Douglas B. Killings
> Based on what we know about the Doctor, who do you imagine he has met and
> admired, but has yet to show up in the stories?
A few figures from American history come to mind.
First Doctor would probably have wanted to go out of his way to meet Abraham
Lincoln. I can also see Third Doctor having a good natured but slightly scolding
conversation with Thomas Jefferson over a bottle of wine. Third Doctor would
probably also have gotten along greatly with some of the other "gentleman farmers"
of the American Revolution, including John Adams, John Hancock, and maybe even
George Washington (but Fourth Doctor would probably gotten along better with
Benjamin Franklin).
Fifth Doctor might like a conversations with FDR or JFK.
I could see Seventh Doctor having a run-in with William Casey and/or Oliver North
sometime during the Reagen years.
Going back to Third Doc (who by far seems to drop names more often than any of the
other Doctors), he mentioned in Mind of Evil as having met Mao Tze-Dung (IMHO,
another truly evil man, right up there with Hitler and Stalin as being among the
true villians of the 20th Century). If 3Doc could handle the originator of the
Cultural Revolution, then Richard Nixon would probably have been a piece of cake.
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>ann wrote:
>
>> Based on what we know about the Doctor, who do you imagine he has met and
>> admired, but has yet to show up in the stories?
>
>A few figures from American history come to mind.
>
>First Doctor would probably have wanted to go out of his way to meet Abraham
>Lincoln. I can also see Third Doctor having a good natured but slightly scolding
>conversation with Thomas Jefferson over a bottle of wine. Third Doctor would
>probably also have gotten along greatly with some of the other "gentleman farmers"
>of the American Revolution, including John Adams, John Hancock, and maybe even
>George Washington (but Fourth Doctor would probably gotten along better with
>Benjamin Franklin).
>
>Fifth Doctor might like a conversations with FDR or JFK.
>
>I could see Seventh Doctor having a run-in with William Casey and/or Oliver North
>sometime during the Reagen years.
>
>Going back to Third Doc (who by far seems to drop names more often than any of the
>other Doctors), he mentioned in Mind of Evil as having met Mao Tze-Dung (IMHO,
>another truly evil man, right up there with Hitler and Stalin as being among the
>true villians of the 20th Century). If 3Doc could handle the originator of the
>Cultural Revolution, then Richard Nixon would probably have been a piece of cake.
Well, the Doc probably encountered Mao back in the '30's, so I rather doubt
he would have cared much to meet Nixon from any time after 1946 or
thereabouts -- not once he joined HUAC, of which he seemed born to be a
part.
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> >Going back to Third Doc (who by far seems to drop names more often than any of the
> >other Doctors), he mentioned in Mind of Evil as having met Mao Tze-Dung (IMHO,
> >another truly evil man, right up there with Hitler and Stalin as being among the
> >true villians of the 20th Century). If 3Doc could handle the originator of the
> >Cultural Revolution, then Richard Nixon would probably have been a piece of cake.
>
> Well, the Doc probably encountered Mao back in the '30's, so I rather doubt
> he would have cared much to meet Nixon from any time after 1946 or
> thereabouts -- not once he joined HUAC, of which he seemed born to be a
> part.
Well, maybe not befriended Nixon (I sort of ranged away from the topic towards the end
there), but I think their paths might have crossed at some point. In the 50's,
perhaps.
I'd have to watch Mind of Evil again to make certain, but it was my impression that
(asccording to 3Doc at any rate) Mao was already chairman when the Doctor met him. Of
course, this cold be another embellishment on 3Doc's part in order to gain the trust of
the Chinese diplomatic official he was dealing with, something which 3Doc was also not
above doing.
William December Starr
capr...@aol.commonSense (ann) said:
>> I agree about 7th Doc and Louis Armstrong:).
>
> So, do you think they had jam sessions together? And if so, what
> instrument would the Doctor have played (I'm guessing piano... there
> was that scene in Ghostlight...)
For the Seventh, yes, the piano. And he'd be much more comfortable
pounding away at a battered old upright than a pristine Steinway grand.
The Sixth Doctor would play the organ[1]. The bigger, more pipes and
more power, the better. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor to shake the stars.
1: Can we just take all the the silly double-entendres as having been
made, and move on? Thank you.
-- William December Starr <wds...@panix.com>
William December Starr
Phi1ip Legge <phi1ip...@mac.com> said:
>> Charles Preslin
>> Tom Mix? [Jerazk]
>
> sorry, who?
American movie actor, <http://us.imdb.com/Name?Mix,+Tom>, 1880-1940.
Was apparently quite famous in his own, pre-John-Wayne day. I heard
somewhere that there used to be a popular variant of "A shave and a
haircut, two bits" that went "Who's in the alley? Tom Mix."
Now, who are
> Charles Preslin?
> Franklin Adams
> Harry Champion
> Nellie Melba
> Prof Stein
> Andrew Marvel?
> Judge Jeffries, Owen Chadwick?
> Wisden, Pilch, and the Lion
> Praxiteles or his student?
> George Stephenson
> J.M.W.Turner
> Isambard Kingdom Brunel
?
ann
>capr...@aol.commonSense (ann) said:
> (I'm guessing piano... there
>> was that scene in Ghostlight...)
>
>For the Seventh, yes, the piano. And he'd be much more comfortable
>pounding away at a battered old upright than a pristine Steinway grand.
Am I remembering that scene correctly? I only read the novelization of
Ghostlight, and that is in the Chesapeake Public library right now, so I can't
go check, but I seem to remember that while the Doctor and Ace were waiting for
their host, the Doctor sat down at the piano and started playing Bach, but
quickly sequed into jazz -- much to the horror of the Victorians withing
earshot...
>The Sixth Doctor would play the organ
So is that why, when he (briefly) got the TARDIS' chamelion circuit fixed, the
old girl took the shape of an organ? [1]
and this is from both of us:>
David Brunt
>> >>> > J.M.W.Turner
>> >>
>> >>British landscape painter. Most famous work "The Haywain"
>>
>> He was a landscape painter, but I think John Constable might have prior
>> claim to the Haywain. <g>
>
>Ack! Sorry. That'll teach me to think I know what I'm talking about :-)
>
>I plead insanity yeronner!!
You'll fit in well here then...... Welcome to the madhouse.
David
Auntie Krizu
Alryssa Kelly <rys...@the-eighth-doctor.communal> kirjoitti
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> On an ancient Egyptian temple wall, "Auntie Krizu"
> <ask.fo...@the.newsgroup> had painted:
> >sense!
>
> Ooooh, you are going to *love* Kate's next book.... :)
> (And, plug plug, there's a story with him playing the violin in my
> kitty charity anthology, written by one Susannah Tiller, and
> wonderfully illustrated by Carolyn Edwards...)
Ouch. Don't rub salt in my wounds. I'm poor enough already. Dammit, if I
only was living next door to you...
Auntie Krizu(:>), cursing postage down to lowest hells.
Carol Hague
> >carol...@bigwig.net (Carol Hague)
>
> >>Alan S. Wales <powr...@aol.compost> wrote:
>
> Ah. So you have a special gift for remembering events and personalities
> throughout history?
<g>More like a talent for remembering stuff I don't need to remember and
forgetting stuff that I *should* remember (like my wedding anniversary -
I thought it was men who were supposed to forget those?).
My mother says I'm a mine of useless information....
>While I enjoy studying history, my gift appears to be able
> to remember arcane baseball statistics.
They may come in useful one day :-)
<snip>
> I read The Highlanders novelization and was thoroughly bored. I also have the
> Myth Makers but I haven't read it yet for fear that it too will be boring.
<fx: points upthread>
Alryssa says the audio's funny if you can get hold of it.
Ages since I read the book though, can't really remember much beyond
the basic plot...
Carol Hague
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Carol Hague
> On an ancient Egyptian temple wall, carol...@bigwig.net (Carol
> Hague) had painted:
> >
> >I haven't seen most of the purely historical stories, having started
> >watching in the middle of the Pertwee era, but I've read most of the
> >Target novelisations. I think I prefer the non-historicals on the
> >evidence of those.
>
> (Hi, and welcome to the mosh pit that is RADW, Carol. *g*)
Thanks :-) I've looked in from time to time before, and it seemed to
have calmed down a bit this time, so I thought I'd risk a post or two:-)
> If you want to give the Hartnell-era historicals a try, visually, I'd
> recommend The Aztecs highly... indeed, any of the Hartnell
> historicals.
I think I'll probably wait now until the Beeb put the ones they have
out on DVD - the three they've already issued are on my "to buy" list
when I have some spare cash (alas, gone are the days when I could afford
to buy two dozen Target novelisations at a time :-( ).
I've been surprised at how little BBC stuff has been issued on DVD so
far, but maybe they were sceptical about the format catching on at
first.(Incidentally - aren't the DW DVD covers *ugly* ?)
>The Mythmakers is sadly missing, but the audio version is
> incredibly funny. I'm not sure how to get hold of it, but I believe
> transcripts are available if the audio is not. Hartnell is nowhere
> near my favourite Doctor but the stories are so good they're hard not
> to like.
I was born the same year the programme started, so I've only seen what
few Hartnell stories have been repeated since, unfortunately.I'll have a
rummage on the net for the Mythmakers audio when I get a chance -
thanks.
> (I'll note here too that Weird Al is a DW fan. :-)
I didn't know that - I suspected he was a bit of an sf fan in the light
of "The Saga Begins", but that could have been just because it was a big
film at the time he was writing the song...
Daniel Frankham
wrote:
>William December Starr <wds...@panix.com> wrote:
>> Now, who are
>> > Nellie Melba
>
>Opera singer, after whom the peach melba and melba toast are both named.
>Became a Dame at some point IIRC.
She was also Australian. "Melba" was a pseudonym based on her home
town of Melbourne IIRC.
>> > Andrew Marvel?
>
>Andrew Marvell was a poet, not sure what era, but pre- Shakespeare I
>*think*
Post. Most famous for "To His Coy Mistress", the source of many sf
titles, including (presumably) Dave Stone's coming BBC Book.
>> > George Stephenson
>
>British Victorian Engineer. Built steam locomotives, including the
>"Rocket".
Also secretly built a rocket called "The Train".
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>
> >
> >"Auntie Krizu" <ask.fo...@the.newsgroup> wrote in message
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> >>
> >> Alternative instruments for the 6th doc might include a tuba or a big
> >heavy
> >> metal drum set (Animal, anyone?), anything that makes a lot of noise:).
> >It's
> >> not too hard to imagine the 7th Doc playing sax either. Ladies and
> >> gentlemen, we've got ourselves a big band!
> >>
> >> Hmm, now if I could only draw this! :)
> >>
> >> Auntie Krizu(:>)
> >
> >Vic n' Bob had "The Dr Who" (instead of "The Who") on their Shootin Stars
> >programme - the 1st 4 incarnations in a rock band. Can't remember what
they
> >all played, though I think Pertwee (alias George Dawes?) was on drums.
>
> IIRC Vic was Pertwee on lead vocals (complete with facial wrinkles
> added with marker pen) Dawes was Throughton on drums, Bob was
> Tom(?) on guitar and Mark Lamarr was Hartnell on guitar, although the
> last two may have been the other way around. :)
It can't be canon if Throughton's in it. You might as well have William
Hurndall or Peter Davidson.
--
Andrew J. Brook
Gordon
<ajb...@sotonSPAMMUSTBEREMOVED.ac.uk> wrote:
>"Gordon" <yar...@leaderofthealienvoord.com> wrote in message
>news:cqu08t4u2iihi9gom...@4ax.com...
>> IIRC Vic was Pertwee on lead vocals (complete with facial wrinkles
>> added with marker pen) Dawes was Throughton on drums, Bob was
>> Tom(?) on guitar and Mark Lamarr was Hartnell on guitar, although the
>> last two may have been the other way around. :)
>
>
>It can't be canon if Throughton's in it. You might as well have William
>Hurndall or Peter Davidson.
Oops. Amongst my group of friends, one of us has been chastised,
pilloried and generally had the mickey taken for making that mistake
in a fanzine. I *really* hope they don't see this... :)
--
gordon -"Make a cup of tea, put a record on..."- www.bhfh.fsnet.co.uk
"The only problem with time and space is that you never have enough."
Jim Vowles
"Auntie Krizu" <ask.fo...@the.newsgroup> wrote:
>
> ann <capr...@aol.commonSense> kirjoitti
> viestissä:20010201003101...@ng-fk1.aol.com...
>
>
Victorian/Edwardian
> England. Nothing naughty about that , I assure you, I just can see him
siecle
> Paris, that's almost a given. Downing a few pints of absinthe with
> Toulouse-Lautrec?:)
time!
> Colin--er, did the Doc know Hieronymous Bosch? *ducks*
>
And I imagine the 8th waxing poetic about the tragic life of Billie
Holiday...
"it was so sad...."
--
--- Jim Vowles Jr
"Sarah Jane, stop this crazy thing!!!"
- The Doctor to Sarah Jane, while on a treadmill
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Jim Vowles
>
Spoons aren't an instrument--they're an attack form.
Jim Vowles
"Cardinal Zorak" <Fab31...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> A reference to the TVM casting couch? :-D
>
> The Fifth Doctor plays a harp in "The Five Doctors" (and indeed reads
music)
> as well as singing musicals in "Black Orchid". The first Doctor's
singing
> is inflicted upon a sunbathing Barbara in "The Chase". Can't
remember any
> other musical moments offhand, save the Sixth Doc tinkling some Bach
on the
> TARDIS ivories in "Attack of the Cybermen", when it was an organ.
Perhaps
> he could play piano then. :-D
The first also plays either a harp or a lute of some kind in the
Romans, I believe.
Nyctolops
wrote:
>The first also plays either a harp or a lute of some kind in the
>Romans, I believe.
Actually, he hasn't the first clue of how to play it, so he does an
Emperor's New Clothes routine and fakes it.
Nyctolops
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Cardinal Zorak
"Jim Vowles" <jvo...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:961tnf$s9d$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <95cibl$2li$1...@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>,
> "Cardinal Zorak" <Fab31...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > A reference to the TVM casting couch? :-D
> >
> > The Fifth Doctor plays a harp in "The Five Doctors" (and indeed reads
> music)
> > as well as singing musicals in "Black Orchid". The first Doctor's
> singing
> > is inflicted upon a sunbathing Barbara in "The Chase". Can't
> remember any
> > other musical moments offhand, save the Sixth Doc tinkling some Bach
> on the
> > TARDIS ivories in "Attack of the Cybermen", when it was an organ.
> Perhaps
> > he could play piano then. :-D
>
> The first also plays either a harp or a lute of some kind in the
> Romans, I believe.
>
Er no, he doesn't I'm afraid. In fact part of the story relies on this, as
he plays "silent music" which only those of refined ear can hear, a la "The
Emperor's New Clothes"!!
Great story.
Paul Andinach
> "Gavin Winters" <gav...@esatclear.ie> wrote in message
> news:XIke6.6852$r17....@news.iol.ie...
>
> > "Auntie Krizu" wrote
> >
> > > I Imagine JonDoc hanging out in the gentlemens' clubs of
> > > Victorian/Edwardian England. Nothing naughty about that , I
> > > assure you, I just can see him lounging on a big comfy chair
> > > with a cigar.
> >
> > This actually happened (minus the cigar) when JonDoc made a brief
> > cameo in the NA 'All-Consuming Fire' as a member of a gentlemen's
> > club frequented by Sherlock Holme's brother Mycroft.
>
> The Diogenes Club? A club for the most unclubbable men, where
> talking or activity are banned? Can't quite see PertweeDoc going
> for that. He was both active and sociable - usually.
He's a member mainly so that he has somewhere to go to read the
newspaper and do the Times crossword without being interrupted.
"This one's a bit of a wag: brings newspapers into the club dated some
ten or twenty years hence and reads them as if he'd never seen them
before. Got some of the members quite worried, I can tell you."
Paul
--
The Pink Pedanther
"Rembrandts, El Grecos, Toulouse-Lautrec-ohs,
Painted last week on the banks of the the Thames..."
Paul Andinach
> Alryssa Kelly <rys...@the-eighth-doctor.communal> wrote:
> > (I'll note here too that Weird Al is a DW fan. :-)
>
> I didn't know that - I suspected he was a bit of an sf fan in the
> light of "The Saga Begins", but that could have been just because
> it was a big film at the time he was writing the song...
He's done other Star-Wars-themed songs as well, as I recall...
He said: "Luke, stay away from the Darker Side,
And if you start to go astray, let the Force be your guide...
I know Darth Vader's really got you annoyed,
But remember: if you kill him, then you'll be unemployed."
Paul Andinach
In a Pro-Fun thread last year, someone came up with the following
list:
1Doc: customised viola
2Doc: recorder
3Doc: flute
4Doc: bullroarer
5Doc: voice
6Doc: wind chimes
7Doc: spoons
8Doc: kazoo
Jim Vowles
>
> On Fri, 09 Feb 2001 23:16:06 GMT, Jim Vowles <jvo...@my-deja.com>
> wrote:
>
> >The first also plays either a harp or a lute of some kind in the
> >Romans, I believe.
>
> Actually, he hasn't the first clue of how to play it, so he does an
> Emperor's New Clothes routine and fakes it.
I *thought* that's what I remembered, but MPT hasn't shown 1st Doc stuff
in so long....
--
Jim Vowles Jr
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Lorrill Buyens
rec.arts.drwho, first realized the gravity of Jim Vowles
<jvo...@my-deja.com>'s pronouncements:
>In article <3hXf6.17304$Ee3.4...@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com>,
> "His Majesty Sir James Brooke" <ajb...@sotonSPAMMUSTBEREMOVED.ac.uk>
>wrote:
>> Seventh Doctor - spoons?
>Spoons aren't an instrument--they're an attack form.
In that case, the Third Doctor would've been most likely to
play them...
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rec.arts.drwho, first realized the gravity of carol...@bigwig.net
(Carol Hague)'s pronouncements:
>Alan S. Wales <powr...@aol.compost> wrote:
>> >carol...@bigwig.net (Carol Hague)
>> >>Alan S. Wales <powr...@aol.compost> wrote:
>> Ah. So you have a special gift for remembering events and personalities
>> throughout history?
>
><g>More like a talent for remembering stuff I don't need to remember and
>forgetting stuff that I *should* remember (like my wedding anniversary -
>I thought it was men who were supposed to forget those?).
>
>My mother says I'm a mine of useless information....
Tell her she should be glad ya don't have any glowing green
maggots inside...
Lorrill Buyens
>David Brunt <D...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> Alan S. Wales wrote in message
>> >>carol...@bigwig.net (Carol Hague)
>> >>William December Starr <wds...@panix.com> wrote:
>>> >>> > Andrew Marvel?
>> >>
>> >>Andrew Marvell was a poet, not sure what era, but pre- Shakespeare I
>> >>*think*
>>
>> 1621-78. Poet and satirist, actually after Shakespeare.
>
>I'd heard of him,but not actually read any of his work - not that I'd
>recognise satire from the seventeenth century if I found it eating my
>breakfast :-)
Not even "To His Coy Mistress?" I've always liked that one:
"Our vegetable love would grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow..."