The TARDIS has been given a reprieve
- Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
- Date: 1984-04-22
- Author: Jacqueline Lee Lewes
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- Language: English
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This was the good news imparted by the program's producer John Nathan-Turner during a promotional visit to Australia.
For a while there it looked as if the Tardis, Dr Who's space machine which looks like a London police box to the unwary, was headed for the scrap heap.
The problem, explained the producers at the time, was that police boxes have long disappeared and today's generation of fans hadn't a clue what the Tardis was when it wasn't lurching around in space.
"But," said Nathan-Turner, "due to public outcry we have now decided to keep it.
The success of the show has been phenomenal. With its 21st anniversary looming up in November, it is the longest running science fiction television series in the world. It has been sold to 54 countries and has an audience of 110 million.
Although Peter Davison is still playing the good doctor in the series currently being screened by the ABC, Australians will get to see the new doctor, played by Colin Baker, in June.
"He is dressed in a most tasteless fashion," said Nathan-Turner with undisguised glee.
"He wears green shoes with orange spats, yellow and black striped trousers, a waistcoat of . clashing checks and a multicoloured frock coat which is quite disgusting to the eye."
But despite this lack of sartorial splendour, Colin Baker's Who is the first to become a sex symbol.
"Peter Davison has a huge female following but mostly they wanted to mother him," said Nathan-Turner. "He is the sexiest doctor to date."
Good grief. That's a state of affairs which probably has the first Dr Who, played in anti-hero fashion by William Hartnell, spinning in space!
Caption: Colin Baker as the new Dr Who
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