Dr. Who? Dr. Who!
- Publication: WNYC Guide
- Date: May 1985
- Author:
- Page: 5
- Language: English
For over twenty years and four generations, Doctor Who has been shuttling through space in his odd spaceship (it looks remarkably like a British police call box), sorting out planetary problems to the immense delight of an international weekly television audiences of over one hundred million viewers in fifty-four countries around the planet.
This month WNYC/TV 31 invites you to tune in and join Doctor Who, the BBC's cult-hero science fiction character, for his intergalactic adventures in the name of justice and truth for living beings everywhere. Since his first appearance in Britain in mid-60s, Doctor Who has been travelling through time and space using his ability to regenerate himself in different forms to thwart the plans of the many evil creatures that inhabit the universe
The series begins on Sunday, May 5 at 8:00pm (repeats May 7 at 9:30pm) with The Five Doctors, a 90-minute special feature film in which Doctor Who and his four previous selves are all mysteriously lifted out of their time streams and deposited in the Death Zone. They are placed there to play the Game of Rassilon, a series of problem-solving situations with a loser's prize of instant death. Will the Doctors discover the final motivation of their adversary and win back the power to regenerate themselves? Gasp!
Starting the next evening, Monday, May 6th, and continuing each weeknight at 7:30pm, follow Doctor Who for an incredible series of adventures. Starting with 'Robot,' in which the Doctor, having changed form again (into actor Tom Baker), has discovered that something of colossal strength has stolen a secret weapon, and must be investigated. The next episode, 'The Ark In Space,' finds the survivors of planet Earth lying in Cryogenic suspension, but the Doctor finds there has been a sinister intrusion. TV/31's outward trajectory
continues with 'The Sontaran Experiment,' a mystery on an uninhabited(?) Earth followed by 'Genesis of the Daleks', where the Doctor has been stranded on Skaro by the Time Lords. We head into a new month's adventures with 'The Revenge of the Cybermen,' a horrible space plague.
Over the course of the coming year, Doctor Who will be desperately needed: In Scotland, where a terrifying new breed of almost-invincible Loch Ness monsters are taking over; on Pluto, where he must undermine the evil plans of an alien-controlled business operation that is subjugating other races by misuse of commercial power; and in Renaissance Italy, where he is confronted by the Brethren of Demnos, an underground religious cult that plans to enslave humankind!
Enslave humankind? Not on public television! Omigosh, what will happen? We're not sure, but don't touch that dial, Zygon spies are everywhere...
Caption: Dr. Who (Tom Baker) is threatened by a malevolent space villain on TV/31's new Dr. Who series, weekdays at 7:30pm.
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