Who Does The Doctor Fear The Most? Exuberant Fans
- Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
- Date: 1990-10-22
- Author: Shane Danielsen
- Page: The Guide, p. 6
- Language: English
THE voice is the same: the clipped, enunciated West-End accent that has faced death and peril and the End Of The Universe As We Know It a thousand times, and never once faltered. The hero of my childhood; the man who put the's' in suave - Jon Pertwee, the third (and, to this writer's mind, best) Dr Who.
Pertwee, who is here with his wife to visit friends, has recently been corralled (along with Katy Manning, who played his long-time companion Jo Grant, and who now lives in Australia) into a rare appearance as guest of honour at a Queensland Dr Who convention.
A science fiction convention? The mind reels. Roomfuls of spotty, socially retarded young men whose lives revolve around the random hither-and-thither of the Tardis or the USS Enterprise, and who still haven't quite gotten over the death of Blake's Seven, a decade or so later.
"Oh, my dear chap," Pertwee sighs. "You haven't seen anything yet. Wait until you've been to an American convention. They really are in quite a universe of their own over there. Fan, of course, derives from the word 'fanatic', and I think that's borne out by many of these people. It really is the single overriding concern in their lives - which can by quite sad."
Pertwee finds the convention experience an odd one, a strange mixture of adoration and hidden tensions.
"Generally the mood is one of, well, worship isn't too harsh a word for it, I suppose. If you're the only Doctor present, that is. But if there are two or three Doctors there - say myself and Peter Davison or Colin Baker - then it can sometimes get quite tense, because the fans all tend to align themselves to one or the other, and you find these factions developing. Very peculiar indeed.
"My own biggest fear, though, is when two or three enormously ... ah, obese ladies come up to you and tell you how much they love you and adore you, and then they want to hug you - usually all at once. I've almost been killed a number of times that way.
"And it's rather hard to know quite how to react; I usually look about desperately for my wife to come and rescue me. You know, 'Oh, there she is
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- APA 6th ed.: Danielsen, Shane (1990-10-22). Who Does The Doctor Fear The Most? Exuberant Fans. The Sydney Morning Herald p. The Guide, p. 6.
- MLA 7th ed.: Danielsen, Shane. "Who Does The Doctor Fear The Most? Exuberant Fans." The Sydney Morning Herald [add city] 1990-10-22, The Guide, p. 6. Print.
- Chicago 15th ed.: Danielsen, Shane. "Who Does The Doctor Fear The Most? Exuberant Fans." The Sydney Morning Herald, edition, sec., 1990-10-22
- Turabian: Danielsen, Shane. "Who Does The Doctor Fear The Most? Exuberant Fans." The Sydney Morning Herald, 1990-10-22, section, The Guide, p. 6 edition.
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