Conference noted::sf

   The show is based on John Chrisopher's childrens trilogy:
The City of Gold and Lead.  That's the name of the middle book, one other
is called the White Mountains, and I'm afraid I don't remember the last.
(Jerry B where are you?)

                                        Larry

Right here.

THE POOL OF FIRE is the third one.

--- jerry

    THe TRIPODS is a BBC Series. I think there are about 26 episodes
    in all. I am afraid that it did not catch my imagination so I only
    watched part episodes.
    If you want a good Sci-fi series try Blakes seven. (Another BBC
    production.)
    James

    I have been meaning to bring this up before.
    
    $SET FLAME/INTENSITY=SUPERNOVA/DIRECTION=BBC
    
    re. The last episode of Blakes Seven.
    
    What was the Beeb playing at? Is this part of their 'policy' of
    not having SF on the box again (re Dr Who?).
    
    Had the actors indicated that they were not interested in continuing
    the series.
    
    You won't believe how annoyed I was after watching this last episode!
    
    
    $ SET FLAME OFF
    
    
    Now I have calmed down (I am afraid I get a little intense sometimes),
    is there any POM's� who have any info on what really did happen to
    kill the series.
    
    
    Stan.
    
    �. POM sic. Prefered Old Mate.

    What is Blakes Seven about?  What was the rotten trick in the last
    episode?  What has the BBC done to Dr. Who?
    
    Earl Wajenberg

    re 212.5
    
    > What is Blakes Seven about?
    
    Science fiction series, Started of with Blake being shipped to a
    penal planet by corrupt gov't, Managed to take over a very advanced
    space ship that was drifting. Him and 5 others + the ships computer
    'ZEN' started a rebel organization, Drake the suposedly died, and
    Avon one of the original 5 took over, then the spaceship got creamed
    and they got another with another onboard computer 'SLAVE' (Which
    incedently was Real fun, it had a real slave personality 'You executed
    that orbital transfer beutifully master'). 
    All in all quite a good series.
    
    The rotton trick in the last episode was that all the characters
    were killed with the possible exception of Avon. Therefore I believe
    that the Beeb has killed the series completly!
    
    The BBC tried to kill DR WHO, For more info read The doctor who
    Notes file (EXIT26::DRWHO).
    
    
    
    	Stan.

    I haven't seen "Blake's Seven", but have been intrigued by it since
    I first heard of it. (If anybody knows a source in the New England
    area... ) I gather it is still available in the States only by
    underground methods - it has never been aired here. (Right?)
    
    I read - "Starlog", I think - that the series was created specifically
    as a limited-run series, sort of like a longish mini-series, so
    its rather abrupt finish was planned from the beginning. Don't know
    how true this is, but the effect apparently was to make the whole
    thing very taut and gripping.
    
    (BTW, for the benefit of those who hate to know prematurely how
    things end, a spoiler warning would have been appreciated.)

    -b

        I've seen a few episodes of Blake's Seven... I used to have
        a project leader who was a fan, and had a number of episodes
        on video tape.  Definitely interesting.  We named the VAX-11
        RSX development system ORAC, after the series' "portable"
        computer which could talk to any other computer...
        
        	/dave

    Blakes' Seven IS being shown in the US. It is being shown on one
    of the Rhode Island stations. It probably won't be shown in the
    big cities because whoever owns the rights wants more money from
    Boston or New York than they do from the smaller stations. Write
    to PBS, or anyone else who may listen. Demand your right to watch.
    
    Anyway, Paul Darrow, Avon and Jacqueline ?, Servalan, and Michael
    Keating, Vila, were all willing to continue the series if they did
    not have prior committments when BBC started filming again. But
    BBC didn't want to start filming again. If they had wanted to, it
    would have been easy enough, After all BBC has kept Dr. Who going
    through how many incarnations now?
    
    I've read two reasonable stories by fans that continue the series
    after "Blake". If they can do it, BBC should be able to.
    kris

    RE .9
    KRIS,
    	Is it your opinion, that the series is now dead?
    
    	Why did the BBC not wish to continue filming?
    
    	Is Science fiction a bad word around the lefties who populate
    	the BBC?
    
    	Re your title. Apparantly a lot of females did enjoy the character
    	Avon. Apparantly they enjoyed the fact that he didn't give a
    	damn about anyone apart from himself.
    
    	As I mentioned before, I found the slave computer to be one
    	of the most enjoyable characters.
    	For version 9 of VMS. All messages should reflect the
    	characterisation of slave! e.g
    
    	$ DAR instead of dir, would give instead of 
    
    	%mumble-f-mumble2, invalid command
    
    	%slave-f-sorry, I can't understand that command
        -slave-f-vsorry, It's probabaly my fault, but can you try again.
	-slave-f-kudos, I did note that you typed it nicely tho.
    
    
    
    		Stan. 
    
    p.s Would Earl like to give the mathamatics of the following scenario
    seen last night on dr-who.
    
    The dr's tardis materilizes in the masters tardis, which is materilized
    in the dr's tardis!
    

    Ah yes, reciprocal containment!  Facinating! (To quote a scientist
    from another series entirely.)  I know of two occasions when something
    of the sort happened.  The first was with the Jon Pertwee Doctor
    and Jo Grant.  To stop a nefarious plot of the Master's, the Doctor
    rammed his TARDIS straight into the Master's while both were "in
    vortex."  By special dispensation of the script writers, instead
    of winding up dead they found the master's Ionic column had
    materialized inside their police box.  Entering (or exiting, I forget),
    they found their police box inside the Master's Ionic column.  As
    I recall, it was all treated consistently and seems a perfectly
    natural accident if you WILL travel around in vehicles that are
    larger on the inside than on the outside.
    
    The second occasion was in the last adventure of the Tom Baker Doctor,
    with Adric (and later Teagan and Nyssa).  The Doctor wanted to un-jam
    his chameleon-circuit and so materialized his police-box-shaped
    TARDIS around a real police box, unaware that the Master had already
    transformed *his* TARDIS into a police box and materialized around
    the same genuine police box.  (Got that?)  On entering the police
    box in the TARDIS control room, the Doctor and Adric found themselves
    in a similar control room, more dimly lit, with another police box
    in it.  They entered again and found the same situation, still dimmer.
    And again.  We have now seen the insides of four TARDISes, and the
    Doctor fretted that this might go on forever.  No one ever explained
    where all these extra TARDISes (TARDI?) were coming from.  The Doctor
    also fretted that they would be trapped forever; no one ever explained
    why they couldn't back out the way they had come in.  Or where the
    Master's TARDIS had got to.  The Master then dematerialzed and left
    everyone back in the Doctor's TARDIS.  (Why?)  All in all, it looked
    very inconsistent.  There were also temporal inconsistencies in
    that episode.  At least, the apparent inconsistencies were never
    explained.
    
    SOrry to be long-winded, but you DID ask.
    
    Earl Wajenberg
    found another, yet dimmer

    	Wasn't this supposed to be the section about "Tripods"?
    

    
    	Thanks Larry, I was about to make the same comment.  I never
    did say that I wouldn't consider Blake's Seven, in fact I'd like
    to see it.
    
    	But back to the main subject... Now that Channel 11 has run
    through the first 2 books and is repeating it, did the BBC EVER
    film the third?  Ok, so I LIKE some of the stuff directed at the
    younger crowd, but then what's so great about growing up?
    
    	It isn't Clarke, Asimov, or Hogan, but sometimes it's nice to
    just accept something mindless.  Can anybody actually say that they
    haven't sat through an entire 50s nuclear bomb mutatant movie?
    
    	Klaes.
    
    p.s.  Now that somebody (elsewhere) has commented on my personal
    line, I guess it's time to change.  Let's see, something obscure...
    

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Subject: Don't hold your breath for Tripods
Posted: 11 Nov 86 16:08:00 GMT
Organization: New York University
 
Apparently the word has not yet spread here, but there will be no
third season of Tripods.  It has fallen prey to the axe of Mr. Michael
Grade, Controller of BBC-1, famous for placing Dr. Who on hiatus for
18 months.  I don't quite understand his reasons for this move -- I
finally comprehend his purpose for trying to cancel Dr. Who (he
disapproved of the producer, for good reason, and had to find a way to
force him out -- I know I will be flamed for my defensive attitude
here), but the cancellation of Tripods is a mystery. 
 
If you want a third season of Tripods, WRITE TO MICHAEL GRADE! HE IS
RESPONSIVE TO PUBLIC PRESSURE, as the case with Dr. Who has proven. 
Now is the time to act. 
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