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Dr Who, Daleks Kiss And Make Up
Dynamoo writes "The BBC is reporting that the creators of the new series of Doctor Who due next year have reached an agreement with the estate of the late Terry Nation to include the Daleks in the new series. This means that I'll definitely be watching.. although whether from behind the sofa or not remains to be seen." We previously reported on the apparent exterminate-ion of the lovable pepperpots from this new version.
Terry was trying to make an alien that didn't look like a man in a rubber suit. The Daleks were a sack of protaplasm with an arm, who had to live in robot bodies after they'd devastated their home planet.
Unlike the alien from the film 'Alien', they actually _couldn't_ be played by a man in a rubber suit.
Environmentalism is the new Victorianism. Everyone ties on a green corset and pretends we're virtuous.
He got progressively more insane as his hair grew greyer. Last sighted in "Fort Boyard", a "Crystal Maze" rip off.
Terry Nation wrote the scripts and created the Dalek characters. The design was by BBC employee Raymond Cusick, and this lies at the root of the rights problems / confusion now resolved - the Nation Estate could licence the name Dalek and characteristic speech patterns such as "Resistance is Uselesss" and, of course, "Exterminate", but not the likeness. The BBC could licence, and use, the likeness, but not the name or behaviour.
Tim Hancock, Terry Nation's former Agent and boss of "The Nation Estate" for licensing purposes, tried to bump up the price above the agreed UKP250,000 for using the Daleks in the new series at the last moment, and the BBC called his bluff. The Estate wasn't going to make much money if the new series didn't use the Daleks at all.
Tom Baker is still around, but not doing anything much of note, really, other than playing the part of a slightly crazy semi-recluse rather well. He had a brief part in the abysmally awful (yet oddly compelling, in an Ed Wood sort of way) "Dungeons and Dragons" a few years back as an elf.
Sean Daugherty "I have walked in Eternity -- and Eternity weeps."
Tom Baker does the voice overs in Little Britain
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/littlebritain/
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In addition to the other sightings mentioned, Tom Baker appeared on a regular basis in a cultish British TV series called 'Randall And Hopkirk Deceased', a modern re-make of a 60s TV series of the same name.
And they that rule in England, In stately conclave met, Alas, alas for England They have no graves as yet.