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Author: Jack BohnJack Bohn Date: Sep 17, 2008 03:14
The Wanderer wrote:
>Derek Janssen wrote:
>
>> Bill Martin wrote:
>>
>>> On 2008-09-14 21:35:13 -0500, Jack Bohn bright.net> said:>
>>>> I remember a scene from Doctor Who when a giant robot was going
>>>> after a large cache of nuclear missiles, a brigadier general
>>>> explained that the UN had entrusted guarding them to the British,
>>>> and the Doctor drily said, "Of course, the rest were all
>>>> foreigners."
>>>
>>> My memory fails as to which Doctor that was, but sounds like it
>>> could've been any of the first 4, or the 6th...
>>>
>>> Please help me out, which Doctor said it (even if it turns out to
>>> be one I didn't mention)?
>>
>> If it was to the Brigadier, and sounds snooty, it had to be Jon
>> Pertwee. Doc #3.
>
>You sure? The only giant robot I remember which would have been around
>the Brigadier was from the first episode of Tom Baker, the Fourth
>Doctor. Admittedly I don't remember its having anything to do with
>nuclear missiles - it was a sufficiently devastating weapon all on its
>own - but I also don't remember any other candidates.
No, that's right, they used the devastating robot to rip the
doors off safes in order to collect the plot tokens (except now
I'm thinking it was parts of a dematerialization gun... maybe
they were going to use THAT to get the launch codes...) The
robot was giant enough on his own, eight feet or so, but somehow
grew to a larger size via bad video effects that also made it
look like it sank up to its knees in the ground.
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-Jack
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