Netrunner wrote:
> Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the
> Replicant Sentinel covertly transmitting a message to renegade friends
> in alt.fan.blade-runner. Tracking...
>
>> I'd like to note that while Dr Who may like a national institution
>> in the UK, it was hardly wellknown in, say, Belgium at the time. In
>> this day and age with the ubiquity (is that a word?) of the Internet
>> the world is reall becoming like a global village, but things used
>> to be very different: we didn't even *get* the Beeb on Belgian TV
>> until the mid-eighties. We did get to sdee the occasional British TV
>> series on national TV, but Dr Who wasn't particularly wellknown at
>> the time.
>
> Again absolutely right and I certainly appreciate that. I can only
> speak of my experience and my experience is enjoying Doctor Who since
> 40 years ago. I totally respect that is not everyone else's
> experience.
>
> p.s. I wasn't referring to Autons - I was talking literally about shop
> mannequins, more than once, being misused as evil robotic things.
Speaking of evil robotic things, I just checked out the recent Dr Who Xmas
special. They do seem to like to do the creepy robot/doll things, don't
they?
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