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   Message 188 of 377   
   Doug Elrod to Gordon   
   Re: MST3K/Dr Who   
   11 Jul 05 13:42:59   
   
   XPost: alt.tv.mst3k, rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc   
   From: dre1@cornell.edu   
      
   In article ,   
    Gordon  wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > clab27@gt.rr.com.I.Hate.Spam says...   
   > > I was watching some old Dr Who this week, and I noticed something   
   > > interesting when I watched "The Moonbase" a 2nd Doctor Episode.  They were   
   > > using the same background music that was used in Horror at Party Beach   
   > > during the monster's initial transformation scene.  I thought this was   
   > > amusing enough, but when in Dr Who they described how their emergency   
   > > flares   
   > > worked, I nearly fell out of my chair!  They use  SODIUM  to create the   
   > > flash!  LOL!!!!!   
   >   
   > Why's this funny... what am I not getting?   
      
   Given that the monsters in "Horror at Party Beach" were destroyed by   
   "SODIUM!", it might be that the writers of Dr. Who were making an   
   in-joke.   
      
   -Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)   
     Of course, the scientists wouldn't have discovered this without   
     our hero, Eulabelle!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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