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   Blueshirt to Dumas Walker   
   Re: What if Peter Cushing   
   02 Dec 25 20:38:57   
   
   From: blueshirt@indigo.news   
      
   Dumas Walker wrote:   
      
   > > The only trouble is that the Cushing Dr Who films were   
   > > remakes of Hartnell serials. You would have to explain   
   > > why both Doctors were present at the same events, doing   
   > > the same things at the same time, but never saw each other.   
   >   
   > Were they all remakes?  For some reason, I had the possibly   
   > incorrect impression that at least one of the movies pre-dated   
   > the Dr Who TV  series.   
      
   That is indeed incorrect. The two Amicus produced "Dr Who"   
   movies were adapted from two First Doctor BBC television stories.   
      
   So in essence, they were cinema versions of the TV stories...   
   but the TV versions came first.   
      
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