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Classic Who "City of Death" Parts 3&4 EARLY Early Access! (Patreon)

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2023-09-29 13:00:07
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Classic Who "City of Death" Parts 3&4 Reaction

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Josef Schiltz

How many of us were waiting for your reaction to John Cleese and Eleanor Bron as the two Louvre visitors! And what a reaction! Fawlty Towers was, of course, regular fare for many of us back in the 70s, as well as Monty Python. Exquisite! Douglas Adams, upon learning that both would be working in BBC Television Centre on the day the art gallery scenes were to be recorded, he persuaded them to make a cameo appearance in a short scene written for "two Englishmen". John Cleese and Tom Baker also also recorded two short comedy skits for the BBC Christmas tape. The costume designer had planned for Lalla to wear a silver catsuit, which was frankly ridiculous. Thankfully, Lalla and Tom suggested the schoolgirl outfit instead. A far more inventive and sensible, practical outfit that went far more, stylewise, with Tom's. Of course, Jess, you called it regarding that the most important punch in Earth's history would come from Duggan. Sadly, poor Professor Kerensky and the Countess didn't make it owing to the wretched Count. It was lovely to hear your recollections of enjoying Fawlty Towers with your father and of obtaining a signed photo of John Cleese for him. Heartwarming and a bit tearful. As Matt Smith's Doctor said, "Happy tears!"

Josef Schiltz

Looking at John Cleese and Eleanor Bron's dialogue, it really does fit the TARDIS beautifully. JC: To me, one of the most curious things about this piece is its wonderful afunctionalism. EB: Yes, I see what you mean. Divorced from its function and seen purely as a piece of art, its structure of line and colour is curiously counterpointed by the redundant vestiges of its function. JC: And since it has no call to be here, the art lies in the fact that it is here. (The Doctor unlocks the TARDIS and enters, followed by Romana and Duggan. The TARDIS dematerialises.) EB: Exquisite. Absolutely exquisite. Thankfully, nobody has written 'R Mutt' on the side of the TARDIS. That may have led to unfortunate comparisons with a pissoir.

James Fish

Thank you for an amazing reaction! I think I can fairly confidently say you like this story as much as I do! Many incredibly memorable moments and I was really surprised by how accurately I remembered it when it came out on VHS around 15 years after it originally aired. I love everything about this story. Written by a genius with a really interesting plot, the first real oveseas travel, all characters on top form and, of course the cameo from John Cleese. When I saw your reaction to that scene, I knew you must have remembered him fondly from something, but I never guessed you'd seen Fawlty Towers - one of my favourite comedy shows of all time and probably one of the only shows my whole family was in agreement with in finding hilarious! Aside from Classic Who of course, it really brought us together as a family. My favourite one of them is The Kipper & the Corpse but I love all of them! See you next time!

James Fish

One more thing before I totally forget, believe it or believe it not - John Cleese is working on a 3rd series of Fawlty Towers! He announced it earlier this year.

Brodie Vickers

The best celeb guest star in Who ever, and he was only on-screen for less than a minute.

Josef Schiltz
>>118640615

Four hundred million years ago, on a particular Thursday, the lack of a well-timed punch could have deleted the whole of human history. Thankfully, a private detective by the name of Duggan, the presence of whom, four hundred million years ago, is another story and whose usual daily pastime was to hang around taking photographs of cheating husbands to pass on to increasingly wealthy divorce lawyers, landed a punch so devastatingly accurate, that the whole of human history asserted itself with a whoomf that reverberated through time and knocked a small sparrow seventeen kilometres from it's intended branch where it landed with a splat on a teacake in Twickenham. The sparrow, and the little old lady who was about to eat that very teacake, came to no harm during the incident. The sparrow circled in a daze up into the branches of a nearby tree where he found the sympathetic wing of a young lady sparrow, whom he engaged with and together they produced a dozen healthy nestlings and led full and happily productive lives. After recovering from the surprise, the little old lady enjoyed a fresh pot of tea. The unfortunate tea cake endured the fate of all uneaten comestibles that had been squashed by falling sparrows. It was deposited in a pedal bin in the kitchen. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy says that these incidents are fairly common in an unstable universe and are nothing really to write home about.

Josef Schiltz
>>118640615

I enjoyed it. What a lovely compliment! Thanks. Always loved Douglas' work. He went too soon. Lalla's saddened reaction was something along the lines of "Bloody gymnasiums".

James Fish
>>118640615

Always a pleasure! Yes, he went far too soon. But I guess thy say the good die young. Not quite sure I get the reference to Gymnasiums -a reference to something he wrote? I've often wondered why Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy was the only book in the series that they televised as I read The restaurant at the End of the Universe & thought it was great. Will have to get round to the other books at some stage. We were certainly lucky to have him.

James Fish
>>118640615

Edit - I just read up about him. I now get the reference to Gymnasiums - very sad! I had no idea he was fairly heavily involved in Montyy Python too having written for it & been involved in an acting capacity in some of the sketches. I'm wondering if this is why John Cleese was in the cameo scene in City of Death?

Josef Schiltz
>>118640615

At the time of Douglas' death, Lalla was still married to Richard Dawkins and they were both friends of Douglas. She recalled the day vividly, in an interview, when she came into the room and told Richard that Douglas had died. She said how and gave her opinion on Douglas trying to get fit in that way, by going to a gymnasium when he should have taken the process far more gently. Douglas apparently had these lines written and then found out that both John and Eleanor were at the BBC that day, had a flash of inspiration, and rushed along to invite them in. So that cameo wouldn't have occurred except for that coincidence.