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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 435063" data-attributes="member: 22">The poor man from Alabama evidently made such an impression on the programme makers that by the end of the story they&#039;d recast him as ...I grew up knowing him as Peter Purves, one of the kindly presenters on kids&#039; show Blue Peter. Here&#039;s a clip of him confessing his sci-fi past to the boys and girls at home:[MEDIA=facebook]935116247015803[/MEDIA]Ian and Barbara&#039;s farewell is great and, as you say, bittersweet. William Hartnell didn&#039;t want them to go any more than the Doctor did, which adds another level of poignancy. I&#039;ve always thought that if the same thing happened in NuWho, Ian and Barbara might face some awkward questions from the authorities on their return about how and why they disappeared with one of their pupils two years earlier and where she is now ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 435063, member: 22"] The poor man from Alabama evidently made such an impression on the programme makers that by the end of the story they'd recast him as ... I grew up knowing him as Peter Purves, one of the kindly presenters on kids' show [I]Blue Peter[/I]. Here's a clip of him confessing his sci-fi past to the boys and girls at home: [MEDIA=facebook]935116247015803[/MEDIA] Ian and Barbara's farewell is great and, as you say, bittersweet. William Hartnell didn't want them to go any more than the Doctor did, which adds another level of poignancy. I've always thought that if the same thing happened in [I]NuWho[/I], Ian and Barbara might face some awkward questions from the authorities on their return about how and why they disappeared with one of their pupils two years earlier and where she is now ... [/QUOTE]

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