Dr Who - an unusual version

well, now that BBC Prime has got bored or repeating the same thing again and again, we here in SA are at last getting to see the "new" Dr Who series, featuring Christopher Ecclestone, made 2 or 3 years ago. nice one!!

any of my relatives will regale you with takes of how i used to hide behind the couch when Dr Who, or specifically the Daleks, appeared on screen in the 70's. well, many of us did it seems. that said, i doubt very much i would hide away from this film of the Daleks, if you will excuse a slightly more saucy than usual update from me with this one!!

it seems that someone somewhere, and i imagine they kept their name well out of it, managed to get hold of the actual Dalek outfits from the BBC and made the film Abducted By The Daleks. now, as this is a non-official product, it may come as little surprise to learn that the film does not contain many elements that the makers of Dr Who would ever have considered including in the TV series.


presumably in some attempt to avoid any form of legal action from either the BBC or the creators/owners of the Dr Who product, this masterpiece is also known as Abducted By The Daloids, which you have to say is a pretty nice way of trying to work around it in theory. in practice, however, a Dalek looks like a Dalek, so excuse me for not falling over surprise at the news that this attempt to deflect legal attention did not quite work. apparently about 2000 copies of the DVD made it out into the world before the plug was pulled by the lawyers. yep, that means this film is out there somewhere!

the plot sounds delicious - some girls are driving around, hit an unspecified object, the car won't start and thus they start walking around with torches in some woods. at some stage they apparently feel it is a good idea to disrobe, and who would i be to ask why or argue with that? anyway, one imagines that not long after this they are indeed abducted by you know who.....

for what you would think is a reasonably rare film, the pricing out there is not at all bad or excessive - i have seen it on the net for about thirty pounds, and oddly at US$30, which undermines the exchange rate principle somewhat. that said, i cannot see circumstances under which i will be purchasing this 45 minute film, as the humour value, if changed into money, is most likely considerably less than that. i suspect a copy will turn up, so to speak, much like my print of Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers did. as in, it just turned up, and i have no idea how or why it did.......

not many of you who read my site ever take the time to leave a message here, but in this instance, well, if you have this film or know from where it can be "obtained" with minimal cost, you are encouraged to leave a message!!

be excellent to each other, or EXTERMINATE!!!