tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2262139109574458128.post4995599618113060344..comments2022-03-02T14:58:50.045-08:00Comments on Joe Treasure: Dickens and the Time LordsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2262139109574458128.post-58991540026180810212012-12-12T05:59:45.922-08:002012-12-12T05:59:45.922-08:00I had no idea Mary Whitehouse had a problem with D...I had no idea Mary Whitehouse had a problem with Dr Who. I think her campaign was somewhat lacking in focus. I read a review of the letters (and not in the Mail or the Telegraph) suggesting that she was right all along, and we should have paid more attention, but I'm still not convinced. (More on moral decline in another posting perhaps). <br /><br />Joe Treasurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452665782271458318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2262139109574458128.post-32881620534782284122012-12-07T01:26:41.832-08:002012-12-07T01:26:41.832-08:00Excuse me for going off at a tangent, but I was re...Excuse me for going off at a tangent, but I was reminded of Doctor Who again this week, when reading about the publication of <i>Ban This Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive</i>. Apparently Doctor Who was one of her targets, because it relied on such things as "strangulation – by hand, by claw, by obscene vegetable matter". Her errors are part of the story (the sculptor Claes Oldenburg did not compare something to "my balls" but to "my ball", a work of his that consisted of a marble sphere on top of a column; Dennis Potter's mother was not guilty of "warping his mind through her wanton promiscuity" because The Singing Detective is a work of dramatic fiction; and so on.) <br /><br />Which is all beside the point. I like your tardis image, with its implications of travel in both time and space and its suggestion that somehow the whole thing can be contained.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.com