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The Churnet Valley Railway once again played host to an exhibition on May 1st and 2nd 2005 to celebrate the return of the Daleks (or Dalek) to the new series of Doctor Who in Episode 6. |
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The exhibition was set up in the waiting room. The Dalek was chained up but managed to break free to look for "The Doctor" with it's gun issuing smoke and shouting "exterminate" etc. The audience mistakenly thought they were safe behind a safety rope.... This was all accompanied by the theme music, flashing lights and smoke in a room full of Who pictures and posters. The whole set is portable and we only had three hours to erect it as the room was being used for a wedding service until 2:30 pm and we had to be home in time to watch episode six! |
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Shirley and Leah (right) supervise the very popular "make your own Dalek" workshop. |
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| L to R - Sandra (Assistant), Derek (Dalek), Ric (Dalek Operator) and myself. | ||
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Platform duties with DMU driver |
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| Steve Hatcher (Whoovers Coordinator) wrote..."If anyone is at a loose end and can get to Froghall Station (on the A52 between Ashbourne and Stoke-on-Trent, then I urge you to do so. Entrance is free, but if you want to travel on the steam train, then of course you have to pay for that. Tracey and I have just spent a superb day, scarcely able to believe what we were witnessing. Nigel (as you probably know) has one of those full-size Daleks. | ||
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He has been very busy replicating that scene from last
night's wonderful episode by Rob Shearman, where the chained Dalek bursts
his bonds and becomes very threatening - and he's done a great job. I
had (sort of ) expected that most of the visitors would be blokes of around
my age - not a bit of it! Families, many with very young children, some
clutching their own homemade Daleks (plus one with a talking Tom) have
been crowding into the little station building all day to watch the scene.
It has been a joy to watch the delight and fear on the faces of the children,
some of them even running in terror out onto the station platform to escape
the Dalek. All day I have been listening to regular, normal people discussing
plot points from last night's episode - "careful, you'll transfer
your DNA to it". It has been just extraordinary. The high point was
a woman describing in some detail the whole plot of last night's episode,
in a broad brummy accent to a member of her family."So, Doctor Oo,
right, ee said, 'no them Darliks are
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| 'orrible'. But that Billie Piper 'ad a soft spot for it, and said 'are you in pain?' and ee said 'yeh' so she lerrit goo. An' it exterminated loads of 'em an' tried to escape through an 'ole in the roof. But then the Darlick said to Billie Piper 'tell me to exterminate meself', but she said 'no', then she said 'goo on then, exterminate yerself' so it did, and that was the end." | ||
| Finally: It was hard work but well worth it. I was particularly pleased to see so many young children enjoying Doctor Who just as I did forty years ago. I was also delighted to see so many Whoovers and other fans turn up and enjoy the performance. |
I can't thank Sandra and Ric enough
for all their hard work over the three days that we set up and performed.
I could not have done it without them.
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