The Savages
"Doctor Who and the White
Savages", "Doctor Who and the Fair Skinned Fuzzy Wuzzies", "You
Were The Noblest Peter Purves of Them All"
"The One Where The Guy Leaves
to For Non-Existent Acting Jobs" (USA)
Doctor Who visits a planet
where civilised people suck uncivilised people and feel better for it.
*** - it’s good and the ending
is better than that
Doctor: "Oppose you! Indeed I
am going to oppose you - just as in the same way that I oppose the...
Mark Ayres
(doing Hartnell-esque voice over (for legal reasons) on
the CD release): "Moroks"
Doctor: "...or any other
menace to common humanity!"
"Doctor, do you realise that
with our pants we can make the brave man braver, the wise man wiser, the
strong man stronger"
In a recent poll, only seven
people in the whole world actually knew the plot of The Savages.
The moral of this story is not
to absorb the life energy of those less fortunate than ourselves. Blue
Peter held a collection of milk bottle tops to fund a day centre in Rhyl
promoting this message to local children.
Peter Purves had the
traditional leaving party once shooting had concluded on this story. The
rowdy behaviour of certain members of the cast led to the BBC being banned
from all the Little Chef’s in the south east of England.
By this stage, William
Hartnell would only answer to the name “Doctor Who” and had forgotten that he
was a different person most of the time. His demands became ever more
difficult to comply with – for example, his dressing room had to have
roundels painted on the walls and people had to wait (however long it
took) for him to finish what he was saying before they could speak. This
had nothing to do with them recasting the role. That was actually a
practical joke which got out of hand.
The BF Audio “The Roxio
Burning” speculates that the Elders in this story are actually the Time
Lords at an earlier stage of their history than previously seen in the
show.
Si Hunt
The
Reduced Who Company
"Having made my position on the "titles"
of "Doctor Who" stories abundantly clear, I was rather surprised to
receive what appeared to be some kind of "e" telegram from a prole. "Dear
Mr Brent, do you consider that changing to story titles from episode
titles, commencing with The Savages, was a relief to anyone trying to
write technical articles about the production of the show?" I immediately
rushed to the post office where Mrs Dampthong facilitated my telegraphic
reply. "Don't be pathetically stupid stop" I began wittily, "Use of any
kind of emotive title beneath contempt stop you must be subnormal to think
otherwise stop they cloud the judgement and prevent one being pure stop
never sully your mind with impurities stop Ian Devine and I have laughed
at your stupidity stop milk came out of our noses stop you show promise as
a future telehistorian stop learn from me and you might not sink into the
depths of witless fiction stop yours faithfully stop Dennis Brent stop
that's all Mrs Dampthong you can stop writing now stop writing what are
you doing woman stop writing I am paying you per word stop writing or you
will bankrupt me stop stop stop stop stop I am starting to wish this Mr
Pixley had never written to me please will you stop" I never sent the
telegram as Mrs Dampthong had had a moment of madness and I am not made of
money. I keep it in my lucky escapes box along with the pound note I
managed to get back from the Mencap box when I mistook it for a bus ticket
during a moment of feigned generosity."
 
 
 
 
 
A more fun incarnation of "The Savages"
A cautionary tale for those who think sucking will
lead to prosperity
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