DW in Canada - Dr Dator and the Judith Merril (the UnDoctor)

[Hugh Pearson]

This complements the BroaDWcast TVOntario page - gallifreybase.com/w/index.php/TVOntario

A recent Reality Bomb podcast (May 2015) may be of interest to anyone who remembers this era of Doctor Who in Canada which featured the Dr. Dator and the Judith Merril (the UnDoctor) educational commentaries to the Doctor Who episodes:

On the twenty-third edition of Reality Bomb, we have a feature length documentary about the early days of Doctor Who in Canada in the 1970s, the educational segments on TVOntario featuring Dr. Jim Dator and science fiction author Judith Merrill, and the first generation of Doctor Who fans in Canada and how they organized themselves. This documentary features conversations with Ed Conroy of the YouTube channel Retrontario and one of the first fans in Canada, Dean Shewring.

For the documentary, begin listening at 42:28 of the podcast AND make sure you listen to the very end of the mp3

traffic.libsyn.com/realitybomb/Reality20Bomb20023-0520152.mp3

[lousingh]

Thank you, Hugh.

The biographies of Dr. Jim Dator and Judith Merril are interesting:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dator