'Wuundanoogoo' is a site devoted to passionate & humorous discussion of all aspects of the ‘Classic’ & ‘New’ series of BBC TVs ‘Doctor Who’ (and its spin-offs), specifically on television, from 1963 to eternity....
About your hosts...
'The Skonnon Co-Pilot' (b. Dec 1975) & 'The Lucozer' (b. Jan 1977)
They used to fashion TARDIS's out of side porches, upturned laundry baskets, broken typewriters, clunky calculators & mind numbing suspension of disbelief. They made their little sisters dress up as companions. Their parents took photos...& still have them!
At primary school, they roped in rapidly disinterested classmates to play ‘Doctor Who’ at lunchtimes & scrawled ever-changing cast lists in the back of the Lucozer's tatty ‘Technical Manual’. Perversely emboldened, this obsessive two-headed monster hijacked their Year 5 class puppet play & created a Dr Who Extravaganza with Dracula, Frankenstein & The Wolfman shoehorned into their preposterous plot.
On several occasions, they even spread out their combined collections of Doctor Who novels in chronological order on the lounge room floor, as if a summit of universal significance. As if, ‘Key To Time’ style, with the final Target novelisation in place, the forces of good & evil in the universe might be brought back into rightful balance, or more importantly, bequeath them omnipotent powers over their flummoxed & increasingly disapproving parents.
An 11.45pm late night re-screening of the ‘Five Doctors’ in 1984 was the glittering pinnacle of their young lives; & when made to go to bed early to make up for the soon-to-be-lost sleep, they stared at the ceiling rafters (The Lucozer) & the bunk bed slats above (The Co-Pilot) unable to sleep; wide eyed, with fist biting & potentially pyjama soiling anticipation!
Their singular obsession continued, over 20 years later, when they laughingly hatched a cunning plan to seduce Captain Jack himself, the smouldering Mr. Barrowman, into a threesome at a sci-fi convention in Sydney. The Co-Pilot is straight & both are in long term monogamous relationships! Such is their love of this show & such is its power & charm! Sadly, the convention was postponed & they are still to realise this saucy dream! They have had an enduring, yet sometimes dysfunctional & occasionally unhealthy relationship with the program for nigh on 25 years.
Strangely though? They both agree that (gasp!!) only about a third of the entire televised Doctor Who canon could reasonably be considered “quality” TV, with the other two thirds ranging from reasonable at best to downright execrable at worst. How can this be? How can they love something so dearly when they share, at best, a ho-hum attitude to nearly two thirds of its staggeringly large & varied tele-visual entirety?
You may find the answer in ‘Wuundanoogoo!’; their loving tribute to the excessively obscure, to the embarrasingly esoteric & to the spirit of passionate debate & (dubious?) good humour in the wonderful ‘Worlds Of Doctor Who’.....
'The Lucozer' (Feb 2007)
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