An Adventure in Space and Time Page #2

What's wrong with her?

- Cloth-ears?

- Urgh! Don't you like being successful?

That's not success! I'm legitimate!

A legitimate character actor

of the stage and film!

This is variety!

I only asked.

What about Leslie French?

He'd be marvelous.

He's working with Visconti.

Gave us a polite no.

- Cyril Cusack?

- A less polite no.

- Ahem.

- Can I help you?

I think you're in my office.

That's a rather interesting

way of looking at it.

- I'm rather an interesting person.

- I don't doubt it. Rex Tucker.

I'm looking after Doctor Who.

Pending the appointment

of the permanent producer.

- Oh. Is he with you?

- You're looking at him.

- I keep coming back to Hugh David.

- Who?

He was in Knight Errant on ITV.

Lovely actor.

Not old enough for the Doctor,

surely?

Well, we don't want Grandpa Moses,

do we?

We need someone who can play older.

The shooting schedule's going to

be pretty punishing.

- I've got some ideas.

- I'll call Hugh. See what he thinks.

I'd rather you didn't.

Is that a fact? Waste of time!

We need someone like Frank

Morgan in the Wizard Of Oz.

He's dead.

- Rex... And American.

- I said "like".

Well, perhaps

we should all sleep on it.

After all, it took them

months to find Scarlet O'Hara!

Um... dear lady, may I have a word?

Hello?

Yes.

Oh, yes?

Is it right you were Sydney's

production assistant

on the other channel? Yes.

So this is quite a promotion.

Apparently.

Bound to ruffle a few feathers.

If feathers don't ruffle,

nothing flies.

This show is going to be a terrific

challenge, you know.

Outer space. Time travel.

In the first script,

they go back to the Stone Age.

You'll need all

the help you can get.

So, Rex is going to act

as a sort of mentor to you.

A ship can't have two captains.

- Dear lady... - Please

don't call me that. - Sorry.

And what about you, Mervyn?

What's your function?

I'm to be your sort of

technical boffin.

Help you through

the mire of all this.

Sydney obviously thinks he's got

the right person for the job.

That's what he wants for

Doctor Who.

Someone with piss

and vinegar in their veins.

- Did he say that?

- He's very blunt.

Yes.

Look, all I'm saying is, dear la...

Verity. All I'm saying is that

experience is not a dirty word.

Don't fight us.

Perhaps you could add a few drops

of warm beer in with your...

- Piss and...

- Mixture. Just for the time being.

Well. We'd better clear out,

we'll have the news team in here.

That's clever.

So they don't have to look down

at their words all the time.

Yes. Quite a wheeze.

Someone'll make a fortune

out of that.

- I suppose so. Shame I didn't get to

the patent office faster. - Why?

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