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In article <f9f9f970-4725-417a-a2d9-27b64299ae68@googlegroups.com>,
Moriarty  <blues95@ivillage.com> wrote:
>On Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 8:30:05 AM UTC+10, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> In article <0f1a6aae-93d3-4735-a33e-acb2b6fe69aa@googlegroups.com>,
>> Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>> >There's a controversial Doctor Who episode where
>> >the Doctor uses a cricket ball; it bounces off the
>> >hull and he catches it.  That part is okay...
>> >but he is /outside/ the spaceship.
>> 
>> Hm, I don't think I've seen that one.  Can you remember the
>> title?  Which Doctor it was?
>
>Definitely Peter Davison.

Yes, I rather suspected it would be he.  He's the one who went
around in cricketing togs all the time.  I saw only the first two
or three of his episodes, because KQED stopped showing them.

>Google tells me it was "Four to Doomsday". The
>Doctor finds himself floating in space between a spaceship and the
>TARDIS. He hurls a cricket ball at the spaceship, it bounces back to him
>and his catching it gives him enough momentum to reach the TARDIS.

And, come to that, throwing the ball in the first place would
have given him some momentum away from it.  (Remember
_Destination Moon_, and the Woody Woodpecker cartoon, showing
Woody propelling a rowboat along by firing a shotgun off the
stern?)

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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  Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass mwstone1948@gmail.com - 2018-06-25 13:40 -0700
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