Talk:The War Games
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[edit] SIDRAT
Does anyone have the novelisation to hand? I'm sure it gives a different explanation of the acronym from Exodus. Timrollpickering 02:09, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- First I agree with Timrollpickering that the term was used long before Exodus, but, to the best of my knowledge the term is not actually used in the televised story (unless one of you eagle eared wiki Dr Who members can give me the specific episode and time in the episode that it is used so I can double check it AND learn the errors of my way). I first remember seeing it in materials published in the US in the early 80's (it may well have been used earlier in materials published in the UK) and was struck by the fact that when I finally did get to see the omnibus version of the story in the late 80's that it wasn't used. I have the two tape VHS of this story, but, don't know when I will have time to get to it so I won't alter the note about it now. It does need to be double checked and corrected if the current note is in error though.User:MarnetteD | Talk 01:39, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
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- It's definitely not in the televised story. I don't have the Target novelisation, so I can't say for sure that it's first mentioned there, but this page, which is based on the Target book and gives the expansion of the acronym, suggests that it was indeed first raised in the 1979 novelisation - which also jibes with MarnetteD's recollection of seeing it in the 1980s. But of course a confirmation would be best. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 02:07, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Checked with a friend who has the novelisation. It's on page 34: "Ten minutes after the group had left the bedroom, General Smythe's Space and Inter-Dimensional Robot All-purpose Transporter, known by its initals SIDRAT rematerialized in the corner and resumed its appearance of a wardrobe." --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 04:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
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