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Saturday May 03, 2008
RIP Bernard Archard
Bernard Archard died 03-MAY-2008. Readers may not know who he was: a great actor instrumental in making "Pyramids of Mars" as creepy as it was.
"Pyramids of Mars" is one of the best Doctor Who serials of the Tom Baker era, and in your humble author's opinion, one of the best Doctor Who serials ever. In "Pyramids of Mars", the Doctor - a traveling Time Lord from Gallifrey, or renegade, depending on whom you ask - encounters Sutekh, or Set, a tremendously powerful alien being who along with his kind were largely responsible for ancient Egyptian mythology.
As an aside, Time Lords were (they have since been destroyed, all but two) a powerful race with tremendous technological prowess, for example, command of time and space (the Doctor travels in a rickety, wheezing time capsule that can essentially go any place in any time). Yet for all their power and achievement, they were corrupt. Stagnant. Unfeeling. There's an allegory for you.
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Posted at 07:37PM May 03, 2008 by tgardner in Doctor Who | Comments[1]
i am so saddened to hear of thr death of bernard archard who was always one of my favorite actors he played many roles on t.v. & films & made them all so very believeable i for one will miss him so very very much
Posted by trevor knight on May 06, 2008 at 11:17 AM EDT #