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blahflowersDaily Mail insist Doctor Who fans are OUTRAGED!!!1! that phone number in show doesn't connect to anything exciting.
Doctor Who finished its latest series on Saturday night watched by a huge audience of nearly 10million. But it was another set of figures that got some fans really worked up - the Time Lord's phone number. The digits had been flashed up on screen several times in the previous week's episode as the Doctor's sidekicks Sarah Jane Smith, Martha Jones and the Torchwood team contacted him.
More than 2,500 fans... dialled it before the last episode aired on Saturday.
One fan complained: "They showed that number so many times, as if they were asking for it to be called."
But their attempts to contact their hero on his personal number - 07700 900461 - came to nothing when they discovered that it would not connect-Writing on the BBC's website, one disgruntled viewer said: "Grrr - I phoned the Doctor's phone number but there was just an annoying network message.
"What's the point in showing a phone number if you're not gonna use it?!"
The Daily Mail really will try to find any excuse to bash the BBC won't they? Just imagine the headlines if they'd used a real number, 'Lorry driver Pete Belly claims that the BBC have made his life a misery after using his mobile phone number in an episode of Doctor Who'. Also, 2500 fans out of ten million, isn't that below one percent of the people who watched it supposedly tried phoning it?
Doctor Who finished its latest series on Saturday night watched by a huge audience of nearly 10million. But it was another set of figures that got some fans really worked up - the Time Lord's phone number. The digits had been flashed up on screen several times in the previous week's episode as the Doctor's sidekicks Sarah Jane Smith, Martha Jones and the Torchwood team contacted him.
More than 2,500 fans... dialled it before the last episode aired on Saturday.
One fan complained: "They showed that number so many times, as if they were asking for it to be called."
But their attempts to contact their hero on his personal number - 07700 900461 - came to nothing when they discovered that it would not connect-Writing on the BBC's website, one disgruntled viewer said: "Grrr - I phoned the Doctor's phone number but there was just an annoying network message.
"What's the point in showing a phone number if you're not gonna use it?!"
The Daily Mail really will try to find any excuse to bash the BBC won't they? Just imagine the headlines if they'd used a real number, 'Lorry driver Pete Belly claims that the BBC have made his life a misery after using his mobile phone number in an episode of Doctor Who'. Also, 2500 fans out of ten million, isn't that below one percent of the people who watched it supposedly tried phoning it?
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Date: 2008-07-07 09:33 am (UTC)The American TV series "The Equaliser" had a number in the titles (a 555 area code, which is the US 'drama number' number range). It was routable though, from New York to Los Angeles, but people (often in need) paid for a long distance call as well.
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Date: 2008-07-07 12:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-07 03:24 pm (UTC)Although I guess it wouldn't have hurt for the Beeb to have 'The Doctor' record an answermachine message...