Blood and Hope, and Assassin in the Limelight

[nwhyte]

Abraham Lincoln's first appearance in Doctor Who is a brief extract from the Gettysburg Address in a First Doctor story, The Chase, in which the Doctor and friends are trying out the Space-Time Visualiser which they liberated from the Space Museum in the story of the same title. (They also use the machine to watch the Beatles performing live, and

Comments

[bookzombie]

Oddly, one of the things I found most annoying about Assassin in the Limelight (which I agree was pretty weak) is that, given the cast is almost entirely American, the American accents sound appalling.

[nwhyte]

Agreed. They're trying to do borderline Southern, mostly, which I guess makes them all self-conscious.

Lincoln's theatre chair

[ext_166951]

I have never been to the Ford Theatre Building, but I remember as a schoolchild seeing the theatre chair that Lincoln sat in when he was assassinated. Somehow, Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan had acquired it and had it for decades. I also remember the year that they lost/sold the chair.