The Curse of Kamelion

[Si Hunt]

You know something has only just struck me about a recent tragic event.

The 'curse' of Doctor Who's ill-fated robotic assistant Kamelion has been remarked upon before. His software designer was killed in a boating accident shortly after the character was invented. Both actors to play him on screen, Dallas Adams and Gerald Flood, died soon after. Both his writers, Peter Grimwade and Terrance Dudley, likewise are dead, neither being particuarly old. Even Anthony Ainley, who briefly played Kamelion in "Planet of Fire" is now dead.

So in the nineties it became mildly amusing to quip "Look out Craig Hinton!" when the Virgin scribe wrote Kamelion into a novel. Craig... oh God.

It's now got beyond the spooky, and is virging on the sinister. Is there something in the Curse of Kamelion? Or is it purely coincidence?

Si.

[Anthony Williams]

I would discuss it, but I don't want to meet a sticky end...

Ant x

[Paul Monk]

I once did a daft impression of Kamelion. So I'M DOOMED!!!!

Seriously though there isn't anything in it at all. Its like any of the other curses that belong to programmes or films. Just coincidence. Gerald Flood wasn't a well man anyway. I've no idea about Dallas Adams. Anthony Ainley only died recently and was pretty old anyway, so not connected. Does anyone know the circumstances of the designers death? Probably nothing sinister.
I expect if you look hard enough at anything that connects a lot of people you'll discover a pattern of death.

[WhiteCrow]

Perhaps it's a BAD KARMA Kamelion!

[Anthony Williams]

Perhaps it's a BAD KARMA Kamelion!

leave. now.

Ant x

[Si Hunt]

Does anyone know the circumstances of the designers death? Probably nothing sinister.

It was a mysterious accident at sea! Add in a suicide, and it's simply got to be some kind of evil curse. It just has to be!

Si.

[Rob McCow]

So I'M DOOMED!!!!

Well you did fall out of the loft that time.

Kamelion was on TV 20 years ago. In that time, it's understandable that we've lost some of the people involved in his creation. Even The Crystal Bucephalus must have been about 10 years ago.

I wonder what happened to the original Kamelion prop? I don't recall it ever appearing at any displays or exhibitions. Unless it's gone crazy and is stalking writers and actors.

[Si Hunt]

But most of those people died near the time! Grimade, Flood, Adams, the designer chappie.

Si.

[Paul Monk]

Coincidence! Nothing more!

I wonder what happened to the original Kamelion prop?

Well perhaps it worked after all. Maybe it was going round and killing off everyone associated with it and making them look like accidents.
I've often wondered what happened to the prop as well. Its definitely not used in the Fifth Doctor's regeneration sequence. The Kamelion there looks completely different.

(I feel a Brief Encounter coming on!)

[Logo Polish]

Peter Davison and Janet Fielding did also briefly play him.

He does also appear in one of Chris Bulis's novels, too.

[Rob McCow]

So, the mystery of Kamelion deepens!

What happened to all the people involved with Chameleon Tours? How are they fairing?

[Antony Cox]

I gather it's now turned into a faceless corporation.....

[Dirk Gently]

<groan>


@Ant.

[The Secretive Bus]

Well, I wrote 2 short stories about the chap and voiced him in a few episodes of a comedy story so I suppose I'll be next! Ha ha ha-

*killed by a grapefruit*

[The Secretive Bus]

Kamelion and his Fascinating Trousers!

Hurrah!