Holly The Computer


The ship's computer with an I.Q. of six thousand. The same I.Q. as twelve thousand car park attendants. Played by Norman Lovett, and, after a Head sex change operation, by Hattie Hayridge.

(In one episode, I recall that the Hattie Hayridge Holly gets a super-I.Q. courtesy of some sage advice from a Talkie Toaster, and is played there by someone different, whose name I can't recall... before turning into an ordinary, but thick, Holly again. Anyone remember the episode in question, and who Super-Holly was? --TL)

The episode was "White Hole", and it was actually Hattie Hayridge playing Super-Holly, only with 'film star' make up, a very different hairstyle, and a different, translucent, effect. Norman Lovett, who was always slightly offended (not with that much justification) that 'female Holly' had just copied his 'thick Holly' only as a female, felt that that was how they should always have played the female version, so as to split the difference between them. -- WJR


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