Dr. Who vs. Darth Vader

Sky News this morning had an interview with Tom Baker, better known as the fourth Dr. Who from the long-running BBC series (he was my first doctor and my favorite). He is the announcer on the British TV sketch comedy series Little Britain and now going to be voice of text messages sent over British Telecom telephones. As I watched the interview, something vaguely familiar washed over me--didn't a U.S. telephone company once use the voice of a science fiction character as its corporate voice? Oh yeah ....


BT, of course, had the decency to pick someone who wasn't evil.