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'''Charles Banerjee''' was a resident of [[Soho]] in [[1925]]. He worked with [[John Logie Baird]] to create [[television]].
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'''Charles Banerjee''' was the assistant of [[John Logie Baird]] during the invention of [[television]].


Born in [[Cheltenham]], Charles got the job as Baird's assistant. In 1925, Baird arranged for Charles to buy a dummy from Mr Emporium's toy store. He entered, where the store's clerk offered him the [[Stooky Bill]] ventriloquist's dummy for six pence. Charles then took the dummy back to Baird, who tested it for his new invention, [[television]], the following day. Baird and Banerjee placed the dummy's head before the camera and began their test - the first ever television recording. Though a success, the bright lights caused the dummy to catch fire while a giggle played.
== Biography ==
Born in [[Cheltenham]], Banerjee got the job as Baird's assistant in [[Soho]] by [[1925]].


However, Charles began suffering hallucinations of the doll and perpetually hearing the giggle in his head. Disturbed, he returned to the shop the following day to confront the clerk. The man revealed himself to be the Toymaker who challenged Charles to a game to remove the giggle from his head. Charles lost, leading him to be turned into a life size dummy similar to Stooky Bill. The [[Fourteenth Doctor]] eventually found Charles when trapped in the Toymaker's domain. Charles explained what happened to him but, unable to help, the Doctor was forced to flee.  
When Baird asked him to get a dummy for the first test of television, as the lighting was too intense for a human, Banerjee went to Mr Emporium's toy shop, where he bought [[Stooky Bill]] from [[the Toymaker]], and had to put up with his racial comments. The next day, Baird and Banerjee placed Bill's head before the camera and began to test the first ever television recording. Though a success, the bright lights caused Bill to catch fire while a giggle played. Afterwards, Banerjee began to suffer hallucinations of Bill, perpetually hearing [[the Giggle]] in his head. Disturbed, Banerjee returned to the shop the following day to confront the Toymaker, who challenged him to [[Game between the Toymaker and Charles Banerjee|a game]] to remove the Giggle from his head. Banerjee lost, leading him to be turned into a life size dummy similar to Stooky Bill and stored in [[the Toymaker's domain]].
 
The [[Fourteenth Doctor]] eventually found Banerjee in the Toymaker's domain, and he explained what happened to him until the Toymaker arrived and replaced Banerjee with a puppet of the Doctor. When the Fourteenth and [[Fifteenth Doctor]]s defeated the Toymaker in a game of catch and subsequently banished him from reality, the timeline changed and returned Banerjee to when he was watching the first television effect. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) Banerjee was unable to know why, but he had the feeling he had his life back. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Giggle (novelisation)}})
 
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When the Fourteenth and [[Fifteenth Doctor]]s defeated the Toymaker in a game of catch and subsequently banished him from reality, the timeline changed so that Charles, though still purchasing Stooky Bill, never returned to the toyshop to make his ill-fated deal. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}})
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Latest revision as of 18:42, 3 November 2024

Charles Banerjee was the assistant of John Logie Baird during the invention of television.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Born in Cheltenham, Banerjee got the job as Baird's assistant in Soho by 1925.

When Baird asked him to get a dummy for the first test of television, as the lighting was too intense for a human, Banerjee went to Mr Emporium's toy shop, where he bought Stooky Bill from the Toymaker, and had to put up with his racial comments. The next day, Baird and Banerjee placed Bill's head before the camera and began to test the first ever television recording. Though a success, the bright lights caused Bill to catch fire while a giggle played. Afterwards, Banerjee began to suffer hallucinations of Bill, perpetually hearing the Giggle in his head. Disturbed, Banerjee returned to the shop the following day to confront the Toymaker, who challenged him to a game to remove the Giggle from his head. Banerjee lost, leading him to be turned into a life size dummy similar to Stooky Bill and stored in the Toymaker's domain.

The Fourteenth Doctor eventually found Banerjee in the Toymaker's domain, and he explained what happened to him until the Toymaker arrived and replaced Banerjee with a puppet of the Doctor. When the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors defeated the Toymaker in a game of catch and subsequently banished him from reality, the timeline changed and returned Banerjee to when he was watching the first television effect. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) Banerjee was unable to know why, but he had the feeling he had his life back. (PROSE: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (novelisation)"])