From Christopher Bishop, University of Surrey
Martin Anderson and Tony Jones have got the academic titles misplaced in
their references to the puppet series Supercar (Letters, 18 May, p 59).
Supercar was invented for no apparent reason by Professor Popkiss. Dr
Beaker was his research assistant (post-doc?) and they both gave technical
advice to Mike Mercury. Professor Calculus appeared in Hergé’s adventures
of Tintin.
Popkiss probably had traffic gridlock in mind as the vehicle could travel in
space, in the atmosphere and under the sea as well as on the road.
