I first saw The Green Death on BBC Four in April 2006. BBC Four has never regularly repeated Doctor Who and I can’t recall seeing any other stories there around that time – I’d definitely have checked the TV guide after stumbling across this one. I’d later assumed that this broadcast was part of some …
View 1974 Christmas Radio Times TV Guide Yuletide felicitations to you all! I’ve created this extra special TV listings magazine that pulls together numerous TV programmes from Christmas week 1974, across both the BBC channels and ITV. Opening the PDF version of the magazine, which I’ve named Radio Times TV, will enable you to click on …
Frontier in Space may not have had the cliffhanger I thought I remembered, but it did have a cliffhanger. I’d waited 15 years to find out how Planet of the Daleks continued the story, after UK Gold had been unable to screen it. The VHS was deleted by then and eBay copies were too expensive …
When I watched Frontier in Space the first time around, I was absolutely livid that UK Gold did not then show Planet of the Daleks afterwards. And for years that was my main memory of it – being angry and feeling cheated of the story’s conclusion. I never managed to get around to seeing Planet …
Our survivors experience more disappointments, but their little family unit is growing. Snatches of hope drive Abby and the others forward this episode. She returns to the school, with the older teacher now gone. Interestingly, she doesn’t find his body and we’re left wondering what actually happened to him. When she’s in the chapel, there …
I’ve been doing my Very Slow Doctor Who Marathon for well over a decade – the pilgrimage, the quest, whatever fans want to call it. One thing that pushed me back towards it was the release of The Collection blu-ray sets. I’ve written about some stories in recent years, starting in the Pertwee era. Having …
When I saw this episode’s title appear onscreen, it seemed vaguely familiar but I couldn’t remember what a corn dolly was. I was hoping it wasn’t going to end up as a metaphor for something horrific here because I didn’t fancy an evening that climaxed with The Wicker Man-type terrors. After all the opening grimness, …
Abby has started to establish her own little group but we soon see that, even with hardly any other people around, some of the Survivors are still truly terrible human beings. Whatever this plague was, it’s looking highly doubtful that it was divine intervention. Why couldn’t only the nice ones survive? Looting At some point, …
If you are considering a trip to Yorkshire to check out some Blake’s 7 filming locations, here’s a guide for those without teleport bracelets that includes the important stuff, like where to park, grab a bite to eat and the nearest toilets. This guide does presume you have access to a car as public transport …
Last episode’s title represented Death and I like that the biblical namings have continued with Genesis – the first book in the Bible – offering us a new beginning. Can Terry Nation keep these up? I hope so, even if my own biblical knowledge may become stretched quite quickly. If The Fourth Horseman was brutal …
