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1975 Christmas Radio TV Times – Time Travel Edition

H E Cooper — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:38:01 +0000

Download Christmas Radio TV Times Following such a lovely positive response to last year’s 1974 edition, I’ve created another special time travel listings magazine. Once again, you can travel back 50 years into Christmas TV’s past. The Christmas Radio TV Times gathers together numerous TV programmes from Christmas week 1975, across both the BBC channels and ITV. …

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Calllan – The Most Promising Girl of Her Year

H E Cooper — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:15:25 +0000

Joan is a brilliant but naïve young biologist who has suddenly decided to leave her job. The Section asks Callan to assess whether she poses a security risk, and we soon discover she has an East German boyfriend. “I never meet anybody by accident...”

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Doctor Who – The Ribos Operation

H E Cooper — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 06:43:06 +0000

My main memories of this story are really just blokes standing around in fur coats on snowy rocks. This, in fairness, is not an entirely inaccurate description of The Ribos Operation. Yet it achieves plenty with a small cast on studio sets.

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Doctor Who – Invasion of the Dinosaurs

H E Cooper — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:11:50 +0000

Invasion of the Dinosaurs is the last Third Doctor story I hadn’t seen before. I’d owned it for a long time, but the impression I’d gained was of a highly naff production, even accounting for Doctor Who’s usual low budget standards. INVASION I love that Episode One is simply titled ‘Invasion’ and I’m sure that …

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Doctor Who – The Time Warrior

H E Cooper — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:01:49 +0000

Ooh new titles… When I originally watched The Time Warrior, I hadn’t seen any of Sarah Jane Smith’s 1970s’ stories. I’d first seen her in The Five Doctors, and I came away without much impression of her really. There are so many faces there that few of the companions get to shine much besides filling …

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Doctor Who – The Green Death

H E Cooper — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:00:53 +0000

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 …

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1974 Christmas Radio Times TV – Time Travel Edition

H E Cooper — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:02:43 +0000

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 …

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Doctor Who – Planet of the Daleks

H E Cooper — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 09:00:47 +0000

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 …

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Doctor Who – Frontier in Space

H E Cooper — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 08:00:45 +0000

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 …

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Survivors – Gone to the Angels

H E Cooper — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:00:32 +0000

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 …

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