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The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Fit the Third

H E Cooper — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:35:04 +0000

Peter Jones as the Book feels like a wonderful, reassuring presence by now. His calm matter-of-factness and careful explanations are helping to keep me up to speed on everything. This is another episode where we don’t jump straight into our heroes’ action, but instead we get more world-building about the universe that Arthur has started …

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I’ve Never Seen K9 And Company

H E Cooper — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:12:38 +0000

The day finally came when I had to admit to some fellow Doctor Who fans that I had never got around to watching K9 & Company. Several children of the 1980s were horrified – it was clear that they were lifelong lovers of this ill-fated spin-off. I was intrigued, but I was also trepidatious. After all, there …

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Guide to Blake’s 7 Locations – Yorkshire

H E Cooper — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:29:33 +0000

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 …

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The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Fit the Second

H E Cooper — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:31:24 +0000

As I was drafting this, I wrote variations on ‘this may have been my favourite part of the episode’ several times. Therefore, I decided it was best to simply remove them all because I couldn’t choose one. When we left Ford and Arthur, they were just about to be caught by the Vogons. But before …

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The Sandbaggers – Series 3 – Spybrary podcast

H E Cooper — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 12:24:40 +0000

In this final part of our Sandbaggers‘ podcast series , I joined Spybrary host Shane Whaley and fellow fans Jeffrey Westhoff and Paul Hodges to discuss the third and final series of The Sandbaggers. Paul’s a long-term fan and had some really fascinating knowledge to bring to the table, so it was great to be able …

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The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Fit the First

H E Cooper — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:31:22 +0000

The best thing about my birthday as a kid was that it always fell in half term. We didn’t live that near any multiplex cinemas, so most of my trips to the pictures were in school holidays. My mother started dropping me off at the Showcase more often from the age of 10 or 11 …

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Blake’s 7 – Series C alternative episode order

H E Cooper — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:18:54 +0000

Since finishing Blake’s 7, I’ve been enjoying Tim Dickinson’s Watching Blake’s 7 blog and his post on Sarcophagus mulls on a rejigged episode order for Series C. “I did wonder what would happen if this was the penultimate episode of season C. It felt like a late series episode. A coda. A summing up of …

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The Nightmare Man – RetroTube podcast

H E Cooper — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 21:33:59 +0000

I’ve had a lovely time listening to RetroTube over the last few months, enjoying the conversations of two friends as they share their love of archive television with one another – it really is right up my street. Heather and Adam’s slightly different tastes ensure the show varies from Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) to Blake’s 7 …

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Blake’s 7 – Blake

H E Cooper — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:48:25 +0000

Looking for the start of Blake’s 7? The Way Back It’s been 19 months since I sat down with The Way Back. That’s a relatively long time to spend, almost non-stop, with a series and its characters. They have lived in my head between episodes, between writing these blogs, between doodling them in notebooks, and …

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Blake’s 7 – Warlord

H E Cooper — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 14:29:55 +0000

After realising I may never entirely recover from Orbit, I decided I was going to have to press on with Warlord eventually. The trauma was one reason holding me back, but I also know I’m nearing the end and I don’t want there to be no more new episodes of Blake’s 7 for me. The …

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