Featured Archives | Visual Mutterings https://visualmutterings.com/category/featured Archive television thoughts Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:39:08 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://visualmutterings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Featured Archives | Visual Mutterings https://visualmutterings.com/category/featured 32 32 178785585 Callan – Goodness Burns Too Bright https://visualmutterings.com/callan-goodness-burns-too-bright https://visualmutterings.com/callan-goodness-burns-too-bright#respond Sun, 17 Dec 2023 13:35:50 +0000 http://visualmutterings.com/?p=2376 Bauer (Robert Lang) is to help the Section plant an agent in East Germany. He comes to Hunter with a proposal to tip the East Germans off and send in a decoy – if they find a decoy first they won’t be looking for the real agent. Bauer had a previous run-in with Callan and …

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]]> https://visualmutterings.com/callan-goodness-burns-too-bright/feed 0 2376 The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Fit the First https://visualmutterings.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-fit-the-first https://visualmutterings.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-fit-the-first#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:31:22 +0000 http://visualmutterings.com/?p=1939 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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]]> https://visualmutterings.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-fit-the-first/feed 9 1939 The Nightmare Man – RetroTube podcast https://visualmutterings.com/the-nightmare-man-retrotube-podcast https://visualmutterings.com/the-nightmare-man-retrotube-podcast#respond Mon, 08 Feb 2021 21:33:59 +0000 http://visualmutterings.com/?p=1905 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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]]> https://visualmutterings.com/the-nightmare-man-retrotube-podcast/feed 0 1905 The Goodies – Gender Education https://visualmutterings.com/the-goodies-gender-education https://visualmutterings.com/the-goodies-gender-education#comments Fri, 15 May 2020 04:30:00 +0000 Gender Education My next episode of The Goodies moves us swiftly further along to series 2, episode 11. At the Goodies’ headquarters, a well-turned-out, mature woman with glasses sneaks up on Tim and Graeme. She’s instantly recognisable as a faux-Mary Whitehouse and I must admit I was surprised that I saw this so quickly, yet …

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]]> https://visualmutterings.com/the-goodies-gender-education/feed 2 19 B is for Blake’s 7 – The Way Back https://visualmutterings.com/b-is-for-blakes-7-the-way-back https://visualmutterings.com/b-is-for-blakes-7-the-way-back#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:20:00 +0000 http://visualmutterings.com/b-is-for-blakes-7-the-way-back Blake’s 7 is something I have been planning to look into for years but I didn’t actually know much about it – a BBC science-fiction series with a bunch of people on a spaceship. Was it just going to be a duller, dryer, version of Red Dwarf? I’d first come across it in the pages …

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