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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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Callan – Red Knight, White Knight

H E Cooper — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:30:52 +0000

Callan returns to the Section to meet a new Hunter and an old friend in the first episode of Series 2, which is a wonderful re-introduction to the series for new viewers.

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Callan – You Should Have Got Here Sooner

H E Cooper — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:01:10 +0000

To stick with the plot of You Should Have Got Here Sooner, we have to ignore the insane coincidence that Lonely just happened to burgle a flat during the handful of nights that Meres is using it as a safehouse with an escaped spy holed up there. If Lonely can get in, you do worry …

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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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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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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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