‘How The Young Ones Changed Comedy’ (GOLD) reviewed
❉ Iain MacLeod reviews a weekend of essential entertainment looking at the most revolutionary sitcom ever made.
CULT TV
The Long Journey Back to Cathay – ‘The Black Archive: Marco Polo’
❉ Marco Polo is the one story from the very first season of Doctor Who for which no footage exists at all, so how can we know what it was really like?
‘The Black Archive 19: The Eleventh Hour’
❉ The latest of Obverse Books’ Black Archive series thunders along with the same pace as the episode upon which it is based.
BBC Books Announce New Thirteenth Doctor Fiction!
❉ The first novels on the BBC Books list to feature the Thirteenth Doctor, as played by Jodie Whittaker, and her friends Yasmin, Ryan and Graham..
‘The Mad Death’ released on DVD for the first time!
❉ BBC’s thriller about an outbreak of rabies released on DVD by Simply Media 7 May 2018.
‘Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany’ on Blu-Ray reviewed
❉ “Heimat is a magnificent achievement, a truly pioneering piece of drama which paved the way for the novelistic TV dramas to come.”
Reeltime Pictures celebrate 40 years of Blake’s 7!
❉ Revealing and in-depth interviews with the cast from one of Britain’s most beloved science fiction series!
Doctor Who – Ravenous Series 1 reviewed
❉ The Doctor is reunited with Winston Churchill… and the Kandyman. What a time to be alive!
‘Threads’: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Bomb
❉ In 1984, BBC2 broadcast the most terrifying film ever made: ‘Threads’.
Grey is the New Black – ‘Within These Walls’
❉ A huge success for LWT, the series offered an authentic portrayal of day-to-day life for the inmates and staff of a women’s prison