Rebel Yell: ‘Blake’s 7’ Forty Years On
❉ Writer Michael Seely looks back on his childhood memories of Blake’s 7, first broadcast 40 years ago today.
TV
‘Playboys Spies and Private Eyes’ reviewed
❉ A fitting tribute to the exciting dramas of ITC Television, which straddled the divide between art and commerce…
Doctor Who Christmas special 2017 – ‘Twice Upon a Time’
❉ Peter Capaldi takes a subdued bow as the Doctor in a piece of genuine television history.
Missing Believed Wiped 2017, BFI Southbank
❉ Roll up, roll up for the annual parade of newly recovered archive TV treats.
‘Ben Baker’s Festive Double Issue – Forty Years Of Christmas TV’ reviewed
❉ The Ghosts of Christmas Television Past.
Beware The Savage Jaw: ‘The Mad Death’
❉ Chris Orton looks back on the BBC drama about a rabies epidemic in Britain.
Podcast of the Week: Jaffa Cakes For Proust
❉ Jaffa Cakes For Proust take on TV, cinema and other aspects of popular culture.
Global Flight: The BBC Balloon, 20 Years On
❉ The story of the BBC One balloon ident that was used from October 1997 – April 2002.
Upside Down: ‘Stranger Things – Season 2’ reviewed
❉ It’s that difficult second album…
Nothing’s sad until it ends: Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who
❉ “Under Moffat, in so many ways, Doctor Who came of age”, writes Gareth Kearns.