David Brunt

"The Quark bomb, formerly known as the Johnny Cyclops bomb after the president of the same name..."

Hayles was still pitching spec storylines for another two years before he probably took the hint.

The commissioning for Tom's first season [and some of the second] takes place around April to July 1974.

Holmes was probably doing final polishing and amendments on Spiders and Robot in early 1974.

'Death' was named in July 1973, before Holmes arrived.

Dicks edited Mobster of Peladon. The usual major rewrite of Brian Hayles' scripts...

Of course, Dicks already had one foot out of the door by then. So may not have been able to give it his usual 'remove the bollocksness' of it.

That's just Hilda's murial.

Although someone called Robert Holmes (whoever he is) will start hanging around the script editor's office during production of the dinosaur story.

He brought his own bottle of scotch as well.

Three years after Object Z, his son Jason was born.

With a lot of bits from 'London After Midnight' thrown into the mix.

Buy Kathy's fucking book.

You know it makes sense.

There is.

Well, there will be when they release it on 23 October.

Good to see that Stevie Wonder is still drawing.

"If you're so wise why are you wandering around a desert with only some stinky perfume and Frankenstein wearing a lot of gold jewellery? Shouldn't you be carrying something useful - like buckets of water and a shovel for the camels...?"

Vlad. An Impala.

Rod, Jane and Freddie?

More people will watch this clip today than watched it in 1978.

I'd answer this but I couldn't be arsed.

Another sale of the Famous Five to Ulaanbataar?

In case anyone has never seen the commercial that Terry Pratchett said inspired him (sort of) while writing Good Omens:

Jees. Every episode of The Ken Dodd Show will have a reference to convict Diddy.

I wonder how early Michael Bates' illness was known. It might have made an influence of the overall sense of death hanging over the book.

They may well have got a third season with Michael Bates at the start of 1975 too. Finishing the series when he was too ill to continue for a fourth.

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I'd assume it was due to have been released while season 2 was being broadcast. Before it got hit by the 1974 strike and ended up going out in early 1975.

I wonder when it was written? Before writing the scripts for Season 2, or after.

I see they're repeating Ross Kemp's qame show on BBC2 now.

The Fall of the Bollocks of Usher.

You want to seek out his early/mid 1970s BP summer films, where he wore white bathing trunks that turned see through in water.

The title's jumping on the M*A*S*H bandwagon?

They did late night TV links as well, didn't they? Was it Channel 4 late or ITV post midnight?

Eoin McLove's Island.