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Lives in NE England. Posts mostly about comics, Doctor Who, other old TV and films and random stuff. He/him

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Extract from the Taking Pictures TV schedule for Thursday 9 October. At 6:30 is "Look at Life: Roman Invasion 1960"

Extract from the Taking Pictures TV schedule for Thursday 9 October. At 6:30 is "Look at Life: Roman Invasion 1960"

The Roman Invasion of 1960 was the biggest shock until the Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD.

08.10.2025 20:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screen capture of the following end titles:
"VFX: Coffee and TV.
"Titles: Momoco.
"Front titles created by design teams with assistance of [abbreviation of inaccurate description of World-burning Large Language Model plagiarism software redacted]."

Screen capture of the following end titles: "VFX: Coffee and TV. "Titles: Momoco. "Front titles created by design teams with assistance of [abbreviation of inaccurate description of World-burning Large Language Model plagiarism software redacted]."

I found the first episode of Film Club quite amusing, then saw this in the end credits and felt dismayed.

08.10.2025 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does anyone draw a glowing robot sphincter accidentally?

08.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A booklet reprinting RTD's columns for the 2006 series (because they think Tennant sells, I suppose), and a poster with pictures of the Target audiobook inlay cards.

08.10.2025 19:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I gather that it is also International Lesbian Day.
So if you are a World International Lesbian Octopus, I salute you!

08.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apparently, today is World Octopus Day.
So here's something for the great World Octopus.
Vive la pieuvre du monde!

08.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Precisely!

08.10.2025 09:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jodie Whittaker and Suranne Jones fighting in a swimming pool.

Jodie Whittaker and Suranne Jones fighting in a swimming pool.

That is to say ...

08.10.2025 08:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Frauds, episode 2.

08.10.2025 07:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Glowing robot sphincter alert!

08.10.2025 07:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've never yet found any merchandise labelled, say, "37% Official," but I'll keep looking.

08.10.2025 06:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cartoon of Vivien Leigh wearing the top half of a red Spectrum uniform and a big, crinolined skirt. 
Title lettering reads "Captain Scarlett O'Hara". 
At top right are wobbly cut-out letters, revealing the interior of the Mysteron city behind them, reading, "Frankly, Earthmen, we don't give a damn."

Cartoon of Vivien Leigh wearing the top half of a red Spectrum uniform and a big, crinolined skirt. Title lettering reads "Captain Scarlett O'Hara". At top right are wobbly cut-out letters, revealing the interior of the Mysteron city behind them, reading, "Frankly, Earthmen, we don't give a damn."

It seems to be my day for digging out cartoons I drew decades ago.

07.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cartoon showing an impala standing on its hind legs. It has prominent canine teeth, and is wearing an evening dress jacket and waistcoat and an opera cloak. Behind is a drawing in the style of the famous woodcut of Vlad dining among his impaled victims, except that Vlad is an impala and his victims are lions. Black letter type at the top reads, "Vlad the Impala."

Cartoon showing an impala standing on its hind legs. It has prominent canine teeth, and is wearing an evening dress jacket and waistcoat and an opera cloak. Behind is a drawing in the style of the famous woodcut of Vlad dining among his impaled victims, except that Vlad is an impala and his victims are lions. Black letter type at the top reads, "Vlad the Impala."

A cartoon I drew about 20-30 years ago.

07.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reported, so far as I can tell, only by Radio Times and Wales Online. Not on the BBC News website, not even in The Guardian, the only newspaper that might have been sympathetic.
I hope I've missed something.

07.10.2025 10:48 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Screen capture of a post from Cutaway Comics reading:

"Coming this Friday - The DNA of #DoctorWho: The Graham Williams Years! The follow up to our hugely popular Hinchcliffe volume, featuring 20 new essays looking at Classic Who from Fresh Perspectives.

"Sign up to be notified on launch here;

http://kickstarter.com/projects/room5064/the-graham-williams-years-the-dna-of-doctor-who "

There are four pictures of the planned book, one alongside the Philip Hinchcliffe volume.

Screen capture of a post from Cutaway Comics reading: "Coming this Friday - The DNA of #DoctorWho: The Graham Williams Years! The follow up to our hugely popular Hinchcliffe volume, featuring 20 new essays looking at Classic Who from Fresh Perspectives. "Sign up to be notified on launch here; http://kickstarter.com/projects/room5064/the-graham-williams-years-the-dna-of-doctor-who " There are four pictures of the planned book, one alongside the Philip Hinchcliffe volume.

Just seen on the Bad Place: forthcoming Kickstarter from Cutaway Comics for "The DNA of Doctor Who: The Graham Williams Years."
The URL in the post is www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...

07.10.2025 10:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cardinal (etc) Borusa. Any of them.

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They should have got Dave Gibbons to draw some backgrounds, then overlaid the cast. Like the "Jane" serial from the previous year.

05.10.2025 21:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"My other car is an E-type".

05.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can you now reveal to those of us who couldn't be there what those New Facts were?

05.10.2025 09:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screen capture from the 1980s computer game Elite.

Screen capture from the 1980s computer game Elite.

Must get one of those fridges. I might finally manage to dock with the space station.

04.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I thought he played Buskin the cobbler, not Cinders.

04.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I thought that Xavier was pronounced "Havier". It's Spanish, isn't it?

03.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But they kept Gidea Park and the Legs & Co number.

03.10.2025 19:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Two people in bird costumes miming to The Birdie Song in the Top of the Pops studio.

Two people in bird costumes miming to The Birdie Song in the Top of the Pops studio.

Anyone who was dissing 1998, please hang your head in shame. #totp

03.10.2025 19:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/stov...

03.10.2025 19:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Another reminder that hip-hop is full of good female vocalists and tedious men who talk over them and take most of the royalties. #totp

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Billie Piper materialising in the video for Because We Want To.

Billie Piper materialising in the video for Because We Want To.

Oh ... Hello!
#totp

03.10.2025 18:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Did Eagle-Eye Cherry also have Gripping Hands ™ ?
#totp
#ActionMan

03.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screen capture of B*Witched, using chairs as props to dance on.

Screen capture of B*Witched, using chairs as props to dance on.

Screen capture of Matthew Marsden, sitting down to sing. And he's got his hands in his pockets too.

Screen capture of Matthew Marsden, sitting down to sing. And he's got his hands in his pockets too.

Correct and incorrect uses of chairs in pop. #totp

03.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Did you say "Gallifrey" Drax-style?

03.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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