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I remember it being scary as hell in places - when the mum and daughter got turned to stone, or the vicar got monkeyed. And I always wanted that breakfast Ace got.

I daren't rewatch most of those 24-26 stories. I've seen Remembrance and Fenric again recently and enjoyed them very much, but I doubt ones like Battlefield, Delta and the Bannermen or Ghost Light would stand up well compared to my memory of them.

In fairness I was 12 at the time, and living in a state of constant nuclear terror thanks to the likes of When the Wind Blows, Robot Jox, Dreamscape etc. And tbh I'd still absolutely buy that sort of thing from Mccoy, where I'd absolutely turn off in disgust/cringe if it came out of Tennant.

I thought there was quite a bit to like in Battlefield. Admittedly, it's been a few decades, but the Brigadier proper bad boy wasting the Destroyer was one hell of a moment. And the Doctor's speech when he's talking Morgaine down from using the nuke really stuck with me.

Given Jean-Luc's hairstyle, it's not wholly inappropriate.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

I don't know which I find most irritating about people like him (and all the other continuity Remain midwits tbh) - the self-righteousness, or the self-importance.

I'm sure it was valuable work!

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I suppose that depends very much on local circumstances. I do like the comparison, but I'm not sure you could reasonably say that either the Cosy Club or any of the Spoons' in Lincoln or even Nottingham city centres have caused local pubs to close.

In at least two cases I know of Cosy Club have secured the future of important listed buildings. Their interiors may be pastiche, but they have genuinely contributed to preserving historic townscapes.

Well, you say "intimidate" - it's three Sisterhood of Karn cosplayers who'll spend an hour sighing theatrically while each of them sheds an artfully glistening tear over the state of the world, before going for a bowl of ethically sourced gruel somewhere in Hoxton.

SACRED FLAME

God, it's just the purest distillation of sanctimony and misery. As though a bowl of salted porridge came to life and had opinions.

Good grief! I hadn't actually read that until last night, and it really is a bit much! Did he get mugged in Cardiff or something?

I read recently, and can't now remember where, that Shadow Over Innsmouth was HPLs response to learning he was part Welsh.

Finally our Silicon Valley overlords will liberate us from our toil as artists, historians and geographers and allow us to follow our true calling as hazardous waste removal operatives. Truly a new golden age awaits.

Congrats on inventing whatever the opposite of clickbait is...

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read: "Spiders Terrible hotel stay Narrator makes fun of golf Latin passages Eerie disembodied voices Confirmed bachelor main character Vengeful spirit Evil magician Working-class character as comic relief Bleak East Anglian coast Visit to an archive Narrator in guidebook mode FREE SPACE Unholy doings in a church Frogs or toads Queen Anne style house Cursed artifact Don't buy that rare book! Something hairy and horrible Someone gets too curious Tentacles Story told via old manuscript Research trip gone horribly wrong Beds are scary Tactile horror

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

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Right chaps, I've done your epically long survey, and now I feel entitled to make two recommendations for future episodes - Zone Troopers (a favourite of mine when I was 11, but not watched since) and Conspiracy (Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci at the Wansee conference).

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Especially when they're full of industrial waste and/or several metres of archaeology. Brownfield is expensive and difficult to develop, and either the developer (lol), the buyer, or the state will be on the hook for the extra costs.

She'd have done it in 5 parts and by the end we'd have had ten brilliant, easy to follow recipes.

That's a good premise wasted by not giving the gig to Felicity Cloake.

That was Stuckart's objection to the Final Solution. Not that it was evil and obscene, but that they needed to change the law before they did it.

I'm not willing to call that a mistake until I see the consequences in episode 8.