John Isles

Doctor Who: tall, old, white hair The Master: shorter, salt and pepper beard Standing in front of a piece of machinery with a red warning light flashing.

“What did I say not to do?”
“Reverse the polarity.”
“And what did you do?”
“Reversed the polarity”
“And…?”
“Now the neutron flow is fucked.”

The 15-chapter serial film starring Dick Purcell and first appearance of a Marvel superhero outside of a comic book

CAPTAIN AMERICA (1944)

premiered 82yrs ago today.

ON THIS DAY... In 2008, The Time Meddler was released on Region 2 DVD.

#DoctorWho

Cam Kennedy

a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Doomwatch - Flight Into Yesterday (1st February 1971). A good role for John Barron in this one (and the CSO tinged finale is quite something).

The Web of Fear previewed in the Radio Times.

'Guaranteed to chill the blood'. Episode 1 of The Web of Fear reviewed in The Stage and Television Today (8th February 1968)

George and the Dragon (3rd February 1968). Tom Baker makes the most of his brief appearance.

'The Prisoner confesses ..' Patrick McGoohan warned Clifford Davis of The Daily Mirror not to expect all of The Prisoner's loose ends to be tied up in the final episode. (3rd February 1968)

Moses the Lawgiver, Ronnie Corbett's Saturday Special, Doctor Who and Doctor on the Go reviewed by Hazel Holt in The Stage and Television Today (3rd February 1977)

The Stage and Television Today gives Armchair Theatre - A Magnum for Schneider the thumbs up (9th February 1967)

The Adventure Game (4th February 1986). Ruth Madoc, Heinz Wolff and Deborah Leigh Hall are today's adventurers.

Fall Out, the final episode of The Prisoner, aired in most ITV regions during February 1968. With the series cancelled, writer and director Patrick McGoohan was under pressure to pen a concluding episode that would tie up all the loose ends. Instead ...

Blue Peter feature from BEEB - Issue One (4th February 1985)

On 24 June 2018, Öpik was elected as the chairman of the self- proclaimed and unrecognised parliament of the micronation Asgardia during the first parliamentary session in Vienna, Austria. “The birth of the new space nation Asgardia" was announced in a press conference in Paris, France, on 12 October 2016, Öpik was elected for a second term as Chair of Asgardian Parliament on 25 August

Asgardia, also known as the Space Kingdom of Asgardia and Asgardia the Space Nation, is a "virtual nation" formed by a group of people who have launched a satellite into Earth orbit. 4 They refer to themselves as "Asgardians" and they have given their satellite the name "Asgardia-1". They have declared sovereignty over the space occupied by and contained within Asgardia-1. The Asgardians have adopted a constitution!51 and they intend to access outer space free of the control of existing nations and establish a permanent settlement on the Moon by 2043.

Out of nowhere, I was struck by the question, ‘Lembit Öpik… what was his fucking deal again?’ And was rewarded beyond my wildest dreams.

Screenshot of an audio drama: The X Files: Cold Cases, by Joe Harris, Chris Carter, Dirk Maggs. Narrated by (starring) David Duchovny, Gillaian Anderson. The artwork for the release is a moody close-up of Mulder, and Scully's faces looking forwards.

This is the audio drama I listened to a few years ago.

I remember not being bothered about the YA episode adaptations - I wanted 'proper' novels! I may have to catch up the adult novels. Might go for the remaining Kevin J. Anderson as he's a reliable author.

I don't remember 'Skin.' The only other books I read were 'Whirlwind' & 'Ground Zero' Just remembered I listened to a full-cast audio drama of a graphic novel called 'Cold Cases' which was decent.

Kirk, in the second version of his wraparound green tunic.

Kirk walks in front of the viewscreen, with stars on it.

The badly damaged sister ship to the Enterprise, the USS Constellation, NCC-1017. Played by a knocked about commercially available AMT model kit.

#TrekADay

Some important firsts today. It's the debut of Kirk's second green top, the more iconic one (it was in DS9 and Enterprise) that's also meant to suck Shatner's gut in.

Plus a first 360° walk around the bridge and, most importantly for future budgets, a sister ship!

Batman and Robin stood by a parking meter, nickle in Batman's hand.

Today on Batman, West's Batman as a "duly deputised" cop finally goes too far in his endorsement of parking meters.

a conversation between the crew of the Enterprise D. Picard: Good god, didn't anyone here watch TOS as a boy? Worf: I watchted Battlestar Galactica Date: I especially liked the Cylons Chief O'Brian: I was in TOS, sir Everyone looks at him weird. O'Brian: Well, I will be. Referencing that he was in a time travel episode during Deep Space Nine

This is still my absolute favourite Star Trek meme.

Not heard of these. I read, and enjoyed a few of the original X Files novels in the 90s. The best one was 'Ruins' by Kevin J. Anderson. (I also had the audiobook (on CASSETTE!) read brilliantly by Mitch Pileggi.

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968, French poster)

WAR OF THE SATELLITES (1958)

February 4, 1939

Popstars from 1999

Popstars from 1999

For the last Smash Hits of the 90s, they asked the then-current crop of popstars what they'd like to do in 2000. Most should've said "not get dropped by the label so I have to give tug jobs in the park for a fiver". No such worries for "Beyonci" though... 😬

The City of Lost Children (1995) Directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet starring Ron Perlman.