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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1h

TV criminologist David Wilson, because he waves his hands about too much when he’s talking.

David Wilson: a man in his sixties with white hair and beard. He’s got his hands together as he talks.

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 16h

Our trilogy of books is heaving with essays about the dark pop culture of the 70s and 80s! Get 10% off with the case-sensitive code NOVEL10 till midnight, Friday October 16. Also available as colour eBooks! Store: linktr.ee/scarredforlife

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 11h

Watching the new series of Mock the Week, and for some reason, I just felt a little twinge of happiness noticing that Mykola Pawluk is still working. One of those names that seems to have been around forever.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 12h

The Brigadier spends all of Season 7 calling Liz 'Miss Shaw', but she reveals in Inferno 7 that she has a doctorate and so she's more-properly 'Dr Shaw'. Is the Brig just being a completely misogynistic bellend throughout S7? #DoctorWho

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 20h

I still use ash quite regularly.

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Andy Dawson @andydawson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This popped up on my Facebook feed and it's an ABSOLUTE JOY. Please enjoy all nearly seven minutes of it youtu.be/KjIQtFwB0U4?...

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Rik and Ade on Big Breakfast Part 2

YouTube video by Victoria P

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What’s the quality like? Have they been back to the original tapes?

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

BOOTS: FOR ALL YOUR BENZEDRINE NEEDS

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I do have nostalgia for the late 90s

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Watching a Loose Cannon recon of Marco Polo

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It does strike me that if Richard E Grant had played Scream of the Shalka the way he's played Traitors, he could have been the Doctor in 2005

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Did they only have Richard E Grant under contract for two days or something?

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's definitely a bit in Under Pressure where Freddie Mercury shouts 'Bellhop!'

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m currently deep into Shakespeare and Hathaway, and it’s absolutely glorious. Fairly run-of-the-mill cosy detective drama, but Jo Joyner and Mark Benton are fantastic together: they’re always adding little bits of business and doing gags with each other. You can tell they’re loving every second.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That Next Planet Over That Looks Like A Rabbit Dropping.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My Dad was on Winner Takes All in the 70s. Would love to see it...

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Last of the Summer Wine. Absolutely serious: in 1973, it’s one of the most well-observed, philosophical and funny series on telly. Brilliantly written. Men as bairns. Then after Foggy leaves and Uncle of the Bride it turns into formulaic ‘going downhill in a bath/sidecar/piano-on-wheels’ territory.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am absolutely ready to watch the first episode of this, think it is exciting fantastic and exactly the sort of thing the series needs, then never watch any more of it and put The Aztecs on instead. #DoctorWho

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A red sentient toaster is a great idea

Talkei Toaster from Red Dwarf: a red toaster with flashing lights.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not wishing to argue, Andy - your B5 books were hugely influential back in the day! - but Straczynski has published his post-Pilot Season 1 draft notes in which Sinclair wasn't Valen... The original 'hole in your mind' stuff was about his future prophetic role as father of Delenn's half-human child.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you only know later Summer Wine it seems remarkable that the Pilot episode contains the word 'orgasm'.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We shot this video for Summer Winos where we recreated shots from the Pilot, and it's impossible to make it look as grim. Holmfirth's too pretty!

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Touring the 'Last of the Summer Wine' Pilot Episode Locations (50th Anniversary)

YouTube video by Summer Winos

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Pilot is full of that stuff: it's openly an working class ruffian, an aspirational Tory and a middle-of-the-road centrist saying things like, 'Now we're in an age of compassion. The world's full of folk hating folk for hating folk.'

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was important, but gradually: some of Bell's stuff is quite dark, initially. It's about the mid-80s when it seems to change, to my mind. It also loses videotape in the early 90s and gets generally 'gentrified'. But really, I think it's the ensemble cast / catchphrase structure that changes it.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The first episode is all about the fact that Clegg's wife is recently dead.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'A complex texture of conflicting moralities...'

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's startling how different it is. You know that first series of Red Dwarf where it's all grey and empty and they've nothing to do? Imagine that, in a wet, Yorkshire dale. And you know it's about old folk? Jane Freeman was in her 30s. Brian Wilde was in his 40s. They're all playing older.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s so nihilistic: they wander about that town, accursed with boredom and loneliness. Holmfirth is covered in 70s soot and the beautiful village nestled in the Holme Valley looks like hell. The librarian has the most chaste of erotic affairs. Nora Batty looks like she has a diet of lemons and coal.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Complete myth, I’m afraid: ‘a Minbari not born of Minbari’ isn’t even mentioned until early Season 3, which is when I reckon he had the idea for it. B Squared was originally going to be about a spin-off series with Sinclair on B4 in the near future. The last scene was going to be him fishing!

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nah - the entire galaxy uses the correct aspect ration of 4:3, and it's only the Earth locals who go widescreen.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do say hello! I've probably known you for 20 years and never met...

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's #dayofdredd today. I didn't read Dredd as a bairn and only got into it in my 40s, when @scarredforlife.bsky.social told me I should read them. I fell in love instantly: the Democracy stuff, Dead Man et al, and the America storyline, are some of the most important things ever. Fascism laid bare.

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