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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a great shame that Parker's only score for Doctor Who was on such a terrible story.

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm still disproportionately miffed that the cowards at Letterboxd got rid of this screamingly demented alternate cover for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

A tonally inappropriate Letterboxd alternate cover for the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me that depicts a peppy, upbeat blue sky with clouds with Sheryl Lee smiling as Laura Palmer. It also has upbeat stylized typeface suggestive of a 1990s romcom.

Letterboxd got rid of this alternate cover, and that's ridiculous.

Tagline: "She's going nowhere fast... and you're not coming."

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A deep dive into a comic strip about a schoolgirl which takes at least two very strange turns. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-fu...

Belle turns away from a boy at a school gate, declaring "I shall easily find a boy who's keener on me than soppy cricket!" In the right-hand corner, a boy with branches growing out of his head is labelled "Know Your Nurks No. 107: Albert Frogpongle is going to the barbers for a prune."

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

L: Final new edition of Terry Bave's "Double Trouble", from the 9 July 1996 edition of Buster. R: First rerun edition, from the 23 July 1996 edition... pretty seamless.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

L: What was *probably* the last new edition of X-Ray Specs, from the 12/05/98 edition of Buster. R: The reprint edition from the following 26/05/98 edition of Buster. There are more graceful transitions in the comic's final years.

A very obviously not new edition of X-Ray Specs.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

*wakes up from a coma after 28 years* Hey, I wonder what happened to that 11 year old girl who rang This Morning to sing Pie Jesu.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

EARLY EVENING (not really but I'm about to go out) REPOST

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Asterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026

Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart

Das Bild zeigt einen kleinen, länglichen und nach oben abgerundeten Stein, dessen Form an einen Hinkelstein erinnert. Der Stein wurde rundherum so bemalt, dass er selbst zum Körper von Obelix wird.
Auf der Vorderseite sind Obelix’ Gesicht mit den roten Zöpfen, sein nackter Oberkörper sowie der grüne Gürtel mit großer gelber Schnalle zu sehen. Darunter setzt sich seine typische blau-weiß gestreifte Hose bis zum unteren Rand des Steins fort. Seine Füße stehen auf einer kleinen grünen Wiese, die mit roten Pilzen und Blumen verziert ist. Der obere, dunkelgraue Teil des Steins bleibt weitgehend unbemalt und wirkt dadurch wie ein Hinkelstein, der hinter Obelix aufragt.
Die Rückseite löst den kleinen optischen Scherz auf: Dort fehlen Kopf und Oberkörper völlig. Stattdessen sieht man nur Obelix’ Arme, die sich von beiden Seiten um den grauen Stein legen. Seine Hände greifen hinter dem „Hinkelstein“ ineinander. Darunter sind wiederum die gestreifte Hose und seine Füße auf der Wiese zu erkennen.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 20/09/2026

Hands up who wants some fun research into The Young Ones? Brand new on Dirty Feed: the truth about Colin Baker's appearance, or rather non-appearance, on the show. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/evil...

Rick with his hands in the air, from The Young Ones, "Bambi"

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Conclusion of the Buster strip from the 07/04/90 edition of, er, Buster, also the final strip to be drawn by Tom Paterson. Note the farewell 'ta-ta!' in his signature, bottom right.

Buster and his friends try to go camping, but their backpacks are so big they get jammed in the front door.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More reverse-engineering of adventure gamebooks from the 80s. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/09/trai...

Vladimir Utoshski, aka the Titanium Cyborg, a villainous figure drawn by 2000 AD artist Brian Bolland.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 19/09/2026

"Yarrrr, me parents are dead in an alley"

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Get your kids the Beano so you can read it yourself. Nigel Auchterlounie is really funny

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you'd like some insight into how many people read the nonsense I write: This post has had over 400 hits in its first week, which is a truly exceptional performance.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

THE GREATEST PAGE ON THE INTERNET HAS BEEN UPDATED simpsonsarchive.com/guides/openi...

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The Simpsons Archive: Opening Sequences

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gamebooks fact of the day: In all four possible solutions to "Appointment with F.E.A.R.", you should ignore the story branch where you try to stop the President's assassination, which is a deliberate red herring.

Cover of Fighting Fantasy #17 "Appointment with F.E.A.R."

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tonight's eps in my first-time watch of The X-Files: "Monday" and "Arcadia". One hell of a one-two punch.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Doctor Who tender invitation is out, contrary to all those people who told me the show was dead and I was deluded to think the BBC had any intention of keeping it going. Broadcast target 2028/29, tight turnaround for submissions - just two weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/commissionin...

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New opportunity: Doctor Who invitation to tender

Deadline for initial submissions: 2 October

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The 'new' Red Dwarf crew getting Kochanski within minutes is a truly excellent joke. #reddwarf

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Ken Reid character "Hugh Fowler: The Man Who Hates Football" (Scorcher, 1971-72) is sometimes suggested as being prescient of Basil Fawlty. Not *quite* sure I see it myself...

An edition of "Hugh Fowler: The Man Who Hates Football" where Hugh buys hundreds and hundreds of packets of breakfast cereal to stop anyone else from entering a competition to win a football. It ends poorly for him.

An edition of "Hugh Fowler: The Man Who Hates Football" where Hugh inflates footballs with helium to stop anyone from using them. It ends poorly for him.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Another edition to the Side Table of Simpsons Charity Shop Mugs.

A very large mug depicting Homer Simpson exclaiming "D'oh!", on a sideboard with many other Simpsons mugs and glasses.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Ken Reid character "Hugh Fowler: The Man Who Hates Football" (Scorcher, 1971-72) is sometimes suggested as being prescient of Basil Fawlty. Not *quite* sure I see it myself...

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This did *exceptionally* well for first-day pageviews (by my standards anyway), thanks if you shared it!

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A history of the oddest comic strip I have ever researched. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/09/davy...

Dare-a-Day Davy attempts, unsuccessfully, to resist a dare, and runs off holding a boot-horn and a cauldron of porridge, exclaiming "Ha-har-r! He's dead right! - Where's a blue-bottle? I can't resist a dare!"

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A Jonah strip from a 1960 issue of the Beano which not only demonstrates Ken Reid's habit of getting carried away and cramming 30 panels onto a single page, but also features the deaths of hundreds of people.

Jonah strip from a 1960 edition of the Beano

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Paul Hayes @paul-hayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My colleague Alice has made a nice little episode for the Secret Cambridgeshire series on BBC Sounds, all about what happened with Shada. It's always fascinating having #DoctorWho stuff made by non-fans, and I think she's done a very nice job - do have a listen!

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Secret Cambridgeshire - Doctor Who: Lost in Cambridge - BBC Sounds

The tale of the missing Doctor Who storyline filmed in Cambridge.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Comics fact of the day: The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Victorious had a life-size portrait of Jonah hanging in the mess, produced after artist Ken Reid "got carried away".

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know Demons & Angels is probably one of the most flawed episodes of the original 36, but it's impressive how it gets to "Red Dwarf is about to blow up" about two minutes in. #reddwarf

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This absolutely is a word, fuck off

A section of text, with which spellcheck has taken issue with the word 'spifflication'

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The TV Guide listing for Star Trek’s debut!

STAR TREK-Adventure
DEBUT
COLOR

This science-fiction
series centers on the crew of the USS
(United Space Ship) Enterprise as they travel on an extended space patrol. To-night: "The Man Trap." The Enterprise stops on planet M-113 for the annual medical checkup of archeologists Bob and Nancy Crater-but Nancy doesn't seem to be herself. Kirk: William Shat-ner. Spock: Leonard Nimoy. Dr. Leonard
McCoy: DeForest Kelley. (60 min.)
Guest Cast
Nancy Crater ...Jeanne Bal
Bob Crater …Alfred Ryder
Third Nancy…Francine Pyne

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Toomz @toomz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I had a letter printed in School Fun when I was a kid.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

PHOTO OF THE DAY: The 2 people used in American Gothic by Grant Wood stand next to the iconic painting. They were Wood’s sister, Nan Graham, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1942). 📷 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Archives

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A look at an inexplicably unsuccessful comic themed entirely around going to school. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/09/scho...

Masthead of issue 26 of School Fun, price 20p, every Monday, 7th April 1984. Styles itself as "The pet comic for laughs!" and promises a lucky dip with 50 prizes within.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 05/09/2026

A short piece on some group research done the other day on Bluesky, about BBC2, snooker, and Red Dwarf. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/a-gi...

Coverage of the snooker, with the caption:
Red Dwarf will follow this Final

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Does anyone know when the Radio Times had a Grange Hill comic strip? (Even just rough years would be helpful, I don't need exact dates.)

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Does anyone know when the Radio Times had a Grange Hill comic strip? (Even just rough years would be helpful, I don't need exact dates.)

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 01/09/2026

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

More notes on BBC Two's reruns of a comedy series set in space. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/09/dwar...

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tom Baker looking increasingly deranged as Professor Plum on Cluedo

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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New desk has a bizarre glass viewing panel into one of the drawers and I didn’t know what to put there so currently I have the Snorlax plush I’ve had since I was a kid lying in state.

A glass viewing panel on a desk, Snorlax is peacefully resting in the drawer.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have now put all my posts on comics mayflies under one label, in advance of the next one which should hopefully appear before the end of the month. (Why not try and guess which one it is?) cwickham.blogspot.com/search/label...

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

More notes on BBC Two's reruns of a comedy series set in space. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/09/dwar...

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