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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 7h

THE XYY MAN (1976) is being sneaked out by @rewindtv.bsky.social at 12 noon and 6pm, Tuesday 6 October. #StepehenYardley #DonHenderson.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 19h

Today is the 64th anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, so it’s time for the story of the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington—because Goya’s portrait of him had been nicked from the National Gallery the previous summer, just 19 days after it went on display

Sean Connery in Dr No’s lair, about to go up a short flight of stairs when he spots a portrait of the Duke of Wellington on a stand. The original had been stolen from the National Gallery the previous year, and this was a joke by the Bond production team

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 19h

I don't get these video podcasts where everyone is sitting on a sofa with microphones on stands in front of them. It's like they've just invented the chat show, but as awkwardly as possible.

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 23h

Commando celebrates its 6000th issue in this week’s next set, on sale from Thursday 8th October from publisher DC Thomson in newsagents, on subscription and as digital editions! Featuring superheroes, a special tale from celebrity authors James Holland and Al Murray, and some special crossovers,…

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6000 Not Out: Four All-New Commando Adventures celebrate a Major Milestone for the British War Comic

Commando celebrates an amazing landmark issue!

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An assured #PatrickWymark in one of his first, brief film roles as Lexie in THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN wymark.org.uk/league.html

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hard to imagine now, what 9-year old me might have made of that cover if I'd seen it on the spinner rack. I'd snapped up the SHIELD issues with Steranko's exploding Earth, and Dali-pursuit. Later I bought the HOUSE OF MYSTERY issues with painted-effect covers. I think TOS would have been OK.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What's that crunching noise in the still sunrise? Wasp larvae hatching out in that rotting window frame? Drying scattered leaves from yesterday's strimming session? Or disembodied invisible brains crawling towards your door?

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"John Ryan...points out that 'two newspapers have already paid damages for repeating the allegations, and a so-called authoritative book on children's television has printed corrections and an apology. I don't want to be known as a person who wrote dirty books for children.'" The Oldie 1 May 1992.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This sounds like a good deal - on the Saturday evening showing an hallucinatory episode of the 1970's SHADES OF GREENE series (never released to DVD) and a John Le Carre scripted ARMCHAIR THEATRE

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

55p for an Alan Class comic? I remember when they were a shilling.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lucky Gerry and Sylvia would probably have been able to legitimately write their holiday in the World's Fair off as 'research'.

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Nicola’s Century 21 @gleanniucha21.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Both the Crablogger from “Path of Destruction” and the RCV from “End of the Road” were ripped off by Derek Meddings from GM Futurama II displays at the NY Fair A futuristic self-propelled road builder mows down rain-forest vegetation and animals, leaving an elevated superhighway in its wake 👇🏼

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't know whether it's right the first thing I should think of on learning it's James Whitmore's birthday is him singing "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" along with Keenan Wynn in Kiss Me Kate, but that's immediately what sprang to mind. youtu.be/u8Zzl_HH4XQ

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Brush up your Shakespeare - Kiss Me Kate (1953) - Movie Version

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Electric Palace Hastings TV Festival (From October 8-11. With Hastings TV Museum). RED DWARF, COLUMBO, OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH, LE CARRE and GREENE

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gailrenard.bsky.social @gailrenard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

RIP Dame Esther Rantzen, broadcaster, campaigner, founder of Childline and Silverline. But her finest hour was surprising Sir Nicholas Winton with some of the 669 children he saved during the Holocaust. What a woman. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Esther Rantzen surprises Nicholas Winton with children he saved

One of her most memorable career moments came during one particular episode in 1988 - the footage of which has gone viral several times over in recent years.

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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Published today and available in all good bookshops or so I'm told! geni.us/TheBoyWithTh...

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As with film reviews the article helpfully directs readers to streaming services and doesn't mention you can buy the DVD's (but then, I guess we're reading THE GUARDIAN for free, so can't complain).

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Stunning film posters on display at the Istanbul Cinema Museum.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Surely you should be eating Haggis and Cheesecake to match the image.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Come and meet the fabulous #DianeKeen this Sunday at our #TPTV FESTIVAL OF FILM & TV at the Tivoli, Wimborne. Sunday 4th Oct. A whole day of great entertainment with star guests, lost films, live entertainment and more! Call the box office 01202 885 566 or online: buff.ly/7cVuJiD

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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Born 30 Sept 1931, actress Angie Dickinson. From 1974 to 1978 she starred as Sgt "Pepper" Anderson in the crime series Police Woman for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress & Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She is 95 today. #AngieDickinson

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 'Brains is Dead' sequence attack on Tracy Island foresees what would become the comic-book-movie cliche of the villain invading and partially destroying the heroes secret lair (Superman 2, Batman Forever) culminating in MI6 being blown up in SKYFALL.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Could the DANGER MAN episode 'Fair Exchange' have inspired the 1966 SECRET AGENT 21 sequence in TV21 where 21 goes rogue in Bereznik to kill the security chief who had Tina Palamac murdered? (recently posted by @gleanniucha21.bsky.social ).

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

DANGER MAN 'Fair Exchange' - ITV regions from 7th to 17th November 1964. #PatrickMcGoohan is assigned to stop M9 agent #LeliaGoldoni from killing the East German who tortured her, unaware that a rival in East German security wants her to succeed.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Apart from William Russell, Billie Piper and Catherine Tate it's rare for the companion to be well-known before they join Dr Who, but Bradley Walsh's 20 years of appearances on Coronation Street, Law & Order, The Chase, Blankety Blank and The Larkins must eclipse them all.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Never quite sure if casting a high profile male star as companion was an act of support or uncertainty for the first female star.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My memory says that "mobile" or as they say in Hull, "a Murrbile Phurne," was the common term as this 1991 court report would suggest.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BBC Man: "RAF Fairford? I really don't know what's going on."

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#PatriciaHodge on ITV3 on her birthday, 29 Sept - INSPECTOR MORSE: The Ghost in The Machine. The days when the state school educated daughter of hoteliers could impeccably portray an aristocrat.

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ronaldlaceyfans.bsky.social @ronaldlaceyfans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Flowers for Ron on his birthday yesterday, taken by Esther at St Paul's Church in Covent Garden.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I miss my 'Commuter Suit' - all those secret zipped pockets and a special coffee-repellant surface. It felt like something you would have bought out of a 'Super Spy Outfit' advert in a 1960's American comic and I loved it.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder if transmitting morse code was a skill Clark Kent had learnt at Journalism School.

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Joseph Oldham @paranoidstylist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Have momentary stepped away from my fascination with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 1979 to have a fun chat with @drgaine.bsky.social about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011 for his excellent podcast The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses. open.spotify.com/episode/53r4...

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The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses #13 - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses · Episode

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The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us this Tuesday, 29 September, for an evening walk around 17th century Huntingdon. Discover what the town was like in the 1600s, including stories of royal visits, a Civil War battle, Pepys, Cromwell and witchcraft. Details at: cromwellmuseum.org/whats-on/cro...

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Out of more than 1,000 empty units he helped audit nationally, on average more than half didn't have a letting agent actively marketing the property. He says some councils don't even know who the landlords are.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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My hometown shows that high streets have to change or die

Aberdeen is launching an ambitious bid to revive its struggling centre. Could it offer lessons for other high streets?

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 1957, Roy joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, and his family shared a company house with the family of Patrick Wymark. Michelle would later appear opposite Patrick in the film BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW (1970).

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Michele Dotrice (Lady Imelda Hansen in Channel 5's THE HARDACRES) born at Croft Baker county maternity home, Cleethorpes on 27 Sept 1947. Parents, Kay and Roy Dotrice were members of 'The Famous Fortescue Players' at the Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes ( Roy was in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE on the day).

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𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 @agnes-guano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Allan Smethurst, the Singing Postman, with his final 1966 single for Ralph Tuck's Suffolk based indy label before leaving to sign for Parlophone – Little Old Boy

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And another coincidence with a former DAN DARE artist drawing THE INVESTIGATOR @gleanniucha21.bsky.social

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Harriet Walter as the Fourth Doctor and John Thaw as the Master.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, seeing it in the cinema at around the same age had the same effect.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can't remember a feature ending with the death of the lead character before. And picking up on your thoughts from a few weeks ago - Mastersystem, Mysteron - coincidence?

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Nicola’s Century 21 @gleanniucha21.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t know.. Could brand new episodes of Thunderbirds be on the telly next week? 🤷‍♀️ #promotions The underrated issue #88 below If not caught up yet

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

3) Wilder deduces that Caswell is avoiding controls on supply of equipment to a communist Chinese-influenced island. Bligh construction carries out building contracts on the island and avoids accusations of breaking controls by hiring equipment from the small company. Alles Klar?

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

2) Inevitably reminds me of THE POWER GAME episode Trade Secret by John Bowen (21 Feb 1966) - in this one Wilder (Patrick Wymark) tells Ken Bligh that Caswell has set up a small company that only deals in plant hire and only deals with Bligh construction....

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1) Fascinating obituary of Ralph Land, European Sales Manager for Rank Xerox 1976-1991, who sold photocopiers & fax machines across the Soviet Union, overcoming lack of hard currency by bartering typewriters, office furniture and TV's from Eastern Europe. Also avoiding US controls on sales of tech

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Michael Seely @mpseely.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How Barlow looked east for his future and won over Watt in the penultimate episode of Softly Softly in 1969. michaelseely.substack.com/p/exit-barlo...

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Exit Barlow - for now...

Second part exploring how the long running police series Softly Softly moved three of its senior cast members from black and white west country and into colourful Thamesford.

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