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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Finished Private Eye crossword 840, but a lot of weak / obscure clues - new setter?

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

my 9 albums - all very predictable, I've decided mix albums count

My 9 albums, a collection of house, hip-hop and other dance related stuff by a man who clearly still wishes it was the 90s

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Am old enough to remember when a) Jed Mercurio claimed his new SF show 'Invasion Earth' would see Doctor Who 'consigned to the dustbin', b) that it cast Fred Ward and Phyllis Logan - together at last! and c) Peter Haining got a book out of it, so yeah, totally different to Who.

The 'Invasion: Earth' (sic) Companion by Peter Haining

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Big Finish issues emergency comfort image for those affected by today's news.

some old Doctors, a skeleton, a slug and a Krynoid or maybe an Axon

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trying to figure out the design on the panel here, like it's a promo shot from 2004

TARDIS panel where the 'Advice and Assistance' wording usually goes

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What’s the most practical piece of merchandise tat you own?

Same board holding massive home made pizza

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just completed a playthrough of SAM AND MAX HIT THE ROAD (1993), for the first time in decades. Great fun and the puzzles make more sense than some reviewers have given it credit for.

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also learned this evening that, in his later years in Crete, Glyn Jones was part of a throuple.

Glyn Jones and chums in The Sontaran Experiment

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wife got me a new addition for the fish tank

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He still looks like a Sesame Street character who’s been magicked into a real boy

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Despite its healthy circulation, I might have picked a bigger publication to announce the discovery of time travel. Still, right audience and that.

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

4K of EXCALIBUR (1981) this evening. Neat details I'd not spotted before: the Mystery Players, deer in the foreground of Guenevere and Lancelot doing it. The movie fumbles the spiritual revelation of Percival and the Battle of Camlann is awkwardly staged but it is still lush and romantic to look at.

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Top tier work from the When Saturday Comes emailer

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Doing the four part version for the thrills

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brittin explained that he grew up watching Who in the early 80s, prompting an interest in computers that lead to a career as one of Google's exec leaders. So, if you're looking for anyone to blame...

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Comes around quicker each year.

Jo Grant wishes all the viewers at home a "Merry Michaelmas"

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember in the movie when the seaweed attacked Catwoman's head?

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When you call the emergency terrorist hotline but it's after 5pm

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just had a Garden Snake visit the back garden

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe where Smiths went wrong was stocking too many copies of 'Retail Newsagent Magazine'

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"DISINFORMATION ABOUT THE STATUS QUO!"

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tonight’s viewing. The one which starts off with Doctor Who playing squash behind a closed door.

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A shot from the final episode of Thunderbirds 'Give or Take a Million', can you spot where the set builders might have had enough?

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

do your own here my9animes.com/en

my 9 animes - Akira, Bubblegum Crisis, Gatchaman / Battle of the Planets, Cowboy Bebop, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Summer Wars, Gunbuster, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Royal Space Force Honneamise

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please can they send her round after if they do?

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Remembering Dad on his birthday.

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Great to see Anton and his new glasses #strictly

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

RIP Stephanie Cole. Always Diana in Waiting for God for me - "What do you want, Jane, or did you just drop in for a bit of light simpering?"

Stephanie Cole as Diana in Waiting for God

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Watching with the new FX on, cos they're not going to make it any worse.

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'The Whamageddon Factor'(1979)

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This isn't just fanwank... it's Whokakke spunkblasted out of a canon cannon, splattering the reader in sizzling strings of jizzlore, each page caked in cumtinuity, and sopping like a plastering accident at the Elmlea dairy. Three TARDISes out five.

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Jimmy, do you like gladiator movies?"

The Tracys supervise another young lad who just happens to be on their island.

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

THE DRIVER (1978) is worth watching if you’ve not seen it

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: My Dad’s book on The Unexplained (below) The opening to SuperTed A letter to the TV Times that claimed World in Action had misrepresented lesbians as satanists Crop Circles

A terrifying compendium of ghosts, spontaneous combustions, UFOs, psychic surgery and other nightmare fuel

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