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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now that the Blake's 7 series 3 Blu-ray Collection has been announced, here's what will be included in the PDF Archive on this release. Enjoy!

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Very sad to hear about the death of BBC film cameraman, John Walker. I'd known John for many years and he was always so willing to help out on the Doctor Who DVD/BR range with information, identifying people in photos or helping to track down others in the film unit. Top bloke.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

TARDIS Vol 1/11 from Oct/Nov 1976 (when The Face of Evil was in studio), published this, hinting that the new companion was going to be played by Emily Richard - a name that never appears in the lists of people they saw for the role of Leela. I wonder where they got that idea from?

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

As Sir David Attenborough turns 100 today, here's his memo from December 1966 as Controller of BBC2 to Dennis Scuse at Television Enterprises, turning down the idea that Terry Nation's planned colour Dalek series could find a home on his channel.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Aww, I've only just heard that the lovely House of Cards trilogy director, Paul Seed, died a few weeks ago. It was his appearance as the Graff Vynda-K in The Ribos Operation that led Graham Williams to assist him in getting onto the BBC directors' course.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Just a few more hours until two "new" episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan are available to view. That said, I'm still bitter about the fact that we never got to see the pilot's "space playing cards" that were supposed to appear in Day of Armageddon!

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Ah, so that's the image that's being referred to here. Nice to finally see it after all these years!

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Well, that's this visit to the BBC Written Archive over and done with. 5882 scans and images obtained. Brain fried. 😀

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Back here again for my 20th visit whilst working on the Doctor Who Blu-ray Collections! Here all week, gathering material for the next unannounced 2026 release as well as making a start on the scanning for the two releases after that (probably).

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Kenny Smith @finishedzine.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 The 500th episode of the Power of 3 has just dropped. We look at a #DoctorWho lost story, The Zeldon, by William Emms, originally discussed for the Fifth Doctor. We bring it to life with 4 fab readers and discuss the plot. on.soundcloud.com/h3U94IcTdcDI...

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500: The Zeldon

The Power of 3 reaches its 500th episode - woohoo! For a podcast that started in 2019, we've done not too badly, with our mix of regular co-conspirators, including Tom Harris, David Steel, Kenny Smit

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I recently found the judge's letter I received with regards to my entry to Screen Test's annual Young Film Makers' Competition back in 1982. I love how they bothered to give proper consideration to the entries and the kind and encouraging nature of their comments.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The PDF Archive for the Doctor Who Season 21 Blu-ray Collection has finally been locked, so here's what's going to be included this time round - a total of 7706 pages of material, the second largest so far. It brings the running total across the 19 releases to 78,493 pages!

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Richard Latto @richardlatto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Delighted to announce after many years of trying to get this to happen, the lovely people at North One & UKTV saw the opportunity and we're making this incredibly special series. A joy to work with these teams and of course with Sir David and the rest of the fantastic OFAH cast.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I'm part of a film collecting group on Facebook. Back in 2022, I asked the members whether they had made any firm plans as to what should happen to their collections when they die. These were the results. This is one of the reasons why the work of @filmisfabulous.bsky.social is so important.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

And a couple of rather nice Blake's 7 Blu-ray Collection subtitling goofs for Series 2 that we caught along the way...

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Apologies for the lateness, but here is the breakdown of the PDF Archive on the new Blake's 7 Blu-ray Collection for Series 2, this time with a total of 3556 pages of stuff!

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Also from the 6th August 1966 edition of Jackie magazine, we learn that Roger Daltrey was a big fan of Doctor Who and had two Louis Marx Daleks in his flat! Mr Who loves Dr Who!

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The British Newspaper Archive has recently put up the entire run of the girls' magazine, Jackie (1964-93), including their 1969 serialised ‘Private Life of Frazer Hines’ strip. This is the somewhat wonky section covering Frazer's Doctor Who career (and, of course, bits of his love life!)

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

1/2 - With the Doctor Who Season 13 Blu-ray Collection arriving, here are a couple of fun corrections we had to make to the subtitler’s work on this set. This one from Pyramids of Mars (obv), where the subtitler seemed to forget that Sutekh’s puppet was actually named “Scarman”...

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

1/2 - With the Season 13 Collection beginning to arrive, for those of you even vaguely interested in such things, the fireworks used by the Doctor in The Brain of Morbius to help the Sisterhood with the dying flame were all quite genuine.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Another full week of work done at the BBC Written Archives for various forthcoming Doctor Who and Blake's 7 Blu-ray releases, as well as acquiring material for other future projects. 6298 images obtained, totalling 16GB worth of scans and photos. Phew! 🙂

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Jess Jurkovic - DS IS DW Season 2.5 @jessjurkovic.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Despite Bluesky being extremely nice, and/but, despite the fact that I am struggling to find ways to engage, I must inform you of drastically important news! You could be watching the first three minutes of my latest DSisDW Season 2.5 video. www.patreon.com/posts/139310...

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A Clip of "Tristram Cary's Dalek Library" | Jess Jurkovic

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

It was 50 years ago today that the last episode of Terror of the Zygons was broadcast and today, lots of Doctor Who fans will be going to the BFI to watch the newly restored version. Hope everyone has a good time watching a great story. Come and say hello!

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Sixty-two years ago this morning, the very first live-action shots for Doctor Who were filmed at Ealing Film Studios.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A long shot this one... 21 years ago, well-known Doctor Who collector, Mick Hall, sold a 16mm film print of Episode 6 of The Chase on eBay. It was won by a collector with the buyer name of "sad-bidder". Does anyone know where the film print ended up or who "sad-bidder" was?

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

August 1964: Good to see the Boy Scouts in Sidcup giving the Sensorites some love!

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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

We’re pleased to announce that we will be publishing the first full-length biography of prolific Doctor Who writer and script editor Terrance Dicks, written by Simon Guerrier with the cooperation of Terrance’s family. Written by Terrance Dicks is provisionally scheduled for publication in 2026.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

With the announcement of the Season 13 Blu-ray Collection box set, here's what's going to be included in the PDF Archive this time round - a total of 4027 pages of scripts, production documents, studio floor plans, Radio Times cuttings, ephemera etc.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The pacy trailer for the November 1999 repeat of Spearhead from Space (which couldn't be included on the S07 Collection for various reasons) featured an odd non-DW cut-in shot of a colourful giant eye. I recall someone once identifying where it came from. Can anyone remember the source?

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The missus and I finished watching Bodies last night. Barring a few tiny points, we found it great fun and a lovely portion of time-travelling drama.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The Seeds of Doom is by far and away my all-time favourite of the classic Doctor Who run, so it's very sad to hear that Michael McStay (who once sent me a fabulous letter about his time on the programme) died on Sunday, aged 92.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Back from another week-long stint at the BBC Written Archives for a further Doctor Who and Blake's 7 (plus a little bit of Quatermass) scanning mission. 6391 images procured. Nice to see Ncuti and Millie adorning the latest BBC Group Annual Report & Accounts publication.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Forty-four years ago today, I filmed about 3½ minutes worth of the last episode of Logopolis on my Halina cine camera. Didn't know when the regeneration was going to happen, so I ran out of film before it was shown! Managed to get it on 2 June when it was repeated on Ask Aspel!

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It always makes me chuckle when they have to specify in the scripts that space scenes are "Night"! 🤣

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

An interesting snippet about The Web of Fear in the newly released material from the Evening News in London. This tiny article published on the day of broadcast of Ep 1 shows that it was the specially shot trailer that triggered London Transport's query about the sets, not the episodes themselves.

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Toby Hadoke @tobyhadoke.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Please can everyone listen to Geek Gods: Sir Ian Livingstone at 4pm and midnight please? Tell everyone about it too. Radio 4 Extra : BBC Sounds thereafter.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Does anyone here who follows me work for Sky Television at all? That's the production company side, not the TV/broadband installation end!

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Toby Hadoke @tobyhadoke.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Stuart worked his arse off on this documentary and his experience shows in every brilliant visual flourish and thoughtful segue. Not a stone is left unturned and this film has a unique flavour all its own. And it’s about the same length as the story!!

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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I've made a little something for this. Well, 100 minutes of something.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Working on the Season 7 Collection, I still find myself baffled by the scene where the Doctor looks at the Silurian screen. The script says we're supposed to see the Silurian city, but for some reason they decided to show a scrappy drawing of not much. I wonder if it was some unused design sketch?

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Just rewatched 12 Angry Men on Sky Arts. Still one of the finest films ever made.

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Peter Crocker @petercrockersvs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Silurians 5. The off-air recording starts out poor but watchable, but by the end is unusable so Colour Recovery proved vital on this episode

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Peter Crocker @petercrockersvs.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Several people have asked to see more screengrabs from the new restorations on the Dr Who season 7 Bluray collection, so I’ll post some from an episode each day. Here is Silurians ep 1. Colour Recovery did not work so colour is smudgy from the NTSC Betamax off-air tape from 1977.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A gorgeous and nerdy deep dive into Doctor Who’s incidental Music. Well worth 73 minutes of your time. 😀

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Episode 5 of The Frankie Howard Show, shown on 22 Mar 1966 (between Eps 3 & 4 of The Ark) featured Howard having to pay host to Peter Butterworth's large and disruptive family in his flat. Returning, he's outraged that the young son had drawn an inaccurate Dalek on his painting.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Illustrator Rod Jordan, who for many years produced the caption roller for the That’s Life! credits, also produced a Dalek illustration for the 3 Dec 1967 edition of Late Night Line Up to illustrate an item on Elwyn Jones writing a libretto for a sci-fi based (non-Dalek!) opera.

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