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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 15h

#TimCurry & #RockyHorror fans! Wed 7 Oct BBC4: a rare screening of #Schmoedipus – a #DennisPotter #PlayForToday. First aired 20 June 1974 yet actually recorded on 18 Dec 73 when Tim was still in the original London run of Rocky. Don Smith photographed him on set for @radiotimes.bsky.social

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rare screening tonight on BBC4 of Kevin Elyot's brilliant #MyNightWithReg - one of the key plays of the 1990s. Here's a little piece from a 1997 @radiotimes.bsky.social and my recent RT write-up.

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Delighted to stumble upon this riveting book from Persephone. #DespisedAndRejected - what a title! It starts as a social comedy but becomes a fascinating study of thwarted gay desire, and pacifist ideals during the Great War.Told from a 1918 perspective; the year it was published – and banned.

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#TimCurry The director John Gorrie recalled the path that led his dejected friend to #RockyHorror @royalcourt.bsky.social and global fame in the early 1970s. Extract from my book #YouAreNotAlone #DoctorWho @tenacrebooks.bsky.social tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Cheryl Hall well deserved the final shot of this classic #DoctorWho story.

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Loads of merch with Stuart Manning’s lovely cover design for the book #YouAreNotAlone #DoctorWho www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1805...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One reason to look forward to autumn/winter. You can’t beat a decent retrospective at the BFI.

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For those following the impressive early #ZCars on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, tonight's poignant episode was celebrated as the 100th @radiotimes.bsky.social in 1964. Here's the original article and an alternative shot taken by Don Smith on 5 Feb 62. Plus a shot from location filming 10 Feb 64.

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I’m always wary when a film I loved is turned into musical theatre but the @nationaltheatre.org.uk excels with its production of #Pride. Energetic, funny and sorrowful numbers with a superb cast, faithful to the original movie and the real people.

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Win two tickets to the American Classics Prom with the brilliant conductor Marin Alsop in the @radiotimes.bsky.social prize draw! radiotimes.com/win/proms202...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Waris Hussein – a man of great warmth and wit, a much-admired director, a founding father of #DoctorWho and my darling friend – features extensively in #YouAreNotAlone. A few pics of WH across the decades. #PrideMonth🌈 Book available via: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Artist, writer, music-hall chairman and highly distinctive actor Maurice Browning features in #YouAreNotAlone. Best known to #DoctorWho fans as conniving Karlton in The Daleks' Master Plan. Here's his self-portrait sketch printed 80 yrs ago today. Book via: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A major hero for #PrideMonth🌈, a bona fide #DoctorWho and Radiophonic Workshop legend – Brian Hodgson talks about his life, loves and career across nine decades in my book #YouAreNotAlone. Some unusual pictures he's shared... Book available via: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Just after #DoctorWho in 1973 Katy @manningofficial.bsky.social starred in groundbreaking lesbian-themed drama The Golden Road. Director Douglas Camfield fought for her to play Anna & struck gold. KM discusses this key work in #YouAreNotAlone #PrideMonth tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Chuffed to add the 1959 pulpy paperback of West End People to my collection of Peter Wildeblood 50s classics. Fascinating writer. The appalling “Montagu trial” witch-hunt in 1954 led to his first book Against the Law, then the Wolfenden Report and ultimately law reform in 1967. #PrideMonth2026

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

John Nathan-Turner – aged 26 in Sept 1973 & pre-Hawaiian shirt phase - toiling as a PA on The Pallisers. A rare gem from @radiotimes.bsky.social archive by Don Smith. 1980s #DoctorWho producer JN-T is a key figure in my book #YouAreNotAlone #PrideMonth2026 tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Author, playwright and #DoctorWho's second producer John Wiles made a fascinating subject for my book #YouAreNotAlone. Pictured: in 1960 and 1986, and a selection of his books from the 50s and 60s. #PrideMonth2026 tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Bonus shot of Pennell in "working squire" pose at his Cotswolds herb farm home in 1971 (TV Times)

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Rare photos of Robin Phillips and Nicholas Pennell in The Forsyte Saga 1967 (Don Smith/Radio Times). They became good friends and leading lights in the Stratford Festival company in Ontario, Canada. Both feature in #YouAreNotAlone #DoctorWho #PrideMonth2026 tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A joy to catch up with darling @annekewills.bsky.social today, radiating her usual warmth @dwasonline.bsky.social's event at Riverside. She too has a special place in the book #YouAreNotAlone #DoctorWho #PrideMonth2026 tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

My dear old chum Derek Handley with four of his excellent Cybermen re-creations, on display today at Riverside Studios. #DoctorWho

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“She had such power and fire,” says director John Gorrie. Matthew Waterhouse @minettalane.bsky.social cites her role in Kinda as his “favourite ever #DoctorWho performance”. Luminous Mary Morris features in my book #YouAreNotAlone #PrideMonth2026 Available tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A clip from Late Night Line-Up in 1970. 👏👏👏👏👏 Bravo John Breslin!

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

While I was writing #YouAreNotAlone, actor John Breslin emerged as a bona fide queer hero. Wish he'd appeared in more than one (great) #DoctorWho story but the same year – 56 yrs ago! – he was vocal on TV about improving gay representation. #PrideMonth2026 tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Charismatic Edward Brayshaw's breakthrough was as Harry Brent in 1965 (repeated tonight on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. Also famed as the War Chief in #DoctorWho and for his years in #Rentaghost. He features in the book #YouAreNotAlone #PrideMonth2026 tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The lovely actor Peter Barkworth features in my book #YouAreNotAlone Photographed for @radiotimes.bsky.social in 1973 by Chris Ridley. And by Dmitri Kasterine in 1978 with Hannah Gordon, and at his home in Hampstead. #DoctorWho #PrideMonth2026 Available at tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Beatrix Lehmann – a haunting character actress, novelist, first woman president of Equity, fabulous 1978 #DoctorWho guest star – features in my book #YouAreNotAlone #PrideMonth2026 Available from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

John Fraser – a frank and funny writer, a handsome, sensitive actor who played Bosie and Dorian Gray, and briefly the Monitor in #DoctorWho – is one of the personalities featured in my book #YouAreNotAlone #PrideMonth2026 Available from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Great stuff. One of the lost poisoning episodes from 1970.

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The Christophers gets ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ from me. Witty, messy, touching, with a compelling double act in McKellen and Coel. #TheChristophers

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The lovely Brian Hodgson – sound pioneer and #DoctorWho legend – talks about his life and experiences as a gay man across the decades in the new Radio Times. Online version here: radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/cl...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The book is out! Published by Stuart Manning of @tenacrebooks.bsky.social #YouAreNotAlone tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

🟦Happy 50th anniversary, DWAS! 🟦 Today marks 50 years since the official launch of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society by my dear friends Jan Vincent-Rudzki and Steve Payne, alongside other key founders. 🥂 @dwasonline.bsky.social

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Beautiful, relaxed, happy shot of Victoria Wood, taken by the great Don Smith for Radio Times in 1994. Much missed. #legend #VictoriaWood @radiotimes.bsky.social

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Jeremy Kemp left as PC Bob Steele in January 1963 and Colin Welland's PC Graham became Bert Lynch/James Ellis's oppo. Sadly none of Leonard Rossiter’s 8 eps as DI Bamber are known to exist. Rare @radiotimes.bsky.social pix by Don Smith serve as a record. #ZCars @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The actor Leonard Williams (Sgt Twentyman) had died suddenly in 1962 and was soon replaced by Robert Keegan as Sgt Blackitt. These rare @radiotimes.bsky.social photos by Don Smith of Williams (with @brianblessed.bsky.social as Fancy & Terence Edmond as Sweet) were taken a week before he died. #ZCars

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The late great #TerranceDicks - born today in 1935. Here he is aged c 35, enjoying a day in the #DoctorWho production office with Barry Letts and Sandra Brenholz. Photographed in 1970 for @radiotimes.bsky.social Plus an email that amused me a few years ago. #bland

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

An example of Douglas Camfield's attention to detail, in 1965 writing quite a tall order for avant-garde composer Tristram Cary. It includes one of the earliest character sketches of Katarina. Also a nice early instance of the serial's overarching title. #DoctorWho

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The mag was more about the visuals. The Executioners had a mere four lines and Mission to the Unknown was allotted more than that and DMP put together.

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Remembering how for several years The Daleks' Master Plan was shrouded in mystery for those who hadn't seen it. And it was a 12-ep serial called The Nightmare Begins, according to Radio Times's sketchy synopsis in 1973. The original photo "trim" of Nick Courtney from the RT Archive here. #DoctorWho

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Lynda La Plante and Lesley Judd popped up briefly in tonight's 1962 #ZCars @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Rotten having your key scene cut. The circumstances of her arrival were vague for several years, as very few had the soundtrack or script. Even JJB didn't get it quite spot-on in his 1977 Companions special.

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

On 11th April 1986, almost exactly 40 years ago, #AdrienneHill came to meet me at Marvel Comics HQ and be photographed by Steve Cook. None of her 1965 #DoctorWho episodes were known to exist. Miraculously, three do now! Here's the original Doctor Who Magazine article. @filmisfabulous.bsky.social

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