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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 9h

OTD 1977: Tom Robinson Band – 2-4-6-8 Motorway Their first and biggest hit, with a terrific riff from Danny Kustow’s blistering lead guitar Hugely catchy driving song, arguably more relatable than Tom’s other driving songs, which all steer desperately through haunting post-apocalyptic landscapes…

The Rock ’n’ Roll Years 1978 – Danny Kustow on lead guitar, Tom Robinson on bass and lead vocals, “THE TOM ROBINSON BAND” with (Sing If You’re) Glad To Be Gay, a 1987 TV experience which was both excruciating and life-changing for 15-year-old-me, but that’s another story.
NB I’ve not got my numbers mixed up: this was a documentary about 1978, broadcast in 1987. My wrongness consists merely in using this particular band photo to illustrate a different song in a different year.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 13h

This was my first King Arthur on screen, and I fell in love with the legend for ever But it was also the first thing I ever saw Maureen O’Brien in, and coming later to her Doctor Who, I’ve never quite been able to trust Vicki!

Maureen O’Brien playing Morgan le Fay as an evil nun

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 13h

OTD 1979: The Legend of King Arthur BBC1 Serious, history-toned version of the myth with the magic toned down (yet still there) Scripted by – yes – the Andrew Davies Andrew Burt is Arthur David Robb Lancelot But most memorable for boy me was Maureen O’Brien playing Morgan le Fay as an evil nun.

The Legend of King Arthur – The Complete Series Simply Media DVD cover
Andrew Burt’s King Arthur in Sutton Hoo-ish armour, around him Merlin, Guinevere, Lancelot
But you can see their selling point: “Andrew Davies' sumptuous adaptation of the timeless saga” (though this adaptation isn’t timeless at all, but tries to give much more of a sense of a real time, several centuries earlier than most)

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Dan Hollingsworth @dhollingsworth.bsky.social · 14h

Maximum Pow... errrr... 😩

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 14h

“things you could have removed while you waited were your wallet, your stomach lining, your mind and your will to live. The muggers and pushers and pimps and hamburger salesmen, in no particular order, could arrange all these things for you.” Kings Cross as described by [checks notes] Douglas Adams

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 14h

I love how Jodie starts off with such joy and energy – and oddity (I wish she’d been given more of all three) I like having a year without all the same enemies* and with the Doctor’s personal credo up front and driving her actions. *Yet, O! The Master to come!

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 14h

OTD 2018: #DoctorWho The Woman Who Fell To Earth Jodie Whittaker is the Doctor! And Sheffield doesn’t know what’s hit it. Say hello to Yaz, Ryan and Graham, and the glorious forging of the Sonic. Eight years seems so short a time, and yet so very long ago.

Radio Times 6-12 October 2018: The Doctor – Jodie Whittaker – in big coat, big boots and set in multi-coloured circles

The Doctor in goggles and charred apron, brandishing her new-forged Sonic screwdriver

The Universe Is Calling – Doctor Who poster, with the Doctor amid a blaze of colour and crystals

Doctor Who poster – Graham, Yaz, the Doctor and Ryan amid a blaze of colour and crystals on an alien desert plain

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We’ve just watched Doctor Who – The Doctor’s Daughter on The Pilgrimage, and if anyone I know is planning a podcast episode about it, if you ask me on I’ll explain at length why it’s like New Battlestar Galactica [derogatory].

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OTD 1963: The Avengers – The Undertakers Two things are certain: death and taxes. Not if these plotters have anything to do with it! Malcolm Hulke gifts us very greedy, very nasty, very rich people. Yet very funny. While born OTD 1930: the future Mrs Cathy Gale!

Honor Blackman is Cathy Gale, in black leather

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Top Mrs Gale moment: give Daphne a gun, trusting she *would* shoot her stepmother’s lover. Top Steed moment you wouldn’t get from the Doctor: confront your Weeping Angel by propositioning her. His hand on her bottom is, after all, a form of observation.

Steed (Patrick Macnee) pats the naked bum of a very big nude female statue. He probably wishes he were out in the park in the same state.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Build high for happiness! I was wildly excited by Doctor Who – Paradise Towers 39 years ago this evening, and I still love it tonight even now I’m more of a knackered Rezzie* *You may observe a few differences

Me walking through Canary Wharf just now, towers glittering above me in the dark. I’m in glasses, beard and Yellow Kangs are best T-shirt

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ben Aaronovitch’s debut script exploded onto TV While Ben’s novelisation – his first book, long before conquering the bestseller lists – is, like his The Also People, a contender for best Doctor Who novel of all.

Inset: Doctor Who – Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch, cover by Alister Pearson – Imperial Dalek to the fore, Special Weapons Dalek and Rebel Dalek to each side, Davros and the Doctor above
Surrounding: The Cover, Cover Version – I restage the original Alister Pearson cover with matching action figures, and, behind it all, an absurdly heavy black marble chopping board my Mum once gave me in a fit of WTF standing in for the headstone

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

While Doctor Who, as it has from the beginning, fights fascism And fights racists here more explicitly than ever After here linking Daleks, Nazis and racism in the streets, the following story will bring down a Thatcher-ish regime… …But tell me Doctor Who was never political until ‘These days’.

Ace (Sophie Aldred, a bomber-jacketed teenager with attitude) attacks a Dalek (a one-blob armoured tank with worse attitude) with a baseball bat. Dalek: ‘So much for the tolerant Left.’ This may not have been a real line from the story (but does not misrepresent it).

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OTD 1988: #DoctorWho Remembrance of the Daleks One of Doctor Who’s most thrilling new beginnings And if you think Part One’s explosive… This story’s aftershocks include New Adventures, Counter-Measures and Pa Jass-Vortan II – The Time War Strikes Back!

Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 25 Blu-ray cover: The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), in cream jacket and hat, bearing silver-coloured (but not silver) bow and arrow and surrounded by blazing asteroids, framing an exciting array of monsters – hate-filled one-blob armoured tank Black Dalek Supreme, hate-filled-against-other-blobs plus huge-cannoned even more of an armoured tank Special Weapons Dalek, handle-helmeted cyborg revenant Cyberman, sinister Clown, and murderous walking liquorice allsort

The Earth from space, framed by the battle-plated hull of a Dalek mothership

A Dalek (fascist one-blob conical armoured tank in white and gold) glides up the stairs. Oh yes.

The Special Weapons Dalek opens fire with its huge inbuilt cannon

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is incredibly telling, to me at least, how Cameron and May were more progressive on trans rights, and yet even those areas of recognition are being rolled back/completely destroyed by Labour, yet trans and non-binary individuals are ignored, talked over, and told to shut up and support Labour.

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OTD 1962 The Sixties properly begin: The Beatles release Love Me Do James Bond hits cinemas in Dr. No And though it’s another year to go until Doctor Who itself, OTD (some time later) Remembrance of the Daleks will get back to the Sixties

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 05/10/2026

Also OTD seven years earlier, the Beatles' first single, the Beach Boys' first UK single, and the first Bond film, thus starting the sixties, which lasted seven years.

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tbuktwo67.bsky.social @tbuktwo67.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#DoctorWho The Doctor and Yaz love a bit of cosplay.

Edit. Yaz and the thirteenth Doctor dressed as the fifteenth Doctor and Ruby.

Edit. Yaz and the thirteenth Doctor dressed as the fifth Doctor and Teagan.

Edit. Yaz and the thirteenth Doctor dressed as the first Doctor and Dodo.

Edit. Yaz and the thirteenth Doctor dressed as Romana and the fourth Doctor.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Yellow Kangs, Yellow Kangs, Yellow Kangs are best!” The night this was first shown, I rang my best friend because I couldn’t wait for school next day to say how great it was. Witty, brilliant, still a favourite (certainly my fave DW of 1987, probably even through 1988 as well, heretically).

The last of the Yellow Kangs – who are the best – sags in relief against a graffiti-ed wall

The last of the Yellow Kangs – who were the best – recoils in horror as the election result is declared. I mean, as she’s taken to the Cleaners.

I stand in front of big city towers, in mask and “Yellow Kangs are best” sweatshirt. This was 2020 and needs updating, but I like the composition.

Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 24 Blu-ray cover: The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) in cream jacket, hat and tartan scarf, bearing spoons, framing the Rani, the Chief Caretaker (or is he?), a Robotic Self-activating Megapodic Mark 7-Z Cleaner, a biomechanoid dragon, Gavrok of the Bannermen and a Tetrap, transformative blue and pink and glowing white light all around

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OTD 1987: #DoctorWho Paradise Towers Where Sylv’s Doctor really begins Fascists, robots and ancient evil rising in not a picture-postcard village but a Richard Briers horror sit-com tower block where the propertied old eat the dispossessed young (they always do that). Ice-hot!

The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Mel (Bonnie Langford) are held at crossbow-point by the Red Kangs, a ferocious gang of teenage (it says here) girls

The Chief Caretaker (Richard Briers) looks up into the bright lights. It’s not the big city beckoning. “It sort of is,” my husband points out.

Residents Tilda and Tabby find Mel just a bit too delicious. She’s wrapped up in knitting and menaced by a toasting fork.

A scared young caretaker calls for help on his walkie-talkie, but he’s being taken to the Cleaners (it’s behind you)

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Selecting scary Doctor Who every few days, all three of today’s OTDs would have been good choices! But this chilly outer space horror follows the first story I picked – my first recurring nightmare – with the one that terrified me beyond

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Doctor Who – Planet of Evil *Something* sweeps through a viscerally alien jungle The planet’s own rage makes you a beast But my scariest moment beyond all other Who was the horrific burial alive in space. #HalloweenWho

Sarah Jane Smith looks out in horror as the metal coffin she’s locked into starts to move down the chute into space

The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) crouch in a dark but fabulously colourful alien jungle

Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 13 Blu-ray cover: The Doctor (Tom Baker) with vivid blue eyes, Tam o’shanter and tartan scarf, holding a trilanic activator (you probably have one at home) and holding within a blaze of monsters, dark god Sutekh the Destroyer, glowing anti-matter beast from the edge of our Universe, walking plant human-Krynoid hybrid, rhino-faced Kraal, Egyptian Mummy-shaped robot, blobby bulbous suckered orange-red-green Zygon, Morbius (in composite body built to hold his brain with artificial eyes on stalks and huge claw) leading – as once he did the High Council of the Time Lords, then millions of fanatical followers when he dreamed the greatest dreams in history! All against a glistening indigo-blue honeycomb of translucent pinky-blue organic crystallography.

Planet of Evil film poster by Oliver Arkinstall-Jones
“Horror awaits you on the…
PLANET OF EVIL
Cert X”
Red-drenched across the jungle – the Doctor, Sarah Jane, an anti-matter monster and the two faces of Sorenson

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was 37 years ago (or even 143), yet Ace’s greatest horror is real demons sickeningly rising again today…

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OTD 1989: #DoctorWho Ghost Light A predatory landlord, his too-keen ward, the stony housekeeper of a haunted house… And “The cream of Scotland Yard” gave me a thrill of horror. My 10 reasons to watch this brilliant, bizarre, macabre work of imagination: loveandliberty.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/doct...

Doctor Who – Ghost Light by Marc Platt, gorgeous cover painting by Alister Pearson for the novel: Ace in a frock; the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) looming; an old house on a dark and stormy night

Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 26 Blu-ray cover: The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) in hat and dark jacket, holding a question-mark umbrella and holding within him a glorious array of monsters and characters, Witch-Queen Morgaine (Jean Marsh), a space-knight, the blue sucker-covered Ancient Haemovore, horned demon the Destroyer, recording angel Light, above all feral-grinning the Master, space rocks spiralling out behind and around (like this era’s title sequence but more so)

Housekeeper Mrs Pritchard (in Skeksis-black) and the Night Maid

Redvers Fenn-Cooper meets Millennium Dome, Elephant

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was in my 20s then, so on the Traveling Wilburys principle I’m not going to look up how old those ‘much older gay men’ were. *Not REG, though I do remember who…

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My Night With Reg* BBC4 tonight from 10pm I’ve not seen this play since it was first broadcast, but remember it being moving, some terrible friends, and one extremely pretty man www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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My Night with Reg

Adaptation of the award-winning stage comedy. Six gay friends discuss love, friendship and infidelity over the course of three evenings.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Want to know what happened next / before / sideways? Of many possibilities, I recommend Peri and the Piscon Paradox – an evil future self, a wet fish, an even wetter fish, and very funny indeed… Up until the last thing she shouts; one of the most horrifying punches in the whole of Doctor Who.

Nicola Bryant performs Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles 5.07 – Peri and the Piscon Paradox by Nev Fountain, with Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor
The cover features an older Peri, the Fifth and Sixth Doctors and the terrifying Piscon warlord Zarl – a very big fish indeed!

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“On my planet of Krontep, a warrior queen fights alongside her king.” “We’re not on your planet.” “It doesn’t matter! The rule still applies.” A marriage made in Verduna, Home of the Gods! [Peri, sotto voce: or the Plague Halls of Mogdana]

King Yrcanos (BRIAN BLESSED) leans over to lecture Peri (Nicola Bryant). She looks thrilled. [No, she doesn’t]

The Irritating Gentleman: painting of a man in Victorian train carriage leaning over the seat to lecture a woman. She looks delighted. [No, neither does she]

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OTD 1986*: #DoctorWho Mindwarp (The Trial of a Time Lord Part Five) Already over overcast October? Could be worse— On bright-skied Thoros Beta you might run off with an unsuitable holiday romance …but still not as bad as running into that someone you were determined to avoid. *Or July 3 2379

Mindwarp – Doctor Who The Complete and Utter History: the Doctor (Colin Baker), Peri, Sil, BRIAN BLESSED

Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 23 Blu-ray cover: The Doctor (Colin Baker) in fabulous multi-coloured coat, holding in one hand a scroll of Time Lord names and holding within him the Doctor (Michael Jayston), a plant-like Vervoid (actually looks like something else but I won’t go there), amphibian business-being Sil, chunky but grumpy L1 Robot Drathro, the Inquisitor for his Trial and his TARDIS being dragged down a blaze of power to a great cathedral of a space station, transformative blue and pink and scintillating white light all around

Thoros Beta’s pink sea, green sky and ringed twin planet in the sky. The TARDIS lands in the sea for a paddle and the Doctor (Colin Baker) and Peri have to wade ashore.

On the lilac shores of Thoros Beta, a relaxing day at the beach as the Doctor chains Peri down and tortures her (or does he?). Either way, you can see why she gets BRIAN BLESSED on the rebound.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OTD 1982: The Hound of the Baskervilles Starring Tom Baker as Sherlock Holmes I saw this when I was 10 I thought it was pretty good Then enjoyed it again in 2015 (on short-lived BBC Store, before unavailable once more) So why is it usually seen as a famous failure…?

Tom Baker is Sherlock Holmes, with deerstalker hat and meerschaum pipe (B/W portrait photo)

Tom Baker is Sherlock Holmes, with deerstalker hat and meerschaum pipe (B/W portrait photo, close-up)

Sherlock Holmes (Tom Baker) in sober* red and black, closed-mouthed and miserable, holding up violin (Sherlock Holmes – The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1982)
*jars of drugs behind him

The Doctor (Tom Baker) in deerstalker and rather gorgeous red and brown, happy and garrulous (Doctor Who – The Talons of Weng-Chiang, 1977)

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This isn’t at all bad. Again, I enjoyed it. It’s just not great. And great is what you need for a new Sherlock to make an impression. [Ironically reminding later viewers what could be better, their Stapleton looks eerily like a blend of Brett and Cumberbatch…]

Stapleton (Christopher Ravenscroft) looks rather like Jeremy Brett, rather like Benedict Cumberbatch, and for this story particularly, rather like [spoiler]

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was in fact already the third Maltese Falcon film. But who remembers the first two versions? It memorably opens a modern thriller on a thrilling, almost mystical legend (the legend drawing everyone in as much as their greed does) – much like The Hound of the Baskervilles…

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OTD 1941: The Maltese Falcon premieres One of the greatest movies ever made. One of the first films noir. A tale of greed, love and betrayal. “I couldn’t be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it’s possible to get another. There’s only one Maltese Falcon.”

The Maltese Falcon poster – Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor

Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) holds a metal statuette in the form of a falcon, casting shadows

Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet) backed up by Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) with gun and cane

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/10/2026

This is the lesson that the Biden admin failed to learn and that UK Labour is also flailing about horribly at:

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 03/10/2026

Ew. Hadn't even seen what the border drawings were. Or the antisemitic one. God the Tories are fucking vile.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You can see most (not quite all*) of The Lenny Henry Show Who sketch on Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 23: The Trial of a Time Lord – Mindwarp Blu-ray (or the DVD, which is shorter to type). *They cut the Doctor and Peri boogieing over The Lenny Henry Show credits, presumably for rights issues

The Doctor and Peri in the TARDIS console room. It has fluffy dice hanging over the black console.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lenny Henry will appear again with a different one of the Doctor’s arch-enemies in another early decade of the 21st Century While Thatchos will not be the most unsubtly augmented nor even the most hilarious Cyberwoman to appear on screen (in yet another early decade of…).

Close-up shot of the subtle Thatchos – a Cyberman subtly augmented to Thatcher-style Cyberwoman by adding handbag and bouffant wig. Not any other very one-off Thatcher-cosplay 21st Century “Prime Minister”.

The Doctor (Lenny Henry) in leather coat and gloves, multi-coloured scarf

The Master (Sacha Dhawan) and – OK, he’s not the Doctor this time, but he is still Lenny Henry – from Doctor Who: Spyfall

The Doctor (Lenny Henry) and his clamped TARDIS, by Paul Hanley

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OTD 1985: Lenny Henry is the Doctor! 41 years ago today – or could it be closer – a Black Doctor lands in an early decade of the 21st Century, where run-down, desperate Britain is ruled by soulless zombie Thatcherites… Imagine such a thing.

Lenny Henry’s face appears as the Doctor in a thrilling multi-coloured swirl not unlike Colin Baker’s Doctor Who title sequence

The Doctor and his companions are confronted by Thatchos!

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today’s Radio 4 Drama on 4: Gilgamesh Starring Sacha Dhawan* Hope it’s good. Hopefully with the homoerotic bits. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... While tomorrow, 4 Extra is repeating the 1995 adaptation of Over Sea Under Stone with Ronald Pickup and Struan Rodger.

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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Gilgamesh

A dramatisation of Simon Armitage's exhilarating translation of this ancient epic poem.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Probably Bob Baker & Dave Martin’s finest evocation of the vast depths of time Still to come this story: Sarah Jane possessed, heartbreaking goodbye, and another end that’s no end at all Plus something interesting Doctor Who taught me about gender fluidity before even my 5th birthday. It’s not new.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy 136th Birthday, Groucho Marx. You would have loved hanging out with DSA candidates.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The nightmare: The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane chased by a giant, golden Wirrn grub! (We only had black and white TV, but I dreamed in colour) I still love scary Who. Last year I chose 31 #HalloweenWho stories right through October, but I’m already run down so maybe an intermittent dozen or so!

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The look juxtaposes clinically futuristic / viscerally organic But this chilly space horror is also deeply Gothic: Locked within is burial alive, enclosure in place and inheritance through time, secret passages and terrible secrets, all circling a ruined ancestral home…

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Doctor Who – The Ark In Space Heading to Halloween, on Philip Hinchcliffe’s Feast Day, this began Hinchcliffe-Holmes’ “Let’s frighten the little buggers to death” era I was one of those little buggers. This enthralled me with my first recurring nightmare! “It’s almost too horrible to think about.”

A Wirrn grub, a shapeless green mass, writhes inside the Ark’s solar stacks

Noah stares in anguish at his hand, which is becoming the flesh of a Wirrn

Stalking the clinical whiteness and sleeping humans of the Ark, a fully-grown Wirrn – a tentacled giant insect

Standing amid the coffin-like sleeping chambers of the Ark, the Doctor finds a piece of membrane where a person should be… “It’s almost too horrible to think about.”

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To the extent that the Dune first edition cover looks like a painting of C3PO and R2D2 on Tatooine, and Herbert wrote a bitchy C3PO put-down into his (not very good) fifth Dune novel. Of the official adaptations, I’m afraid the TV series was extremely flat (bar a fabulously theatrical Baron)…

Dune by Frank Herbert – first anniversary edition cover of a desert planet rocky valley with two figures seen from high above. I bet George Lucas had this propped on his camera script.

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