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Joe Ford @docoho44.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Co-host extraordinaire Michael Mills dives into the Puffin Classics range to discuss all things Dracula in Whitby Bay... @michaelmills.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 13h

Toasters in Doctor Who: A visual guide. #1 The Meddling Monk's toaster in 'The Time Meddler'.

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Old UK TV Listings Magazines @olduktvlistings.bsky.social · 13h

TV Listings For Friday 6th October 1995

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 15h

Another beautiful glass plate negative from the parasol shoot. No date/info.

black and white photo of a shorthaired grey tuxedo cat crouched on top of something covered in a white blanket outside in the sunshine. A white parasol is positioned behind it.

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John Isles @selsijohn.bsky.social · 12h

I'm still annoyed to this day that it has NOTHING to do with Doctor Who!

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Old UK Print Ads 70s/80s/90s @oldukprintads7890s.bsky.social · 15h

Oct 1973: Groceries ad from Tesco (+Black & White Whisky; Booths Gin; Delamare' fibre woven Blankets; Mens Acrilan Cardigans; 9" Omelette Pans; 6" Saucepans with lid; 7" Saucepans with lid; 8" Saucepans with lid; 9½" Frying Pans; 7" Milk Pans; Childrens Airloop Nylon Pyjamas; V.A.T., and more)

This is a Tesco advertisement from 1973, promoting a grand re-opening after extensive modernisation. The sale includes a variety of groceries, such as tea, marmalade, flour, biscuits, and alcohol. There are offers on clothing and houseware, like blankets, cardigans, pajamas, and cookware.

GRAND RE-OPENING

CAMBRIDGE EVENING NEWS, Tuesday, October 9, 1973
MD
TESCO
the store with so much more than grocery
REGENT STREET
CAMBRIDGE
AFTER EXTENSIVE MODERNISATION
THURSDAY
6 DAY AFTER
TRADING
11th October 1973
20
REC. CADBURYS
PRICE
MINI ROLLS
2
REC. CHERRY BAKEWELL 13р
PRICE
OFF MR KIPLING
OFF MCVITIES JAMAICAN
20 GINGER CAKES
PRICE
16p
10p
LYONS SWISS ROLLS 6,
OFF CURRANT BUNS 10p
1 OFF
10F FRUITY BUNS 11p
REC.
PRICE
REC.
PRICE
12
REC. DOUGHNUTS
PRICE
UNBEATABLE VALUE in GROCERIES
CHILDRENS AIRLOOP NYLON
CHIVERS JELLY ORANGE PYJAMAS Assorted AGES £1.49
MARMALADE OR LEMON JAR
styles in a 5-8 variety of
colours 9-12 £1.59
'Flare Free'.
12 oz. 8p
P.G. TIPS TEA 6,
GOLDEN WONDER
CRISPS 10p
MASTER MacGRATH
DOG FOOD 14 oz. TIN
2p
8p
Fabulous choice
of Slippers for all
the Family
Ladies Sizes
4-7
99p
CIGARETTES
6 OFF 100's 13 OFF 200's
Rec. Price
WATNEYS PALE
or BROWN ALE
DOUBLE LARGE
DIAMOND PACK
LARGE
LIFE PACK
SMALL
PACK
TUBORG
LAGER
REC. Price
PACK 26p
PACK
76p 23p
76p 23p
PACK OF 6 45p
COURAGE LIGHT
or BROWN ALE
PACK
OF 6 35p
GREEN KING
ABBOTTS ALE LITRE PACK 35P
BLACK & WHITE
WHISKY
£2.39
BOOTHS GIN BOTTLE £2.39
HOME 'N WEAR
MENS ACRILAN
CARDIGANS
Fancy stitch and a
Selection of colours
SIZES
MED & LARGE
£2.95
'DELAMARE' FIBRE WOVEN
BLANKETS
Whipped Edge from
Bound Edge from
£1.69 £2.59
9" Omelette Pans REC. PRICE £2.80 TESCO PRICE £1.99
SWAN BLACK SATINOHOLOWARE TEFLON NON-STICK'
6" Saucepans with lid £3.04 £2.15
7" Saucepans with lid £3.60 £2.49
8" Saucepans with lid £4.45 £3.15
9" Frying Pans £3.50 £2.49
7" Milk Pans £2.96 £1.99
ALL ADVERTISED OFFERS SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY AND END 27th OCTOBER 1973
MCDOUGALLS FLOUR 12p
S.R. or PLAIN
FAIRY LIQUID
THE 4p OFF PACK...

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Paulie @gibbspaulus.bsky.social · 22h

Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with.

Art deco-masked robots, with eerie red eyes

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 18h

This is fun: at 07:54 you'll hear John Witty, the voice of T-Mat, testing out mid-range tape recorders that Dr Who fans were very likely using to audio record the programme off-air in the mid-1960s. youtu.be/k01-lnUe2WU?...

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1965: The Best Tape Recorders on the Market | Choice | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Doctor Who Merchandise @doctorwhomerch.bsky.social · 19h

A whole new generation of #DoctorWho fans are about to begin their own adventure! 🌟 Here is your first look at DOCTOR WHO: TARDIS CREW, a brand new animated series coming soon to CBeebies and BBC iPlayer. Find out more 👉 bbc.in/46YLFMi

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Pinball Flyers @pinballflyers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Star Trek (Bally, 1979)

Text: Star Date:1979. Destination: Profit. Where no machine has gone before. Distinctive backglass art depicts renowned Star Trek Characters. Mr. Spock, Captain Kirk, and all the favorite Star Trek characters enhance Backglass as only Bally art can. Imediate recognition of characters draws players directly to Star Trek. Bally Manufacturing corporation, Chicago

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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Keith R.A. DeCandido @kradec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On @reactorsff.bsky.social Galen tells Gideon not to go down to a planet, and Gideon goes anyhow. This results in several people dying, but also in progress for the Excalibur's mission. The BABYLON 5 Rewatch looks at CRUSADE's "The Memory of War." reactormag.com/babylon-5-re...

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Babylon 5 Rewatch: Crusade’s “The Memory of War” - Reactor

Galen warns Gideon not to explore a planet where the inhabitants were suddenly eradicated...

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NIGHT OWLS 🦉 through the night with #TPTV 23:40 A GAME OF MURDER (1966) (s) 00:45 THE HAND (1960) (s) 02:10 THE LAWLESS YEARS (1959) 02:40 CAPTAIN KIDD (1945) (s) 04:25 THE VEIL (1958) (s) 05:00 THE MAN FROM UNCLE (1965) (s) 06:00 SHERLOCK HOLMES (1954) (s)

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Gruntleigh T Ogron @gruntleigh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The THIRD DOCTOR has ordered me to give his TARDIS a CLEAN. But cheekily me mess about with the CHAMELEON CIRCUIT and reconfigure it into a MASSIVE APE'S BUM! "I can't travel in a TARDIS that looks like THAT!" him seethes.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 3rd Annual SciFiScavenger Viewer Survey is OPEN! Tell me your favourite science fiction books of all time, and this year for the first time, also tell me your Top 5 science fiction movies! The link for the survey response is here: forms.gle/fAV4WaKRg3MZ... Open till end of October.

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2026 Sci Fi Scavenger Survey - Your Top 10 Science Fiction Books! AND Your Top 5 SF Movies!

Just tell me your ALL TIME favourite science fiction books, recent, vintage, any era, any size, novel/collection/anthology, whatever. No whole series, pick single books (which could be from a series)...

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John Isles @selsijohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was 13 when this was on TV. I remember talking about THAT cliff-hanger with a school-friend the next day, it was so exciting. (I think aside from close friends, the only other person at my school who was still watching Doctor Who!)

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John Isles @selsijohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Caught up with this. Guys, you were discussing MY 90s! I too met Robert Beltran in a comic shop. I also visited a Star Trek exhibition. I got all my news/knowledge from TV Zone/DWM/DreamWatch/SFX. I watched TNG on BBC2 (& Sky 1). I think this is my favourite episode of the podcast. Loved it!

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Cutaway Comics @cutawaycomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the begining, A Definitively Inaccurate Douglas Adams Story was created. This has made a lot of people very happy and has widely been regarded as a good move. Enjoy and share this fine art work from Martin Geraghty by supporting the kickstarter today tinyurl.com/mr3dykph

Image shows an alien hand wrapped around a communication device. The screen has an image of Douglas Adams with text about the author.

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was browsing back copies of THE STAGE when I found this article about Red Dwarf in the 14 November 1991 issue. The photo of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor reimagined as Zaphod Beeblebrox caught my eye. #RedDwarf

WRITE ATTITUDE
By SUZAN LEAVY
NOW in its fifth series, Red Dwarf is BBC 2's longest-running sitcom and probably the channel's most successful with the last series being watched by 4.8 million viewers.
Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, creators and writers of Red Dwarf, established Grant and Naylor Productions in 1990 and became executive producers of the show.
The company also has a development deal with franchise winner Carlton Television for comedy, recently appointed Kathleen Hutchinson as head of development and is currently discussing new projects with other comedy writers for 1992.
It sounds like the sort of success story most young writers can only dream of. Grant and Naylor have been friends since the age of nine. Born and bred in Manchester, both attended Liverpool University to study psychology and both were thrown out after spending their second year, not on psychology, but writing their first sitcom together.
Their first script was rejected by the BBC but the fact that someone there said that the dialogue flowed quite smoothly convinced them that writing was the right career move.
Writing stints for Radio Manchester were followed by their first television work on A Kick Up The Eighties. Via Three of a Kind and Carrott's Lib, they went to Spitting Image as script editors and senior writers. After the first series, the duo created the pilot for Red Dwarf but it took producers Paul Jackson and John Lloyd three years to get it onto the screen through BBC North West.
So, Grant says "the only advice I can offer new writers is to be prepared to wait a long time. Keep on writing and generally good work will sur- face.
Grant explained that, despite their success, the pair still had to face the fact that on many television productions, writers tend not to be listened
to.
It is a situation which was quickly rectified once they became producers on Red Dwarf even though this meant extra work in pre-production and post-production.
"We became producers on the third series bec…

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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#OnThisDay 1984 : The first episode of The Family Ness was first broadcast on BBC1. There was 25 episodes made. (TV listing courtesy of @woodg31.bsky.social) #80s

TV listing
The family of monsters that live in Loch Ness, Her High-Ness, Sporty-Ness, Clever-Ness, Ferocious-Ness and all the others, have always had one strict rule : Never speak to humans - until the day came when Elspeth and Angus meet the Loch Ness Monster.

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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#OnThisDay 1969 : The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was first broadcast on BBC1. #60s

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Blakes7Bot @blakes7bot.torpidity.net · 05/10/2026

Some detritus from the B7 production archives. #b7bpa

Claude Sonnet 4.6 describes the image as: "# BBC TV Film Continuity Notes - Blake's 7 This is a film continuity/script supervisor's note from the production of Blake's 7, the classic BBC science fiction series that aired from 1978-1981. ## Key Details from the Document: - Programme: Blake's 7 - Episode: No. 1 - Location: Power Room (Interior, Night) - Slate No.: 299 - Sequence No.: 7A - Shot No.: 13B - Script Page: 43 - Roll No.: 32 ## Takes Information: - Take 2 was printed (circled) - Take 1 timing: 0'20" — marked as "NG" (no good) — reason: "coil went wrong way" - Take 2 timing: 0'8" — marked "OK" ## Additional Notes: The handwritten note at the bottom reads: "Flashing coil rises upwards OOS" (OOS likely meaning "out of shot") This document reflects the meticulous record-keeping required during film production, tracking which takes were usable"

Blakes7Bot, version 4.0.75. Claude Sonnet 4.6 AWS Lambda version: 1.30.

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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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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Remembrance of the Daleks part one is 39 today? Any excuse for a shameless plug I guess... #DoctorWho www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI_5...

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TEN REASONS TO WATCH... REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS (1988) | Doctor Who | Seventh Doctor

YouTube video by Pip Madeley

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Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#StarTrekTheWebComic #NoGoodDeed 21-24 8 October, 2013 trekcomic.com/comic/2013-1...

CAPTAIN MADISON
Well, Defence Force won’t have their prize today. We’re going to help these poor bastards get back home.
LT. GRABES looks disturbed. LT. COMMANDER JORDAN is downright enraged.
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN
Are you out of your mind?
CAPTAIN MADISON
I can assure you, First Officer, I am quite sane. (HE SITS UP) Earth has made little or no attempt to provide the Romulans with an olive branch. We have an opportunity of a lifetime here and I plan on taking it.
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN stands up forcefully.
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN (VOICE RAISED)
Sir! You are ordering an unauthorized mission that does not serve the interests of the United Earth Defence Force! You have been growing more and more visibly disillusioned with your command and I can no longer look the other way while you endanger this crew!

CAPTAIN MADISON stands up as well and steps forward, nearly face to face with LT. COMMANDER JORDON. His voice is now raised to a yell.
CAPTAIN MADISON
Do you intend to mutiny, Commander!?
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN is unsure what he’s getting himself into, but he can’t contain his anger. He is now screaming.
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN
Some has to stop you from getting us all killed!

There is an uncomfortable beat. The whole bridge is completely silent. The crew stare with anxiety at the two conflicting officers. LT. COMMANDER JORDAN’S face suddenly changes to one of desperation. He half whispers in a pleading voice.
LT. COMMANDER JORDAN
Please, Kyle! Don’t do this!

CAPTAIN MADISON stands firm. He turns away from LT. COMMANDER JORDAN and steps back toward his command chair but does not sit down.
CAPTAIN MADISON (TO THE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE)
Address inner craft.
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
System open, sir.
CAPTAIN MADISON (TO THE INTERCOM)
This is the captain. We have encountered a disabled enemy ship with survivors on board and I have decided to help them return to Romulan space as a show of respect and compassion.

As MADISON speaks we see scenes of various crew in different parts of the ship listening to his speech including STILES in engineering, crew walking through hallways, and the two men in the Torpedo room.
CAPTAIN MADISON
I understand this will be an extremely dangerous mission and one we may not return from.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 05/10/2026

[1981] Kevin Turvey Investigates -Turvey (Rik Mayall), a self-styled investigative journalist with a West Midlands accent who lived with his mother, wore a blue anorak and fancied Theresa Kelly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZICCwgLCcW0

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Kevin Turvey Investigates | Rik Mayall | 1981

The Mad Kevin Turvey has been hired by the BBC to investigate things but rather than investigate 'normal' things Kev decides to investigate stupidly bizarre ...

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Andrew Lane @andylaneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We had the first two scripts, and while we were writing we were allowed to visit the set. I remember we had to change a couple of the main characters' names because they were altered between script and filming.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Johnny Bruck’s cover for Perry Rhodan #971: Alarm auf Martappon

A futuristic city of weirdly shaped white buildings, under a red sky and a yellow sun.

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John Isles @selsijohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I watched it on very late night TV over here. It was in the 1am (or was it 2am?) slot on Friday/Saturday.

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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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Cutaway Comics @cutawaycomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have you seen our latest project? SHARE AND ENJOY is a must for all Douglas Adams fans. So what are you waiting for? Grab your towel and head over to kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...

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SHARE & ENJOY. A definitively inaccurate Douglas Adams story

A definitively inaccurate graphic novel celebrating the life of the absurdly talented and much missed Hitchhikers creator Douglas Adams

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Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#TrekADay It's the last Alexander episode! Another one the show didn't really need to do (it's over a year since he last appeared and audiences cared less than Worf does). But it's an episode with the real legacy that Riker captures wanted criminals the Duras Sisters... and just lets them go.

Alexander sat in front of some Klingon candles.

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Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#TrekADay It's an episode with two purposes. One to set up Voyager and the other to get rid of Wesley in a somewhat mean spirited way, rejecting the path Gene Roddenberry wanted for him by rejecting Starfleet to go flying off with a space weirdo.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 04/10/2026

I've retitled this collection The Morgue, being "the remains of proposals that I once cherished and that, like a character in an Edgar Allan Poe story, I still hold too dear to inter." Now added, NAVIGATORS. The complete blueprint of a 10-hour historical epic, stalled and ultimately ended by Covid

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A Shadow Career – Stephen Gallagher

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 04/10/2026

OK, I am quite impressed with the official HIGNFY YouTube account posting a video featuring loads of the custom trails made for the show over the years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EL0...

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The Best of The Trailers! | Have I Got News For You

YouTube video by Have I Got News for You UK

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NIGHT OWLS 🦉 through the night with #TPTV 23:50 HERITAGE CHART SHOW 00:55 THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986) (s) 03:15 THE FLAW (1955) (s) 04:30 ROBIN HOOD (1956) (s) 05:00 DIAL 999 (1958) (s) 05:30 SUPERCAR (1961) (s) 06:00 THE VISE (1955) (s)

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Nicola’s Century 21 @gleanniucha21.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

💥 Supermarionation Sunday 💥 The TV Century 21 🧵 Issue #90 On sale 05 October 1966 THIS WEEK: It’s all change New stories New artists A new running order .. and the TV21 Thunderbirds strip jumps the shark - or rather, a particularly large green space monster 🤦‍♀️ Least said about that..

Monster Attacks Thunderbird 3

AFTER risking supreme sacrifice in
exploding a planatomic bomb right in the face of the sun, International Rescue astronauts have found themselves up against tresh and equally horrific danger.

Its motors out of action, Thunderbird 3 was blown across space by the blast and forced to make an emergency landing on the unexplorable Magnax Continent of Planet Venus.

There is little hope of survival amid the network of sulphur laies, the domain of the most savage and destructive mutations known to the
universe . ..

Full report, pages 10 & 11.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Katiegangel🩷🩷 @katiegangel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The BBC has officially published a Tender for Doctor Who!! (I obviously don’t own a production company 😅😅… but I could always audition ) #doctorwho #doctorwhofandom #fandom #whovian #thirteenthdoctor

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 04/10/2026

Brand new on Dirty Feed: how did some dirty jokes in a famous episode of Mork & Mindy change between the shooting script and the final show? www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/10/the-...

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John Isles @selsijohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I thought my friends and I were the only ones who stayed up/set the video for War of the Worlds on VERY late night Yorkshire TV. 1st Season was great.

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