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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 20h

This largely forgotten record is (a) monumental and (b) total smut. Needless to say, I love it.

Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Drinking Primitivo while watching a 1970 Hong Kong horror movie called The Vampire Doll, and I am happy as a pig in the proverbial.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For the first, and indeed, the very last time.

Saint Etienne at Cambridge Corn Exchange. Last UK show of the last tour.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

... and Beryl Reid on the opposite team, I guess not *very* long before Earthshock?

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Mike 🏳️‍🌈 @lpoolmike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Something nice arrived this morning. Revised and expanded edition of The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes. Absolutely gorgeous book full of of tidbits and beautiful photographs. One to dip in and out of #booksky #horror #horrorsky #Hammer

Revised and expanded edition of The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes opened over two pages documenting the film
Frankenstein must be Destroyed

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Always exciting to see your new book in the wild for the first time. Fly, my pretty!

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Paul @rudemrlang.com · 20/09/2026

Enjoyed seeing this in Doctor Who Magazine this month, although it’s weird to see stuff I invented FAIRLY RECENTLY I’M SURE now being revived as retro.

Doctor Who Adventures-style comic strip cliffhanger panel.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The last part of Robots of Death airs the day Prog 1 is published, so he's talking about that and/or Talons specifically, and/or early Tom Baker in general, and (presumably) Baker as opposed to Jon Pertwee. #neverasgoodasitusedtobe

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Richard Unwin @richardunwin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thrilled by @senrabnala.bsky.social taking us to THAT place in the new Doctor Who Magazine strip. It’s not often that one can *hear* a comic location quite so clearly…! #DoctorWho #DWM #DoctorWhoMagazine

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Zoe's feather boa @zoesfeatherboa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On this day in 1993, the first episode of #XFiles was transmitted.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An Officer and a Gentleman is a truly excellent film, and - can I shock you? - I absolutely love it.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bits falling out, joints creak, wearing 1979 clothes. But enough about me. Here's Big Ted for #NationalTeddyBearDay

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Went to hear Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta at the Proms, and brought a Yeti back to life...

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Larry Grayson's Generation Game (8th September 1979). Five celebs are disguised as saucy seaside postcards. How many can you name?

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This platform is now just an endless commentary on the news, isn't it

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dancing around the kitchen to a bit of French coldwave. I'm telling you, Martin Dupont is the business. open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

open.spotify.com

This Is Martin Dupont

Playlist · Spotify · 39 items · 269 saves

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Steve Cole @stevecolewriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In honour of my police horse character Luna in The Wild Ones, the National Federation of Retired Service Animals kindly arranged for me to meet one of her real-life counterparts – the splendid Louis!

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Quaequam blag! It's like the delays to Progs 93, 165 and 377 all over again. All of them BURNED INTO MY JUVENILE BRAIN.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

All the Colors of the Dark Lust for a Vampire Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Night of the Demon I mean, there's a bit of everything there.

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

black mirror idea: the landline rings

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Needed to use someone else's Windows laptop for a thing, as opposed to my Macbook. I lasted about 30 seconds before being reduced to volcanic rage by their baffling, useless, piglike OS. HOW DOES ANYONE COPE WITH MICROSOFT RUBBISH? AND HOW ARE THEY STILL GETTING AWAY WITH IT? HOW??????

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Back to the Future, and sequels. I have literally no idea why so many of my British contemporaries have affection for such charmless rubbish.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This was published today and I've been wolfing it down. The Sprouts book I've always wanted to read. @nigetassell.bsky.social

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I sense a massive scam by Big Colander to sell more colanders. #eclipse

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So who are we all sacrificing on the Day of Darkness, to make sure the Sun God returns? Got a few victims lined up, but I wouldn't call them perfect.

Sacrificial priest Tlotoxl in Doctor Who: The Aztecs

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

the AI world is a better world

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It's probably good that this one has been completely overlooked by the nostalgia industry, because MY GOD it takes me back.

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If anyone's fancies printing their own A2 (or A3, A4 etc) poster of The Talons of Weng-Chiang (parodying the design of the The Scarlet Claw), then I've made my artwork FREE for all. Here's the link: drive.google.com/file/d/1vyXo...

Poster for the Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng-Chiang. It is a parody of the poster for the Sherlock Holmes film The Scarlet Claw.

Poster for Sherlock Holmes film The Scarlet Claw.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Bottle of wine and the first Smiths album. "And your prejudice won't keep you warm tonight." WELL. Never a truer word spoken, Moz of my youth.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Oh, this is sad. Years ago, in Hammer Horror magazine days, I interviewed Justin about his lovely film A Feast at Midnight, which had a terrific role for Christopher Lee as a scary headmaster. Nice man. BBC News - Wicker Man sequel director Justin Hardy dies aged 61 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Wicker Man sequel director Justin Hardy dies aged 61

The British filmmaker died on Friday after suffering a heart attack, his family said in a statement.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A man could lose himself in London. But fortunately the great Tom Courtenay found his way to a screening of the new restoration of Billy Liar this afternoon.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Front of the queue in Neros. Get my coffee and croissant, go to sit at the nice empty window table... only the person at the back of the queue has dumped their bags there to claim it. I'm sorry, but this is ghastly behaviour, and merits a day in the stocks.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This and the next episode are literally the only two Coronation Streets I have ever seen (I was staying with my Grandma and Grandad in Kentish Town at the time). I suppose it must have made an impression.

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Sam Lowe @greenlantern44.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I wasn’t expecting this to be the new DWM comic, but hey, I’m glad to see where this goes I wonder if after this ends they’ll jump around the various Doctors and give them their own arcs That would be interesting

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Never mind Doctor Who and Blake's 7, give us a Steptoe Blu-ray Collection with all of the extra sketches, you BBC cowards.

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Scott @merseytart.com · 23/07/2026

FUTURISTIC POLICE CELL

An ad for Lego knock offs bluebrixx. There is a TARDIS in the picture: a blue police box with a light on the top. It is referred to as a Futuristic Police Cell.

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Picked up the new DWM, and I am very pleased with what they are doing with the comic strip, liking this @senrabnala.bsky.social, going to enjoy following where this goes.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain. (If you go for the sinister Nordic noir interpretation...)

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just booked for Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste at the Proms in September. #yeti #sillyoldgoat

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