Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The trouble with going through the Troughton era day by day is when you read an entry like this in the present tense you really feel you ought to be able to do something about it. Like going full Sylvester and shouting "Stop! I command it!!" 020
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ooh, lovely - look what's just arrived. (And there are my initials on the Brig's shoulder.) @wonderfulbooks.co.uk 052
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why, thank you, Amazon. What an appropriate choice of packaging. 110
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I've started to move away from the chunky Hammer box sets, as lovely as they are. But this will do very nicely, thank you. Saw this for the first time only a few months ago and loved it. #xtheunknown 000
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I've decided I really like grouper. Mainly because they're big enough for these 50 year-old eyes to see, unlike the tiny creatures my dive guides try to show me. Grouper also have an air of "don't bother me, I'm thinking", which appeals. 000
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Patrick was the first - initially reluctant - interview we did for The Savages. The fact he couldn't remember it inspired my whole approach to the doc. It was lovely to spend time with him and his charming wife Amanda. Their enduring love for one another was so evident. 0132
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Well, my Doctor Who - The Movie steelbook feels like it's been in a furnace. 020
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026With a bank holiday sort-out approaching, it might be time to take the spear from The Savages documentary to the tip. 261
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 14/09/2025One of the best science-fiction films of all time, now out in UHD. 020
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Contact has been.... oh, you know. #Hammer 140
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Ein spannender kontakt ist gegründet in fernsehen. @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @0tralala.bsky.social @tenacrefilms.bsky.social 040
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Spinning a new release from @bluenoterecords.bsky.social - Some Other Stuff is Grachan Moncur III's 1964 follow-up to his classic debut album Evolution. Avant-garde-tastic. 020
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Whenever something dawns on me, I often say to myself, "Oh I see, uh, Thonmi..." 020
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The fact is, I would now like a steelbook for every Troughton story. 173
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025And now the steelbook has arrived, which hopefully means The Savages is going through quite a few letterboxes today. 030
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Remembering/Forgetting the forward slash... 020
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Well, look what's just arrived. Remembering/Forgetting The Savages is on disc 3, by the way... 0283
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025It was fun watching these ropey prints as though freshly returned from Hong Kong. I'm old enough to remember every blemish, tramline and jump from the 1992 VHS release, which retailed at the increased price of £12.99 because BBC Video had added an intro by director Morris Barry. 020
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025What's that? Buy Spearhead from Space for the sixth time in my life? Alright. But it must be the last. Absolutely the last. Final. Full stop. Never again. Cross my heart and hope to die. Or at least until the Standard Edition comes out. 041
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025It's been about 16 months since I was asked to make a doc about The Savages and 13 since I went to interview Peter for it. So it was great to finally be at the BFI last night to watch the animation on the big screen. 080
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I thoroughly enjoyed this by @cooraysmith.bsky.social. It probably doesn't shift my opinion of the transmitted story very much, but it certainly adds to my already substantial appreciation of this era. It's the first of The Black Archive series I've read - I'm already looking for my next one... 000
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Reading now while, appropriately enough, listening to a jazz record. 000
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Had to buy a new 4k player as my old one packed up over Christmas. Naturally, the first thing I'm watching is some black and white telly from the '50s. 000
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024That does it. The NYT Spelling Bee won't let me have TIFFIN. 000
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I realise I've never really been familiar with the episode titles for The Box of Delights, probably because of the VHS compilation. 020
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Years ago the only way to get widescreen versions of some films on VHS was to buy a box set full of postcards. These days it happens with 4k and steelbooks. I keep the faith with physical media but this sort of thing just pushes me towards digital. 130
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The original performance of Nineteen Eighty-Four on Sunday, 12 December, 1954, was preceded by a five minute Interlude at 8.25pm. I don’t know which one, so let’s enjoy a bit of the classic potter’s wheel… #Kneale1984 020
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The Radio Times the week Nineteen Eighty-Four aired, courtesy of BBC Genome: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bdfc99ae1ab4... #Kneale1984 030
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024To the Bat Wings..! The BBC’s 1954 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four begins in three hours on BBC Four… @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @accordingtojond.bsky.social #Kneale1984 040
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Don’t miss Nigel Kneale’s adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four at 10pm on BBC Four. It looks like we’re getting the BFI’s lovely restoration of this live performance from 16 December, 1954. Be sure to follow @tobyhadoke@bsky.social and @accordingtojond@bsky.social. #Kneale1984 070
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Just finished watching The Traitors NZ. It was fine, but every time they showed the location exterior I had to sing the opening twangs of Crossroads. 000
Stuart Denman 🏳️🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024New arrival. One to watch over the Christmas holidays, I think. 000