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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈

@stuartdenman.bsky.social
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Filmmaker, director, producer @ BBC News and Current Affairs. Formerly Newsnight. FCP Certified VideoPro editor. Montage man. Actor. Likes Doctor Who, Quatermass, Blakes7, archive TV, continuity, potters wheel interludes...

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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 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!!"
From The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Troughton Years by David Brunt - an account of how the master tapes for The Highlanders have been approved for erasure, on Thursday, 9 March, 1967.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ooh, lovely - look what's just arrived. (And there are my initials on the Brig's shoulder.) @wonderfulbooks.co.uk
The hardback cover of Screen Printed by Paul MC Smith.Page 504 shows the cover art for the novelisation of Battlefield.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why, thank you, Amazon. What an appropriate choice of packaging.
Poor Amazon packaging, busted open on arrival.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'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
The slimline version of the Hammer 4k release of X The Unknown.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I'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.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Insta stands for Instant Custard
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Patrick 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.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Make a Doctor Who title less scary.
Title reads Barbecue instead of Inferno, albeit over the Pertwee title sequence instead of the lava footage Inferno uses.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The first version of the Jon Pertwee Doctor Who title sequence. The story title reads NEWSNIGHT.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Well, my Doctor Who - The Movie steelbook feels like it's been in a furnace.
Doctor Who - The Movie steelbook cooling down after delivery.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
With a bank holiday sort-out approaching, it might be time to take the spear from The Savages documentary to the tip.
A screenshot from Remembering/Forgetting The Savages, the Doctor Who documentary I made for the Blu-Ray release, featuring Richard Ashton as Billy Savage.The spear prop from the Remembering/Forgetting The Savages documentary.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
One of the best science-fiction films of all time, now out in UHD.
The Man in the White Suit UHD release.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Contact has been.... oh, you know. #Hammer
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Ein spannender kontakt ist gegründet in fernsehen. @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @0tralala.bsky.social @tenacrefilms.bsky.social
The Making of the Quatermass Experiment by Toby Hadoke and David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television finally make it through the second class postage system.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Spinning 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.
The vinyl release of Some Other Stuff by Grachan Moncur III.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Whenever something dawns on me, I often say to myself, "Oh I see, uh, Thonmi..."
The Doctor and Thonmi in The Abominable Snowmen
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The fact is, I would now like a steelbook for every Troughton story.
The War Games in Colour steelbook, displayed alongside a model of Patrick Troughton and the TARDIS from The War Games set.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
And now the steelbook has arrived, which hopefully means The Savages is going through quite a few letterboxes today.
Doctor Who - The Savages steelbook.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Remembering/Forgetting the forward slash...
Screen menu for disc 3 of Doctor Who - The Savages.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Well, look what's just arrived. Remembering/Forgetting The Savages is on disc 3, by the way...
Cover of Doctor Who The Savages Blu-ray animation.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It 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.
Riverside Studios event The Tomb of the Cybermen.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
What'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.
Doctor Who The Collection Season 7 obligatory arrival photo.Queenie writing a letter in Blackadder II episode Chains.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It'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.
Peter Purves being interviewed on stage at the BFI following a screening of the animated version of Doctor Who story The Savages.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I 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...
Cover image of The Black Archive - Silver Nemesis.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Reading now while, appropriately enough, listening to a jazz record.
Kindle displaying the cover to The Black Archive Silver Nemesis, placed on a turntable.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Had 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.
A Blu-ray player displaying Quatermass and the Pit in its open tray.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
My army continues to grow.
A display of model Daleks.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
That does it. The NYT Spelling Bee won't let me have TIFFIN.
A photo of some tiffin, which the New York Times doesn't believe exists.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I realise I've never really been familiar with the episode titles for The Box of Delights, probably because of the VHS compilation.
The menu screen for The Box of Delights Blu-ray release.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Gorgeous!
The Stone Tape Blu-ray release
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Time to go Wilde.
Poster image of The Importance of Being Earnest on a television screen at the National Theatre.View of the stage at the Lyttleton Theatre.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Years 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.
The Third Man box set presentation.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The 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
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Radio Times the week Nineteen Eighty-Four aired, courtesy of BBC Genome: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bdfc99ae1ab4... #Kneale1984
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
To 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
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Don’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
Title caption that reads Nineteen Eighty-FourTitle caption that reads "by George Orwell"Title caption that reads "Adapted as a Television Play by Nigel Kneale"Peter Cushing as Winston in Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Just 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.
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Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈 @stuartdenman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New arrival. One to watch over the Christmas holidays, I think.
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