ReviewTV
End Of Part One: The Complete Series (DVD review).
I suspect I missed the two series of ‘End Of Part One’ because I was still coming home from work when it was…
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Television shows.
April 2015
ReviewHorror
Penny Dreadful: The Complete First Season (DVD review).
From the start of this ‘Penny Dreadful’ series one, it’s obvious that something dark is going on. Late night, a mother in Victorian…
March 2015
ReviewCulture
Sherlock Holmes (DVD review).
In 1965, the BBC decided to make a series about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories. By…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Mind Of Evil by Don Houghton (DVD review).
The Doctor (actor Jon Pertwee) and Jo Grant (actress Katy Manning) attend a mind-altering demonstration at Stangmoor Prison where the prisoner Barnham (actor…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: Mannequin Mania: Terror Of The Autons by Robert Holmes (DVD review).
I bought and reviewed ‘Spearhead From Space’ a couple years back and wasn’t aware that it was supposed to be part of a…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors Of Death by David Whitaker (DVD review).
With ‘The Ambassadors Of Death’, ‘Doctor Who’ moved closer to Nigel Kneale territory. A returning spaceship from Mars without communication meets up with…
February 2015
ReviewScifi
The Avengers Series 4 (Blu-ray TV series review).
If you’re buying the blu-ray version of ‘The Avengers’, you probably either don’t have the DVD version or been watching it recently on…
ReviewFantasy
Grimm: The Killing Time by Tim Waggoner (book review).
It’s ‘Grimm’ out there and ‘The Killing Time’ is a spin-off novel based on the TV character now into Season 4 on a…
January 2015
ReviewBooks
Showrunners: The Art Of Running A TV Show by Tara Bennett (book review).
If, like me, you missed the TV show about American TV series showrunners like I did, then this book, ‘Showrunners: The Art Of…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Krotons by Robert Holmes (DVD review).
The TARDIS arrives in a rocky wasteland and the Doctor (actor Patrick Troughton), Jamie (actor Frazer Hines) and Zoe (actress Wendy Padbury) witness…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Web Of Fear by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln (DVD review)
Another of the rediscovered and restored complete stories of ‘Doctor Who’ from 2013 was the sequel to ‘The Abominable Snowman’, ‘The Web Of…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: Last Christmas by John Rivers (TV review).
You’ll find the spoiler-filled review of ‘Last Christmas’ below, so if you haven’t seen the 2014 ‘Doctor Who Christmas Special’, I suggest you…