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The Prisoner: I Am Not a Number, I’m Just Very, Very Confused (spy-fy TV retrospective).
Here’s the first episode of The Prisoner for you. Imagine James Bond quits MI6, goes on holiday to clear his head, and wakes…
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May 2025
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Doctor Who series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 7, Wish World by Russell T Davies.
We finally uncover the reason for the TARDIS’s inability to penetrate 2025 in the season’s double-parter. Commenting before watching, which means I’m going…
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Doctor Who series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 6, The Interstellar Song Contest, by Juno Dawson.
I have mixed feelings about combining TV programmes with real-life events. It was done with ‘Doctor Who’ in one of the Olympics years…
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The Last of Us season 2: Mark Kermode’s TV review. Fungi, feelings, and a golf club to the soul.
In the warm spring of 2025, just when you thought your PTSD from The Last of Us Season 1 had mellowed to a…
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Doctor Who: Series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 5: The Story & The Engine by Inua Elams.
Y’know, the number of god-like beings the Doctor is encountering is making me wonder if Russell T is going to reveal that our…
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Doctor Who series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 4, Lucky Day by Pete McTighe.
It seems every human companion of the Doctor who returns safely to Earth ends up being offered a job at UNIT. Yes, there…
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The Fantastic Journey – The Bermuda Triangle’s best package holiday? (video)
Before Lost took us to a mysterious island and then lost the plot entirely, and long before Sliders decided that every alternate universe…
April 2025
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Doctor Who: Series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count) Episode 3: The Well by Russell T Davies and Sharma Angel-Walfall.
You could hardly miss the information in the news that this current series of ‘Doctor Who’ has dropped to two million television viewers.…
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Doctor Who: Series 15 (or 40 depending on how you count): Episode 2: Lux by Russell T Davies.
I did watch the last episode a second time but changed none of my comments. I do wonder if any of you people…
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The Eternaut: it’s snow joke (Netflix scifi TV series).
Aliens. Snow. Existential despair. Truco. Welcome, dear reader, to The Eternaut, Netflix’s latest attempt to introduce the world to a terrifying apocalypse that…
February 2025
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For All Mankind (TV series review – opening 2 seasons).
For All Mankind Season One (pub: Dazzler/Sony, 2019. 4 DVDs 609 minutes 10 episodes 2*70 minutes 8* 50 minutes. Price: varies. ASIN: DAZ0169)…
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The Outer Limits: classic TV retrospective (video).
There is nothing quite like sitting down with a cup of tea, turning on the telly, and hearing those immortal words: “There is…