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The Cipher: BBC raids Netflix for new science fiction series (news).
The BBC is now raiding Netflix for the actors to fill their latest sci-fi series, The Cipher, perhaps a little miffed by the way…
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ReviewScifi
Brave New World: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation by Aldous Huxley (audio book review).
If there’s one thing the BBC does well, it’s radio drama. ‘Brave New World’ is no exception, carefully adapted to bring the themes…
December 2015
NewsScifi
Hard Sun, scifi-crime drama from the BBC.
A new six episode one hour scifi-crime drama series by Luther creator Neil Cross (produced by Euston Films), has been just commissioned for…
March 2013
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Talons Of Weng Chiang by Terrance Dicks (CD audio-book review).
Long before Jago & Litefoot took it upon themselves to become an investigative pair, they both had separate and fairly normal lives in…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Gunfighters by Donald Cotton (CD review).
Get the spittoon at the ready, for this rather wonderful audio of ‘The Gunfighters’, a First Doctor TV story from 1963 is not…
February 2013
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: Day Of The Daleks by Louis Marks (DVD review).
The Doctor (actor Jon Pertwee) and Jo Grant (actress Katy Manning) are asked to investigate armed ghosts at Auderly House, current residence of…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Daemons by Guy Leopold (DVD review).
If ever there was an archetypal Jon Pertwee/Doctor Who story, then surely it must be ‘The Daemons’. Yet oddly, the story is something…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: City Of Death (4th Doctor TV Soundtrack) by David Agnew (cd review).
The Doctor and Romana II arrive in Paris in 1979, which as it turns out is the City of Death. They meet some…
January 2013
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Highlanders by Gerry Davies (cd review).
Another day, another novelisation of a classic ‘Doctor Who’ story. This is slightly different. It’s the first story to feature Jamie McCrimmon and…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: Colony In Space by Malcolm Hulke (dvd review).
Jo Grant (actress Katy Manning) has a hard time believing that all the tinkering the Doctor (actor Jon Pertwee) is doing has any…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Ark by Paul Erikson and Leslie Scott (DVD review).
The Doctor (actor William Hartnell), Steven Taylor (actor Peter Purves) and new companion with a heavy cold, Dodo Chaplet (actress Jackie Lane), arrive…
November 2012
ReviewScifi
The Day Of The Triffids (1981) (DVD review).
Probably one of the most accurate portrayals of John Wyndham’s book, ‘The Day Of The Triffids’ is this series originally on the screen…