A handbag?
07.03.2026 06:22
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A handbag?
That'll be them cancelled then.
Thumbs up from the Myrka!!
I'd totally forgotten that was the inciting incident.
The conversation stemmed from my pondering the question of whose thumb is seen sticking out of the Myrka at the end of part three of Warriors of the Deep.
Of course that will have been edited out of the new special edition...
Documentaries about Rentaghost are hard to do. They're all dead.
Of course, since posting I've already seen this information was known and I've even seen at least one of them interviewed in a documentary. A documentary about Warriors of the Deep unfortunately, not about Rentaghost.
A signed photo of Dobbin the Rentaghost pantomime horse. William Perrie has signed under the front legs, John Asquith under the back ones.
It came up at the weekend that none of us in the conversation knew which of John Asquith and William Perrie was the front and which the back. I suspect this photo provides the answer.
Are they still alive? They've never done a Doctor Who convention. "So John, was William a fan of a curry?"
We lost Kenith Trodd last weekend, a brilliant producer and forward-thinking man who believed deeply in television and the British screen. He was ahead of his time in many ways. "A film is a film is a film."
My tribute is now up on the BFI website: www.bfi.org.uk/news/kenith-...
I cannot be arsed today. Could someone come round and put the effort in for me.
A Very Peculiar Practice - Art and Illusion (2nd March 1988). Mervyn Lillicrap (Tim Wylton) hosts a group therapy session.
"You are a Time Lord. A Lord of Time. Are there lords in such a small domain?"
"Doctor Who: Enlightenment" part 2 (1983). #DoctorWho
It pains me that that line of dialogue was not there as it had been in the first place.
The Myrka, when asked if he was enjoying his visit to Sea Base 4.
Thumbs up for the Myrka!
"I'm a princess and this is my tiara."
"Doctor, do you realise we're stranded here...?"
"Doctor Who: The Sea Devils" episode 1 (1972). #DoctorWho
Fawlty Towers (26th February 1979). Basil extends a warm hand of friendship towards Raylene Miles (Luan Peters).
Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.
Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos
'Going Home', the first episode of Going Straight, was originally broadcast on this day in 1978. Despite living in the shadow of Porridge, it pulled in some 14 million viewers and earned Ronnie Barker his fourth and final BAFTA award for Best Light Entertainment Performance.
"She'll die here..."
"Doctor Who: Terminus" part 4 (1983). #DoctorWho
For those who haven't noticed, tonight at 9pm BBC Four will repeat a 1977 edition of Call My Bluff featuring Tom Baker...
... and it's NOT the episode that appeared on the Season 14 Collection Blu-ray. Get your video recorders out, folks.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom - Part Four (21st February 1976).
"What do you do for an encore Doctor?"
"I win"
The fact Travis 2 doesn't really work is a behind the scenes problem (or two) elsewhere...
And, at the end of the day, they shouldn't have recast with someone so fundamentally different to the original portrayal. They should have just made him someone else with suspiciously similar motivation.
Well as opinions go... it's not one of mine. :)
The Angels Take Manhattan is such a beautiful and moving piece. It makes me cry every time I see it. It also makes me want to cry when I hear DW fans think the important bit of it is the minutiae of the plot mechanics.
Stephen is more successful in the role. But Brian is better casting for the part. Travis is a Sergeant Major not an officer. He's the buffer between the officers and the grunts. He's Windsor Davies to Servalan's Donald Hewlett.
Brian.
The Doctor made the mistake of reading Amy's last page. He could have gone elsewhere in America and travelled to them. But once he'd read that they never saw him again, he couldn't.
"A new body, at last..."
"Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken" part 4 (1981). #DoctorWho
