“Return of the Cybernauts” Review
It’s unusual for an adversary of The Avengers to make a return. The cybernauts return twice (here, and once in The New Avengers). In The Cybernauts a lot of the suspense was derived […]
Month: July 2014
“Who’s Who???” Review
Early in this colour Peel series, the first stories (all by Philip Levene) inverted sci-fi tropes. There was the alien invasion that was a hoax, the time machine that was […]
“The Radioactive Man” Lost Episode Review
This is the fourth episode for which the script exists but the video recording doesn’t, so there’s a logic to suggesting it should have been the fourth episode on the […]
“The Joker” Review
This is a remake that gets my unqualified approval. Don’t Look Behind You was an excellent episode, and this is a relatively faithful adaptation with such small changes as there are […]
“Please Don’t Feed The Animals” Lost Episode Review
Another excellent piece of stylish nonsense revived by Big Finish on audio here. There’s a leak in the cypher department at the admiralty, and the twist is that secrets are being delivered […]
“Something Nasty In The Nursery” Review
1960s psychedelia and senior civil servants with a serious nanny fixation – all taken seriously, as it should be, making for a well-crafted and satisfying episode that is better than […]
“A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Station” Review
I guess I’m a sucker for anything with a train in it, but even allowing for that this is a rather wonderful episode – with a diabolical scheme and proper […]
“The Superlative Seven” Review
So, we come to the second remake. This is both an episode based on one I thought excellent and so worthy of being remade, and an episode that I enjoyed […]
“Ashes of Roses” Lost Episode Review
The superb audio productions of four of the lost Avengers episodes from series 1 that were released back in January by Big Finish (and prompted this Avengers frenzy of mine) were […]
“Epic” Review
I’m not quite sure what to make of Epic. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about it is that it appears to document the making of Kill Bill some 36 years before that […]
Dufftown and the Money Train
It’s funny how the product of an idea, dreamed up in a creative environment, can take on a life of its own… and end up on The Sunday Politics. A […]
“Never, Never Say Die” Review
Oh dear. Being charitable, it could be suggested that episode represents the natural evolution of The Cybernauts concept – though it’s more of a revolution, since the AI has been perfected […]