“The Girl Who Died” Review
Doctor Who and vikings can’t fail to entertain (I must get around to my review of Dark Horizons) and the gentle pace of this witty and engaging tale affords time […]
Film, TV & Radio
“Before the Flood” Review
The most important thing in this episode is the Doctor getting his guitar out and playing along to the theme tune. This needs to happen every week, from now on. The monologue […]
“Under the Lake” Review
Me, I like a good base-under-siege story. And Toby Whithouse (the most likely successor to Steven Moffat, I think, as lead writer) isn’t capable of turning in a dud script. […]
“The Witch’s Familiar” Review
Please, please can we have the Doctor Who stage tour? I want to see ‘Gomez & Coleman, Capaldi & Bleach’ in lights, and take my seat in the theatre to […]
“The Magician’s Apprentice” Review
“Listen, if someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who […]
Always Keep Your Bowler on in Times of Stress
Patrick Macnee died one month ago. I didn’t write anything at the time, as wasn’t really been sure what to write. On the one hand, 93 is a good innings. He died […]
Avenging 2014 (Reprise)
First of all, this whole ‘watch every episode and blog it’ thing has taught me that committing to write a blog post every couple of days, even when its just a […]
The Music of The Avengers
One of the things I fell in love with in The Avengers was the music – specifically Laurie Johnson’s incredible musical scores, and the wonderful theme The Shake. I love Johnny Dankworth’s original […]
Avenging December
So, that’s it. All the Avengers have now been watched. And December’s bunch – the second season of The New Avengers – have been as much of a mixed bag as […]
“Last Christmas” Podcast
Layers of fantasy, alienation. Dream logic, TV logic. A Doctor Who episode that’s so self-aware it’s virtually sentient and a Santa who is pulling all the strings… Moffat is an extraordinarily clever […]
“Emily” Review
Christmas eve. There stove is flickering merrily. Time to watch the 163rd, and last, episode of The Avengers I’ll have watched this year. Accompanied, of course, by a glass of bubbly. Emily is […]
“Gladiators” Review
The best moments in this episode seem to reference Emma Peel episodes – at the start, where we meet the titular gladiators, it’s shot almost identically to the opening of The Superlative […]