Rose

Doctor Who celebrating its twentieth anniversary a year and a half after its sixtieth anniversary. Well, yes.

Mr. Benn

BBC sort-of-animated classic Mr. Benn, as mentioned in Joy To The World, continues to sneak into reality.

Pulled up at a traffic light in some small Swiss town and...

..wait... what?

 

Richard Littler on Bluesky

For those wondering, it was about a man visiting a costume shop with two doors in the changing room, the second leading to the world the costume was for...

World Book Day

Read a book!

1970s BBC Poe

Via horror writer and media critic Kim Newman, something I had never heard of:

In the mid-1970s, BBC2 tried to get a tradition going in parallel with BBC1's MR James-heavy Ghost Story for Christmas by doing Edgar Allan Poe stories as special editions of their Centre Play slot. Only two were made, both directed by James Ormerod.

Here's Andrew Davies' adaptation of 'The Imp of the Perverse', with Michael Kitchen, Philip Stone, Lalla Ward and Milton Johns. 

And here's Hugh Whitemore's 'William Wilson' with Norman Eshley, Stephen Murray, C-3PO and Robert Tayman.

15.2 trailer

Here!

Good to note the reluctant companion warming to the adventures upfront, showing that won’t be a drag for long.

Amusing to finally be doing a Eurovision episode after the long run of connecting jokes.

Ruby being sinister? Oh noes.

Alan Cumming cartoon on the loose is presumably a spooky god thing?