Christopher H Bidmead🇺🇦

Ok, well that's it. X for me spells EXIT.

@robertjoscribe There are clues in my profile, Robert.

@chbid That will be sad to see you go, is there anywhere else we can find u?

Dear Followers, I can't say that the moment has particularly been prepared for, or that it's the end. But it's only fair to let you all know, at this stage in the evident accelerated gain of entropy here in this musky twitterverse, that I return here infrequently. So, perhaps…

@ChadGPeaty > I want to understand Bidders' editing processes. And so do I, after all these years. The closest I can get is to say that you ensure you're not imposing the story on the characters. It's their story, so let them tell it.

But all the dialogue still rings true to everything we know about the character at that point in the story. It's almost as if he'd thought it through or something... Forget Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse. I want to understand Bidders' editing processes.

Just watching Castrovalva for the first time in about a decade, now on blu-ray. By God, it's underrated. I'd forgotten just how good the performances, direction, camera-work, music are. But it's @chbid who really stands out. Every beat advances the plot, every line is a zinger.

@TheCastrovalvan @steedstylin @calvinopodcast No, I know nothing of Calvino. What should I start with? (Sorry to be unresponsive here on Twitter. It used to receive my daily attention. Of late it seems to be fading from my life since developing a distinctly musky aroma.)

Having just discovered @calvinopodcast by @TheCastrovalvan, where my appreciation for Italo Calvino and Escher via Bidmead seemingly merge, I was thrilled to further learn of the existence of #CalvinoBookClub. And I thought I was alone! Some days, Twitter can be so lovely.

@shinyford @Telegraph @jkjourno Well, exactly. Raising the suspicion that @jkjourno may be @TuckerCarlson in disguise, warning us that being nasty to the Russian invaders is bound to precipitate WWIII. As you wreak, so shall you reap may be the message the @Telegraph is attempting to convey here.

WHERE DID THOSE SUBS DISAPPEAR TO, @telegraph? This is supposed to be a newspaper of record. Can someone please explain to @jkjourno (page 14, World News today) that you don't "reap havoc". You wreak it.

@Psychic_Paper @Heraldofcreatio @Randomisation20 As I recall, the season I was commissioned to write Pinacotheca for was entirely scrapped and replaced by Trial of a Time Lord. I was never asked to write for that. The BBC bought and paid for Pinacotheca. So I imagine whether that story ever sees the light of day is up to them.

@Psychic_Paper @Heraldofcreatio @Randomisation20 I don't remember contributing anything to the Trial of a Time Lord season. Can you clarify?

@Randomisation20 That's very kind of you, John. But I'm pretty much off the Doctor Who scene these days. If you're masochistic enough to feel you need more of me, you can find me on YouTube. Searching for "Chris Bidmead Marion Kerr" will get you an hour of me, which should be more than enough.

@MichaelPageUK I thought you might like to know that somebody on Telegram is cold calling using the name of your company and thus bringing it into disrepute:

While all those legacy blue ticks undergo rapid unscheduled disassembly, my personal gold tick firmly remains here on my tweets. To see it, of course, you'll need to be a member of my exclusive $8 per month subscription service.

Further adventures with the TOS 5 NAS operating system as we dip our toes for the first time into TRAID, @Terramasters proprietary asymmetric drive array solution: testedtechnology.co.uk/?p=13162

WTF is this??? Musk insists users unsecure their Twitter accounts? We may be very close to the last straw here.

@robertjoslipek I had a sense (so I thought, at least) of what made the show unique and that first draft was just "Doctor Who Meets Dracula". Confrontation about this reduced Dicks to tears at one point, which wasn't part of my job. But what we needed was good scripts not writers who felt good.

Apparently Dicks hated the scene Bidmead added about "Grimm's Law", but that was one of my favorite bits! Dr Who is at its best as an educational program, seeing the doctor and romana work out plot minutia in real time is interesting. I wish the modern show had pacing like that.

Continuing with my season 18 doctor who rewatch, STATE OF DECAY is really one of the best stories ever. It's a perfect union of doctor who's atmospheric moodiness (Terrance Dicks) and high concept science (@chbid). If there were tensions between the 2 writers it doesn't show!

@spwalker You might like this, Steve: testedtechnology.co.uk/opinion-floati…

However, it has kind of taken on a life of its own as I approach 10,000 games, and leads to its own small victories, of one of which this screenshot is evidence. #oughttogetoutmore #klondike #solitaire #patience

Another nerdish #proudmoment in my relentless quest of the uselessly specialised. This is the 2nd time that I have been the first to solve a particular Klondike Solitaire preset (over 4,000 others have tried and failed, ha ha!) and the previous one was preset 6467, in Dec 2021.

Looking for the latest Wi-Fi technology at an affordable price? We hook up the Reyee RG-E5. testedtechnology.co.uk/?p=13046

@neilandrozani That's a lovely thing for an old man to read at this bleak time of year, Neil. Thanks. I'm currently cheering myself up with the early episodes of @DMinghella's #DocMartin. If you're seeking TV perfection, you might want to cast your eyes in that direction.

The more I watch Castrovalva, the more I adore Castrovalva. Thank you @chbid Its just so perfect.

@BarbaraYetaxa Thank you all for the birthday greetings. And apologies for not responding sooner. I've been paying less attention to Twitter these days, for some reason...

Happy birthday to @CHBid, script editor of season eighteen and the writer of three of the best early 80s serials: Logopolis, Castrovalva and Frontios

@PhilipM04217017 @ambitmagazine BTW, @ambitmagazine, I notice that I'm missing from your list of "All Contributors". Should we fix this? BTW2, my old friend #DeborahLevy does appear on that list but with a total of zero contributions. Do we actually have her or not?

@PhilipM04217017 @ambitmagazine The epub of these two stories is freely downloadable from my Github account. I've put the download address in a Mastodon post you can get to via my Twitter profile. Sorry about the paperchase but my trust in the utility of Twitter is waning. Let me know if you need help.