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Alistair McGown
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Alistair McGown
@AMcGown
Graphic designer, old telly historian/writer. Art Editor DWM Specials/bookazines. Writer of The Fanzine Book, a history of Doctor Who zines. Likes any old toot.
Glasgow شامل ہوئے Ekim 2009
393 فالونگ951 فالوورز
@RealFloppyLion @RealPaulPutner @2000AD I first picked it up when I was given a summer special in 1980 I think it was ... loved it and tried to get into the weekly but it was too sophisticated for a 9-year-old, so it took me another couple of years to get onboard.
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@RealPaulPutner @AMcGown @2000AD Oddly, I stopped not long after this after being a reader since late 1981. I wonder how many other long term readers stopped during 1987...?
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Prog 520
So, I'm Deca Thargo?
After two years of posting progs this is where I eject in my escape pod. Back then, life got in the way, and I couldn't get on with some of the new art styles, but looking back has been ghafflebette!
Splundig vur thrigg, and long live @2000AD
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@RealPaulPutner It might just have been after five years of reading it obsessively, it had started to repeat for me and I was more into music at this point .... I dunno. Maybe the glossy covers were a coincidence of timing but I think I lasted about 3 weeks into the shiny era
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@philnewmandsign @AndrewOnSeeAIR One assumes at Ian Levine's behest
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@AndrewOnSeeAIR And JNT was the one who changed the end credits to acknowledge that. So Peter Davison is the last actor to be credited as "Doctor Who" and the first to be credited as "The Doctor"
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I know that official production documents and credits have referred to the character as "Doctor Who" or "Dr Who", but I'm fully entitled to stick with "The Doctor". That's how it's been for me since I first heard about the show.
Andrew Hsieh@AndrewOnSeeAIR
The titular character's name is "The Doctor", not "Dr Who". "Doctor Who" is the name of the show, while "Dr Who" is the name of the character played by Peter Cushing. I always call them "The Doctor", no matter the incarnation.
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@ianberriman Both things can be true at the same time. It was beautifully designed and made, but really worked against Smith's performances I felt.
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Since it seems we’re doing this, I have spent a whole 15 minutes writing my own TEN-POINT PLAN TO SAAAAAAAAVE DOCTOR WHO
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Top of the Pops (16th June 1988). Sabrina opens the show with Boys (Summertime Love).
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@ianberriman That latter tailored costume was GORGEOUS. But it wasn't anywhere near as good as the awkward ensemble that looked secondhand and didn't really fit. Second one was Pertwee; first one, pure Troughton.
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Just remembered the horrific Willy Wonka phase of Matt Smith costuming.
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I think I might seriously have to explain the concept of joy to Dr Whovians
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@spankybackpack @sisterhood_karn @benjamin_cook @mark_taylor1973 @rudemrlang The days when (right) an unconfirmed rumour of a BBC Video release was front page news (note question mark)
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@sisterhood_karn @benjamin_cook @mark_taylor1973 @rudemrlang This was a minor scandal at the time...
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@berenyi_miki In every game. Without question. Whether it's hot or not. An embarrassing, quasi-corrupt ad revenue cash grab.
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What The fuck is the deal with this 4 quarters bollocks?!
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One of the greatest episodes.
richard@Dickwith2dogs
RIP Roger cook. Here he is as an undercover hot dog man.
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@AMcGown @archivetvmus71 An Are You Being Served repeat pulling in nearly 12m viewers (almost a quarter of the UK population for the time) is phenomenal!
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@RodneyMarshall1 Note the same blue dress worn in MIAS as in her Prisoner appearance
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Angela Browne takes centre stage in MIAS' premise episode and she gives an emotive performance as Rachel Thyssen, an old flame of McGill's whose father - an ex-CIA agent - appears to have come back from the dead.
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Remembering actress Angela Browne, BOTD 1938. A popular guest star in ITC shows of the 1960s and in Avengerland. Married to fellow actor Francis Matthews (Captain Scarlett) who she acted with several times. A few favourite roles of mine in this short thread... 1/
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@RealFloppyLion @superTV247 She’s a big fan! Yep it was in TV Years magazine.
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@AMcGown @superTV247 I think I read an article in a sci-fi magazine a few years back that had an interview with Diane talking about Star Maidens....🤔
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The BBC announce new comedy Ann Droid, with Diane Morgan, is coming next month.
After Sue's husband passes away and her only son moves out, she is left in the care of Linda - a social humanoid robot, created to keep elderly people company and monitor their health.
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@foreignhorrorhq @hellothisisivan I think the problem was there was such a glut of horror by the mid-70s and with cinemas closing down at a vast rate since the early 1970s, so many of them failed to get shown anywhere. Hence these lost gems.
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@hellothisisivan British horror from the 70s is such a rich vein that still has overlooked gems sitting in it. Tigon and Amicus were both putting out genuinely unsettling work during that period that holds up surprisingly well
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Surprisingly as it’s a 70s British horror film I hadn’t seen this before. But now I have and it’s ace.
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@hellothisisivan You've just cost me £18 as I've managed to snap up a copy
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@johndredge I used to watch it but not seen it since it originally went out (bar one brief clip on an old Betamax tape). Had no recollection it wasn't a full 20 minutes.
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How dare you do what you’re doing to me
Two can play that game
How dare you do what you’re doing to me
Bet you I can do the same.
Graeme Wood@woodg31
TV📺10/6/87 ITV 4.35:How Dare You! 4.45:Murphy's Mob 5.15:Punky Brewster 5.45:News 6.30:Crossroads 7.0:Where There's Life 7.30:Coronation Street 8.0:Strike It Lucky 8.30:Farrington 9.0:Disappearing World 10.0:News 10.35:Film - The Border
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