The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark

Out now: THE WILDER WAY: The Power Game of The Plane Makers. Episode Guide. Making of. You too can follow in the footsteps of Sir John Wilder wymark.org.uk/wilderway.html

SPYING TONIGHT on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

Notes on The Devils (1971-2026) johnnyalucard.com/2026/10/27/n...

Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) Directed by Ossie Davis starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques with Judy Pace, Redd Foxx, Helen Martin and Calvin Lockhart.

I'm always intrigued by celebrities of yesteryear doing odd things on Getty Images. There's definitely a book in there somewhere. Anyway, here's Mike Winters, Des O'Connor, Sacha Distel, Joan Collins, Bernie Winters and Lionel Blair, all holding bananas for no readily apparent reason

I never knew that Gilbert & Sullivan adapted Dracula, but my friend Dr Terror reports here on @mitchbenn.bsky.social 's recent revival wymark.org.uk/draculamitch...

La Belle Dame Sans Merci - #ZoeTapper as the enigmatic Jenny in Patrick Hamilton's TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY - wymark.org.uk/bitter.html

Rewatching William Castle's HOMICIDAL (1961), I finally realised that the reason that the character of Warren was so oddly familiar was his resemblance to ace ventriloquist #ArthurWorsley.

THE HEXHAM HEADS: In 1976, BBC early evening magazine show Nationwide aired a segment about a real-life folk horror story. Stone heads unearthed from a garden, paranormal activity and werewolves abound in this notorious report, thought lost until 2024...

Revisiting HOMICIDAL (1961), I was suddenly struck by the wordless performance of #SnubPollard as the bell hop who #JeanArless rejects in favour of #RichardRust. The hurt, dismay, realisation and acceptance that he is beyond being an object of lust for this young woman.

Flying Disc Man from Mars was released 76 years ago today. I know, it makes you feel old. "A hero single-handedly sets himself against Martians trying to assume control of Earth."

That Scunthorpe story from Richard Harris www.facebook.com/reel/3117048...

It's not often I listen to a podcast without fast-forwarding, but this interview with @thewhoovers.bsky.social was fascinating in its detail. Even if you're not a #DrWho fan you'll find some really engaging stories about a couple of actresses not often associated with the show towards the end.

Thanks to Will Meugniot on Facebook - I had no idea there were 1980's copies of THE COMIC READER on the net. Now a new generation can experience the thrill of squinting - also this issue reprints John Burns' THE SEEKERS and Phil Mendoza's PAUL TEMPLE archive.org/details/maga...

Whoever did the IMDB listing for Snub Pollard (which seems to have as many uncredited as credited appearances), I have to say well done.

Twenty years since the death of Nigel Kneale, apparently. Here’s something I wrote about the enduring legacy of one of my all time heroes, shortly after seeing his lost masterpiece restaged. joelmorris.substack.com/p/bring-some...

It's not often I listen to a podcast without fast-forwarding, but this interview with @thewhoovers.bsky.social was fascinating in its detail. Even if you're not a #DrWho fan you'll find some really engaging stories about a couple of actresses not often associated with the show towards the end.

If you have any interest in the supernatural give Chasing the Dark by Ben Machell a look. Our non-fiction book of the month traces the history of the SPR, the Society for Psychical Research, drawing on ex-navy official Tony Cornell's extensive archives now in the Cambridge University Library.

FICTION: “Trident House has glamoured her and, in her glamour, she is unaware of what draws her there and stalks her through the concrete weald – the imprint of a vanished forest, a distorted memory, an inverted thing.” precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/10/23/f...

"QUATERMASS II: The Bolts" (transmitted 22/10/55) Professor Quatermass investigates a series of artificial meteorites which have been falling close to a mysterious, heavily-guarded government installation... Written by Nigel Kneale, the serial was broadcast live. #horror #horrorfam #scifi #1950s

James Blunt - master of deduction.... #CelebrityTraitors

He’ll be nicking all the copper wiring from the walls of the White House.

Siobhan McKenna was perhaps better known for her stage roles, but in 1981 she had a double hit with the title roles in THE JOURNAL OF BRIDGET HITLER (BBC2) and 'The Landlady' episode of TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED.

DO YOU KNOW THIS VOICE always freaks me out for the sight of #DanDuryea walking down the type of crumbling Victorian terraced-house garden I associate with my grandparents.

KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER, 'The Devil's Platform'. The late #TomSkerritt as the only supernatural adversary whose 'cold reading' allows him to tempt #DarrenMcGavin's Kolchak over to the dark side.

#TomSkerrittRIP - I was thinking of watching an episode of KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER tonight, so it will have to be THE DEVIL'S PLATFORM...

#madmagazine

Happy Birthday #CatherineDeneuve, (born October 22, 1943, Paris, France). Here with #PatrickWymark in Repulsion wymark.org.uk/repulsion.html

Here’s the OTHER ptale of a pterodactyl we promised that not only has NEVER BEEN REPRINTED, but was the FIRST credited story by a writer who would play a MAJOR role at Marvel Comics during the Bronze Age & in the Marvel Cinematic Universe today! #PopSky atocom.blogspot.com/2026/10/read...

Hegseth: We are banning reporters from the Pentagon. Washpost: We have exclusive photos of the historic Dwight Eisenhower globe that was damaged in Hegseth's zeal to move it out of storage and into his office. Gift link ⤵️ wapo.st/3WF2YQo

Another chance to see WHERE EAGLES DARE - on BBC4 (Freeview 9) at 7pm tonight (Thursday 22/10/2026).

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David Shepherd’s fabulous original painting for the 1955 British Railways travel poster, “Service By Night”.

30 minute klaxon to the classic British horror, NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957) at 9:10pm #TPTVsubtitles

It’s not about the money. By cutting things people quite like, the BBC reminds us of the value of what we have. If they only cut nameless middle/management jobs we’d all shrug and think “This is fine.” They need us to feel the loss. There’ll be more to come, for sure…

My round-up of this year's International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia in Sitges, Spain. (Aagh, I submitted this too quickly; already spotted two annoying instances of repetition.)

I don't often make it London but am performing "A Warning to the Curious" & "Lost Hearts" by M R James at a theatre above a really nice pub on Sunday 8 November. Tickets here tinyurl.com/y5ec2wjx pass it on...

His scheming wife and her lover left him to die... INFERNO (1953) 8pm #RobertRyan #RhondaFleming #WilliamLundigan thriller #TPTVsubtitles

Aaaaagh why does everything suck?? Fuck offfffffff and stop training your bastard machines on me!!!

Featuring excerpts from @BBCRadio3’s The Tempest starring Joseph Arkley as Caliban and Ian McDiarmid as Prospero. Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. Listen here @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Happy 35th anniversary to Thunderbirds the Comic! Discover the phenomenal history of the Fleetway Anderson era with my honkingly huge retrospective on these comics, including interviews with many of the creators involved from these titles! sequential21.net/2023/09/30/o...

An advert for Thunderbirds The Comic with a yellow front - some of these did get printed but the issue actually had a white cover. #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson #thunderbirds

Powerhouse/Indicator are celebrating their tenth anniversary with a new pressing of their excellent Night of the Demon blu-ray set: www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/products/nig...