Patrick Mulkern

Next Week! The #TPTV Pre-Code Cinema! #TPTVsubtitles #JamesCagney THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) Mon 26th Oct 8:15am #BarbaraStanwyck NIGHT NURSE (1931) Tues 27th Oct 8:10am #NormaShearer A FREE SOUL (1931) Wed 28th Oct 8:20am #JoanCrawford DANCE FOOLS, DANCE (1931) Thur 29th Oct 8:45am

Hammer time... In case it's not widely known, the excellent documentary Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters is available on Amazon Prime Video. I reviewed it in 2024 and spoke to its producer Benjamin Field for @radiotimes.bsky.social www.radiotimes.com/tv/documenta... @imjamieanderson.bsky.social

Happy birthday to Anneke Wills. Pictured as Polly from #DoctorWho with Michael Craze as fellow companion Ben in 1973 for the @radiotimes.bsky.social Doctor Who tenth anniversary special. Photo taken by Allan Ballard at Cley Beach in Norfolk.

Chosen as #FilmOfTheDay in #RadioTimes The Sci-Fi classic with #MichaelRennie & #PatriciaNeal in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) 4pm #TPTVsubtitles

It’s a day to celebrate Katy @manningofficial.bsky.social and the joy she brings to this world. Here are glimpses of her TV debut, livening up a Softly Softly. Recorded on 18/12/1969 at TV Centre TC3. In that same studio one year later she’d be playing Jo Grant in The Mind of Evil #DoctorWho

Pulp fiction... The Singing Detective is being shown, with a new introduction by Janet Suzman, from tonight at 10pm on BBC Four. Here's the beautiful original @radiotimes.bsky.social cover illustration by Mark Thomas.

😂 ! 😘 thank you dear friend & my darling fellow adventurer xxxx🥰

#TimCurry & #RockyHorror fans! Wed 7 Oct BBC4: a rare screening of #Schmoedipus – a #DennisPotter #PlayForToday. First aired 20 June 1974 yet actually recorded on 18 Dec 73 when Tim was still in the original London run of Rocky. Don Smith photographed him on set for @radiotimes.bsky.social

Rare screening tonight on BBC4 of Kevin Elyot's brilliant #MyNightWithReg - one of the key plays of the 1990s. Here's a little piece from a 1997 @radiotimes.bsky.social and my recent RT write-up.

We've just received a new crop of reprints. You Are Not Alone, Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene, Maximum Power! and David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television are all back in stock. Phew! Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

Delighted to stumble upon this riveting book from Persephone. #DespisedAndRejected - what a title! It starts as a social comedy but becomes a fascinating study of thwarted gay desire, and pacifist ideals during the Great War.Told from a 1918 perspective; the year it was published – and banned.

Best medicine after after rather difficult week we did Go Ape at Battersea park now my darling game pal @patrickmulkern did the #Zipwireatbluewater would love to Tavel everywhere like this 😄

I had a chat with the ever-fab Dame Siân Phillips for the 50th anniversary of I, Claudius. www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/i-c...

Thanks for reading. This thread barely scratches the surface. You may like to investigate my even more detailed book #PendasFen : Scene By Scene (Ten Acre Books, 2025). We do not supply to Amazon, so please try your bookshop or order direct from the publisher. Link in bio. Goodnight.

If you’ve been following and enjoying my #PendasFen skeetalong, please consider picking up a copy of Scene By Scene. It is a detailed examination of the scripting and filming of a television masterpiece, drawing on fresh interviews and a huge archive of scripts and paperwork.

Remembering Radio Times's star photographer Don Smith, born #OTD in 1932, pictured in 1992 with a Rolleiflex camera bought around 1954 for £126 when he was earning £8 per week. Plus one of Don's classic portrait shots, of comedian Tony Hancock. @radiotimes.bsky.social

"Maybe we are all a bit Reggie..." The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is 50 years old today. What a joy it was to ask fan, writer and Reggie collaborator Simon Nye all about the classic sitcom for @radiotimes.bsky.social: www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/re...

#TimCurry The director John Gorrie recalled the path that led his dejected friend to #RockyHorror @royalcourt.bsky.social and global fame in the early 1970s. Extract from my book #YouAreNotAlone #DoctorWho @tenacrebooks.bsky.social tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

If you’re heading to the Albert Hall tonight or listening on Radio 3, here is my Radio Times interview with the fabulous Marin Alsop. www.radiotimes.com/audio/marin-...

Happiness will prevail! We've just reprinted You Are Not Alone: A Gay History of Doctor Who. Life stories of the show's gay cast and creatives, featuring commentary from Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall and more. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk.

The Radio Times readers draw for two tickets closes at midday today! @RadioTimes #BBCProms www.radiotimes.com/win/proms202...

Cheryl Hall well deserved the final shot of this classic #DoctorWho story.

Primrose Hill earlier #eclipse

Remembering the great Louis Armstrong, born 125 years ago today, with this joyous portrait taken in the mid-60s by jazz fan Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social.

Loads of merch with Stuart Manning’s lovely cover design for the book #YouAreNotAlone #DoctorWho www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1805...

One reason to look forward to autumn/winter. You can’t beat a decent retrospective at the BFI.

"It is always genuinely flattering when members of the public say, 'I grew up with you lot!'" So sad to hear of Bill Oddie leaving the stage, but I was thrilled to seek his input when celebrating The Goodies a few years ago... www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/go...

For those following the impressive early #ZCars on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, tonight's poignant episode was celebrated as the 100th @radiotimes.bsky.social in 1964. Here's the original article and an alternative shot taken by Don Smith on 5 Feb 62. Plus a shot from location filming 10 Feb 64.

I’m always wary when a film I loved is turned into musical theatre but the @nationaltheatre.org.uk excels with its production of #Pride. Energetic, funny and sorrowful numbers with a superb cast, faithful to the original movie and the real people.

You Are Not Alone: A Gay History of Doctor Who by @patrickmulkern.bsky.social, published by @tenacrebooks.bsky.social. A fascinating and illuminating book that chronicles the history of our favourite show against the social context of LGBTQ+ liberation, detailing so many biographies of... 1/3

Systematic robberies are occurring - everything from suits to TV sets... Premiere Episode! Z-CARS (1964) 7pm #KateAllit #BrianBlessed #JosephBrady star in 'A Question of Storage' #TPTVsubtitles

It was an absolute pleasure to interview Marin Alsop in the run-up to the BBC Proms. What a great human being! Our complete guide to the 2026 Proms season is in the current @radiotimes.bsky.social www.radiotimes.com/audio/marin-...

Happy sunny Pertday! Here's an RT tribute I put together for his centenary in 2019. #JonPertwee #DoctorWho www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...

Win two tickets to the Last Night of the Proms in the @radiotimes.bsky.social prize draw! radiotimes.com/win/proms202...

Win two tickets to the American Classics Prom with the brilliant conductor Marin Alsop in the @radiotimes.bsky.social prize draw! radiotimes.com/win/proms202...

Win tickets for a family of four to the Horrible Science Big Bang Prom in the @radiotimes.bsky.social prize draw! radiotimes.com/win/proms202...

That most thrilling of things, a summer repeat of a #DoctorWho story, began #OTD 50 years ago, so @radiotimes.bsky.social commissioned a brand-new illustration by the great Frank Bellamy – sadly, it was his last. Planet of Evil was that story, by Louis Marks: www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...

Finished this yesterday. Absolutely turn pager of a read And a fascinating history of the connections between Doctor Who and the journey of gay people of the time period of the show. Anyone else read it ? @patrickmulkern.bsky.social #DoctorWho

After a long imprisonment... the hunt for the real killer and the truth! #WillamHartnell MURDER IN REVERSE? (1945) 8:35am #ChiliBouchier #JimmyHanley thriller #TPTVsubtitles

Waris Hussein – a man of great warmth and wit, a much-admired director, a founding father of #DoctorWho and my darling friend – features extensively in #YouAreNotAlone. A few pics of WH across the decades. #PrideMonth🌈 Book available via: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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