John Isles

Here's a 15-minute snip from my new doc The Death and Life of New Captain Scarlet. This section, looking at the show's violence & initial broadcast, is one I'm really proud of - and how lovely to have so many of the cast & crew involved to share their stories!

A Halloween treat on Sat, thanks to 4 Extra, who are repeating the 2020 radio adaptation of "The Wicker Man". Brian Blessed as Summerisle; Anthony DP Mann as Sgt Howie. Available here after broadcast, hopefully. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

[1977] The World About Us - The Road to Kathmandu - This documentary follows a group of intrepid travellers as they journey for three months from Instanbul to Nepal, all in large Bedford truck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wuOmEyn71Y

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today's youtube video is about an update about Halloween parcels and books i've read recently - including the great, lost Andre Norton novel i last read when i was ten. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7wG...

🖖 RIP Walter Koenig 1936 - 2026

[1962] Look at Life - Series of short documentary films. This is "Any Old Iron", showing the process of collecting and recycling scrap metal back in the early 1960s. Narrated by Tim Turner.

Your early morning caffeine hit.

[1977] ITV Playhouse - Last Summer. A young joyrider is introduced to a wily car thief played by Richard Beckinsale. Also starring Richard Mottau, Patrick Murray, Michael Elphick and featuring Shaw Taylor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvYnDQWzoQ

OTD 1967: The Prisoner—The Schizoid Man Recognisably ’60s spy drama but pushing this week’s idea far beyond what other series would dare A good cast – Anton Rodgers, Earl Cameron, Jane Merrow – ground it But it’s Patrick McGoohan and Patrick McGoohan who make this such a powerful psychological drama

Garth Marenghi’s Skull-Flusher 2 is OUT NOW. m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cX...

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Tuesday.

OTD 1979: #DoctorWho The Creature From the Pit David Fisher’s intelligent, witty liberal free-trade fable A ruler’s greed and foreigner-blaming makes everyone poor and miserable… Like so many ’70s dystopias, now a bit too topical, yet huge fun Huge? How huge? Don’t mention the prong. Or the bandits.

"VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA: Turn Back The Clock" (transmitted 26/10/64) The Seaview discovers a tropical paradise populated by giant monsters. The episode uses footage originally shot for Irwin Allen's "THE LOST WORLD" (1960). #sciencefiction #horror #horrorfam #scifi #1960s #kaiju #fantasy

[1991] Moviedrome - BBC2 cult film series. Its remit was to broadcast a selection of cult films each with an introduction, first by film director Alex Cox and later by film critic Mark Cousins. Here, Alex Cox introduces the 1962 film "Cape Fear".

Work is getting underway on Ryan Coogler's new #XFiles series. We've been looking back at five classic episodes that Coogler's new take on the show could tap into - and the faces who could be brought back. filmstories.co.uk/features/the...

LEELA: Be careful, K9. K9: Your caution is unecessary, Mistress. This week’s #TelesnapTuesday takes us to the asteroid belt, where Dr. Who and Leela meet… K9! In the gripping scifi epic Doctor Who And The Giant Unconvincing Prawn.

All the talks from Target Book Day 2026 - if you couldn't be there...now you can! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

. @Straczynski.bsky.social offers a congratulatory message to #StarTrek actor Walter Koenig as his first (of several) guest-starring episode of #Babylon5 debuts in March 1994. "I think the part will come as a considerable revelation to those familiar with your past roles."

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NEXT TIME… and it’s a couple of days early for reasons I hope you can work out!

I decided to watch a random Bester episode of #Babylon5 (I haven't had a watch-through in YEARS. Londo & G'Kar still the best characters. Bester is very good at his job without his powers. Also nothing surprises me about Psi Corp! No one kicks G'Quan up the arse!

RIP Walter Koenig; I drew him back in 1988 when I was a callow teenager, because he was part of a #StarTrek crew who meant and mean a great deal to me.

'Sykes' outtake from the episode tx 26th October 1972, with Joan Sims guest-starring.

Some folks online recently bumped into my autobiography without knowing there had actually been one. And while searching other topics today on NPR I bumped into one of the reviews of said book, which I took as a sign to link it here for the curious. www.npr.org/2019/07/23/7...

Mourning the passing of Star Trek legend Walter Koenig. He was 90. A couple of years ago, Walter gave us a nice interview for the Roddenberry Archive, directed and edited by Roger Lay, Jr. youtu.be/Z3vzNfxpgZ8

It's 39 years to the day since Colin the House Dalek was seemingly talked into self-destruction in Remembrance of the Daleks, episode 4. In reality, he ended up as a dinner lady at Coal Hill School until joining our family as childcare. #DoctorWho

BREAKING — #StarTrek actor Walter Koenig, who portrayed Russian navigator Pavel Chekov, has died at age 90. blog.trekcore.com/2026/10/star...

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Time to visit a lovely hotel this Halloween week.

NEW EPISODE and NEW GUEST! For some it’s a modern sci fi classic. For others it’s Galactica in name only. This week my friend Richard joins me to look at why the Battlestar Galactica is worth your time. This is Richard’s first-ever podcast and it won’t be his last! rss.com/podcasts/no-...

Alexei Sayle's Stuff (26th October 1989). Joan of Arc (Jan Ravens) is subjected to an intense interrogation. Angus Deayton is asking the questions in this sketch written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.

We were lucky to see Walter Koenig return as Chekov in this fan video:

RIP Walter. I was fortunate to meet him at a comic-con. I told how much I loved him as Chekov, and Bester. He told me that this favourite Star Trek film was The Voyage Home.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Doctor Who Unbound - Auld Mortality Written by Marc Platt Directed by Nicholas Briggs Music and Sound Design by Alistair Lock Cover Art by Clayton Hickman Released 9 May 2003 Recorded 9 February 2003

It's only SIX weeks away! #CraigShepherd brings his one-man show about #LaurelAndHardy to the #TPTV Festival of Film & TV Christmas Roadshow! Sat 5th & Sun 6th Dec at Hebden Bridge Picture House. Tickets on Sale! Call 0808 178 8212 or online: buff.ly/eZ3ysn8

Rik Hoskin has a new series of Hercules books out now, for fans of mythical romps!

On the latest Trap One🎙One Podcast @stephenhatcher.bsky.social & @andydrewz.bsky.social from @thewhoovers.bsky.social drop by to share backstage stories and an exclusive Whooverville 18 guest announcement! 🤩 Apple: tinyurl.com/yc7xcp2x Spotify: tinyurl.com/4thyw2fk Podbean: tinyurl.com/5etsekxx

A day late, but this is one of the first images taken of Earth from space. Ever. It was acquired from an altitude of 105 km (five times higher than the previous record) eighty years ago, on 24 October 1946, with a 35 mm camera mounted on a V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range.

OTD 1989: #DoctorWho The Curse of Fenric Just weeks before the end*, one of the greatest DW stories of all Vampires from the future Evil From the Dawn of Time And even in World War II, the evil within can be more frightening than bombs. *Never the end. Doctor Who will always come back.

OTD 1979: Quatermass Ringstone Round (The Last One, The First Part) Good news for choice on TV as ITV returns from a long strike Bad news for Doctor Who (which had just hit 16 million viewers) Worse news of the future in that most ’70s of grubby dystopias… ‘Nigel Kneale Vs Young People Today’