In the mid-1970s, following the box office success of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, there was a short resurgence of public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, more commonly known as UFOs. Not since their 1950s heyday had … Continue reading Pyramid Power: Marvel’s UFO Connection!
The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of America’s deep-space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot Captain William ‘Buck’ Rogers are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support … Continue reading Return to the 25th Century: Buck Rogers Revisited
Whenever you see one of those lists of the Top British Sitcoms in a Sunday supplement, or on one of those fatuous I Love [Insert Decade Here] TV shows, you can guarantee that it’s always going to be the usual … Continue reading 6 Classic British TV Comedies That Are Often Overlooked
Warning: contains spoilers. Anyone who read my review of the first season of this latest reboot of Rod Serling’s classic series will know that my opinions were… let’s say mixed. Although it was nowhere near as terrible as the 90s … Continue reading The Twilight Zone (2020) – Season 2 Review
In late 1984, BBC2 screened a short season of science fiction films under the umbrella title Future Tense that made a strong impact on my teenage self. As a child of the Star Wars generation and with the original trilogy … Continue reading Robots on the Rampage and Other Stories: Future Tense Revisited
It’s a sobering thought, but rock gods Queen have now existed far longer without their flamboyant front man Freddie Mercury than they did with him. His tragic death from AIDS in 1991 changed everything for the band, back at the … Continue reading Queen + Adam Lambert: Live Around the World
You might expect that television producers would be keen to discourage children from hanging out near the water, what with the inherent danger of drowning and so on; but nevertheless, British TV has a long tradition of children’s adventure and … Continue reading Messing About in Boats
The BBC’s 1981 6-part adaptation of The Day of the Triffids is easily the best visual adaptation of John Wyndham’s classic science fiction novel. Previously there had been the 1962 film version, which played down the human elements, but lacked … Continue reading The Day of the Triffids – Blu-Ray Review
When it was first announced by the BBC that Doctor Who had cast the first woman in the title role, a great many ridiculous assertions were made on the internet. One of the silliest among them was that the casting … Continue reading The Infinite Compassion of the Doctor
In the late 70s, Marvel Comics were desperate to get their hands on Star Trek. They’d been after the rights to the series, which had been long-since cancelled but enjoyed a massive cult following in syndication, for a number of … Continue reading Where Some-one Has Gone Before: Seeker 3000
