Spawn of the Deep has now ceased production. This post dates from October 2019. Spawn of the Deep is the first TimeBase Doctor Who fan video in over 15 years, produced to celebrate the silver anniversary of the company. Principle … Continue reading On Location with Spawn of the Deep: Days 1 & 2
Today we’re pleased to announce that The Universal Omnibus is broadening its horizons and branching out into the wonderful world of YouTube. We’ll be using the channel to show some of our films and special features, as well as the … Continue reading Tubular, Dude!
They called it ‘The Battle of the Bonds’. The year was 1983 and Eon Films were about to launch the thirteenth in their long-running and highly successful James Bond films, Octopussy, loosely based on a short story by Ian Fleming. … Continue reading Spy vs. Spy: Octopussy and Never Say Never Again
I hate the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’; one should never feel guilty about something one enjoys, no matter how unfashionable or knowingly poor quality it is. There are lots of films I like that basically aren’t very good, but often I’d … Continue reading 6 Films I Adore, For All Their Flaws
When Raymond Chandler, the godfather of hard-boiled detective fiction, passed away in 1959, he left behind 4 chapters of an unfinished novel featuring his best-loved character Philip Marlowe. They lay untouched for another 30 years before author Robert B. Parker, … Continue reading ‘Poodle Springs’ by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
A personal tribute to the author Terrance Dicks, who died recently. When I was a boy growing up in Sunderland, I used to walk with my Mother to the public library, which was roughly half way between our house and … Continue reading Growing Up and Growing Old with Terrance Dicks
Famously, upon hearing the final cut of Blondie’s AutoAmerican, the A&R man at Chrysalis Records hated it and said, “I don’t hear a single.” The band had risen from their punk roots in New York’s Bowery to conquer the world … Continue reading I Don’t Hear a Single: Blondie’s AutoAmerican
Netflix’ new version of Lost in Space is not, of course, the first time that Irwin Allen’s classic sci-fi series of the 60s has been rebooted; there was a big budget movie version in 1998 starring William Hurt and Gary … Continue reading Lost in Space… Again
In the golden olden days of the Target novelisations, there were a few casualties that never made it through to the end of the run. The two Patrick Troughton Dalek stories were novelised shortly afterward by John Peel under the … Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – Resurrection of the Daleks’ by Eric Saward
As I reach my late 40s, the opportunities to say I’m too young to remember something become less and less. And yet, friends just a few years older than me will wax lyrical about The Singing Ringing Tree and how … Continue reading I’ve Never Seen ‘The Singing Ringing Tree’… Until Now!
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