I’ve always been a big fan of Peter Hyams’ 1981 science fiction thriller Outland, though I’m aware that I’m in something of a minority. All I can imagine is that in the wake of Alien (1980) a lot of sci-fi … Continue reading High Moon: Outland Revisited
It’s an odd feeling when something that you lived through becomes the stuff of legends. I see essays online, written with great authority by fans that weren’t even born at the time, extolling the virtues of the Season 24 as … Continue reading There’s Many a Slap Twixt the Cup and the Lap: Doctor Who Season 24 Blu-Ray Review
It was a terrible disappointment in 2020 when the annual Sci-Fi Scarborough convention was cancelled due to COVID-19, but we were far enough into lockdown for it to be not entirely unexpected. We hoped and dreamed that by Easter 2021, … Continue reading Sci-Fi Scarborough Online 2021
As beloved as Season 7 of Doctor Who is, there’s no doubting it’s a bit of a mish-mash; unlike the modern series, where a showrunner might be allowed a generous amount of time to work out how they want to … Continue reading You Will Obey Me: Season 8 Blu-Ray Review
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
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
ITV made several attempts to emulate the success of the BBC’s Doctor Who during the 1970s and I was too young to enjoy most of them. I only remember watching Into the Labyrinth and the tail-end of The Tomorrow People; … Continue reading Let’s Do the Timeslip Again!
The history of sci-fi on British television is littered with oddities, but few come odder than the 1975 ITV series Star Maidens. Co-produced by a Scottish investment company and a German TV network, Star Maidens was filmed in Slough with … Continue reading The Past is a Different Planet: Star Maidens Revisited
Oi! This article has got more spoilers than Mario Andretti’s Alfa. So if you’re sensitive over that sort of thing, now’s the time to naff off and play with your Tonka toys. Alright, Tinkerbell? You have been warned. I’m a … Continue reading One Flash of Light but No Smoking Pistol: Ashes to Ashes Revisited
Strange Skins Digital, the online sci-fi fanzine, was intended to run for 10 issues; but events have caught up with us and it’s become too much work to proceed beyond issue 5. That’s not to say that we won’t be … Continue reading Strange Skins Digital Archive
