The WAC campaign to date More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong. cstonline.net/defending-th...

The wait is over! Tonight at 8pm the first black and white episode of Z-CARS (1962) on #TalkingPicturesTV as featured in @RadioTimes

The trailer for OBSOLETE episode 1. Coming November 23rd. YouTube Link in second post!

The trailer to episode 1 of OBSOLETE goes live at 12:00 noon (GMT) tomorrow! 🤖🎥 ⏰Countdown link here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7O1...

I've spent the last 3 years animating episode 1 of the Daleks' Master Plan for its 60th anniversary today! Yes, we had a slight technical hitch when I realised I'd uploaded the wrong version of the file, but we're good now! And you might want to keep watching to the very end.. youtu.be/2--OWFrTXUI

Noted that it’s 60 years to the day that ‘The Nightmare Begins’ was broadcast. Viewing the surviving clips invariably takes me back to one of my strongest memories of buying DWB (‘Daleks Masterplan 1 - Film Footage Found!’) & their much anticipated inclusion on ‘The Early Years‘ VHS. Happy days.

Charity Auction: I have a handful of autographed Doctor Who prints on eBay. 100% of the proceeds of each listing will go to Age UK who’ll help lonely older people at Christmas. They are those with the little charity symbol on them, find an example in the next tweet below:

I've had an idea... Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...

Really strong chat about White Darkness from @2broad2deeppod.bsky.social with @garethbowley.bsky.social! A good opening novel from David A McIntee but so many great novels yet to come! As for Lovecraft, all my knowledge of his universe comes from South Park so I didn't really notice! 🤷‍♂️ Great chat!

8. OTD 1966. Deborah Watling & Mark Eden star in the Out of the Unknown play 'The World in Silence'. Now sadly lost, this tale of wayward teaching machines was adapted from John Rankine's story 'Six Cubed Plus One', published just a few years previously in the anthology series 'New Writings in SF'.

BBC Telerecording Found Film is Fabulous! are pleased to announce the recovery of a unique BBC item, which will be screened at the Blackpool film convention. blackpoolfilmconvention.co.uk/missing-epis...

An unexpected alarm... Production still from OBSOLETE episode 1. Trailer this Friday.

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

The Boys Are Back In Town! Fridays, 8pm *cue side drum* @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

A FABULOUS WEEKEND! The Blackpool Film Collectors’ Convention screening of missing episodes, hosted by Dick Fiddy, will form part of a fabulous weekend of Film and collecting activity. blackpoolfilmconvention.co.uk/2025/11/02/t...

I love this illustration from the unintentionally-hilarious ‘Doctor Who Technical Manual’ (1983) which has a scale suggesting the sonic screwdriver is over 2 metres long!

Swedish poster for Buster Keaton's SHERLOCK JR. (1924)

Reading through the production documents on the Remembrance of the Daleks blu-ray. I never knew Stratford Johns had been offered the Ratcliffe role. He would have been brilliant. Not that George Sewell wasn't good in it, I should add.

Just up: a great contribution to CST's ongoing Defending the WAC series by James Jordan. Thoughts on Cartier, Dimbleby and the unknowns of archive research. cstonline.net/defending-th...

OTD 1966. The start of second season of the BBC SF anthology series ‘Out of the Unknown’. 1. Image shown is the cover of the BBC Enterprises document used to promote copies of the episodes for overseas sales - thankfully, some of these copies survived & were subsequently returned to the archives.

I've just been reminded that 59 years ago today the first episode of The Power of the Daleks was transmitted. So here's a repost of some of my renders from that story. It's one of my favourites! Shame we can't watch it. Rendered in #Blender3D

Exciting news

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨 We dive into David A. McIntee's debut novel White Darkness, with @garethbowley.bsky.social 📚 Available on all good podcasting apps 🎧 toobroadtoodeeppod.podbean.com/e/white-dark...

I've had a sneaky peek at this and it's astonishingly good. Make sure to tune in!

A brilliant article from @tobyhadoke.bsky.social on why the BBC's Written Archive needs to remain properly accessible. And "Doctor Who is, for many of us then, the gateway drug" rings so true when it comes to delving into television history. cstonline.net/defending-th...

ICYMI, Episode 2 of my new podcast is out now! Find the links in the next tweet #doctorwho #ocd

Coming next week and including a few contributions from me... merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctor-who-m...

I’m amazed at the number and quality of folk who contributed to this podcast (a Doctor! 3 companions! Writers! Actors! Lost Episode Finders! Fans of Yore!) It’s just a bit of fun: a countdown of the most desired missing episodes of Doctor Who. Plus much arcana, natch: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8epk3...

I worry for @danmckee.bsky.social’s finances if there’s any Crossroads stuff.

OK. Sit down in case you're overcome with shock, but a mere 10 weeks after it was recorded, and only 6 weeks since the other half came out, @themindrobber.bsky.social, @gswrites.bsky.social, @mrpaulmorris.bsky.social and @richardjsmith.bsky.social are back! somethingwho.podbean.com/e/episode-12...

💥 NEW SHORT! Daleks appear at a series of 'BBC Weeks' across Great Britain in 1966! youtube.com/shorts/Lnwdr...

Mark Stuckey Interview This month’s Doctor Who Magazine contains an interview with one of the Film is Fabulous! team’s advisors, Mark Stuckey, The Repair Shop, who is a long-standing Doctor Who fan.

🚨 Starting on Friday 14th November at 8pm on #TalkingPicturesTV 🚓 Z-CARS 🚓 #TPTVsubtitles New original early black and white episodes!

Why the BBC WAC should remain bigger on the inside. An absolutely boffo column from Doctor Who mensch @tobyhadoke.bsky.social about the very silly decision by the BBC to cut off independent and exploratory research at its Written Archives Centre. cstonline.net/defending-th...

Doctor Who is coming back. What better place to celebrate or drown your sorrows than the Fitzroy Tavern on Thursday 6th November? We'll be upstairs from around 5:30pm as usual. www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...

Please excuse the very blatant plug, but there's a 20% discount sale at Lulu until midnight on Friday. Use code GHOSTWRITER20 during checkout. www.lulu.com/search?contr...

New blog. Scientists, East German spies and potential weapons? A bingo card of Cold War espionage for Callan. The Most Promising Girl of Her Year also gives us the first encounter with Clifford Rose’s fantastic Dr Snell. Happily it won’t be the last. visualmutterings.com/calllan-the-...

NEXT STOP BLACKPOOL On Sunday 16th November, the Film is Fabulous! team will be joined by Dick Fiddy at the Blackpool Film Collectors’ Convention, for a special presentation of missing television. blackpoolfilmconvention.co.uk/missing-epis...

My contribution to The Conversation about the changes at the BBC Written Archives Centre which now fundamentally restrict the possibilities for independent and exploratory research. theconversation.com/changes-to-t...

This Halloween we head to Haiti for White Darkness by David A. McIntee! 🎃 Joining us will be @garethbowley.bsky.social 👀 What are your memories of this book? 📚

Thrilled that @marklewisohn.bsky.social has contributed this passionate, personal post to the CST series against the recent BBC Written Archives policy shifts. His cri de couer is directed squarely at those who came up with the changes. Please read and share widely. cstonline.net/defending-th...

This short audio might give you an idea as to why the recording session for The Highlanders was 5 hours. Professionals at work 😅 Gav and Rhys are a joy to record with. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeVw...

The Film is Fabulous! team have accepted another large film collection, which they will catalogue. There are more than 1,000 reels from a deceased collector’s estate. He was an important BAFTA member.

I hope you enjoy listening! Also, please give the Missing Eps Tim a follow here!

Goodness me, some cracking archive telly recovery news.

And you can support the podcast at ko-fi.com/missingeps or join our patreon where The Underwater Menace episode and our special looking at the missing seconds of I Claudius with Paul Vanezis await you, as well as a whole bunch of goodies. patreon.com/missingepiso....

It's Episode 17 of The Doctor Who Missing Episodes Podcast - THE HIGHLANDERS With the brilliant Gav Rymill and Rhys Williams. New info and our best to date! All shares much appreciated. Links below 👇

70 YEARS AGO TODAY: Quatermass II's story of meteor showers and government infiltration by aliens had what was then TV's most ambitious location shoots and was one of the first shows to be telerecorded for repeating.

A HUGE THANK YOU Archive legend, and a trustee of the Film is Fabulous! Trust, Sue Malden, has a message for everyone who has supported the team with donations, pledges, and positivity. Please share.

A very in depth @2broad2deeppod.bsky.social with @alexwilcock.bsky.social on Lucifer Rising! It's clearly one I need to re-visit as an adult, having found it impressive but a tough read aged 13! Also... I didn't clock that was Ace on the cover either!! Books hitting their stride now!