I want to own DVDs and videogames and books and not need wifi to use a fucking washing machine.

The K9 and Company series we could have had.

Cartoon c/o "TV21" issue 48 (dated 18/12/65). #DoctorWho

Happy Christmas lovely people who live in my phone and talk about Doctor Who and books and music and dogs and other interesting and life enhancing things. I hope you’re all having a good day!

Husband handed this bundle to me and said ‘Happy 1970s Christmas!’ I think I’ve done very well and am now a proud member of the Pink Pertwee Club! 😁

Behold the traditional Gill family trifle. It’s a towering edifice, but luckily there is load bearing custard

Never mind the #KingsSpeech, here’s a message from Time Lord (& a real King) #TomBaker… 🎄🧣 youtu.be/bIgIIjf69LM?...

This is NGC 2264, also called the "Christmas Tree Cluster." It's a cluster of young stars about 2,500 light years away. They were 'born' during the Pliocene Epoch (2-5 MYA), about the same time as early hominids like Ardipithecus or Homo habilis, so they're barely older than humanity. 🎄💫🔭

Experience my Doctor Who Christmases of years gone by in my Christmas episode of The Library of Impossible Things.

🌲NEW EPISODE!🌲 With no new #DoctorWho Christmas special this year, we ask our team and friends for their festive favourites. And incidentally, a Merry Christmas to all of you at home! on.soundcloud.com/hM4XOuZvJZwB...

If you’ve enjoyed the Ghost Stories for Christmas on the BBC or are re-reading your M.R. James, here’s my 2020 long interview with the great Lawrence Gordon Clark, who created the TV tradition Mark Gatiss so brilliantly continues today. Merry Christmas. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

From me and mine to you and yours - have yourselves a merry little Christmas. x. 🎅

This year on Bluesky I wrote 602 posts and 1,705 replies. I received 11,188 likes, whereas 136 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "its" and 😁! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Final window ‘Skating by Moonlight’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

🕛NEW EPISODE!🕛 For Christmas Eve, we're delighted to welcome Rob Shearman and @stevecolewriter.bsky.social to discuss the new novelisations of @bigfinish.bsky.social #DoctorWho classics The Chimes of Midnight and Jubilee. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

Idea for mawkish John Lewis Christmas advert based on "Whistle and I'll Come to You". A terrified Parkins is chased along the beach by the spectre, who, when it finally catches up with him, turns out was just trying to give him a Christmas present all along (childhood toy he threw away???)

One of my TV Picks of the Day from Radio Times: A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower (BBC Two, 10.00pm) #AGhostStoryForChristmas

Can’t wait for the big finale.

#Blakes7 #GaudaPrimeDay

K9 and Company Night! As ever, respect must be paid to Aunt Lavinia's 80s combo VHS/cassette/cigarette-dispenser entertainment centre #K9andCompany

How I’m turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party

POV: You've just dug up one of the three lost crowns of East Anglia and can hear a breathless, lungless laugh...

🎨: Anthony Theakston

Good Day! Returning Home - Winter by Ellison Hoover (1888-1955) Lithograph

'Winter Sea' 1960 by UK painter Joan Eardley #WomensArt ❄️

We hope everyone enjoys tonight's profile of Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd on BBC Four. We're pleased to announce we'll be publishing Innes' recently discovered memoirs. Innes Lloyd: Memory Box is edited by Charles Norton from Innes' surviving manuscripts and diaries, and will be released in 2026.

Just up on the Telegraph, a thorough and thoughtful piece about the wrongheaded policy changes at WAC. Thanks to Kate Murphy, @illuminations.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social and @marklewisohn.bsky.social for giving up their time. Gift link here www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...

Jacob Lawrence No. 2, Main Control Panel, Nerve Center of Ship

For sale, Victorian shoes. Definitely haunted.

"Perhaps I'm old and tired," he continued, "but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway."

CDs return to Christmas shopping lists as gen Z embrace ‘retro renaissance’

Listening to the latest 8th Doctor release and I'm extremely happy. First story tackles a crashing ghost spaceship with dark portents of things to come, while the other raises questions of identity and some really inventive use of the zygons. Plus I just love Liv and Helen #DoctorWho #bigfinish

The truly miraculous Blu-ray is under a tenner at Rarewaves... www.rarewaves.com/products/505...

67 years since the beginning of perhaps the greatestTV serial of all time.

Quatermass and the Pit previewed in the Radio Times and reviewed in the Western Mail.

I've just seen some dingbat AI bro trying to defended the wretched plagiarism sausage machine by explaining it can generate 'ideas and scenarios' for writers. That's the GOOD bit I enjoy. Find me an AI that can do my fucking tax returns correctly and we'll talk, you absolute low-fat yoghurt.

How about a shameless plug for my own look into The Feast of Steven? Doctor Who and the Feast of Steven (or the bits of it we can see) youtu.be/wiYaNrV1gkM

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

She always looks lovely in the snow No snow forecast for my neck of the woods, so a Christmassy TARDIS photo taken during Storm Darcy in 2021.

she's off the leash! #TheWarBetween #TWBTLATS #TheWarBetweenTheLandandtheSea spoilers

One long thread I did at the other place was on shopping centre postcards. So, get ready for it again - I’ll try and add one each day. Tragically, they are all filed alphabetically. So, we start in Accrington, and an odd-looking clock outside Dixons in the Arndale Centre:

Ghosts of Who: the 1987 Paul Daniels Christmas Special titles gave me 87 Who titles vibes… Were they actually Oliver Elmes/CAL Video or just part of that heady ‘we’re still excited by computer animation’ era?

Yes hello, former senior dev here: Every time someone says “AI does [useful thing]” you can place a safe bet that what they actually mean is “a machine learning algorithm trained on very specific high quality data does [useful thing]”

Fabulous article & interviews for The Black Hole here...

THE BLACK HOLE goodies on my rotating display shelf, all circa 1979 save for the figures.

❄️NEW EPISODE!❄️ We present an extremely rare interview with #DoctorWho novel writer Lloyd Rose, discussing her Seventh Doctor PDA The Algebra of Ice. It's episode 9 of our 12 Krynoid Pods of Christmas! soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis

Well done! Well done, everyone. We're halfway out of the dark.

Happy winter solstice ☀️ 🌙

TWBTLATS : I thought that was excellent Jemma was outstanding as was Gugu and Tovey Tense and emotive and beautifully directed