Hear my chat with @carolvorders.bsky.social today about M.I.L.F. Carol has partnered with six size-inclusive midlife ladies to launch a bold, research-led campaign that allows women the opportunity to rewrite culture. Gateway #DriveTime at 3pm on 97.8 FM, & on DAB. jdwilliams.co.uk/pages/milf-c...

#BrianClemensThriller lovingly upscaled to 1080p HD using the restored masters. A YT channel worth subscribing to by fans of the series 😀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlRH... @rozzyc.bsky.social @alanbriscoe.bsky.social @rpjwrites.bsky.social @jabberwocky65.bsky.social @harrydobermann.bsky.social

A big influence on David Lynch, and it's directed by... Blake Edwards.

#BrianClemensThriller 'An Echo of Theresa' in 1080p HD (upscaled) www.youtube.com/watch?v=FabJ...

Join me @rozzyc.bsky.social at 1pm today for Sunday Delight. Great tunes and my special guest today, talking about scams is Actor/Presenter/Singer - Martin Kemp. On 97.8 FM, on DAB, and online at www.gateway978.com.

Varna International Ballet return to the Cliffs Pavilion #Southend with The Nutcracker on 1st Feb. Chatting with actor/dancer Bayley Webster who is touring with the show here on Gateway Drivetime with @rozzyc.bsky.social On 97.8 FM, DAB & online gateway978.com.

On air now with Sunday Delight it's @rozzyc.bsky.social on Gateway with special guest Cheryl Baker from Bucks Fizz. Tune in on 97.8 FM, on DAB or online gateway978.com/live

On your airwaves with #drivetime today it’s @rozzyc.bsky.social here on Gateway 97.8 Basildon. Tune in on FM, on DAB or online gateway978.com/live

An underseen banger, the First Day Back™️ is a great time to conduct an EXPERIMENT IN TERROR! 🛒 tinyurl.com/4z4927h5

The 'clean-up' of 'The Professionals' compared to the battered prints doing the rounds previously for broadcast and commercial release is certainly 'night and day'! Nice restoration featurette on the Network blu-ray final release too.

Fascinating listen ... 👍

For your #Christmas listening pleasure, my latest podcast for @fanderson1981.bsky.social is another deep-dive into the world of high-definition video, with former BBC & Network On-Air colourist Jonathan Wood. #GerryAnderson. #SylviaAnderson. fanderson.podbean.com/e/fanderson-...

On this day in 1970 on Anglia and Border at 8.00pm - The Cat With Ten Lives #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson #fanderson #ufo

Border had one of the oddest examples of scheduling. After episode 2 (Exposed) showed Paul Foster joining SHADO in episode 3 he was trying to kill the man who appointed him! Kill Straker was produced much later than Exposed and should be shown much further in the run.

Border TV was the joint first channel to start showing Gerry Anderson's UFO in September 1970. After a strong start though screenings became more sporadic with a few new episodes mixed with repeats. It didn't complete a first run until May 1975, almost 5 years after starting.

Join me at 1pm for 'Sunday Delight' at 1pm. Playing some great tunes today. Santa will open door 14 of his advent calendar, and my special guest is TV cook Rustie Lee. Step into Christmas on 97.8 FM, DAB, and at www.gateway978.com

Hear my chat with Essex singer Jeanette Lynes on #DriveTime with @rozzyc.bsky.social. Jeanette releases her new festive song 'Tell My Heart It's Christmas' which I will play on Gateway 97.8 on FM, DAB, and online www.gateway978.com.

Chatting about Christmas on a budget with actress & singer Denise van Outen on Gateway #Drivetime today. Listen in from 3pm on 97.8 FM, DAB, & at www.gateway978.com

Christopher Wilding, Independent Fiancial Adviser at Unify Financial Advisers Limited, is my guest on Gateway #DriveTime talking about today's #Budget, what's good, what's bad, & its potential impact on #Basildon residents. Listen on 97.8 FM, DAB, & online at gateway978.com

Actor Lee MacDonald alias 'Zammo' is my special guest on #SundayDelight with @rozzyc.bsky.social telling of his favourite #GrangeHill scene. Listen now on 97.8 FM on DAB, or at gateway978.com.

On air now with Sunday Delight it's @rozzyc.bsky.social playing great music, and with special guest, actor Warwick Davis talking about the 1988 movie 'Willow'. Tune in on FM, on DAB or online gateway978.com/live

I'll order extra shortbread.

My blu rays have arrived - but I have to wait until Christmas!

@martinmauthor1.bsky.social @simoncoward.bsky.social @jabberwocky65.bsky.social At last. Out today. Has anyone here ordered these? Finally a decent version of a #BrianClemens classic. I had better start saving some pennies for the UHD version. 🙂https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipyIa4QIB_k

Good choice, or maybe 'Nurse Will Make It Better'? 🎃

20% discount off 'A THRILLER in Every Corner' this week, the extensive 700+ page tome on all things #BrianClemensThriller. Just apply code GHOSTWRITER20 during checkout at this link bit.ly/4a1gsIO Available across the globe. Checkout the reviews at the above link. Happy Reading.

Discount above ⏫ ends midnight tonight Oct 31

It would have been the incomparable Michael Jayston’s 90th birthday this week so it has to be the singular greatest #BrianClemensThriller episode, A Coffin for the Bride tonight @rozzyc.bsky.social @martinmauthor1.bsky.social

Join me @rozzyc.bsky.social at 1pm for an eclectic mix of music on #SundayDelight. The 'Retro Rewind' takes us to 1984, the year Doctor Who viewers were introduced to Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown. My guest this afternoon is actress Nicola Bryant. On 97.8FM, DAB, & at www.gateway978.com

From memory, Bravo aired the TVM of 'Possession' in 1996 (and also 'Sleepwalker'), as sales copies of the original version couldn't be traced/accessed at the time #BrianClemensThriller

Yes, our British TV system/market - 3 and then 4 channels - was very different to the 'syndication' programming model designed for a multitude of local stations as in the US, Australia and a few other places. Only changed somewhat with the main arrival of satellite broadcasting in the 1990s

Those TVM sequences had their uses! Alongside the marketing potential of a 'new' series, they bumped up the running time to c73 minutes, the standard programme length for a US 90min broadcast slot at the time.

One of those episodes that doesn’t really get talked about much and probably isn’t highly rated but I really like it.. and James Berwick is excellent in it #BrianClemensThriller

My rewatch of #BrianClemensThriller this evening is all about gambling, & with very high stakes. Here's the London area TV Times billing from Saturday 8th February 1975, with viewers in the captial (including me) getting to see the episode at least an hour ahead of the rest of the UK.

In Spain, broadcast under the 'Tension' series title ... and in Malaysia simply as 'Thriller' (with a break for the news) #BrianClemensThriller

Grand Guignol! Magee, Wall and Henderson - the triumvirate - give their all and contrast the natural Joanna Pettet very well. Some of the imagery is very disturbing and director Malcolm Taylor (though self-deprecating when I spoke to him) is inspired.

My guests today on Gateway #DriveTime with @rozzyc.bsky.social: Sarah Pennells, Fiancial Expert, talks about savings. Mark Born, the Head of AA Driving School Academy about modern tech in cars, & David Burton-Sampson, Labour MP for Southend-West & Leigh about #BlackHistoryMonth.

#SundayDelight is at 1pm & I'll play you some tunes from 1975. There's the 'Dream Top Three' & poet Pam Ayres drops by to tell Gateway listeners, in her own words, how not to get scammed in this modern online world we live in. On 97.8 FM, on DAB, & at www.gateway978.com

Wow, top research! Thank you. My memory is almost certainly of seeing the episode in 73.

Thank you, Ros. Good question!

5-4-3-2-1... Thunderbirds are 60! A personal take on a rocket-powered classic: radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/th... #Thunderbirdsat60 @gerryanderson.bsky.social @fanderson1981.bsky.social @radiotimes.bsky.social

Despite it not being up there with my favourites, Ian Henry is his usual brilliant self. Maybe because personally, I find series 4 the weakest of the 6. All about personal preference I guess. I loved him in The Lotus Eaters. Another series I watched when originally broadcast.

I’ve just checked IMDb and you’re right. It was called The Super Secret Cypher Snatch. Bit of a mouthful 😂

Btw this is my least favourite of the Donna Mills episodes and one I don’t rewatch that often.

Enjoy Ros. I’m working tonight or it would have been a rewatch for me too. Yes he was a great character in this episode, finally getting his man. Another ingenious story from Clemens and Feely. Donald was also in the bleak dystopian 1990. Definitely worth a watch.

It’s the heavenly birthday of Donald Gee on Sunday. He starred as the hapless Tom Patterson in one of my favourite episodes of #BrianClemensThriller Murder in Mind. I’ll be watching it Sunday evening. George Drew,s book appeared in assignment 5 of Sapphire and Steel 8 years later

I’ve always wondered how that book managed to find its way into that S&S episode. Obviously a prop but it’s so random considering the gap in the respective programmes broadcast.

For many years before the DVD releases, 'Murder in Mind' was the series' example episode available to view in the publicly accessible 'Television Heaven' archive in Bradford - in what is now known as the 'National Media Museum' (home of the UK's first IMAX screen)

On today's #DriveTime with @rozzyc.bsky.social: Celebrating 15-years of Gateway broadcasting in Basildon. Presenters recall their highlights, including archive guest interviews with Cheryl Baker, David 'Kid' Jensen, Rick Wakeman, 'Diddy' David Hamilton, & HRH The Duke of Gloucester. Tune in at 3pm.

Callum Balmforth, one of the cast of 'Murder at Midnight' coming to Southend' Palace Theatre next month, joins me on my show today to chat about the play and why you should come along and see it. 97.8FM, DAB, #Basildon, #Southend, www.gateway978.com