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.

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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

On this day in 1981 – Gerry Anderson appears on The Extraordinary People Show at 4.45pm which is broadcast on the ITV Network #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson #fanderson

Absolutely!

Watched the two #Thunderbirds episodes this morning at a local ODEON cinema shown from new 4k remasters. I was quite impressed. Nice to see a few mums & dads introducing their young children to this 60-year-old British treasure too. @fanderson1981.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=LptE...

An hour later at 9.15 everywhere else but the London region ... here is the full line-up on #YorkshireTelevision that day #BrianClemensThriller

Yes, Channel 7 and its' affiliates were long committed to #BrianClemensThriller latterly as a late-night offering (in the era of near 24 hours broadcasting) ... there were also a few independents broadcasting the series in Australia filling gaps where 7 didn't broadcast

I've been re-reading about the broadcast history of #BrianClemensThriller in Australia, & what was an unprecedented 20-year run of the series. When the licence for the original episodes expired, they hopped over to the movie versions & carried on. Oh how we were starved of it in the UK & we made it!

Tonight another rewatch of a classic #BrianClemensThriller. Judy Geeson, Charles Gray, & Jim Smilie in 'Night is the Time for Killing, & an 8.15pm start time on LWT. Now who was watching Lulu, Kojack, or the news when this was on? LOL.

#totp "LeAnn Rimes with How Do I Live?" No it doesn't.

Chatting with Dani Binnington on DriveTime at Gateway 97.8 about the first World Menopause and Cancer Link Day today. Very important information for women who have gone through, or who are going through, cancer at... menopauseandcancer.org

On this day in 1972 - The Protectors starts on Channel, London Weekend and Westward TV today. TV Times has a 3 page article. #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson #fanderson #robertvaughan

#SundayDelight with @rozzyc.bsky.social with an eclectic mix of tunes & also looking back to the year 1986. My special guest today is stand-up comedian Emmanuel Sonubi, who is bringing his own brand of humour to Southend's Palace Theatre this autumn. 97.8 FM, DAB, & www.gateway978.com.

Happy breakaway day to those who celebrate.

I'm rather tied up of Saturday nights at the moment, if #BrianClemensThriller and that day was on your mind (and I think we've done most of the episodes) ... other shows, other (week)days if someone else would like to 'lead' certainly a possibility @rozzyc.bsky.social

I’d love to but I’m on a zoom group discussing the Terry Nations Survivors episode Spoil of War. We do one every month. Nearing the end of series one.

We really need another watchalong soon @martinmauthor1.bsky.social 😉

Certainly him 😀 @rozzyc.bsky.social #BrianClemensThriller