It's 39 years since He-Man last wielded his sword on the big screen, but will a post-Barbie reboot be enough to re-ignite the power of Grayskull, or should the Heroic Warriors have stayed on Eternia? We compare the two Masters of the Universe movies […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

From the Archives today, we talk about the things RTD was doing before the Doctor Who revival in 2005 https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

Having watched some of Matthew Jacobs' pre-TV movie work from the 1980s, we reconvene to take a look at some things he wrote during the 1990s - a Lorna Doone adaptation, a Ruth Rendell mystery and a modern fairy tale for Screen Two […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

From the Archives today, we play a game of RTD Trope Bingo https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

It's the battle of the Titans as our listeners decide their favourite tenth Doctor stories - but which three will have received no votes at all? (And which two were virtually inseparable until the very end?) […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

Insect Jazz was the name we gave to the second album my old band Melodyblind self-recorded back in 1999, and here it is again given a bit of spit and polish to tidy it up https://melodyblind.bandcamp.com/album/insect-jazz

From the Archives today, that time when we introduced the Starship Troopers trilogy to one of the team who had never encountered them before, and the reaction was not the one we expected https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

Now that we know why everything had gone quiet regarding the no-longer-forthcoming Christmas Special, we gather our thoughts - once more! - to talk about the future of Doctor Who https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/piper-beyond-the-gates-of-dusk-blue-box-219/

It's twenty years since Geoffrey Sax made Stormbreaker, a decade after he directed the Doctor Who TV movie - but the Anthony Horowitz adaptation wasn't free of studio fingers interfering with the pie either... https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/stormbreaker-2006-film-club-lite-99/

From the Archives today, with the world the way it is nowadays, we go back to a time when the Sex Olympics is all we have to worry about Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strangers-in-space-from-the-archives/id1868198335 Spotify […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

We thought the most appropriate use of our time this weekend, was to record a review of School Reunion https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/school-reunion-who-review-extra-71/

From the Archives today, two podcasting guests turn up for a decade-old conversation about the merits and demerits of Russell T Davies' Doctor Who https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

As part of our conversation on the Doctor Who TV movie and the people who made it, we wondered what a season of Matthew Jacobs stories might have looked like https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/maygann-that-might-have-been-blue-box-218/

Form the Archives today, it's been seven years since we sent TV movie writer Matthew Jacobs off to a desert planet, let's remind ourselves what he took with him https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

"What's that you say, MayGann Week's in June?" Yes, we're starting all that again with another month of TV movie-related podcasting - beginning with our review of 1980s Brit fantasy Paperhouse https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/paperhouse-1988-film-club-lite-98/

We have now passed the year mark since Doctor Who was last being broadcast (two years since ongoing physical production ceased), and with rumours swirling as to its next phase - or lack thereof - we decided to take a break from MayGann and talk things through. […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

According to Discord, the next Doctor Who showrunner is already in the BBC's sights. But according to The Sun, nobody wants to play the Doctor. As we mark one year since the broadcast of the last episode of the series, we stake stock of where we are and what […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

One last little thing with Dr Robert Howard of The Blow Monkeys From the Archives today, a short interview in which I present him with a series of pop culture challenges to unlock https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

Today on the From the Archives feed, an old Blue Box Podcast from the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

As part of MayGann we wanted to get to know the writer and the director of the Doctor Who TV movie - and here is the second of those interviews, with screenwriter (and actor!) Matthew Jacobs https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/matthew-jacobs-in-the-interview-room/

From the Archives today, we go back to the Blue Box Podcast in 2013 and the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who, to take stock of our expectations and find out what we thought of Paul McGann's surprise reappearance in The Night of the Doctor […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

It's MayGann Day, exactly three decades since Paul McGann wondered Doctor Who he was - and so the perfect time for our debate on the merits (and otherwise) of the TV movie https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/doctor-who-the-tv-movie-who-review-extra-70/

From the Archives today, a clutch of potential, actual and alternative Doctors Who in Withnail & I, plus some advice on How to Get Ahead in Advertising https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

This week we're going to be talking to the writer and the director of the Doctor Who TV movie, in an effort to learn more about the people whose creative processes inform the production. First up, director Geoffrey Sax. https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/geoffrey-sax-in-the-interview-room/

From the Archives today, the last of my conversations with Dr Robert of @theblowmonkeys.bsky.social digging in detail into the creation of particular records from their back catalogue, and this time it's 1989's Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

Way back in the early days of the Blue Box Podcast, we started the feed with occasional profiles of the various Doctors Who and their television adventures. From the Archives today, our ancient thoughts on the eighth Doctor: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

As we near the UK anniversary of the Doctor Who TV movie, we take a look at a couple of other small screen outings for Matthew Jacobs scripts; a episode of The Jim Henson Hour and an Indiana Jones https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/matthew-jacobs-short-trips-part-1-tv-club-98/

From the Archives today, as our thoughts stretch back thirty years to one significant Doctor Who anniversary, so our feed stretches back another 33 to the place where it all began https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

Kissing the girl, half human on his mother's side... in 1996, was Doctor Who ready for the 1990s? https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/dandies-and-clowns-the-tv-movie-blue-box-216/

Glasnost, or Glas-Not? That's the question posed by Geoffrey Sax's gently comic mini-series from the early 1990s, in which two Russian sleeper agents get accidentally revived after they've settled into a comfortable Western existence. https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/sleepers-tv-club-97/

From the Archives today, our penultimate conversation with Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys digging into his back catalogue, this time about the band's second album of the comeback: Staring at the Sea https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/dr-robert-on.html

From the Archives today, a Blue Box Podcast from eight years ago in which Keith Barnfather of Reeltime Pictures chooses some of his favourite Myth Makers interviews https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

A last minute addition to our MayGann celebrations, when someone pointed out that Paul McGann was in Queen of the Damned. We were too intrigued not to take a look! In the end we had to borrow a microscope to find him. https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/queen-of-the-damned-2002-film-club-lite-97/

The UK's Eurovision success hasn't all been Andy Abraham and Mae Muller; From the Archives today - from just one year ago - we look at our most successful entries at the competition: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

As part of MayGann we've also convened a support group to look at how we made it through the wilderness years... https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/how-wilderness-for-you-blue-box-215/

From the Archives today, a conversation from two years ago in which we ask whether we really needed to see the Master quite as often as we did during the Jon Pertwee era https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

Before Withnail and I, before Paper Mask, before Alien3, there was The Monocled Mutineer. MayGann takes a look at the controversial serial that launched the career of the eighth Doctor. https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/the-monocled-mutineer-tv-club-96/

From the Archives today... Dr Robert's solo album Flutes and Bones was eventually released online back in 2012, but that's not the whole story; we sit down for a chat about how it came to exist: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/dr-robert-on.html

As part of MayGann, we're also looking at the rest of the wilderness years, and so From the Archives today here's an old (and pitifully underinformed) review of some not-quite Doctor Who from the original thirtieth anniversary... https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

Of course our celebration of the Doctor Who TV movie was going to take in Lesbian Vampire Killers, very much so you don't have to https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/lesbian-vampire-killers-2009-film-club-lite-96/

From the Archives today, our journey through the history of the Cybermen takes in the modern stories in which they've been the pawns of the Master, and asks how does that work? https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

Exactly thirty years before the TV movie (to the very day, in the case of episode Johnny Ringo), Doctor Who was visiting the Old West and Matthew Jacobs was visiting his actor dad on set; MayGann wouldn't be complete with a visit to The Gunfighters […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

From the Archives today, our conversation about whether the writers of Doctor Who justified their use of the Cybermen continues into the modern revival... https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

The star of the Doctor Who TV movie, in a film called Downtime (but not that film called Downtime), as reviewed by the author of Downtime The Lost Years of Doctor Who? Prime MayGann. https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/downtime-film-club-lite-95/ Watch before […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

From the Archives today, my chat with The Blow Monkeys' Dr Robert about their ninth studio album If Not Now, When? https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/dr-robert-on.html

Last night's chat about another potential future for Doctor Who, one which comes with some apparent evidence sent back from the future to tease us https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/amc-sony-who-blue-box-214/

New Doctor Who rumours you say? An apparent press release travelling back through time in order to forewarn us of the series' future two years and more hence...? Don't mind if we do! (Audio tomorrow morning.) https://youtu.be/cRUcvgBt4Dc

It's the first of May, and so our MayGann celebration of the writer, director and star of the Doctor Who TV movie begins in earnest with a look at Geoffrey Sax's work on the BBC's 2002 adaptation of Tipping the Velvet https://jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/tipping-the-velvet-tv-club-95/

From the Archives today, our conversation about whether the writers of Doctor Who justified their use of the Cybermen continues into the 1980s... https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html

Heaven's Prisoners includes Eric Roberts among the cast and was released midway between the Doctor Who TV movie's American debut and its UK broadcast - so we absolutely had to add it (and In the Electric Mist, its sort of sequel) to the MayGann roster […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]