New includes a few thousand words from me on the subject of lickspittle Lizan’s wig, Chen’s footwork, the Dalek Supreme’s management style and other matters arising.

My first magazine job, and my first article for that magazine – in May 1994 – ended up with an unexpected connection to Doctor Who, 11 years later.

Excellent new Doctor Who podcast. Engaging and charming – check it out!

Unexpected chat-up line received tonight. “You’re a really good dancer. Can I follow you on LinkedIn?”

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

Lewisham Shopping Centre. Where – perhaps uniquely – you can sit and watch a robot pursue a child around a section of the Berlin Wall.

I've loyally purchased all the Doctor Who Blu-ray sets so far, but I won’t be buying any more. I collect them because I want the episodes in the best possible quality, but the now immediately obvious use of an AI ‘polish’ tool means these are a step down from the DVDs I already own…

There’s something atavistic, almost shamanistic, about the discovery of missing episodes. The realisation that you can suddenly look into the past – hear from the dead and the lost – sends a faint, primal shiver down the spine.

The conversation stemmed from my pondering the question of whose thumb is seen sticking out of the Myrka at the end of part three of Warriors of the Deep.

Rose are red Violets are ace

D’ya know what? I’m very lucky to have been born a Dr Who fan.

An eldritch being from the ancient past, risen again to a changed world. And a Silurian.

Thumbs up for the Myrka!

What's a line delivery you'll never forget?

I found Pulp performing ‘The Day Before You Came’ on BBC Radio 2’s The Piano Room absolutely electrifying.

Blackpool

The new Mackenzie Crook comedy Small Prophets is utterly wonderful. Don’t miss it.

That Victoria Beckham never gives up.

The thing I’ve learned about Blake’s 7 over the years is that I’m not remotely interested in its dreary premise. For me, it’s just about two actors (a third at a push, to give those other two something to talk about).

he thing I’ve learned about Blake’s 7 over the years is that I’m not remotely interested in its dreary premise. For me, it’s just about two actors (a third at a push, to give those other two something to talk about).

"…in the highly anticipated new series Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole (Norwegian title: Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole)" I can see why they changed the title but it's still a shame.

Episode five of our podcast is out now! This month, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social look at the TV shows that greeted the new millennium: Blue Peter, Coronation Street, Trigger Happy TV and Castaway 2000. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

The best TV series of 2025. So crisp and compelling. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Harriet totally nailed that cross examination. Amazing. #TheTraitors

So cool to have a stammerer on TV #TheTraitors

@nickwalker.bsky.social No 2025 time capsule, Nick?

Time to look back at 2025 one more time. My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now. Please watch, like and circulate. Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise. youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...

If you insist!

The arrival of 2026 means I finally get to use The Miss Piggy Cover Girl Fantasy Calendar 1981 that I bought in a thrift store in Conrad, Montana a decade ago.

The Innes Lloyd documentary is absolutely first rate. Also, delighted to spot Frazer Hines’ excellent taste in literature.

With some irony I find I don’t have a Christmas TV listings magazine in the house. Still, it’s all online now isn’t it?

I didn’t see Kate picking up Barclay’s discarded clothes, the old hypocrite.

Today I enjoyed this press pack quote from a TV producer, when asked why his new drama is set on a train: "If we'd gone down a different road, we'd have run aground."

Yuletide felicitations! The 1975 Christmas 'Radio TV Times' magazine is now available! 🎁 Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV. Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶 visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...

“Utilizer to Cancer, Utilizer to Cancer. Domo the ninth, five subjects”

Gonna tell my kids this was the 1980 Blake’s 7 Christmas Special.

Lime light.

Once again I find myself utterly enraptured by the Blake’s 7 episode Voice From The Past. Each scene more hilarious than the last.

Nigel Kneale would have really liked ‘Pluribus’. Well, in as much as Nigel Kneale liked anything.

an impossible shot? New Doctor Who content on a shot we nearly cut out of The Star Beast A Shot that (Almost) Couldn't be Done. Doctor Who: Star Beast youtu.be/U1JkABy0UBA?... via @YouTube

The first shot of the 1983 series Give Us a Break, directed by David Reynolds, is too good for 1983 BBC. Pan and track across, trains going both ways, bike rider, and ends on a closeup tracking shot of Robert Lindsay. Amazing.

🎶 "Posicar… I'm going to make you… Posicar!" 🎶 #niche #andoverayearlate

Someone wasn’t shelling out for the merchandise licence.

Glorious, from a pal on FB

Great stuff here - a fascinating story, entertainingly told.

Exactly 75 years ago, BBC Television had just begun regular broadcasting at Saturday teatimes, with the opening episode of Whirligig at 5pm. We all know what happened 13 years later - but how does this story begin...? Here's my first ever YouTube TV history video - The Story of Whirligig: