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Friday, 15th February, 1974
Elisabeth Sladen and a slightly shabby Cyberman join Tom Baker on the patio outside the BBC Television Centre restaurant as the new Doctor is introduced to the press.
#DoctorWho #TomBaker #LisSladen #Cybermen #RetroSciFi #Telefantasy
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11 February, 1938: The first attempt at television science fiction aired - a BBC adaptation of Karel Čapek's Rossum’s Universal Robots.
And, no, I'm am not old enough to remember watching it! 😃
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Happy Birthday to Peter Purves.
Although he's best remembered by my generation as a Blue Peter presenter, before that Purves played the 1st Doctor's companion Steven Taylor. As William Hartnell's health declined toward the end of his run on Doctor Who, Purves essentially became the leading man, helping to keep the series on the air. His reward? The BBC sacked him, of course.
Here he is in *that* sweater from 'The Celestial Toymaker.'
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3rd February, 1966
Publicity photograph of Jackie Lane, William Hartnell and Peter Purves on the jungle set of 'The Ark,' at Ealing Film Studio.
#DoctorWho #WilliamHartnell #Telefantasy #RetroSciFi #PeterPurves
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Just another day in the Land of the Giants.
Pages from the Land of the Giants colouring book,
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12th January, 1966
The Batman TV series premiered on ABC starring Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin. The first episode, "Hi Diddle Riddle," pitted the Dynamic Duo against the self-styled 'Count of Conundrums,' the Riddler (Frank Gorshin).
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“How does a nightmare begin?”
THE INVADERS, starring Roy Thinnes as alien bothering 'architect' David Vincent began on 10th January, 1967.
On a personal note, it was also the first live-action television series I saw in colour (I'd already seen a colour episode of the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon). This was in the early 1970s, when I was on holiday in Blackpool and colour television was a big draw to get you to stay in a boarding house.
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9th January, 1966
William Hartnell, having just celebrated his 58th birthday the previous day, is transformed into the Doctor by Make up artist Sonia Markham.
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Happy New Year from Great Britain!
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Stars of Sci-Fi and Fantasy we sadly leave behind in 2024.
Gary Graham (Alien Nation/ Star Trek: Enterprise)
James Darren (The Time Tunnel/Star Trek: DS9)
William Russell (Doctor Who)
James Earl Jones (The UFO Incident/Star Wars)
Michael Jayston (Doctor Who.)
David Graham (Doctor Who/Thunderbirds)
Kenneth Cope (Randall & Hopkirk Deceased)
Ron Ely (Tarzan.)R.I.P.
#DoctorWho #StarTrek #TimeTunnel #Tarzan #Telefantasy #RetroSciFi
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Remembering Rod Serling on what would have been his 100th birthday...
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We might associate The Addams Family more with Halloween, but the original television series did have a Christmas episode. Christmas with the Addams Family aired 24th December, 1965.
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Monday, 23rd December, 1963
A couple of Daleks try to board a London Transport Routemaster at Shepherd’s Bush Green, much to the amusement of the conductor and an inspector. It’s all very well being encouraged to “Hop on a Bus,” but it seems to be attracting all sorts of odd types.
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Monday, 23rd December 1963
After menacing Jacqueline Hill with a sink plunger the previous Saturday, the Daleks invaded Shepherd's Bush Market. A week before TV audiences would get a proper look at the metal meanies in the next episode of Doctor Who, it's funny to think that the onlookers wouldn't have known what a Dalek was.
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In 1964 the Daleks went to Bond Street in London to meet the pop group The Go-Go's, who'd just recorded a song called I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek.
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Even a vampire can get a little festive on Friday the 13th of December.
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12th December, 1964
Police Inspector Glyn Pockett escorts two Daleks on their journey along St Mary Street, Cardiff. Even invaders from Skaro have to stop at a zebra crossing.
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Friday 10th December, 1965
Recording day for The Daleks' Master Plan, Episode 8, 'Volcano.'
#DoctorWho #WilliamHartnell #TARDIS #RetroSciFi #Telefantasy
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Happy Birthday to Wendy Padbury.
I started watching Doctor Who during the Troughton era and I remember Wendy's introduction as 'new' companion, Zoe Heriot, like it was yesterday. While I missed Victoria (Deborah Watling) when she left, I very quickly took to Zoe.
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4th December, 1965
Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom, taking time off from production of 'The Feast of Steven' for a Doctor Who press call.
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4th December, 1965
Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom, taking time off from production of 'The Feast of Steven' for a Doctor Who press call.
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Jon Pertwee bumps into some old friends at the opening of the BBC TV Visual Effects exhibition at the Science Museum. 1st December, 1972.
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1st December, 1972: Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning and Nicholas Courtney at the opening of the BBC TV Visual Effects exhibition at the Science Museum in London.
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My Saturday morning double bill: Star Trek engages in an 'Errand of Mercy' while The Time Tunnel visits 'The Alamo.'
Both episodes were filmed on the same set. The Time Tunnel used the disused fort set on the Desilu 40 Acres lot in October 1966. Star Trek filmed there two months later, in January 1967 (previous to that, portions of the set had appeared in the Rigel VII scene from 'The Cage').
#StarTrek #TheTimeTunnel #TimeTunnel #RetroSciFi #Telefantasy #TheAlamo
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What I want for Christmas... 1969.
(Spoiler, I found both under the Christmas tree that year. Thanks, Nan.)
#StarTrek #LandOfTheGiants #RetroSciFi #Annuals #Telefantasy
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My first exposure to Land of the Giants was as a weekly two page picture-strip in 'Joe 90: Top Secret' comic, published in 1969.*
Throughout the strip's run, the Spindrift was mistakenly referred to as the Spendthrift. The name stuck with me and, even now, all these decades later, I occasionally catch myself writing Spendthrift instead of Spindrift.
*Where I lived we didn't get the TV series until 1972.
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What's that you say? Post a picture of a spaceship that isn't from Star Trek or Star Wars. If you insist...
My all time favourite fictional spaceship is the Spindrift from Land of the Giants. Okay, the Spindrift didn't do much flying through space as it crashed in the first episode, but it's a gorgeous design with similarities to the Flying Sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and the Proteus from Fantastic Voyage.
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Logopolis: the old Newbery TARDIS prop on the left playing the Master's TARDIS pretending to be a real Police Box before the Doctor's TARDIS materialises around it (oh, how I love that kind of stuff!). 🙂
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Posted for no other reason than that I find the picture pleasing,* the two 1980s TARDIS props side by side in the BBC scenery dock. The one on the left was built in 1983 for Planet of Fire, while the one on the right is the 1980 original from The Leisure Hive.
*Seeing two Police Boxes side by side reminds me of Logopolis, a Doctor Who story dear to my heart.
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Fifty-five years ago, on November 16th, 1969, the BBC received its first historic transmission from the planet of the Clangers...
I was enchanted by The Clangers when I was a boy, and I was equally enchanted, many decades later, watching this timeless classic with my own little boy. Crikey, even the Master was a fan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOK1YdWalOw
Happy 55th anniversary, Clangers. The Soup Dragon says there's enough Blue String Pudding and Green Soup for all!