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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 1h

Having had to source the Fawlty Towers theme for a project, I'm genuinely annoyed at how many recordings out there are a bad soundalike.

Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not sure whether to be flattered or ashamed at it getting me spot on. If nothing else, it's an insight into how these age verification algorithms work

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 11h

I quite agree on the UI, to know those are "show without warning" "show with warning" and "don't show at all" isn't clear.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 12h

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 20h

This is very sad news. I think Tony’s appearance as Ensor in Blake’s 7 was the first time I became aware of him, and then a few years later he was really excellent as one of the main characters in the first series of Geoff McQueen’s Big Deal.

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 22h

RIP Tony Caunter, seen here in Blakes 7 "Deliverance"

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 11h

No wonder Cathy Dennis slagged him off in that Britney Spears song

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 2d

Following my star turn as support to the pop band Spray this weekend, I've decided to stop all my obscure nonsense and made "Middle-Aged Teenage Angst" a proper Top 40 show. Come hear the hits - Tuesday at 8pm on @noiseboxradio.com

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Noisebox Radio @noiseboxradio.com · 1d

Last night's technical problems have been fixed! NACUS has tied the two ends of the broadband cable together and wrapped tape around them, so you can hear this week's Brand New Beats at 7pm tonight, ahead of the regular schedule of Middle-Aged Teenage Angst and Off The Chart! noiseboxradio.com/

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 1d

Literally this Saturday just gone. I may also have openly choked and muttered "Piss off" combing through their knitwear.

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 1d

Ah, fuck no.

What a legend. His work made me want to be film poster designer (not that I was ever talented enough to do it).

There's a very good chance your favourite movie poster was drawn by him.

Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 1d

Crikey!
(Worth noting a few of the Australian Fremantle media distributors are now reissuing a number of the Network products). This could probably screw them over though. Much as some find it abhorrent, SD on Blu-ray is probably a better bet to just get the SKU size down.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 1d

I've just seen a collector of US Gameshow masters and pilots apparently previewing a version of Opportunity Knocks, of all things! Dave Coulier hosting, so at least they kept the slimy Canuck side of the format intact.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 5d

Some highly significant analysis of the adventure gamebook scene in the early nineties. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

A rather sinister-looking scarecrow, from the cover of Fighting Fantasy #44 'Legend of the Shadow Warriors'.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 1d

ITV Studios don't seem to do exclusivity deals on anything they own any more, which would explain Rising Damp. What I find fascinating is how many of these are clearly using the masters Network prepared, albeit broadcast quality.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 1d

Given the naming pattern, I presume the original intention was "TJ Jones", but given TK Maxx is TJ Maxx elsewhere, and even now TJ Hughes has name recognition beyond the grave, there's clearly been a lot of effort to come up with a name so crap.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 1d

Is there anyone from my part of the world who doesn't remember Leeds
44 8 199 and it's list of emergency plumbers etc over Christmas?

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 1d

The only phone numbers I know by heart anymore:

- mine
- my wife’s
- my landline number from when I first moved to LA
- my childhood home
- a Philadelphia community helpline that advertised on local TV with the jingle “CALL for ACT-ION! GREENwood SEVen five THREE one TWO!”

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 2d

On rediscovering a childhood memory of one of the funniest things I ever read. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Cover of the Bash Street Kids Annual 1995, depicting Plug, Danny, Spotty and Wilfred blowing soap bubbles shaped like their own heads.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

Referenced in the Charlie Kaufman film Synecdoche New York, seemingly just because he saw it and thought it apt: m.imdb.com/title/tt0383...

m.imdb.com

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

Very keen to see this, particularly the family attitude to Boris' participation in the Plan B tape.

Jonathan Snowden @jonathansnowden.bsky.social · 3d

Some news I'm excited to share: I'm telling the Malenko family story in cooperation with Joe & Dean Malenko.

From Boris's heat-seeking territory days to Joe's journey with Karl Gotch & Dean's mastery of the craft—the definitive story of wrestling's first family of "shooters."

#wrestling

A collage of images featuring the Malenko family.

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ALFsplaining - the ALF Podcast @alfsplaining.bsky.social · 2d

An all new ALFsplaining is out now, and it's a mad one. After a croquet injury ALF finds himself running Cosmique Cosmetics. And that's just the start!

Listen in at open.spotify.com/episode/0jIu... or linktr.ee/ALFsplaining, or wherever you get your podcasts.

ALFsplaining - the ALF Podcast @alfsplaining.bsky.social · 3d

Tomorrow on ALFsplaining:

📺 ALF gets bonked on the noggin!
📺 ALF runs Cosmique Cosmetics!
📺 Brian takes up golf!
📺 Kate and Willie play chess!

Can we explain any of this?

Find out tomorrow at open.spotify.com/show/5PqNWGR...
or
linktr.ee/ALFsplaining

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 3d

One last push: if you HAVEN'T reviewed the EMD demo yet please do, as it'll massively help us out with Next Fest tomorrow. Downloads and reviews get us prominence, apparently.

If you HAVE reviewed it, you're a shining example of the very best type of Terranoid, well done. Big star ⭐

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 3d

The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Steam review: This game doesn’t merely ooze with charm — it secretes it, thick and slow, from pores that shouldn’t exist. Each surface trembles as if beneath it, something vast and unseen squirms and breathes. The charm is alive here, a sentient fluid that remembers older, wetter worlds. It seeps between pixels, whispering through the code in languages not meant for lungs.

It pulses beneath the menus like veins beneath translucent flesh, its rhythm too steady to be human. Sometimes the charm glistens with a light that isn’t reflection, a phosphorescent shimmer like the soft wink of something watching from the dark. When you play, it reaches back — not maliciously, but hungrily — tasting you through the buttons and wires.

And when you close it, you’ll feel it still. In your fingertips. In your teeth. In the soft, wet corners of your dreams.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 3d

A pox on whoever put 'Discover' as the default for some on here, so people get helicoptered into stuff without context.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 3d

Are we sure it's his 'sweat' glands he permanently emptied back then?

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The Blender is 25, unfortunately @theblender.online · 3d

What a set of pictures!

Alex @siouxdenimes.bsky.social · 3d

If you weren't at Manchester or Sheffield on Friday or yesterday, and you're not at Todmorden tonight, then you've missed out on @spraypopmusic.com...

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 3d

I'm just intrigued by the post rationalisation of the whole Jerome K Jerome style of hid Doctor as an attempt to find an identity as opposed to the usual eccentricities.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting 🧵 about the ethnic heritage of the Fifth Dr Who, Peter Davison.

Photo of Peter Davison's parents on their wedding day.

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