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Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 1h

#BooksOf2025 No.74 Doctor Who - Jubilee by Robert Shearman

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Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 13h

Today’s Big Finish. Genesis of the Cybermen by Gerry Davis, adapted by David K Barnes

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Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · 1d

***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming on December 16th on #4K and Blu-ray in the US from @kinolorber.com: #ThePinkPanther (1963)!

Note: Kino Lorber has confirmed they will releases all four of these PLUS Return of the Pink Panther in a box set in 2026.

Comedic genius Peter Sellers first tickled the

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Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 23h

I owned the vhs release of this pilot back in the day and watched it a lot, alongside my off air recordings of some episodes. Watching it back, the tone isn’t quite there yet, it’s still more in the vein of 80s formula stuff but it’s clearly getting there

Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not really a fan of the trope where favourite characters are kept apart for most of the running time but this was really good. But seriously, what’s with the stupidly long episodes? Just have another couple of episodes of a reasonable length

Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really sneaky of the #STV service to lure you in with Moonlighting, sell you a £3.99/month “no ads” subscription and then casually reveal “oh yeh some things have ads anyway for contractual reasons”

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Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 1d

#CurrentlyWatching Moonlighting season 1

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 2d

We knew him when—and he’d kill me for saying this—he was named Anakin. Little Orphan Ani, I called him, and you’ve never seen a better podracer. Sebulba tried to beat him, he came around but we said “Cheska, Sebulba.” You’d think he be too young to race but I guess they do it differently there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who is sitting -- is that Darth? Stand up please. Does everybody know -- they call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and they're never gonna get them back."

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Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 1d

Not a favourite. Terry Scott as Tarzan being a particular lowlight. Does contain one of the rudest gags ever in a Carry On, with Joan Sims receiving the attention of a big snake

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Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 1d

Where the fuck did that random “the” come from…?

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Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 1d

I was the today years old…etc

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

Range.

Linda Polan as Juno Baker in K9 and Company.

Linda Polan as Mistress Ploppy in Blackadder II.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅

#Ugh🤢✅

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 2d

20 million viewers for Star Trek TOS on UK telly! 20 million for Shoestring!

(Does slightly put those City of Death ratings into perspective...)

#StarTrek #DoctorWho

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2d

JICTAR Top 20 for the w/e 21st October 1979. With ITV still off air, the BBC continued to make hay.

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Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 2d

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 2d

ISTG this had better awaken one big bastard of a poltergeist x

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 2d

you get actors like Alec Guinness despising their genre work, or like Jeremy Brett being massively screwed up by it, and then you get Christopher Lee calling his cat Renfield.

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.

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Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 2d

two men are sitting on a couch and one of them is feeding the other a fish finger

ALT: two men are sitting on a couch and one of them is feeding the other a fish finger

media.tenor.com

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 3d

Alexei Sayle's Stuff (20th October 1988). "Well, we apologise for the absence of Alexei Sayle in this week's edition of Alexei Sayle's Stuff. We're attempting to right the problem, but in the meantime the programme will continue in Leslie Crowther only".

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 3d

Theatre Severn: *thinks long and hard about Tom Baker's most famous roles, decides it's...*

Promotional copy for A Christmas Carol, featuring "A specially recorded appearance by Tom Baker (Monarch Of The Glen)."

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 2d

Give me the most on-the-nose metaphor you have. No that’s too on-the-nose

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Christophaaaagh Webb @chrisporkerwebb.bsky.social · 2d

"Gerald Wiley Coyote". Wile E Coyote holding a sign with a catchphrase from The Two Ronnies, which was written by Ronnie Barker under his pseudonym that everybody knew: Gerald Wiley.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3d

My “I only hung out with Jeffrey Epstein because i was hanging out with a lot of rapists at the time” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 3d

Doctor Who: Robot (1974)

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 3d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s Big Finish. Hooklight 2 by Tim Foley

Richard @parker71.bsky.social · 4d

I do prefer a sequel that goes its own way