Jon Dear
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Jon Dear
@accordingtojond.bsky.social
Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Just learned about Jack Shepherd. Hope in the Year Two, Bill Brand and *the* definitive Renfield.

Superb.
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Some Udo Kier tonight I think.

Michael Sarne’s Road to San Tropez (1966).
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Sometimes in an ADR studio.
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Happy Doctor Who Day everybody.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I’m doing my Ghost Stories talk in New York!!*

*via Zoom
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Yes I’m reading this.
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
*Cod Scots accent*

HELLO FOX INN!
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Three years ago @parthenoid.bsky.social, @hermetic-arts.bsky.social and I visited the locations from Nigel Kneale’s Murrain.

Not been since because, of course, we don’t go back.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
👀
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
What fictional creature/villain traumatised you as a child?
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Well this was predictably excellent. Many thanks to @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and @miskatonicihs.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Today on BlueSky.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Me rn
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Defo had this.
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME YOU USELESS NORTHERN LINE CUNTS?
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I blame Rob Shearman.
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Spooky gift from @brokenbiros.bsky.social.
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I’m talking NON PRINCE
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Since when was @tobyhadoke.bsky.social in The #traitors??
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
And here’s me with the very same cat prop? In Lawrence Gordon Clark’s kitchen.
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A close look at the cat carving prop.
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
100th anniversary of Robert Hardy. Better known for other things maybe, but for obvious reasons, this is my go to role.

Archdeacon Haynes in The Stalls of Barchester (BBC, Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1971).
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM