Andrew Orton
@andreworton.bsky.social
Television historian, writer, artist, 33% of Mulgrave Audio, comic inks and colours. Author of books about Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Robin of Sherwood. Usually found recreating BBC studio sets in CG. Solvitur ambulando. Marra. Durham.
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Have wondered the same, though you’d always have the option of shooting out of sequence. And cancelling your new lead actor’s first story doesn’t seem like a good idea!
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Have wondered the same, though you’d always have the option of shooting out of sequence. And cancelling your new lead actor’s first story doesn’t seem like a good idea!
Yes, I’ve wondered the same myself: stories cancelled, shot out of order, remounts… it must have been hell. And Season 19 had its own problems too…
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Yes, I’ve wondered the same myself: stories cancelled, shot out of order, remounts… it must have been hell. And Season 19 had its own problems too…
I rewatched it recently and thought it was really good - the stuff on the liner in particular is great.
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I rewatched it recently and thought it was really good - the stuff on the liner in particular is great.
You’re socialists using AI to make artwork? Anti-worker, anti-rights.
I’m an artist and I live in Durham. I and many others could have done this for you. You can all sod off, I’m afraid.
I’m an artist and I live in Durham. I and many others could have done this for you. You can all sod off, I’m afraid.
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
You’re socialists using AI to make artwork? Anti-worker, anti-rights.
I’m an artist and I live in Durham. I and many others could have done this for you. You can all sod off, I’m afraid.
I’m an artist and I live in Durham. I and many others could have done this for you. You can all sod off, I’m afraid.
'Bloody Bronze Age... What was wrong with stone, that's what I say? We did alright with stone. My granda used to kill his enemies with a hand-knapped flint ax. Never needed these new-fangled copper and tin alloys, and he lived to 45...'
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
'Bloody Bronze Age... What was wrong with stone, that's what I say? We did alright with stone. My granda used to kill his enemies with a hand-knapped flint ax. Never needed these new-fangled copper and tin alloys, and he lived to 45...'
My local gibbet was there for two hundred years, but it got gradually dismantled by people who said that chewing on the wood was good for toothache...
(Thread:)
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A (true) #Halloween story... 🧵
(It's a Ghost Story for Christmas really, but here goes:)
The town I grew up in, Ferryhill, was the site of a nationally-famous ax-murder in 1682: “the most horrid and barbarous murder that was ever heard in the North or elsewhere”. 1/
(It's a Ghost Story for Christmas really, but here goes:)
The town I grew up in, Ferryhill, was the site of a nationally-famous ax-murder in 1682: “the most horrid and barbarous murder that was ever heard in the North or elsewhere”. 1/
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
My local gibbet was there for two hundred years, but it got gradually dismantled by people who said that chewing on the wood was good for toothache...
(Thread:)
(Thread:)
I popped over to the reconstructed gibbet when I was in Elsdon a couple of years back. It was flying a Ukrainian flag at the time!
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I popped over to the reconstructed gibbet when I was in Elsdon a couple of years back. It was flying a Ukrainian flag at the time!
Lovely stuff - that shot of the Spar landing is gorgeous!
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Lovely stuff - that shot of the Spar landing is gorgeous!
They didn't paint the whole thing pink: just two sides.
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
They didn't paint the whole thing pink: just two sides.
Do you know you have the wrong website link in your bio? It's got three 'r's in it...
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Do you know you have the wrong website link in your bio? It's got three 'r's in it...
They're brilliant. Get thee to Long Meg at once.
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
They're brilliant. Get thee to Long Meg at once.
Silurians! The Young Silurian is a proper Reform supporter.
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Silurians! The Young Silurian is a proper Reform supporter.
No, but it is written by Malcum Hulke!
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
No, but it is written by Malcum Hulke!
It is, like something the Master would have. I keep wondering what it would look like in a white infinite space rather than a black one.
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
It is, like something the Master would have. I keep wondering what it would look like in a white infinite space rather than a black one.
Yep: it is ug-lee. They must have been so disappointed with it.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Yep: it is ug-lee. They must have been so disappointed with it.
Wasn’t there some story that it looked pink on camera so they had to spend a fortune changing the colour to yellow in post?
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Wasn’t there some story that it looked pink on camera so they had to spend a fortune changing the colour to yellow in post?