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I Don't Do Sci-Fi
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@min3rvas0wl.bsky.social & @selsijohn.bsky.social show non-fan Dani classic Sci-Fi films or TV shows. anchor.fm/idontdoscifi Also check-out our previous podcast anchor.fm/the-tripodscast
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Yesterday, we recorded a special episode to be released during the Festive Season.
Photo of the base of a Christmas Tree. There are a few decorations hanging from it in view. (There is a blue-lit light of a TARDIS under the tree, and some of plush frog in a Santa outfit). At the front is a light-up sign with the word 'Recording' on it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Here's something else that @min3rvas0wl.bsky.social and Dani talked about in our #Stargate episode: The Eye of the Pharaoh by Iain Smyth, 'a pop-up whodunnit.' Has anyone else read this book?
The Eye of the Pharaoh by Iain Smyth, 'a pop-up whodunnit.' Front cover. It shows the inside of an Egyptian tomb with a sarcophagus laid down. There the silhouettes of three people looking at it. Surrounding them are pictures of various people - the characters/suspects in the book. The Eye of the Pharaoh by Iain Smyth, 'a pop-up whodunnit.' A page called 'Into the Pyramid' - a group of people inside a tunnel/corridor in a pyramid. It's dark, so they're all carrying either a flaming torch or battery torch. There are hieroglyphics on the wall. A page from The Eye of the Pharaoh by Iain Smyth, 'a pop-up whodunnit.' 'The opening of the Tomb.' Charcaters stood outside the ornate/hieroglyphic covered closed doors of a pyramid. Two people are studying the door, while others look on, including one with a camera photographing what they're doing. A page from The Eye of the Pharaoh by Iain Smyth, 'a pop-up whodunnit.' An actual pop-up page titled, 'The Evidence.' The pop-up is the inside of the Tomb - with the sarcophagus, and Charcaters stood around it in the chamber.
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Who remembers Microsoft #AncientLands? Co-hosts @min3rvas0wl.bsky.social & Dani certainly do-they talk about using this ancient resource in our #Stargate episode. #Egypt
Cover art for CD-ROM Microsoft Ancient Lands. The subtitle says: Explore the mysterious world of the past. Painted artwork of ancient Egyptian artefacts and people. A map/screen from Microsoft Ancient Lands showing Rome, Greece, and Egypt. A screenshot from Microsoft Ancient Lands with the title 'Monuments & Mysteries.' There are pictures running around the outside of the frame areas to investigate/read of people, places, and creatures: The Bloody Arena, Rome Today, Worship & Sacrifice, A Day at the Races, The Legacy of Rome, Pompeii, Death & Burial, Healing the Sick, and A World of Many Gods. Screenshot from Microsoft Ancient Lands: 'The Minoan World' the scene is an ancient Minoan city with people gathered between them as if there's a market. The information text on screen is too pixelated to read clearly on this screenshot.
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Join a non-fan as she takes a journey a million light years from home through the #Stargate! The movie, combined action/adventure, sci-fi, & ancient Egyptian mythology. Will her Chevrons be locked or will the gate stay closed?

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The text/logo for I Don't Do Sci-Fi - The Podcast Series, Season 2, Episode 4. A 2nd text box underneath says: I'm here in case you succeed. Dani watches Stargate. There is an image in the centre is the Stargate which is a large circle made of a metal-looking material, with engraved symbols all around it. The symbols are lit-up - suggesting the gate is 'active' - a large Egyptian pyramid can be seen through the circle of the Stargate. Looking at the gate from the outside are two men in standing, in silhouette Daniel Jackson, and Col. Jack O'Neil. (Image by Dani Wray)
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Coming soon! Non-fan & co-host Dani 'steps through the gate' to travel a journey of a million miles from home as she watches #Stargate (1994).
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The text/logo for I Don't Do Sci-Fi - The Podcast Series, Season 2, Episode 4. A 2nd text box underneath says: I'm here in case you succeed. Dani watches Stargate. There is an image in the centre is the Stargate which is a large circle made of a metal-looking material, with engraved symbols all around it. The symbols are lit-up - suggesting the gate is 'active' - a large Egyptian pyramid can be seen through the circle of the Stargate. Looking at the gate from the outside are two men in standing, in silhouette Daniel Jackson, and Col. Jack O'Neil. (Image by Dani Wray)
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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P.S. Also available in orange.
#Halloween #Stargate
A pumpkin on a doorstep, in the dark. It has been carved for Halloween in the shape of the 'Earth' symbol from 'Stargate' - a bit like 2 lines of the sides of a triangle, with a circle above the tip of the triangle. A sinister orange light is emanating from within the pumpkin.
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Happy #Halloween!
Coming to a podcast platform near you soon our next episode #Stargate!
A pumpkin on a doorstep, in the dark. It has been carved for Halloween in the shape of the 'Earth' symbol from 'Stargate' - a bit like 2 lines of the sides of a triangle, with a circle above the tip of the triangle. A sinister blue light is emanating from within the pumpkin.
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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P.S. Here's a photo of Tim from @randomiserpod.bsky.social (a hoopy frood, who knows where his towel is) hitch-hiking to the recording of the podcast.
Photo of a man, Tim Reid (a man with a beard) standing outside Bolton Railway Station. He has his thumb up, as if to hitch-hike, and holding a towel with the words 'Don't Panic!' written across it.
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Like the Great Prophet Zarqhoun, we may be late posting this, but here it is: Photos of the 'Fortune Teller' the device used to add a random element to the points of discussion about #DouglasAdams #HitchHikersGuidetotheGalaxy in our episode with guest Tim/ @randomiserpod.bsky.social
Photo of a pair of hands (co-host Dani) holding a sheet of paper folded into the shape of a 'Fortune Teller' - showing four folded coloured sides - blue, red, orange, green. In the centre of these can see hand-written numbers. Photo of the DVD sleeve of the BBC TV adaptation of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. The cover features a photo of Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, and David Dixon as Ford Prefect. Next to it is pair of hands (co-host a sheet of paper folded into the shape of a 'Fortune Teller' - showing four folded coloured sides - blue, red, orange, green. In the centre of these can see hand-written numbers.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Out now! Non-fan Dani watches #BBC TV's #DouglasAdams' #HitchHikersGuidetotheGalaxy Will she need a Babel Fish to understand it all? Does she know where her towel is? This episode our guest is Tim from @randomiserpod.bsky.social listen here: anchor.fm/iddsf youtube.com/@iddsf
I Don't Do Sci-Fi - the podcast series, Season 2, Episode 3: "One's never alone with a rubber duck." Dani watches The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.The main image is a montage and of people and things from the BBC TV adaptation of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. In the centre is a disgusted/perturbed man wearing a dressing gown over pyjamas - this is Arthur Dent. Beneath him are written the words: This is of course impossible. Surrounding him are various objects/creatures from The Hitch-Hikers Guide to Galaxy on TV.
October 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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NEW EPISODE! This Saturday (11/10/25): non-fan Dani watches #BBC TV version of #DouglasAdams #HitchHikersGuidetotheGalaxy for the 1st time. Our guest is Tim from @randomiserpod.bsky.social Don't forget to bring your #towel! #ArthurDent #Zaphod #FordPrefect #Trillian #Marvin #42
I Don't Do Sci-Fi - the podcast series, Season 2, Episode 3: "One's never alone with a rubber duck." Dani watches The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.The main image is a montage and of people and things from the BBC TV adaptation of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1981). In the centre is a disgusted/perteberd man wearing a dressing gown over pyjamas - this is Arthur Dent (played by Simon Jones). Beneath him are written the words: This is of course impossible. Surrounding him are: a yellow fish - the Babel Fish, an animal's head on a platter with an apple in it's mouth - this is the Dish of the Day, a tablet-like device - the titular Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (on it's screen are the words: Don't Panic!), and mouse, a weird-shaped glass with an exotic drink - this is a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster (which drinking it is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a gold brick), a neon sign for 'Milliways' (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe), a multi-armed alien - a Jatravartid holding a few deodorant spray cans, the logo of Disaster Area - generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also the loudest noise of any kind at all, a mathematical symbol for infinity(?), two fried eggs on slices of bread, a roughly humanoid-shaped robot - Marvin the Paranoid Android (who has a brain the size of a planet - thinking down to our level gives him a headache!), a squadron of red, and green arrows in formation representing space fleets of the G'Guvuntts, and the Vl'Hurgs, the words 'forty' and 'two' in circluar/wooden tiles laid out like Scrabble, a sperm whale, and a pie-chart split into 3 equal looking sections: Thinkers, Doers, Middle Men. Finally, in large, friendly, pink letters: Don't Panic in the background of it all!
October 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Also one we made even earlier!
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Gareth Preston dressed as Captain Kirk and Jonathan Miles dressed as the Third Doctor. Both are standing back-to-back, with their arms folded, both looking 'tough.'
September 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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watched The Silent Sea for the first time for our podcast.

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Image for I Don't Do Sci-Fi - Episode 8: Mirror Universe Edition - The Silent Sea (Netflix 2021) The Moon is inside a drop of water, at the centre of a blood cell, surrounded by water. There is a hyperdermic needle sticking into the centre of the Moon.
July 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Our co-host @selsijohn.bsky.social will be at #BigfinishDay tomorrow. Look out for him, he may (or may not) be wearing the below T-shirt. (Just noticed we need to update the social media details on the shirt to replace Twitter/X!)
Photo of a black T-shirt hung up. The printed image on the shirt is the logo of I Don't Do Sci-Fi Podcast (from the Producers of Tripodscast) - Preaching Science Fiction to the non-believer.
June 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Our co-host Dani watched #Rollerball for the first time for our podcast. Was she rooting for our team or heckling from the stands?

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I Don't Do Sci-Fi - The podcast series: Episode Two - Ripped up, wiped out, battred, creamed and reamed. Dani watches Death Race 2000 & Rollerball. The images are a montage. In the centre is a very 1970s looking man - long hair, big sunglasses. He's a smug looking sports commentator, with a microphone held in front of him. On our left is a man wearing an American football helmet, skating around an arena from Rollerball. On the otherside is a car leaping through a fireball. Stood in front of this, with his back to us it man wearing a gimp suit, his arms held high and wide - perhaps in celebration of the explosion in front of him. This is 'Frankenstein' the best racing driver from Death Race 2000.
March 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Speaking of #StarTrek 's short skirts in #TOS, our social media manager ( @selsijohn.bsky.social ) remembered these entries from The Completely Useless (unauthorised) Star Trek Encyclopedia by Steve Lyons & Chris Howarth:
SHORT SKIRTS: Yet another concession to sexual equality: if the women of the Enterprise had to wear those tiny things that covered their modesty only providing they remained perfectly still, then the men had to have skirts too. And those silly things at the bottom of their trousers were surely just as embarrassing as anything their female shipmates were required to wear. TEN FEMALE CREWMEMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL ENTERPRISE WHO SHOWED THEIR PANTS. 1. Flippin' 'eck, they all did. (End).
February 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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New episode! We initiate non #scifi fan Dani into Roddenberry's utopian 60s TV series, #startrek. Will her hailing frequencies be open to its charm & optimism? Or will she be raising shields? Joining us is guest @willhadcroft.bsky.social
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The text/logo for I Don't Do Sci-Fi - The Podcast Series, Season 2, Episode 2. A 2nd text box underneath says: Centuries beyond anything as crude as television. Dani watches Star Trek: The Original Series. The image behind these text boxes are a collage of co-host John Isles dressed as a 'Redshirt' (THE most unlucky colour uniform to wear in TOS) from Star Trek in 8 life-threatening, perilous situations based on original artwork by Ron Embleton (with thanks to Captain Scarlet for Redshirt workplace hazards guide): crawling out of a pile of rocks, sinking to the bottom of the sea, weighed down with chains, and with sharks circling, a pile of wooden crates tumbling down to land on him, tied to a tree in an alien jungle with a three-headed snake menacing him - an "Aldebaran serpent", falling out of the open door of a Starfleet shuttlecraft as it flys through space, about to be crushed between large metal spikes attached to walls closing in on him - he is pushing with all his might against them, knocked over by a tank - that's driving towards him, finally falling from a skyscraper to be squished on the ground far, far below (with laserbeams passing by him).
February 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Coming this Friday! (Only three months late - it got caught up in a tachyon temporal flux! #StarTrek #TOS #SciFi #podcast #CaptainScarlet
Artwork/photography by Kevin Hiley (with apologies to Ron Embleton).
The text/logo for I Don't Do Sci-Fi - The Podcast Series, Season 2, Episode 2. A 2nd text box underneath says: Centuries beyond anything as crude as television. Dani watches Star Trek: The Original Series. The image behind these text boxes are a collage of co-host John Isles dressed as a 'Redshirt' from Star Trek in 8 life-threatening, perilous situations based on originalartwork by Ron Embleton (with thanks to Captain Scarlet for Redshirt workplace hazards guide): crawling out of a pile of rocks, sinking to the bottom of the sea, weighed down with chains, and with sharks circling, a pile of wooden crates tumbling down to land on him, tied to a tree in an alien jungle with a three-headed snake menacing him - an "Aldebaran serpent", falling out of the open door of a Starfleet shuttlecraft, about to be crushed between large metal spikes attached to walls closing in on him - he is pushing with all his might against them, knocked over by a tank - that's driving towards him, finally falling from a skyscraper to be squished on the ground far, far below (with laserbeams passing by him).
January 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Re-live Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape, a ghost story for Christmas from 1972, through the eyes of a first-time viewer.
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I Don't Do Sci-Fi A Podcast Series Episode 6 - The Stone Tape (with bonus Ghostwatch). A woman's terrified face - played by Jane Asher. There is a sinister red light is over her. There is grinning ghostly image of Michael Parkinson in the lower left corner.
December 25, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Happy 61st Anniversary to #DoctorWho! Will non-fan Dani warm to 'the unofficial Doctor' played by Peter Cushing? #Daleks anchor.fm/idontdoscifi
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I Don't Do Sci-Fi Podcast - Episode 5. A picture of Peter Cushing's face as Dr Who surrounded by a green swirling vortex. More text: 'So close you can feel their fire!' Dani watched Dr Who and the Daleks, and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD.
November 23, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Before we made co-host Dani watch classic #SciFi TV shows & movies, we made a podcast series discussing #JohnChristopher 's #Tripods Trilogy of novels, #BBC TV series, merchandise. We interviewed the main cast, Producer, and #SamYoud 's children who run his literary estate. anchor.fm/the-tripodscast
Tripodscast - Exploring The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher. Episode 1: The White Mountains. Now a thrilling podcast series! Main image is a photo of three teenage boys dressed in 19th century country-wear. l-r Will Parker (John Shackley), Henry Parker (Jim Baker), and Bean-pole (Ceri Seel). They're smiling at the camera while they sit/stand by the side of a wooden cart in front of grass/trees.
October 20, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,677,011!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,677,011, I Don't Do Sci-Fi ‪@idontdoscifi.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 23, 2023"
September 25, 2024 at 6:23 AM
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In the 1950s, Britain's flagship #scifi series was #Quatermass! Gripping the nation during 58/59, written by the legend Nigel #Kneale, Quatermass & the Pit.
The big question: will co-host find this classic 80 year old scifi to be 'the pits'? #BBC
A demonic, devil-horned-like alien apparition floats over a street at night time. It is lined with houses. Cobweb-like membrane cross the night sky. Men and women are in the street watching this.
September 11, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Co-host [email protected] was at #whooverville 15 yesterday. He met Trevor Cooper & Graeme Harper who worked on #StarCops (it wasn't easy!) Listen to our episode where Dani watches the show for the first time! anchor.fm/idontdoscifi
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Star Cops DVD cover. There is a futuristic spaceshuttle flying above the Earth. There are small photos of the main characters: Nathan Spring David Theroux, Pal Kenzy, Colin Devis, and Alexander Krivenko. Interview panel in a theatre with 3 men in chairs: l-r Robert Dick (Interviewer), director Graeme Harper, actor Trevor Cooper.
September 1, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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We guess we can talk about this now: co-hosts Rebecca J. Wray & John Isles have written an article on the 40th Anniversary of The Tripods (on TV) for this issue. Includes a new interview with Producer Richard Bates. The issue goes on sale 4th September.
SFX Magazine issue 383 front cover. Photo is of Agatha All Along. Listed amongst the contents of 'The Tripods - celebrate 40 years'
September 1, 2024 at 8:33 AM