John Rivers
@johnrivers.bsky.social
Pharma village person. DJs on Mixcloud as johnrivers
Henrietta Churchill Godolphin, blimey
December 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Henrietta Churchill Godolphin, blimey
Met my twin brother earlier
December 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Met my twin brother earlier
Went to see the Christmas lights at Blenheim Palace. All rather lovely.
December 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Went to see the Christmas lights at Blenheim Palace. All rather lovely.
All Doctor Who stories should end with this exact exchange.
December 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
All Doctor Who stories should end with this exact exchange.
Hans is halfway between the gutter and the stars.
December 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Hans is halfway between the gutter and the stars.
“How do we represent our double bumper issue?”
“You WON’T BELIEVE what’s happened on Coronation Street!”
“You WON’T BELIEVE what’s happened on Coronation Street!”
December 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“How do we represent our double bumper issue?”
“You WON’T BELIEVE what’s happened on Coronation Street!”
“You WON’T BELIEVE what’s happened on Coronation Street!”
Oh, Google Photos, how well you know me
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Oh, Google Photos, how well you know me
The Avengers - 'The Cybernauts'
Pre 'The Tenth Planet' by a year & featuring a robot-creating scientific madman in a wheelchair, this feels v close to Who - cast: Bernard Horsfall, Michael Gough, Fredrick Jaeger, Burt Kwouk, Ronald Leigh-Hunt reinforces this.
Also: Emma does judo in her civvies.
Pre 'The Tenth Planet' by a year & featuring a robot-creating scientific madman in a wheelchair, this feels v close to Who - cast: Bernard Horsfall, Michael Gough, Fredrick Jaeger, Burt Kwouk, Ronald Leigh-Hunt reinforces this.
Also: Emma does judo in her civvies.
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The Avengers - 'The Cybernauts'
Pre 'The Tenth Planet' by a year & featuring a robot-creating scientific madman in a wheelchair, this feels v close to Who - cast: Bernard Horsfall, Michael Gough, Fredrick Jaeger, Burt Kwouk, Ronald Leigh-Hunt reinforces this.
Also: Emma does judo in her civvies.
Pre 'The Tenth Planet' by a year & featuring a robot-creating scientific madman in a wheelchair, this feels v close to Who - cast: Bernard Horsfall, Michael Gough, Fredrick Jaeger, Burt Kwouk, Ronald Leigh-Hunt reinforces this.
Also: Emma does judo in her civvies.
The Avengers 'Too Many Christmas Trees'
Dipping into the paranormal with disturbing dream sequences, a horrifying Santa, Dickensian cosplay and psychic warrior types.
And, of course, the Christmas card from Mrs Gale - "What can she be doing at Fort Knox?"
Dipping into the paranormal with disturbing dream sequences, a horrifying Santa, Dickensian cosplay and psychic warrior types.
And, of course, the Christmas card from Mrs Gale - "What can she be doing at Fort Knox?"
December 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Avengers 'Too Many Christmas Trees'
Dipping into the paranormal with disturbing dream sequences, a horrifying Santa, Dickensian cosplay and psychic warrior types.
And, of course, the Christmas card from Mrs Gale - "What can she be doing at Fort Knox?"
Dipping into the paranormal with disturbing dream sequences, a horrifying Santa, Dickensian cosplay and psychic warrior types.
And, of course, the Christmas card from Mrs Gale - "What can she be doing at Fort Knox?"
Everyone enjoys it when TNG riffs on the Original Series
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Everyone enjoys it when TNG riffs on the Original Series
I think we may need to stop Christmas jumpers.
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I think we may need to stop Christmas jumpers.
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
THE AVENGERS - 'Dial A Deadly Number'
A high point overlapping Cathy & Emma eras. Sparkling script by Roger Marshall: finance, office gadgets & wine tasting. Steed nearly offed via pocket watch, Mrs Peel in the leather catsuit for the 1st time, Peter Bowles taken out with a champagne cork.
Cheers!
A high point overlapping Cathy & Emma eras. Sparkling script by Roger Marshall: finance, office gadgets & wine tasting. Steed nearly offed via pocket watch, Mrs Peel in the leather catsuit for the 1st time, Peter Bowles taken out with a champagne cork.
Cheers!
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
THE AVENGERS - 'Dial A Deadly Number'
A high point overlapping Cathy & Emma eras. Sparkling script by Roger Marshall: finance, office gadgets & wine tasting. Steed nearly offed via pocket watch, Mrs Peel in the leather catsuit for the 1st time, Peter Bowles taken out with a champagne cork.
Cheers!
A high point overlapping Cathy & Emma eras. Sparkling script by Roger Marshall: finance, office gadgets & wine tasting. Steed nearly offed via pocket watch, Mrs Peel in the leather catsuit for the 1st time, Peter Bowles taken out with a champagne cork.
Cheers!
If by some miracle you're still awake at 12.40am (Boxing Day morning) BBC 2 is screening AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (1971)
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If by some miracle you're still awake at 12.40am (Boxing Day morning) BBC 2 is screening AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (1971)
In case of poor Christmas Day programming emergency, prep accordingly.
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In case of poor Christmas Day programming emergency, prep accordingly.
ST:TNG- 'Reunion'
And season 4 is where TNG starts to mine its own history - in 7 eps we've had: the Borg, Picard's history and brother, Worf's mum and dad, the return of the Traveller, Tasha Yar's sister, Data's dad and brother, Worf's ex, his exile from the Klingon Empire, and Worf's son.
And season 4 is where TNG starts to mine its own history - in 7 eps we've had: the Borg, Picard's history and brother, Worf's mum and dad, the return of the Traveller, Tasha Yar's sister, Data's dad and brother, Worf's ex, his exile from the Klingon Empire, and Worf's son.
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
ST:TNG- 'Reunion'
And season 4 is where TNG starts to mine its own history - in 7 eps we've had: the Borg, Picard's history and brother, Worf's mum and dad, the return of the Traveller, Tasha Yar's sister, Data's dad and brother, Worf's ex, his exile from the Klingon Empire, and Worf's son.
And season 4 is where TNG starts to mine its own history - in 7 eps we've had: the Borg, Picard's history and brother, Worf's mum and dad, the return of the Traveller, Tasha Yar's sister, Data's dad and brother, Worf's ex, his exile from the Klingon Empire, and Worf's son.
Watching the commentary of The Avengers 'Town of No Return', with Brian Clemens and Roy Ward Baker where they keep insisting things are being shot on location and they're very clearly sets and back projection.
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Watching the commentary of The Avengers 'Town of No Return', with Brian Clemens and Roy Ward Baker where they keep insisting things are being shot on location and they're very clearly sets and back projection.
10 years since Heaven Sent. I should rewatch it really cos the overwhelmingly positive fan reaction put me at odds with my own opinion (it’s not half as clever or romantic as it thinks it is) and I preferred the two eps either side of it.
‘The Hybrid’ though. 🙄
‘The Hybrid’ though. 🙄
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
10 years since Heaven Sent. I should rewatch it really cos the overwhelmingly positive fan reaction put me at odds with my own opinion (it’s not half as clever or romantic as it thinks it is) and I preferred the two eps either side of it.
‘The Hybrid’ though. 🙄
‘The Hybrid’ though. 🙄
So my sister bought a house in Spain and inherited this, which now belongs to my son. A 6ft scale model of the Titanic.
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
So my sister bought a house in Spain and inherited this, which now belongs to my son. A 6ft scale model of the Titanic.
The older I get the more I identify with Drathro. Stuck in middle management, having to work with people much younger than him, frustrated with his limitations.
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The older I get the more I identify with Drathro. Stuck in middle management, having to work with people much younger than him, frustrated with his limitations.
Adumbrating two typical instances from separate epistopic interfaces of the spectrum (the alternate edits I’ve not done before)
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Adumbrating two typical instances from separate epistopic interfaces of the spectrum (the alternate edits I’ve not done before)