Alan Barnes
@senrabnala.bsky.social
Post boom, second doom. Stealing cake to eat the moon. Writes and edits - Doctor Who, Hammer horror, Sherlock Holmes, Judge Dredd (etc). Available for hire.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Poor @mikecollins99.bsky.social - I nearly broke him with this one, I think...
Field Trip - the latest Doctor Who Magazine strip from @senrabnala.bsky.social and @mikecollins99.bsky.social has been an absolute cracker. With quality gags on every page! Smashing stuff! KKLAK! #DoctorWho
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Poor @mikecollins99.bsky.social - I nearly broke him with this one, I think...
Just been watching a Cathy Gale Avengers, written by John Lucarotti, with Henry "Haisman and" Lincoln made up as an Arab sheikh and... oh dear.
October 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Just been watching a Cathy Gale Avengers, written by John Lucarotti, with Henry "Haisman and" Lincoln made up as an Arab sheikh and... oh dear.
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We’ve teamed up with @arrowvideo.bsky.social to give away three sets of:
– In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane (hardcover)
– Arrow’s new UK 4K bluray
To enter, it's maddeningly simple… like and share this post by 26 Oct, 5pm GMT.
The winners will be chosen at random and contacted directly.
– In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane (hardcover)
– Arrow’s new UK 4K bluray
To enter, it's maddeningly simple… like and share this post by 26 Oct, 5pm GMT.
The winners will be chosen at random and contacted directly.
October 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We’ve teamed up with @arrowvideo.bsky.social to give away three sets of:
– In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane (hardcover)
– Arrow’s new UK 4K bluray
To enter, it's maddeningly simple… like and share this post by 26 Oct, 5pm GMT.
The winners will be chosen at random and contacted directly.
– In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane (hardcover)
– Arrow’s new UK 4K bluray
To enter, it's maddeningly simple… like and share this post by 26 Oct, 5pm GMT.
The winners will be chosen at random and contacted directly.
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Enjoyed listening to The Iron Legion from @bigfinish.bsky.social adapted by @senrabnala.bsky.social. Thought the added elements worked really well (particularly enjoyed Doug and Viv) and Tom Baker seemed to be having a good time.
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Doctor Who and the Iron Legion · The Comic Strip Adaptations Volume 1 • Episode 1
1979 AD! Led by the terrible General Ironicus, the mighty Iron Legion - robot veterans of the Eternal War - have come, seen and conquered the English village of Stockbridge! Caught up in the mayhem, t...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Enjoyed listening to The Iron Legion from @bigfinish.bsky.social adapted by @senrabnala.bsky.social. Thought the added elements worked really well (particularly enjoyed Doug and Viv) and Tom Baker seemed to be having a good time.
tardis.guide/story/doctor...
tardis.guide/story/doctor...
I'm afraid I've been writing things again.
HAI! 🥋🖐️💥 It's Venusian karate time as Sarah Jane Smith and Liz Shaw meet in Doctor Who: The Imposters. Click https://bgfn.sh/sjsliz to read all about next year's Third Doctor Adventures audio drama.
October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I'm afraid I've been writing things again.
Anyway, Rosalie Craig as Doctor Who.
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Anyway, Rosalie Craig as Doctor Who.
So I went for my usual weekend 12k round Oxford this morning. Listening to a podcast about Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast himself. You know, just because. Coming out of Uni Parks, there's a humpback bridge you can't run up or down, so I pause there. And I swear, I swear this is how far I'd run:
October 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
So I went for my usual weekend 12k round Oxford this morning. Listening to a podcast about Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast himself. You know, just because. Coming out of Uni Parks, there's a humpback bridge you can't run up or down, so I pause there. And I swear, I swear this is how far I'd run:
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Excited that my new book got into this Waterstones promotion. 25% off til midnight tonight. www.waterstones.com/book/new-you...
October 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Excited that my new book got into this Waterstones promotion. 25% off til midnight tonight. www.waterstones.com/book/new-you...
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Dance off! Dainty vs Gaga!
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Dance off! Dainty vs Gaga!
Stranger Things. People keep telling me it's absolutely my sort of thing and I'd love it, which automatically trips my contrary switch.
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Stranger Things. People keep telling me it's absolutely my sort of thing and I'd love it, which automatically trips my contrary switch.
Eight word horror story.
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Eight word horror story.
Hand Held in Black and White is, in many ways, the record that determined the course of pop music for the following four years. It is AMAZING. #totp
October 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hand Held in Black and White is, in many ways, the record that determined the course of pop music for the following four years. It is AMAZING. #totp
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Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2
September 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2
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Riverside Studios doing a New Avengers 4K/blu-ray launch on 9th November. I shall be making the pilgrimage
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Exclusive New Avengers 4K box-set launch + Q&A - Riverside Studios
Join us for a very special event launching Studiocanal’s brand new 4k restoration of every New Avengers episode ever filmed, soon to be available as the definitive box-set on UHD, Blu-ray or DVD. Full...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Riverside Studios doing a New Avengers 4K/blu-ray launch on 9th November. I shall be making the pilgrimage
riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/e...
riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/e...
What a cast!
Scott On Travel (23rd September 1971). Terry is joined by Cheryl Kennedy, Frank Thornton, Colin Jeavons and June Whitfield for this musical Star Trek skit.
September 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
What a cast!
Absolutely fascinating thing here.
The movie diary of a mystery cinemagoer was recently discovered. In it, they review the 325 films they saw in 1939. But who were they?
Delve into the mystery on @filmhubni.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4m8ktcpe
And don't miss entry #40: Spawn of the North, now available on Blu-ray: tinyurl.com/3d7a8x4t
Delve into the mystery on @filmhubni.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4m8ktcpe
And don't miss entry #40: Spawn of the North, now available on Blu-ray: tinyurl.com/3d7a8x4t
September 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Absolutely fascinating thing here.
Lovely Chris Achilleos covers!
So today I learned that there were tie-in novels for THE DOLLARS TRILOGY that went beyond the movies and boy do they have some amazing titles.
September 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Lovely Chris Achilleos covers!
Hadn't realised that my fall on Monday left me with a bit of a shiner, chiz
September 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Hadn't realised that my fall on Monday left me with a bit of a shiner, chiz
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As times get weird, there's a Doctor Who audio drama from 2002 that I think about a lot called Neverland.
In it the Doctor discovers that his own people, the Time Lords, used to have a method of execution called "the Oubliette of Eternity" which erases the convicted person from time completely.
In it the Doctor discovers that his own people, the Time Lords, used to have a method of execution called "the Oubliette of Eternity" which erases the convicted person from time completely.
September 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
As times get weird, there's a Doctor Who audio drama from 2002 that I think about a lot called Neverland.
In it the Doctor discovers that his own people, the Time Lords, used to have a method of execution called "the Oubliette of Eternity" which erases the convicted person from time completely.
In it the Doctor discovers that his own people, the Time Lords, used to have a method of execution called "the Oubliette of Eternity" which erases the convicted person from time completely.
My Australian The Keep box set just turned up, months after I preordered it. It is huge, and very heavy, and comes with a metal cross, and so much STUFF and oh God I love it
September 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
My Australian The Keep box set just turned up, months after I preordered it. It is huge, and very heavy, and comes with a metal cross, and so much STUFF and oh God I love it
A lovely quote about their debt to Delia Derbyshire here...
"It was our manager’s idea to put Deepak [Khazanchi, santoor] and Dinesh [Pandit, tablas] on ‘Living On The Ceiling’ even though it’s a Middle Eastern melody. It’s a geographical nonsense!"
R.I.P. Stephen Luscombe of #Blancmange
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R.I.P. Stephen Luscombe of #Blancmange
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September 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A lovely quote about their debt to Delia Derbyshire here...
Tripped on the pavement, by a crossing. Flat on my face. Shoe came off, hit my knee, grazed my hands, cut my forehead. Cyclist rode to a stop at the crossing... and ignored me. Lying there. On the ground. Dazed. Cyclists. The worst.
September 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Tripped on the pavement, by a crossing. Flat on my face. Shoe came off, hit my knee, grazed my hands, cut my forehead. Cyclist rode to a stop at the crossing... and ignored me. Lying there. On the ground. Dazed. Cyclists. The worst.
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Heartbroken. RIP Stephen. Love you forever.
September 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Heartbroken. RIP Stephen. Love you forever.
Reading the 2011 edition of Christopher Priest's notorious 1971 novel Fugue For A Darkening Island - near future England, boats, refugees, you get the picture - and on page 13:
September 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Reading the 2011 edition of Christopher Priest's notorious 1971 novel Fugue For A Darkening Island - near future England, boats, refugees, you get the picture - and on page 13: