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Steven Flanagan
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Lives in NE England. Posts mostly about comics, Doctor Who, other old TV and films and random stuff.
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Just a week now until the start of a series that fans of colour grading are sure to love.
#DoctorWho
#TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea
#WuBbLeS
A promotional image for Wubbles, showing Barclay (Russell Tovey), in a teal T-shirt, standing against an orange fiery backdrop, extending a hand towards Salt (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), an amphibian with teal-coloured skin with orange highlight, standing against a teal watery backdrop. The text has been edited to read: BBC THE WAR BETWEEN THE ORANGE AND THE TEAL.
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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On behalf on UNIT, Myrna Loy greets a representative of Avallion.
Cary Grant in medieval armour and Myrna Loy in an evening gown: a publicity still for The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947).
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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This 1948 newspaper headline is grounds for another UNIT retcon.
#DoctorWho
#MyrnaLoy

(It was actually UNESCO.)
Newspaper clipping. The headline is: "Myrna Loy Is UN Unit Adviser." A photo of Loy is labelled "Myrna Loy - On US delegation."
November 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Poor Zog gets no respect.
Grainy photo from the stage play Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure. In front of an odd looking Tardis, the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) confronts two misshapen Daleks. With him are Jason (obscured, but probably played by Graeme Smith), Crystal (Rebecca Thornhill), and Zog, a small furry alien.
November 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Snakedance (1983).
Legs and Co dancer in ancient Egyptian-styled stage costume with pantomime camel, with a puppet snake rising from a basket in the foreground.
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Warriors of the Deep (1984).
Legs and Co dancers in ancient Egyptian-styled stage costume with pantomime camel.
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I bring Sutekh's gift of fez-wearing, dancing pantomime camels to all humanity.
Legs and Co dancer in ancient Egyptian-styled stage costume with pantomime camel.
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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#totp
Screenshot of Guardian article headlined "Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?" Screen capture of the Cardigans performing on Top of the Pops.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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James Bond (played by Sean Connery) at the casino, early in "Dr No". He wears a dinner jacket and black tie, and has a cigarette in his mouth. A subtitle reads, "Bond. James Bond." James Bond (played by Sean Connery) at the casino, early in "Dr No". He wears a dinner jacket and black tie, and has a cigarette in his mouth. A subtitle reads, "Duke Ellington, The Berlin Philharmonic, D'Oyly Carte, The Moscow State Symphony and George Formby."
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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So, has anyone seen the new extended version of The Beatles Anthology TV series yet?
Black and white photograph by PETER LINDBERGH of ULLI STEINMEIER, LYNNE KOESTER, CINDY CRAWFORD AND LINDA EVANGELISTA, 1989. They are wearing Beatle wigs, with suits and ties.
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC news headline. Beneath an aerial photo of the Ness of Brodgar, the headline and subhead read: "Archaeologists make ' extraordinary discovery' in Orkney - but won't say what it is. "Archaelogists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find." A passage from the article, reading: The scientific study produced an unexpected discovery which the team describe as "totally dissimilar to anything else we've uncovered". The only clue from the excavation team is that Ness is "a site that can be seen to be defined by straight lines and rectangular forms, from the architecture down to the art". Screen capture from Doctor Who: Fugitive of [sic] the Judoon, showing the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) uncovering a buried Tardis. We see her hands brushing soil away from the Police Public Call Box sign.
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Lares et Penates.
A framed shaped like the Tardis Police Box, inside which are shelves divided into compartments. In each compartment (except two empty ones) is a statuette of a different Doctor Who.
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Sex Cardigans for Then People.
The sleeve for the Japanese CD single of Rise and Shine by The Cardigans, showing the band looking up at the camera.
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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"You called?"
Photograph of Alvin Rakoff, taken from alvinrakoff.com and captioned "Alvin Rakoff, Award Winning Director Writer." It's in sharp black-and-white, and I'd guess it's from the 1960s.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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🎶 In the ocean
The mighty ocean ... 🎶
Screen capture from the BBC's Christmas programmes website, showing the programme name "Titanic Sinks Tonight" and a picture of several people sitting in a lifeboat looking at RMS Titanic.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I still find Google to be the best general search engine for images. They've restored the custom date option - if you click that (under tools) it brings up a calendar so you can just search Saturday onwards. Facebook search is painful, but you can find big photodumps if you search as shown below.
Facebook search set to Recent posts and 2025. Google images search showing custom date option.
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Also memorably played by Theresa Russell in Aria.
Black and white still of Theresa Russell in uniform and moustache, as King Zog of Albania in the portmanteau film "Aria".
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Nothing but the classiest for my home town.
(By the way, Lady Godiva is not played by Dennis Price, John McCallum or Stanley Holloway.)
Poster for the film "Lady Godiva Rides Again". It shows a woman wearing only an enormous blonde wig riding a white horse, and lines of women in bathing costumes. The headline cast members are Dennis Price, John McCallum and Stanley Holloway. The film is also billed as "Featuring dozens of international beauty queens and famous artists' models!" Tag lines are: "The Comedy Side of a Bathing Beauty Contest!" "It's Spicy!" "It's Daring!" "It's Titillating!" "Girls!" "Girls!" "Girls!" "Girls!"
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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JW The Ballad of Wallis Island, so now I'm feeling all warm, in a melancholy sort of way.
Poster for The Ballad of Wallis Island, with a photo of Tom Basden, Tim Key, Carey Mulligan and a small boat.
November 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Another announcement of interest from the other place: Doctor Who Series 2 (2025) scripts up at www.bbc.co.uk/writers/scri...
Screen capture of a post by BBC Writers on another platform. There is a promotional image of Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) and the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) in front of a purple and blue planet. The text of the post reads: "Happy Doctor Who Day!❤️❤️ To celebrate, you can now read all of the scripts for series 2 in our Script Library as well as the 2024 Christmas Special 'Joy To The World'! As always a massive thank you to Russell T Davies for sharing these wonderful scripts as well as Sharma Angel-Walfall, Juno Dawson, Inua Ellams, Pete McTighe, and Steven Moffat ✍️ We hope that reading these scripts is, quite simply, an absolute JOY!"
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Uncannily, a few months after @teamsmithy.bsky.social posted this drawing, we got confirmation from Jodie Whittaker.
Screen capture of a Radio Times headline from 7 October 2025: "Doctor Who icon Jodie Whittaker discusses exciting new role: 'Suranne Jones is a swan and I'm a feral chicken.'" There is a photograph of Whittaker and Jones in Frauds.
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Screen capture from The Shining (movie): the phrase "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" typed out repeatedly.
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I don't think that Radio Times has an account here. The Doctor Who "bookazine" PDF (I don't think that it's actually long enough to meet the UNESCO definition of a book) is here:
www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...
At first glance, some mew photos from The Enemy of the World.
Screenshot of a post by Radio Times on another platform. The text reads: "Happy #DoctorWho Day! Ready to take a trip back in time? Revisit the early years by downloading your very own free bookazine, complete with gems from the Radio Times archive." The post includes preview images from some 1960s stories.
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🎶 I don't believe in an interventionist God,
But I know, darling, that you do.
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you ... 🎶
The Pope, holding a microphone (still on its stand) in both hands and, apparently, singing into it.
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Cartoon by Bruce Bairnfather: two soldiers hiding in a shell hole from a furious bombardment overhead. One says to the other, "Well if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it."
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM