It’s the final episode of 2018 and The Geek Show is going for a well-deserved break from all of the weird science, technology and “other” news that we’ve found this year. Before we head off though, Rob and Producer Rob have the small matter of one last show … This […]
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4-Panel 126 – Doctor Doom’s Splendid Fairy Cakes
Once the door to shenanigans has been opened, there’s no closing it … which can only mean that it’s time for another instalment of everyone’s favourite comic-book and manga podcast! It’s been an interesting week, and first up for discussion is the rare occurence of a comic-book or superhero-related piece […]
The Classic Film Kid takes on Doctor Who
Ken Russell: Great Composers (1965-7)(Review)
The music documentary is enjoying a boom period with the likes of 20,000 Days on Earth & Searching for Sugar Man receiving both critical and commercial acclaim, there’s also the channel defining content from the award-winning BBC Four. Staying with the British Broadcasting Corporation, it is easy to forget what […]
Ken Russell: The Great Passions (1965-7)(Review)
How many BBC arts documentaries of the 1960s do you think begin with the exhumation of a mummified corpse, lit by flickering torches and soundtracked by booming horror-movie music? Not many, I’ll wager, but then there weren’t many directors walking the corridors of Broadcasting House who resembled Ken Russell. For […]
Little Lost Robot (Out of this World)
Before production started on Doctor Who in 1963, the BBC commissioned an internal document assessing the difficulties of producing a science-fiction series. In particular, they were concerned that female viewers would be uninterested in such a show. Perhaps one reason why the show’s creator Sydney Newman pressed on was that […]