John Isles
@selsijohn.bsky.social
Co-host of @idontdoscifi.bsky.social podcast & @tripodscast.bsky.social Fan of Doctor Who, Star Trek/Wars, B7, B5, and more! Once described as the inspiration for Eugene Victor Tooms in The X Files!
That weird period between Christmas and New Year.
December 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
That weird period between Christmas and New Year.
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Wishing the wonderful actor, singer & playwright Julian Bleach a happy 62nd birthday! 🎁
#DoctorWho #Davros #Torchwood #Ghostmaker #SarahJaneAdventures #TheNightmareMan
#DoctorWho #Davros #Torchwood #Ghostmaker #SarahJaneAdventures #TheNightmareMan
December 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wishing the wonderful actor, singer & playwright Julian Bleach a happy 62nd birthday! 🎁
#DoctorWho #Davros #Torchwood #Ghostmaker #SarahJaneAdventures #TheNightmareMan
#DoctorWho #Davros #Torchwood #Ghostmaker #SarahJaneAdventures #TheNightmareMan
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Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025
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ON THIS DATE... In 1993, Planet of Evil and Dragonfire were released on VHS, having been brought forward from their original release date of 7th February 1994.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
December 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ON THIS DATE... In 1993, Planet of Evil and Dragonfire were released on VHS, having been brought forward from their original release date of 7th February 1994.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
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#Christmas 1981: Toy Animals and Action Toys from Hamleys
(+Happy Pup; Chow; Little Pup; Whitey Puppy; Basset Hound; Pekinese Dog; Teddy the Drummer; White Bear; Panda Bear; Mr. Gori; Dezi Duck; Peek-A-Boo Pup; Talking Dalek; Harbour Set; Chappy; Mammoth C361 Engine; Bulldozer, and more)
(+Happy Pup; Chow; Little Pup; Whitey Puppy; Basset Hound; Pekinese Dog; Teddy the Drummer; White Bear; Panda Bear; Mr. Gori; Dezi Duck; Peek-A-Boo Pup; Talking Dalek; Harbour Set; Chappy; Mammoth C361 Engine; Bulldozer, and more)
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#Christmas 1981: Toy Animals and Action Toys from Hamleys
(+Happy Pup; Chow; Little Pup; Whitey Puppy; Basset Hound; Pekinese Dog; Teddy the Drummer; White Bear; Panda Bear; Mr. Gori; Dezi Duck; Peek-A-Boo Pup; Talking Dalek; Harbour Set; Chappy; Mammoth C361 Engine; Bulldozer, and more)
(+Happy Pup; Chow; Little Pup; Whitey Puppy; Basset Hound; Pekinese Dog; Teddy the Drummer; White Bear; Panda Bear; Mr. Gori; Dezi Duck; Peek-A-Boo Pup; Talking Dalek; Harbour Set; Chappy; Mammoth C361 Engine; Bulldozer, and more)
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Okay, as promised, a thread of the new movies I saw and enjoyed in 2025. Generally all I ask is that a movie entertained me for me to like it.🧵
I have enjoyed plenty of big blockbusters this year but it has been a *superb* year for original movies, mid-budget thrillers (that people always complain there aren't enough of) and we even got a couple of decent comedy movies. I might write up everything I saw tomorrow.
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Okay, as promised, a thread of the new movies I saw and enjoyed in 2025. Generally all I ask is that a movie entertained me for me to like it.🧵
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How it’s gonna be for folks watching the Stranger Things finale in a movie theater.
December 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
How it’s gonna be for folks watching the Stranger Things finale in a movie theater.
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Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four (29th December 1987). Jenny Seagrove guests as Mary Morstan.
December 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four (29th December 1987). Jenny Seagrove guests as Mary Morstan.
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Remembering the wonderful actor and singer Bernard Cribbins on what would have been his 97th birthday🕯
#DoctorWho #BigFinish #TomCampbell #WilfredMott #ArnoldKorns
#DoctorWho #BigFinish #TomCampbell #WilfredMott #ArnoldKorns
December 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Remembering the wonderful actor and singer Bernard Cribbins on what would have been his 97th birthday🕯
#DoctorWho #BigFinish #TomCampbell #WilfredMott #ArnoldKorns
#DoctorWho #BigFinish #TomCampbell #WilfredMott #ArnoldKorns
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Well, what else could we mark on 29 December but the 97th anniversary of the birth of that gift to the world, Bernard Cribbins? (small🧵)
December 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Well, what else could we mark on 29 December but the 97th anniversary of the birth of that gift to the world, Bernard Cribbins? (small🧵)
Bought this from a #charityshop the other day. I've heard it's a good book. Is that a cigarette burn?!
December 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Bought this from a #charityshop the other day. I've heard it's a good book. Is that a cigarette burn?!
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Top of the Pops (29th December 1983). The Belle Stars perform Sign of the Times.
December 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Top of the Pops (29th December 1983). The Belle Stars perform Sign of the Times.
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‘They are not ice crystals!' Joe & Martin hit their favourite episode of the serial and are deeply moved by the introduction of Binro, and laughing their heads off at Garron's absurdly operatic criminal past.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
‘They are not ice crystals!' Joe & Martin hit their favourite episode of the serial and are deeply moved by the introduction of Binro, and laughing their heads off at Garron's absurdly operatic criminal past.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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An Evening of Seventies Television – I Don’t Do Sci-Fi
If you listen to my podcast Very British Futures than chances are you know about I Don't Do Sci-Fi, the podcast produced by good friends of mine. This Christmas, Kevin Hiley and Rebecca Wray produced a two-hour special episode for YouTube…
If you listen to my podcast Very British Futures than chances are you know about I Don't Do Sci-Fi, the podcast produced by good friends of mine. This Christmas, Kevin Hiley and Rebecca Wray produced a two-hour special episode for YouTube…
An Evening of Seventies Television – I Don’t Do Sci-Fi
If you listen to my podcast Very British Futures than chances are you know about I Don't Do Sci-Fi, the podcast produced by good friends of mine. This Christmas, Kevin Hiley and Rebecca Wray produced a two-hour special episode for YouTube featuring clips from Dani Wray's least favourite decade - The Seventies. Joining her and Rebecca to watch this smorgasbord of vintage television was myself and John Isles. Despite the title of their podcast, the one genre this night did not cover was science fiction. Instead we commented on a wide range of mainstream, mostly peak-time television, interspersed with period adverts.
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December 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
An Evening of Seventies Television – I Don’t Do Sci-Fi
If you listen to my podcast Very British Futures than chances are you know about I Don't Do Sci-Fi, the podcast produced by good friends of mine. This Christmas, Kevin Hiley and Rebecca Wray produced a two-hour special episode for YouTube…
If you listen to my podcast Very British Futures than chances are you know about I Don't Do Sci-Fi, the podcast produced by good friends of mine. This Christmas, Kevin Hiley and Rebecca Wray produced a two-hour special episode for YouTube…
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K9 and Company - A Girl's Best Friend went out on 28th December 1981. Flash back a couple of years to @davidkitchen.bsky.social and I reviewing it - thedwshow.net/2023/12/31/k...
December 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
K9 and Company - A Girl's Best Friend went out on 28th December 1981. Flash back a couple of years to @davidkitchen.bsky.social and I reviewing it - thedwshow.net/2023/12/31/k...
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"I just materialized out of thin air in one of your cafés," he said, "as a result of an argument with the ghost of my great-grandfather. No sooner had I got there than my former self, the one that operated on my brain, popped into my head and said 'Go see Zarniwoop'. I have never heard of the cat."
December 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"I just materialized out of thin air in one of your cafés," he said, "as a result of an argument with the ghost of my great-grandfather. No sooner had I got there than my former self, the one that operated on my brain, popped into my head and said 'Go see Zarniwoop'. I have never heard of the cat."
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Art from Elfspire by Thomas Blackshear (1980)
December 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Art from Elfspire by Thomas Blackshear (1980)
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OTD 1968: #DoctorWho The Krotons
A delightful TARDIS team vs infamous monsters
The Doctor introduces student rebels to acid
Repeated 1981, this became my (and many others’) first Troughton
And Robert Holmes debuts—
Classic Doctor Who’s longest-running, most celebrated writer
A delightful TARDIS team vs infamous monsters
The Doctor introduces student rebels to acid
Repeated 1981, this became my (and many others’) first Troughton
And Robert Holmes debuts—
Classic Doctor Who’s longest-running, most celebrated writer
December 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
OTD 1968: #DoctorWho The Krotons
A delightful TARDIS team vs infamous monsters
The Doctor introduces student rebels to acid
Repeated 1981, this became my (and many others’) first Troughton
And Robert Holmes debuts—
Classic Doctor Who’s longest-running, most celebrated writer
A delightful TARDIS team vs infamous monsters
The Doctor introduces student rebels to acid
Repeated 1981, this became my (and many others’) first Troughton
And Robert Holmes debuts—
Classic Doctor Who’s longest-running, most celebrated writer
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So that was Sunday December 28th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another day (more or less) here. So it goes. Onward ever onwards.
(Still on sale some 44 yrs ago, but likely to be in the sales, the Batman Annual 1982, with its Brian Bolland cover.)
And so to bed. Sleep well, you gentle sentients.
(Still on sale some 44 yrs ago, but likely to be in the sales, the Batman Annual 1982, with its Brian Bolland cover.)
And so to bed. Sleep well, you gentle sentients.
December 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
So that was Sunday December 28th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another day (more or less) here. So it goes. Onward ever onwards.
(Still on sale some 44 yrs ago, but likely to be in the sales, the Batman Annual 1982, with its Brian Bolland cover.)
And so to bed. Sleep well, you gentle sentients.
(Still on sale some 44 yrs ago, but likely to be in the sales, the Batman Annual 1982, with its Brian Bolland cover.)
And so to bed. Sleep well, you gentle sentients.
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I started watching 50 years ago this year, later in Robot
I will always love this story, this Doctor, and his friends, intelligent, capable Sarah Jane Smith and adorable, pretty Harry Sullivan.
My 10 reasons to watch Robot:
loveandliberty.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/doct...
I will always love this story, this Doctor, and his friends, intelligent, capable Sarah Jane Smith and adorable, pretty Harry Sullivan.
My 10 reasons to watch Robot:
loveandliberty.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/doct...
December 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I started watching 50 years ago this year, later in Robot
I will always love this story, this Doctor, and his friends, intelligent, capable Sarah Jane Smith and adorable, pretty Harry Sullivan.
My 10 reasons to watch Robot:
loveandliberty.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/doct...
I will always love this story, this Doctor, and his friends, intelligent, capable Sarah Jane Smith and adorable, pretty Harry Sullivan.
My 10 reasons to watch Robot:
loveandliberty.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/doct...
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44 years ago today... youtu.be/9q6gjCkMBhw?...
World of Telly' Episode 16: K9 & Company
YouTube video by World of Telly
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December 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
44 years ago today... youtu.be/9q6gjCkMBhw?...
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23/12/2006 issue of Radio Times: Featuring Bruce Springsteen: Sold on Song; AM Test Match Special Australia v England; Five Live Sport; The Autobiography of a Nobody; BBC Proms 2006; Anita Rani; It's My Story: The Tic Lady; Book at Bedtime: Christmas With the Savages; Checking Up and more
December 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
23/12/2006 issue of Radio Times: Featuring Bruce Springsteen: Sold on Song; AM Test Match Special Australia v England; Five Live Sport; The Autobiography of a Nobody; BBC Proms 2006; Anita Rani; It's My Story: The Tic Lady; Book at Bedtime: Christmas With the Savages; Checking Up and more
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We got a new LG TV here in Maine and the picture is insanely good even though it’s only a 32”. Just watched GDT’s Frankenstein and it looked mind blowing gotta admit. Home Alone, Avatar, Stranger Things…spectacular. Just put on Fantastic Four First Steps and yikes, what a piece of crap. Looks dead.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
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December 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
We got a new LG TV here in Maine and the picture is insanely good even though it’s only a 32”. Just watched GDT’s Frankenstein and it looked mind blowing gotta admit. Home Alone, Avatar, Stranger Things…spectacular. Just put on Fantastic Four First Steps and yikes, what a piece of crap. Looks dead.
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Been in the centre of town.
Lucky to get out alive from what I've read on threads.
You can see what has happened to this city under Sadiq Khan.
Lucky to get out alive from what I've read on threads.
You can see what has happened to this city under Sadiq Khan.
December 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Been in the centre of town.
Lucky to get out alive from what I've read on threads.
You can see what has happened to this city under Sadiq Khan.
Lucky to get out alive from what I've read on threads.
You can see what has happened to this city under Sadiq Khan.
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Seven years since I watched one of the most important documentaries ever made. A masterpiece
December 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Seven years since I watched one of the most important documentaries ever made. A masterpiece