Ooh, The Prestige… now there‘s one for the 2026 TBR pile… 👍

Highly recommended 🙂👍

Yes, spoilt for choice really! I currently have A Dream of Wessex on order 👍

Looking forward immensely to discovering his back catalogue - The Prestige, A Dream of Wessex, The Affirmation, The Space Machine & many others - lots of keep me entertained there I’m sure 🙂

8. OTD 1966. Deborah Watling & Mark Eden star in the Out of the Unknown play 'The World in Silence'. Now sadly lost, this tale of wayward teaching machines was adapted from John Rankine's story 'Six Cubed Plus One', published just a few years previously in the anthology series 'New Writings in SF'.

Another excellent review - as you say, Sladek is generally overlooked these days and much of his work is long out of print. This is certainly a novel I’ll be looking out for in the future 👍

9. In 1998, I corresponded with Paddy Russell to ask about her memories of working on this episode.
Amongst her recollections was this wonderful anecdote about filming a key SFX sequence, in which the character of Anne Lovejoy (Patsy Rowlands) was attacked by one of the alien plants.

8. OTD 1965. The next episode was Mike Watt’s black comedy ‘Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come…?’
Milo O’Shea stars as Henry Wilkes, who is unwittingly growing a very carnivorous variety of plant in his back garden.
‘Little Shop of Horrors’ meets ‘Day of the Triffids’… 🙂
Directed by Paddy Russell.

Slowly working my way through Dick’s work (admittedly haphazardly!). I’ve really enjoyed his short tales too - there’s often something decidedly off-beat about his ideas which makes them a joy to read.

A shame indeed - his illustrations are in a league of their own. I think Bryan Kneale turned 95 this year -lovely to know he’s still around.

Very fond of these - there’s something rather apt about reading M.R. James in what’s now tantamount to an ‘antiquarian’ format! 🙂

Absolutely - wonderful editions. I have the same feelings about these fabulous M.R. James collections from the late 50s.

Anything from ‘Village Green Preservation Society’ always goes down well here 👍🙂

7. OTD 1966. The next entry was Hugh Leonard’s ‘Second Childhood’, starring Nigel Stock as Charles Dennistoun, the recipient of a new rejuvenation process. Although the episode is now lost, here’s a rare audio clip of the process being explained to Charles by its creator Dr Keppler (Hugo Shuster).

That’s great - thank you so much for the link - much appreciated 👍