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Mark Owen
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Writer, editor, photographer. I watch old TV programmes and live in the Isle of Man; these two facts are unconnected.
I've got a copy of the Season Three Doctor Who Chronicles, published by DWAS in 2002. That has about 20 screen images that must come from TFOS and a load of others that could come from Z Cars or silent movies.
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"Really Jo, did you fail French as well as Science? Depeche Mode means Speedy Fashion." (Scratches neck.) "Well, sort of."
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Me too. It felt like watching TV that was made in the Stone Age rather than set in it, didn't it? When actually these episodes were only as old as Freema Agyeman's episodes are now.
November 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Ah, thank you! 🙂I thought I'd give it an airing, given the sad news yesterday.
October 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I was once on a London tube train when Timothy West got on and sat directly opposite me. I wanted to tell him how brilliant I thought he and Prunella were, and how much pleasure they'd given me - but decided to leave him to travel in peace. I kind of wish I had told him now.
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Is it possible you misheard? 🤔 This definitely wouldn't be an insult.
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
That's an early use of 'incarnation' in the Doctor Who sense. The programme itself doesn't use it until 1986. Did the Mirror writer read the Target novelisations?
October 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The dinosaurs in Invasion of the Dinosaurs are fine. Finosaurs.
October 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I discovered my copy of the first volume recently. The pages are fluffy like a sponge cake, from all the thumbing.
October 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The boy with the OOD gobstoppers went on to be something very grand-sounding in the offshore finance sector. His tale of whiskery confectionery still haunts me.
October 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I'd like to nominate the memoirs of Fay Way - 'On The Other Hand'.
October 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Old enemies setting up new ventures on the High Street. They're all at it....
October 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Can I bagsy the Earthlink Dilemma, please?
October 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Something of a curate's egg.
September 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The Simon of Nimon.
September 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If it's right, then I love the idea that Jackie Lane has that claim to fame. (Excuse double accidental rhyming.)
September 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM