Looking forward to it!

This. With the main series, mystery and a lack of info works, because we all know the fixed structures and can speculate. With Turf and Surf - no info leads to no speculation.

Of course, to Doctor Who fans, East Hagbourne is:

Not by isolating the drum track, presenting it specifically as evidence and only comparing that? You would compare the whole new piece to the old - in the way it’s intended - then make the criticism. Ideally you would even compare - you’d just take the new version and decide if you liked it or not.

I appreciate that and your opinion is valid - I read your post last week and felt the same but resisted commenting then. I stand by my view that it’s taking their work out of context unfairly. You wouldn’t just a piece of music by isolating the drum track and complaining that it sounded electronic.

☝️This - but I’d go further. Taking individual frames and posting a comparison in this way seems rather unfair and slightly disrespectful to the restoration team. They’re not working for a minority of fans to analyse the footage frame-by-frame.

I knew there was more to it!

That's a lot of work for a cover - although I think they used them for the Christmas edition as well - I've got a memory of fairy lights. I'm sure there's more of a story behind them.

Best of both worlds! What’s interesting to me is how all this ties up with American exceptionalism - Taken is another example - anyone with a European accent (apart from Liam Neeson) is suspect. Or Star Wars for that matter.

I guess that’s it? Influenced by a genre that tended towards more simple depictions of heroism? Bit like Die Hard - there’s a pleasure in the old fashioned lack of complexity about who the baddies are. But a whodunnit can’t have that - the whole point is that you don’t know who the baddies are?

Years ago! I remember quite liking it?

I guess there’s a distinction between whodunnits and general drama? Whodunnits have always relied on misdirection - it’s baked in - but in a more general the idea of heroism has become less clear cut, maybe in the 60s and beyond? Could be a Vietnam/Watergate thing when the villains came from within.

I get the sense that the Smith and Jones parodies have aged less well than the original material - the wordplay and punning have longer legs than the cynicism of the piss-take.

It is - I guess it's a staple of conspiracy stories, but it's the buried WW2 bomb, and the fact that the film is pretty popular that convinced me Nigel Kneale had seen it and decided to create a mirrored dark version of it. Lots of possible connections.

Apologies - you were making a profound observation - all I could see was Formby.

Incorporated in a global society,
What would their influence be?
When I'm cleaning windows!