Michael Seely
@mpseely.bsky.social
michaelseely.substack.com shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk Author, Biographer of Kit Pedler, Douglas Camfield and Doomwatch!
New: A Message from the Stars - The A for Andromeda Story
New: A Message from the Stars - The A for Andromeda Story
My latest Substack takes a look at my favourite Doctor Who William Hartnell guest starring in 'Softly Softly' who makes a surprising confession. With thanks to Z Cars historian David Brunt.
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September 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My latest Substack takes a look at my favourite Doctor Who William Hartnell guest starring in 'Softly Softly' who makes a surprising confession. With thanks to Z Cars historian David Brunt.
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Part Five of The Big Pull is now up on michaelseely.substack.com The final part of this lost BBC science fiction serial will be published next Saturday.
August 31, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Part Five of The Big Pull is now up on michaelseely.substack.com The final part of this lost BBC science fiction serial will be published next Saturday.
And for your holiday reading - unless you work on a bank holiday of course - here is The Big Pull Part Four. Discover the purpose of Jotus and Nebla! How many more technicians die this week? michaelseely.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
And for your holiday reading - unless you work on a bank holiday of course - here is The Big Pull Part Four. Discover the purpose of Jotus and Nebla! How many more technicians die this week? michaelseely.substack.com
First of two posts this bank holiday weekend. Discover how BBC1 put together a live debate on the future of Ulster in January 1972 inspite of hostile press (and others) reaction. michaelseely.substack.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
First of two posts this bank holiday weekend. Discover how BBC1 put together a live debate on the future of Ulster in January 1972 inspite of hostile press (and others) reaction. michaelseely.substack.com
Today's instalment of The Big Pull is up on Substack. Can they prevent more deaths at Jodrell Bank - or will the contagion from space spread throughout the country? Where are the missing men? And if they did film at Jodrell, did anyone vet the script!
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August 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today's instalment of The Big Pull is up on Substack. Can they prevent more deaths at Jodrell Bank - or will the contagion from space spread throughout the country? Where are the missing men? And if they did film at Jodrell, did anyone vet the script!
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Tomorrow on Substack - when Doomwatch - kind of met Softly Softly Task Force and the BBC Series department forked out for a visual effect. Subscribe here at michaelseely.subtsack.com for irregular articles on obscure, lost, forgotten BBC dramas - or just something like this which I enjoy...
July 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Tomorrow on Substack - when Doomwatch - kind of met Softly Softly Task Force and the BBC Series department forked out for a visual effect. Subscribe here at michaelseely.subtsack.com for irregular articles on obscure, lost, forgotten BBC dramas - or just something like this which I enjoy...
Also available: 'A Message from the Stars - The A for Andromeda Story.' Not as famous as Quatermass, but an absorbing, and mostly missing, tale. A message picked up by a radio telescope turns out to be the blue prints of a machine that can create life - and kill.
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June 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Also available: 'A Message from the Stars - The A for Andromeda Story.' Not as famous as Quatermass, but an absorbing, and mostly missing, tale. A message picked up by a radio telescope turns out to be the blue prints of a machine that can create life - and kill.
shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
'Drama in the Lab: The R.3 Story' is back in print, 320 pages describing the short lived and lost 60s BBC1 series about the lives and work and struggles of trouble-shooting Ministry research scientists featuring John 'Quatermass II' Robinson and later on, Oliver Reed. shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
'Drama in the Lab: The R.3 Story' is back in print, 320 pages describing the short lived and lost 60s BBC1 series about the lives and work and struggles of trouble-shooting Ministry research scientists featuring John 'Quatermass II' Robinson and later on, Oliver Reed. shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
And if you like obscure and forgotten soaps which generated controversies big and small, try this available from shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And if you like obscure and forgotten soaps which generated controversies big and small, try this available from shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
God bless outraged vicars. From 21 October 1968, Daily Express.
April 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
God bless outraged vicars. From 21 October 1968, Daily Express.
Andromeda is 85 today! You can read about her first major ground-breaking TV appearance in 'A Message from the Stars The A for Andromeda Story'
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April 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Andromeda is 85 today! You can read about her first major ground-breaking TV appearance in 'A Message from the Stars The A for Andromeda Story'
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Posted this morning. Doomwatch International! How Terence Dudley wanted the third series of Doomwatch to expand its borders. michaelseely.substack.com/p/doomwatch-...
April 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Posted this morning. Doomwatch International! How Terence Dudley wanted the third series of Doomwatch to expand its borders. michaelseely.substack.com/p/doomwatch-...
An illustration from A Message from the Stars - (the making of, and an examination of,) The A for Andromeda Story. Available now from shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
An illustration from A Message from the Stars - (the making of, and an examination of,) The A for Andromeda Story. Available now from shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
Some nice feedback has been received (but no messages from Andromeda) and discover how a ninety minute conversation in a Cambridge pub turned into a classic BBC science fiction serial... Get your copy from shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Some nice feedback has been received (but no messages from Andromeda) and discover how a ninety minute conversation in a Cambridge pub turned into a classic BBC science fiction serial... Get your copy from shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
Burial at Sea - the second Doomwatch missing eps book is now sold out, and sadly will not be reprinted.
Many thanks to all of you who bought copies in the past year. Plenty of the recent A for Andromeda book left though...
Many thanks to all of you who bought copies in the past year. Plenty of the recent A for Andromeda book left though...
March 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Burial at Sea - the second Doomwatch missing eps book is now sold out, and sadly will not be reprinted.
Many thanks to all of you who bought copies in the past year. Plenty of the recent A for Andromeda book left though...
Many thanks to all of you who bought copies in the past year. Plenty of the recent A for Andromeda book left though...
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March 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
OUT NOW from shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
Tonight's Doomwatch on TPTV at 9 - one of the true crackers, and got the BBC into some hot water. It even upset George Melly.
January 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Tonight's Doomwatch on TPTV at 9 - one of the true crackers, and got the BBC into some hot water. It even upset George Melly.
Not many copies left of Taste & Decency, Drama in the Lab - or Burial at Sea, and they will not be reprinted in the near future, at least not in book form. Sadly the Doomwatch book will not be able in any form. So don't miss out, as they say! shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
November 30, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Not many copies left of Taste & Decency, Drama in the Lab - or Burial at Sea, and they will not be reprinted in the near future, at least not in book form. Sadly the Doomwatch book will not be able in any form. So don't miss out, as they say! shop.saturdaymorningpress.co.uk
Watching The Chief from the early 90s. Wallowing in the Norwich and Norfolk locations but the title sequence is better suited for a ghost story and frankly is terrifying after a skin full.
November 22, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Watching The Chief from the early 90s. Wallowing in the Norwich and Norfolk locations but the title sequence is better suited for a ghost story and frankly is terrifying after a skin full.
'Daker, Daker, I want you to know this is personal. I still think you're one hell of a doctor.' RIP Timothy West. Thanks for Brass, and everything else you've been in.
November 13, 2024 at 4:48 PM
'Daker, Daker, I want you to know this is personal. I still think you're one hell of a doctor.' RIP Timothy West. Thanks for Brass, and everything else you've been in.
The text for A for Andromeda book is being edited and vetted. Soon, it will be ready for your judgement. The Andromeda Breakthrough does not receive the SMP treatment on the grounds you can watch it, and in my judgement, there isn't as much to write about. 1/2
November 13, 2024 at 2:34 PM
The text for A for Andromeda book is being edited and vetted. Soon, it will be ready for your judgement. The Andromeda Breakthrough does not receive the SMP treatment on the grounds you can watch it, and in my judgement, there isn't as much to write about. 1/2
If you are driving through London and suddenly discover a cannibal rat is perched on the passenger seat, why not listen to Jack Arel and his orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYsV... as you swerve to your demise?
November 7, 2024 at 4:26 PM
If you are driving through London and suddenly discover a cannibal rat is perched on the passenger seat, why not listen to Jack Arel and his orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYsV... as you swerve to your demise?