Sham Mountebank
@shammountebank.bsky.social
Sub par since 1989
https://whereweretheynow.blogspot.com/
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BBC Genome has flagged this entry for Monday 3rd December 1990 as containing "language that some may find offensive."
Is the algorithm worried about the presence of Googie Withers?
Is the algorithm worried about the presence of Googie Withers?
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
BBC Genome has flagged this entry for Monday 3rd December 1990 as containing "language that some may find offensive."
Is the algorithm worried about the presence of Googie Withers?
Is the algorithm worried about the presence of Googie Withers?
2/2 What's going on with the screen in the background. It starts off showing studio footage and then starts showing weird random Pet Shop Boys related stuff. Any ideas?
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
2/2 What's going on with the screen in the background. It starts off showing studio footage and then starts showing weird random Pet Shop Boys related stuff. Any ideas?
ZX Spectrum software. A story in two acts.
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
ZX Spectrum software. A story in two acts.
Reddit is making me feel impossibly ancient today.
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reddit is making me feel impossibly ancient today.
Here's Geoff Brown trying not to look too delighted at all the free publicity in the Birmingham Mail.
November 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Here's Geoff Brown trying not to look too delighted at all the free publicity in the Birmingham Mail.
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers".
October 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers".
I also like the bloke at the back of this shot demonstrating how closing credits were done.
October 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I also like the bloke at the back of this shot demonstrating how closing credits were done.
My friend inherited some very old Northern Line train destination signs from her dad (in time honoured tradition he rescued them from a skip).
It turns out two of them are for ghost stations on a Northern line extension that was cancelled just before the Second World War.
It turns out two of them are for ghost stations on a Northern line extension that was cancelled just before the Second World War.
September 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
My friend inherited some very old Northern Line train destination signs from her dad (in time honoured tradition he rescued them from a skip).
It turns out two of them are for ghost stations on a Northern line extension that was cancelled just before the Second World War.
It turns out two of them are for ghost stations on a Northern line extension that was cancelled just before the Second World War.
1983, issue two of computer comic LOAD RUNNER printed a poster called "Blake's 7 star computer Orac with Avon". It's made of an odd selection of photos and there's one big problem. I don't think that's Orac. Isn't it the solium radiation device from Countdown?
archive.org/details/Load... #Blakes7
archive.org/details/Load... #Blakes7
August 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
1983, issue two of computer comic LOAD RUNNER printed a poster called "Blake's 7 star computer Orac with Avon". It's made of an odd selection of photos and there's one big problem. I don't think that's Orac. Isn't it the solium radiation device from Countdown?
archive.org/details/Load... #Blakes7
archive.org/details/Load... #Blakes7
Highway Encounter. Best ending, ever.
August 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Highway Encounter. Best ending, ever.
It took a while to dig these out. I loved The Perishers and used to get the books for Christmas. These four survived, dating from 1976 to 1979. I'm slightly surprised by their good condition.
July 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It took a while to dig these out. I loved The Perishers and used to get the books for Christmas. These four survived, dating from 1976 to 1979. I'm slightly surprised by their good condition.
I'm pretty sure the same combination of helmet and suit also crops up in the 1988 Red Dwarf episode Confidence & Paranoia. 4/4
July 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I'm pretty sure the same combination of helmet and suit also crops up in the 1988 Red Dwarf episode Confidence & Paranoia. 4/4
The suits are trickier. They look like the same design as the one worn by Roger Moore for publicity shots for Moonraker. 3/4
July 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The suits are trickier. They look like the same design as the one worn by Roger Moore for publicity shots for Moonraker. 3/4
The helmets look like props from Outland. Although the attachments for the air hoses have been removed/fallen off. 2/4
July 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The helmets look like props from Outland. Although the attachments for the air hoses have been removed/fallen off. 2/4
Late Thursday night. I could go to sleep or I could go down a rabbit hole trying to work out the history of these space suits that Nick and Pete Austin, of Level 9 Computing, were pursuaded to wear for their interview with Sinclair User.
archive.org/details/sinc... 1/4
archive.org/details/sinc... 1/4
July 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Late Thursday night. I could go to sleep or I could go down a rabbit hole trying to work out the history of these space suits that Nick and Pete Austin, of Level 9 Computing, were pursuaded to wear for their interview with Sinclair User.
archive.org/details/sinc... 1/4
archive.org/details/sinc... 1/4
... and then, later in the year, the BBC showed their new version of Terry Nation's Survivors. This is from episode two, 25/11/2008.
July 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
... and then, later in the year, the BBC showed their new version of Terry Nation's Survivors. This is from episode two, 25/11/2008.
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who", or "Transformers".
July 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who", or "Transformers".
The BBC Doctor Who site has downloads of all the Programme as Broadcast forms.
Does anyone know how The War Games episode 10 ends up being called Inferno, Episode 9?
www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/cl...
Does anyone know how The War Games episode 10 ends up being called Inferno, Episode 9?
www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/cl...
June 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The BBC Doctor Who site has downloads of all the Programme as Broadcast forms.
Does anyone know how The War Games episode 10 ends up being called Inferno, Episode 9?
www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/cl...
Does anyone know how The War Games episode 10 ends up being called Inferno, Episode 9?
www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/cl...
What's a poster you had in your room growing up?
June 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
What's a poster you had in your room growing up?
Lloyd Mangram offered a helpful reply to a reader.
June 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Lloyd Mangram offered a helpful reply to a reader.
The West Skaro Massiv invade Peterborough.
May 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The West Skaro Massiv invade Peterborough.
Servalan leaves, disappointed.
May 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Servalan leaves, disappointed.
Today's experiment. Mashing up the cover of Target books with 50s men's adventure magazines.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
May 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Today's experiment. Mashing up the cover of Target books with 50s men's adventure magazines.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
March 1984. Long Way Home was an adventure from 16/48, the computer magazine loaded from a tape.
You arrive on the Marie Celeste, climb up onto the deck, and see a surprise cameo as a blue Police Box dematerializes.
That episode of The Chase must have made an impression on the programmer #DoctorWho
You arrive on the Marie Celeste, climb up onto the deck, and see a surprise cameo as a blue Police Box dematerializes.
That episode of The Chase must have made an impression on the programmer #DoctorWho
May 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
March 1984. Long Way Home was an adventure from 16/48, the computer magazine loaded from a tape.
You arrive on the Marie Celeste, climb up onto the deck, and see a surprise cameo as a blue Police Box dematerializes.
That episode of The Chase must have made an impression on the programmer #DoctorWho
You arrive on the Marie Celeste, climb up onto the deck, and see a surprise cameo as a blue Police Box dematerializes.
That episode of The Chase must have made an impression on the programmer #DoctorWho