Childrens’
Wrapped up in Books
TJ Worthington on Belle and Sebastian
It’s something of a recurring theme among the dubbed imported children’s serials shown by the BBC in the 1960s and ’70s that they went on to find additional fame in another, entirely unrelated and unexpected, medium. The Flashing Blade, for example, later enjoyed a new lease of popularity through a comic redubbing that attained cult status, while Belle and Sebastian, almost by accident, went on to enjoy a cult status of a very different kind… more>
“You’ve Got to Fight for What You Want”
TJ Worthington on The Flashing Blade
Noise! Adventure! Glitter!
TJ Worthington remembers Zokko!Never Seen No Place Nowhere Similar
Paul Stump on No.73Of Finger Mice and Mr Men
The Story of Watch With Mother by TJ WorthingtonPart One: Andy Pandy’s Coming to Play
Part Two: Was it Bill or Was it Ben?
Part Three: “Now Where Shall We Find The Pogles?”
Part Four: “Here is a Box, a Musical Box…”
Part Five: “Do You Live in a Town?”
Part Six: “These Hands Were Made for Making”
Part Eight: “I Think I’ll Have … Strawberry”
Part Nine: “Wake Up, Be Bright, Be Golden and Light…”
Part Ten: “Proboscis Monkeys We”
Part Eleven: Andy is Waving Goodbye
Flying Near the Sun
Rob Buckley on Codename: Icarus, and adult drama for childrenPeep-peep, Pandit and ‘papers
TJ Worthington on Richard Carpenter and Look and ReadIn the Grip of Terror
Glenn Aylett on Grange Hill‘s Gripper StebsonWindows ’64
TJ Worthington on Play SchoolThere’s a Ghost in My Horse
TJ Worthington on Rentaghost“Space Goes on Forever”
TJ Worthington on Look and Read: “The Boy From Space”“And Now, For Younger Viewers…”
Steve Williams with a brief history of the Broom Cupboard“Everyone Sing His Name”
TJ Worthington on The Adventures of Rupert BearDays of Future Passed
David Sheldrick on TimeslipMusic of the Spheres
Jonathan Benton-Hughes on excavating the music of The ClangersLive on Arrival
Steve Williams on the rise and fall of Live & KickingDoctor Who
A collection of articles on Doctor WhoThe Man Who
An introduction to Doctor Who by Graham Kibble-WhiteSigns of the Times
Ian Jones on Doctor Who, popular culture and the politics of scienceWe are the Masters of Earth
Graham Kibble-White on the Doctor Who fanbaseTimed Travel
Ian Jones on Doctor Who in the schedulesWhy Doctor, You’ve Changed
by Jack Kibble-WhitePart One: “Carnival of Monsters”
Part Three: “The Faceless Ones”
Who? Me?
Andrew Collins on taking part in a Big Finish Doctor Who audio adventureBut is it Art?: The Extra Bits
Graham Kibble-White looks at the most successful Doctor Who stories ever“It’s Only What You Think That Matters … Only What You See”
David Sheldrick on Ace of WandsThe Norbridge Files
Stephen O’Brien and Jim Sangster on Press GangOur Brother in Magic
Robin Carmody on CatweazleLight and Shadows by Turns … But Always Love
Robin Carmody on Moondial