VeryBritishFuturesPodcast

Talking about SF television from the United Kingdom, both well known and forgotten. Find us on your favourite podcast app.

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

Incoming message! Thunderbirds are go on the latest episode of Very British Futures. Featuring Mel Byron, Scott Phipps and Daniel Reifferscheid from @tptvpodcast #PodcastEpisode #Fanderson #gerryanderson https://t.co/B479tnPDLf

[TPTV Encore @TPTVEncore]

🚨 LAST CHANCE to watch British horror classic The Quatermass Xperiment, starring Brian Donlevy & Jack Warner on @TalkingPicsTV's online cinema. It leaves the service tomorrow (Saturday) night) Visit https://t.co/epcnY14Oh2, 🔴Freeview82 or download the Encore app to watch.

[filmisfabulous @filmisfabulous]

Lost Late Night Horror Found

Film is Fabulous! has collaborated with Darren Payne of ‘Dirt in the Gate Movies’ to preserve a missing episode of BBC television:

Late Night Horror: No Such Thing As A Vampire (Broadcast: 19th April 1968)

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

Just finished the HBO Watchmen series for the first time. I was pleasantly surprised by its imagination, intelligence and strong performances. If there had to be a sequel to the graphic novel I'm glad it was this one.

[Sarah Morgan @sarahbabsmorgan]

I talk about it on the new-look @tptvpodcast https://t.co/lkOew7srSM

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

A brand new Talking Pictures TV podcast for May 2026. In a new roundtable format. I'll be talking about The Mummy (1959) amongst other films. @tptvpodcast #movie https://t.co/CpPjgGszbB

[Neil Clark @NeilClark66]

Morning Fawlty! I have a piece on that delightful actor Ballard Berkeley aka the Major in Fawlty Towers, in the latest edition of INTERMISSION, the glossy monthly magazine of @TalkingPicsTV
Also articles by me on Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Temple, the last of the Lancashire Cotton Queens and Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone. If you love film & tv history do consider taking out a subscription (it’s only £5 a copy P & P included)- it’s a great read and a great way of supporting the wonderful @TalkingPicsTV @Renown_Pictures

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

@sarahbabsmorgan Marvellous! I was hoping this film would get the deluxe treatment

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

@sarahbabsmorgan By coincidence, my grandfather took me, probably about 10, to the cinema to see the same double bill. And like you I was more bothered about Spider Man - The Dragon's Challenge. As it was, Ann-Margret made a big impression on me :)

[Sam Czopanser @czopanser]

Michael Skinner, a member of ABC television accounts dept until it was discovered that he was an expert on science fiction and had a large library of international material, was transferred to ABC's drama department as a research assistant on Out of This World.

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

Someone having a go at me for my politics suggested it was poor form that the highlight of my career had only been Threads.
It was A highlight, if not THE highlight.
Imagine something akin to Threads being the highlight of anyone’s career… & it being a source of derision! 😄

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

@HadcroftWill I would go for the second version

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

@CitizenTwice Thank you very much for your kind words. This was a joy to work on thanks to the thoughts of Simon Exton and Mark Stalker. And it is one of my favourite dramas.

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

Medium atomic weights are available. Celebrating Sapphire and Steel with guests Simon Exton and Mark Stalker, in the latest episode of Very British Futures https://t.co/509HOCM1P2

[Will Hadcroft @HadcroftWill]

Anyone who has messaged me privately in the last couple of weeks, I have been having trouble accessing messages. I've had to reset access codes and have lost the most recent communications. Sorry!

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

The final Thunderbirds episode we'll be considering is the unusual Alias Mr Hackenbacker, focusing on Lady Penelope and Brains. #gerryanderson #thunderbirds

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

@fredltaulbeejr @straczynski Good news. The BBC released a restored Blu-ray of the TV version a couple of years ago.

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

"This was a blast!" Our second Thunderbirds episode under discussion by Very British Futures will be "Attack of the Alligators". Having fun editing this one. #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson

[Will Hadcroft @HadcroftWill]

Congratulations to my good friend Lisa Topham who #published her first #book "Shadows of Yesterday".

[Fanderson @_Fanderson]

Remembering the legendary Gerry Anderson MBE, on what would have been his 97th birthday. #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson #fanderson

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

"It's so cinematic!" In the next episode of Very British Futures the team behind the Official Talking Pictures TV podcast join me to talk Thunderbirds. "Trapped in the Sky" is the first selected episode.