Jon Preddle 🇳🇿

Author of Timelink, and creator / researcher / writer of the BroaDWcast website, and co-creator / writer of The UK Hardy Boys website

[Jim Trenowden @trenowden]

The definitive guidebook will be published by @devonfirebooks, following the production of the series from inception through to the various attempts to get a spin-off launched, delving into the making of each episode and the globetrotting filming that brought it to life.

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@la_riviere Hello!

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

In my idle moments, I got Dzine AI to animate loads of Doctor Who book covers, then asked Suno AI to write songs about them. I love this soul tune, about the inspirational effect on 70s kids of Target paperbacks by Terrance Dicks et al... Longer video in link 👇

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50 years ago today (30 June 1975), NZ's second TV channel commenced broadcasts, albeit in Auckland and Christchurch only. Everything was now in colour (but we only had a b/w set). One of big-ticket highlights was Colditz, but best of all for me was a repeat of Thunderbirds!

[Darren_Lit Roundels🤷🏻‍♂️ @LRoundels]

K9 and Company sung by Lalla Ward😁

[Rob Ritchie @Robritchie409]

I don’t understand the criticism aimed at the modern Doctor Who regeneration effects. Personally, I think they’re so effective they should be retroactively added to all classic stories as the standard.

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@ChrisChapman81 It was November 1977; Williams and Baker went to West Germany and visited British Forces schools in Celle and Fallingbostel. They also went to a tank training facility, and attended a publicity function at the British Forces TV station.

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@Dalek6388 @UnLink250 The Daleks appeared on The Mike Douglas Show, broadcast (live?) from Cleveland Ohio on 5 June 1966. (This ep might still exist; there are lots of clips from 1966 editions of TMDS on YouTube.)

[NZ Transport Agency - Waikato & Bay of Plenty @nztawbop]

We've finished our work on the Ngāruawāhia section of the Waikato Expressway, and the speed limit is now 110km/h. If you're travelling north of Hamilton you now have a clear run on the expressway. We know our work has been disruptive – thanks very much for your patience.

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I know it's a long shot, but does anyone know the name of the artist who did this book cover?

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@David__Brunt Still here...

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@Blakes7Diary

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@Blakes7Diary These are off airs from a repeat in New Zealand in mid 1980s. Also Photo of NZ release of The Beginning.

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@la_riviere Brilliant as always. But why does Scott push/pull the levers when TB1 gets to the bottom of the ramp? IS it to open activate the pool hatchway? Or is it a brake? What happens if he forgets or mistimes it? Why isn't it automated? I need to know!

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@filmisfabulous Also key are film stock codes and stamps. Are you cataloguing that info as well?

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@CleverPrime @SAndreyechen @drwhopodcasters Davison is a musician, so it may have been something he composed. But there's no music copyright noted for the 'tune' or to him as 'composer' in the PasB. Maybe four short blasts on a recorder is not sufficient to count as a tune that can be copyrighted?

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@CleverPrime @drwhopodcasters @SAndreyechen The fifth Doctor tootles on a recorder in Castrovalva 1. But that might just be random notes rather than an actual tune.

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@NothingLane I have a copy of Nation's original draft of 'The Invaders' which was rewritten as 'Breakdown'. But that's S1 so prob too late to include that now.

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@la_riviere @kevinjondavies Doing it in haste could be why they've plonked Alan into TB2's cockpit rather than TB3?

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@trenowden @philnewmandsign Many of the programmes BBC Enterprises sold overseas were selected by them *because* they were big hits in the UK, so yes, these high-rating Light Entertainment, Comedy and Drama were always offered to the colonies, thus increasing their survival as film copies.