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Retro TV fan. BBC Archive & R4+ Addict. Doctor Who. Twin Peaks. Blakes' 7. Nigel Kneale. Cinema. Horror. Hairspray metal. The Young Ones. 2000 A.D. Misty. Scream!.Advocate of the rum & Uncanny. MST3K❤️keep circulating the tapes. Labradoodle owner, 2 of them

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Goodnight from the all-night sausage stall on Ashcourt’s Markham Street, where gossip about the Smiling Man is an engine of shudders. Goodnight from The Half Moon, where Joxy Collins is convinced the stuffed crow perching on its walnut bar just blinked and cawed at him. Goodnight from Hookland.

06.03.2026 22:01 👍 237 🔁 28 💬 18 📌 3

This should be a sister piece to Tom Baker's 'Day in the Life' column for The Sunday Times.

06.03.2026 20:23 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Edit. The 5th Doctor stuck in the confession dial trying to remember who the lad in the picture is.

Edit. The 5th Doctor stuck in the confession dial trying to remember who the lad in the picture is.

Never far from our thoughts.

06.03.2026 20:08 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Wasn't it cut due the episode being too long for international screenings? Sure I read that somewhere

06.03.2026 14:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So is 'Firefly' coming back and is it just an Audible thingy

05.03.2026 22:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watching a horror film called 'The Sand' because I always need to feed my 70's irrational fear of quicksand

05.03.2026 16:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Say You Love Satan 80s Horror Podcast | Free Listening on Podbean App 80s Horror Podcast. NO ONE UNDER 18 PERMITTED. Strong Sexual Content Including Nudity, Violence, Gore, Language, Witchcraft, Devil Worship, and Drug Use. Hosts:

I'm listening to Say You Love Satan 80s Horror Podcast on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/pa/dir-jhfm8...

I miss these guys

05.03.2026 16:44 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A folk horror event poster with mustard yellow borders and a central painted illustration. The artwork shows the same shadowy tentacled figure against a sunset sky. Text reads "TEASEL & SKYLARK" at top, then "The General Witchfinders are here to ensure the harvest is met. It is time to keep your appointment with... FOLK HORROR." Event details at bottom: "GENERAL WITCHFINDERS FIRST LIVE EVENT" at The Kings Arms Hotel, Dorchester; tickets £8 from teasandkylark.com/events and in store; Tuesday 7PM/5th May.

A folk horror event poster with mustard yellow borders and a central painted illustration. The artwork shows the same shadowy tentacled figure against a sunset sky. Text reads "TEASEL & SKYLARK" at top, then "The General Witchfinders are here to ensure the harvest is met. It is time to keep your appointment with... FOLK HORROR." Event details at bottom: "GENERAL WITCHFINDERS FIRST LIVE EVENT" at The Kings Arms Hotel, Dorchester; tickets £8 from teasandkylark.com/events and in store; Tuesday 7PM/5th May.

A painting of a shadowy humanoid figure standing in a green field at sunset. The figure has a featureless black head with green leafy growths and dark tentacle-like appendages extending outward. It wears a striped vest with a black belt featuring a gold crescent buckle, black trousers, and black boots. The background shows an orange and yellow sky with a bright sun, plus silhouettes of standing stones and a satellite dish.

A painting of a shadowy humanoid figure standing in a green field at sunset. The figure has a featureless black head with green leafy growths and dark tentacle-like appendages extending outward. It wears a striped vest with a black belt featuring a gold crescent buckle, black trousers, and black boots. The background shows an orange and yellow sky with a bright sun, plus silhouettes of standing stones and a satellite dish.

A text-heavy promotional poster with mustard yellow background and dark red/brown typography. The text describes a folk horror event hosted by The General Witchfinders Podcast in league with Teasel and Skylark bookshop in Dorchester. It mentions Hammer Horror, Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man, and Nigel Kneale, plus live music from The Flaming Cactus Band and The Whitley Lake Band. The event culminates in the launch of the latest General Witchfinders Zine with Beltane-inspired content. Recommended for ages 15+.

A text-heavy promotional poster with mustard yellow background and dark red/brown typography. The text describes a folk horror event hosted by The General Witchfinders Podcast in league with Teasel and Skylark bookshop in Dorchester. It mentions Hammer Horror, Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man, and Nigel Kneale, plus live music from The Flaming Cactus Band and The Whitley Lake Band. The event culminates in the launch of the latest General Witchfinders Zine with Beltane-inspired content. Recommended for ages 15+.

A promotional poster with a mustard yellow background featuring the cover of "General Witchfinders" zine Issue 4 Beltane 2026. The cover illustration shows a hare with blood-red eyes, blackened antlers, and pink fungal growths emerging from its body against a green gradient background. The zine is subtitled "the 'zine of horrific british horror" in Gothic lettering. Below the cover, text reads: "OFFICIAL LAUNCH EVENT FOR GENERAL WITCHFINDERS ZINE ISSUE FOUR."

A promotional poster with a mustard yellow background featuring the cover of "General Witchfinders" zine Issue 4 Beltane 2026. The cover illustration shows a hare with blood-red eyes, blackened antlers, and pink fungal growths emerging from its body against a green gradient background. The zine is subtitled "the 'zine of horrific british horror" in Gothic lettering. Below the cover, text reads: "OFFICIAL LAUNCH EVENT FOR GENERAL WITCHFINDERS ZINE ISSUE FOUR."

EXCITING NEWS!

We’re holding our first LIVE General Witchfinders event with Dorchester’s Teasle & Skylark Bookshop.

Tue, May 5th for a talk on Folk Horror & the launch of our next zine!

Tickets: tinyurl.com/gwL1VE

Zine cover by @scoobtoobins.bsky.social
Poster art by @jonpountney1.bsky.social

03.03.2026 22:52 👍 34 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 2

Fair comment. All the clips have been from S1 and S2 in the shonkiest quality imaginable and they are hilarious

04.03.2026 12:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My feed has been spewing up Torchwood clips all week and after watching a few I've concluded it's all bleakly funny cheesey crap

04.03.2026 12:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Another version of ShadaaaaaaaHHHHH

01.03.2026 23:36 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Superb. Bravo. Superb. Like Black Mirror on crack
#Goodluckhavefundon'tdie

01.03.2026 11:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If it was an inflight movie, I’d still walk out.

28.02.2026 23:11 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1

Jon Dear makes my Stranger Things T-shirt look like I woefully underdressed for this interview

28.02.2026 20:01 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Yep. That's what you get. Very generous of them

28.02.2026 11:58 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Look at them all l
Pretending to like 'Warriors of the Deep'

28.02.2026 11:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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#totp

27.02.2026 20:49 👍 47 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 1

Didn't know about that Misty omnibus. This knowledge is going to cost me

27.02.2026 21:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sharleen’s got her hair back after a custody battle with Natalie Imbruglia #TOTP

27.02.2026 19:06 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Ex-MasterChef host Gregg Wallace drops legal claim against BBC

The former MasterChef host was suing the broadcaster and its subsidiary BBC Studios Distribution Limited for up to £10,000 in damages over allegations they failed to disclose his personal data, which caused him
"distress and harassment".

Ex-MasterChef host Gregg Wallace drops legal claim against BBC The former MasterChef host was suing the broadcaster and its subsidiary BBC Studios Distribution Limited for up to £10,000 in damages over allegations they failed to disclose his personal data, which caused him "distress and harassment".

TA-RA, YOU SHITTER

TA-RA, YOU SHITTER

27.02.2026 16:19 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 1
Moments before he was ripped to shreds, Edgar vaguely recalled having seen that same obnoxious tie earlier in the day.

Moments before he was ripped to shreds, Edgar vaguely recalled having seen that same obnoxious tie earlier in the day.

Moments before he was ripped to shreds, Edgar vaguely recalled having seen that same obnoxious tie earlier in the day.

27.02.2026 17:15 👍 2424 🔁 643 💬 7 📌 20

Bushy eyebrow friction causes an incendery spark

26.02.2026 22:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah. Words kind of failed me over this loss.
Start the tape Holly

26.02.2026 19:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

RIP Rob Grant. Too young

26.02.2026 18:47 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
BBC Sounds - Jules Verne - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Jules Verne on BBC Sounds.

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A high spirited entertaining romp with some dated attitudes not marring things too much. 19 days to enjoy

25.02.2026 18:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I never like calling the Cat and Dog home about boarding my dogs as they always enter the room and stare at me like they know

25.02.2026 16:10 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Aren't we all. He'll probably be USB enabled this time so not worthy of the 'Ever Ready red logo'

25.02.2026 12:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's 'Torchy the Battery Boy' isn't it.

Isn't it ?

25.02.2026 11:56 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

‘The War Between the Land and the Sea’ is out today on DVD and Blu-ray, invalidating its message about flooding the world with unwanted plastic.

23.02.2026 09:21 👍 130 🔁 35 💬 10 📌 4

On set interview with Mcgann, the trailer for the movie and a BBC video trailer on a loop

22.02.2026 16:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0