Remembering Joan Hickson, born #OTD 120 years ago. On location in 1984 with Gwen Watford for the BBC's Miss Marple series. Photo by Jeremy Grayson for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
Mark Braxton
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Journalist, nostalgist, outdoorsist. Classic and current telly, archive posts. Radio Times writer, from Doctor Who to Detectorists and beyond.
Happy birthday to Barbara Flynn 🎂 Photographed, on location as Dr Rose Marie in A Very Peculiar Practice, by @radiotimes.bsky.social.
Remembering the great Louis Armstrong, born 125 years ago today, with this joyous portrait taken in the mid-60s by jazz fan Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
"It is always genuinely flattering when members of the public say, 'I grew up with you lot!'" So sad to hear of Bill Oddie leaving the stage, but I was thrilled to seek his input when celebrating The Goodies a few years ago... www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/go...
Vision On #OTD 50 years ago looked at Puddles and Pools. And there was another chance to see French drama Belle and Sebastian. @radiotimes.bsky.social
Happy birthday to David Essex, photographed on 19 June 1977 by Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social, and on the cover of Look-in magazine on 20 September 1975. 🍰 🏍️
There is a light that's never put out... Remembering Bill Pertwee – who played ARP Warden William Hodges in 60 episodes of #DadsArmy – on what would have been his 100th birthday. Portrait by Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
Remembering @gerryanderson.bsky.social with a rare @radiotimes.bsky.social interview from 2005: www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/ge... @fanderson1981.bsky.social @imjamieanderson.bsky.social #CaptainScarlet #Stingray #Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds legend Gerry Anderson: "I never grow up - it’s as simple as that"
Remembering Gerry Anderson with a special, in-depth Radio Times interview.
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On the anniversary of children's show Jigsaw, @radiotimes.bsky.social tracks down the comedy hero behind Cid Sleuth – and Vision On's The Prof. Take a bow, David Cleveland! www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/ci...
Relocating a piece of the Jigsaw: RT tracks down Cid Sleuth creator David Cleveland
On the anniversary of fondly remembered 1980s children's series Jigsaw, we celebrate a classic component of its success.
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All hail the DG! Happy birthday to actor, musician, comedian, voice artist and all-round children’s TV giant #DerekGriffiths. #PlaySchool #HeadsandTails #CabbagesandKings #Spacegoesonforever #PlayAway #RingaDing #Bod #Corrie...
Wake up...! I caught up with this chap, and asked him about his simply brilliant mini-masterpieces of comedy in the golden age of children's television. Coming soon. Stay on this channel... #CidSleuth #Jigsaw #TheProf #VisionOn
Lighting up a room... Penelope Keith as Margo in tonight's episode of The Good Life, showing as part of a BBC Four tribute night from 8.00pm: www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle looked like Dr. Watson. Agatha Christie looked like Miss Marple. This concludes our limited series of Authors Who Look Like Their Second Most Famous Creations.
As Dad's Army is on the telly tonight (8.20pm BBC Two), here are the top five moments from the show, as voted for by you in a @radiotimes.bsky.social poll in 2018 for the 50th anniversary. No prizes for guessing what came top! #DadsArmy
The reluctant globetrotter... Remembering Terry-Thomas, born #OTD in 1911. Radio Times spoke to him in 1968 in Rome while filming Monte Carlo Or Bust! "I'd much rather be at home with my wife and family, woodcarving, gardening or painting," he said. This gorgeous photo © @radiotimes.bsky.social
In this fascinating feature from @radiotimes.bsky.social in 2001, Mackenzie Crook and Martin Freeman were asked to sum up their characters at Wernham Hogg. The show made the cover of Radio Times on its return for a second series. Happy 25th anniversary to The Office! 🎂 🖥️ #TheOfficeat25
Happy birthday to Polly James, photographed with her Liver Birds co-star Nerys Hughes on 12 December 1970 for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
Remembering my first Doctor, Jon Pertwee, born #OTD in 1919. Photographed on the set of the #DoctorWho story The Mind of Evil in December 1970 by Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
That most thrilling of things, a summer repeat of a #DoctorWho story, began #OTD 50 years ago, so @radiotimes.bsky.social commissioned a brand-new illustration by the great Frank Bellamy – sadly, it was his last. Planet of Evil was that story, by Louis Marks: www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...
Planet of Evil ★★★★
Flesh-tingling anti-matter terrors await on Zeta Minor, in Elisabeth Sladen's favourite story
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Tales of the Riverbank, featuring Hammy Hamster, began #OTD in 1960. Last year Chris Packham kindly gave @radiotimes.bsky.social his thoughts on this children's classic...
