He’s on OTHER podcasts?! 🤯

Trap One🎙Podcast@trapone.bsky.social · last mo.

Wishing a very happy birthday to our brilliant Trap One host @quiteamess.bsky.social 🥳 You can hear him on our recent episode revising the Season 21 Collection: Apple: tinyurl.com/4kkw8hfw Spotify: tinyurl.com/462zm8ar Podbean: tinyurl.com/yav65cab

New article is 5 Out-of-Reach British TV Programmes I’ve Never Seen. Many of these programmes only ever aired once and, somehow, escaped being preserved on home recordings. I may never get to see them.

5 Out-of-Reach British TV Programmes I’ve Never Seen

Five elusive TV programmes I may never actually get to see

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Cooper and Lambert have been assigned. Back to the cafe with a couple of classics and one I’m not sure if I saw.👍🏿 A great overview and reminder to rewatch even more stuff. The pile totters. Happy Day.👏🏿 🧟‍♂️ 🚸📺 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Cathode Ray's Podcast@cathoderays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#SapphireAndSteel, #ChildrenOfTheStones, and #NobodysHouse provide a feast of youthful 1970s TV chills for Hannah and Pete this time at Ray's... with Terrifying Children?! 💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

It's a YoLD bonus mini-edition covering those ten weeks in 1976 everyone's been banging on about this week. What were we watching? Drama in which nothing happens, cartoons in which everything happens, monumentally inane competitions and a touch of rabies. open.substack.com/pub/historyo...

Heatwave Summer Special: 23rd June – 27th August, 1976

“Soon they will kill all the sheep, wander away and live in little holes.”

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☀️ Ray's headed out to the beach on his trike to catch some rays, and as that's over 100 miles away we're taking a little minibreak until his return. Remember to unplug your aerial if it starts thundering, or to be extra safe nip out and take it down. ☀️

Late to the party but this is good stuff. Nice to see Death is a Good Living covered as it's a gem of a series, and thanks to Una I now know that Michael Powell directed episodes of Espionage which will encourage me to dig out the DVD set. Well worth a listen.

Cathode Ray's Podcast@cathoderays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers. 🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 ⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

Iconically brandishing there a classic Woods Ware Iris cup and saucer, the official crockery of @cathoderays.bsky.social , Ivy's of Holmfirth, a community centre in Ashes to Ashes and many many more.

𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨@agnes-guano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thelma Barlow – 97 today!

Celebrating Sue Townsend's wit and observational genius creating #AdrianMole, it's also important to remember her passionate campaigning against poverty - as Roy Hattersley did with this lovely response to an article she wrote (which is quoted in its replies).

Colm Murphy@colmpm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I hope Hull History Centre won't mind me sharing this lovely letter from Roy Hattersley's papers, on the sad news of his passing aged 93. RIP.

With a gap in the 2026 Christmas schedule for a returning children's favourite, how about a tender for plague victim prankster Nobody, a sepia psycho ghost girl, or a Happy Day of layline-fuelled psychosis?

Cathode Ray's Podcast@cathoderays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#SapphireAndSteel, #ChildrenOfTheStones, and #NobodysHouse provide a feast of youthful 1970s TV chills for Hannah and Pete this time at Ray's... with Terrifying Children?! 💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

#SapphireAndSteel, #ChildrenOfTheStones, and #NobodysHouse provide a feast of youthful 1970s TV chills for Hannah and Pete this time at Ray's... with Terrifying Children?! 💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

Do CRT TV programmes contain more terrifying children than TV terrifies? Hannah and Pete have been very brave for tackling some of this week's shows.

My absolute favourite campus-life drama. It is simultaneously spot on as to what it's like to work at a university and utterly, utterly bonkers. Also, I've been on committees with all these characters.

Matthew Sweet@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We love you: that’s why we’re here. My celebration of 40 years of A Very Peculiar Practice - with contributions from Peter Davison, Andrew Davies, Barbara Flynn and Davids Tucker and Troughton. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/71b8b80...

She's on OTHER podcasts?!

Trap One🎙Podcast@trapone.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Many happy reruns to Trap One agent and Cathode Ray's superspy @hannahcooper.bsky.social ! 🥂 Catch Hannah's thoughts on her first ever viewing of the Dr Who TVM in our latest episode, and exploring other TV greats fortnightly at @cathoderays.bsky.social 📺

Saved this for the drive home!

Cathode Ray's Podcast@cathoderays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers. 🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 ⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

We challenged ourselves to give a taste of three espionage shows in about an hour, and it was a blast! As a complete newbie there was so much to take in. Head to @cathoderays.bsky.social ...but watch your back 🥷

Una McCormack@unamccormack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I massively enjoyed doing this: watched episodes of shows I’d never seen before. Plus bonus Michael Powell content!

I listened to this earlier today and I thought it was brilliant. Three series I’ve never seen (including one I’d never heard of) but now I really want to watch them all.

Cathode Ray's Podcast@cathoderays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers. 🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 ⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

I massively enjoyed doing this: watched episodes of shows I’d never seen before. Plus bonus Michael Powell content!

Cathode Ray's Podcast@cathoderays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers. 🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 ⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers. 🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 ⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

What's that? You want MORE Leonard Rossiter than this? As you've probably never seen him before?

We're entering a suspicious world for our next episode... Here's what's coming up on Ray's specials board this week!

When you're encouraged to use AI creating an upcoming presentation at work...

We're not sure We love you ...is a lyric so deftly ambiguous and unsettling, it should've been a huge hit single! We'd love to know if a full-length version was ever recorded? Elkie Brooks absolutely takes you there. #AVeryPeculiarPractice youtu.be/04qsAE5ZuX8?...

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We can neither confirm nor deny Ray’s influence on broadcasting decisions, but our latest episode has obviously gone down well.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PSA: A Very Peculiar Practice starts on BBC Four tonight.

And just like that, A Very Peculiar Practice pulls up on the iplayer - the power of Catastrophe Theory?

Cathode Ray's Podcast@cathoderays.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Had enough of this malarkey? Need a fresh start? Dive with us into 70s suburban rebirth, twisted 80s academia and 40s/90s blitz hopping! via #ReginaldPerrin #AVeryPeculiarPractice & #GoodnightSweetheart 🥸 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🩺 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 💣 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

One of us was influenced by the music of Goodnight Sweetheart…

Cathode Ray's Podcast@cathoderays.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Had enough of this malarkey? Need a fresh start? Dive with us into 70s suburban rebirth, twisted 80s academia and 40s/90s blitz hopping! via #ReginaldPerrin #AVeryPeculiarPractice & #GoodnightSweetheart 🥸 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🩺 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 💣 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

Had enough of this malarkey? Need a fresh start? Dive with us into 70s suburban rebirth, twisted 80s academia and 40s/90s blitz hopping! via #ReginaldPerrin #AVeryPeculiarPractice & #GoodnightSweetheart 🥸 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🩺 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 💣 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

This coming week we're looking at characters who have all decided on a fresh start, somewhere else, perhaps as someone else... Here's what's on the Cathode Ray's specials board.

When #TheTripods series 1 finale rewarded our patience with the coolest TV laser battle of the 80s

Cathode Ray's Podcast@cathoderays.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In The Machine Stops, Out of the Unknown shows us a world where people can circumnavigate the globe in a couple of hours, but find it a rather tiresome bother.

Listened to this. Then I watched a show, and bought a novelisation of a missing show. So I guess I liked it!

Cathode Ray's Podcast@cathoderays.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Machines have taken over! But Conrad Westmaas @hairofthehound.bsky.social has joined the fightback at Ray's Café, as we dive into #AForAndromeda, #TheTripods and #TheMachineStops from #OutOfTheUnknown. 🌌 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🧢 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🛑 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y