Mark Braxton
@braxtm.bsky.social
Journalist, nostalgist, outdoorsist. Classic and current telly, archive posts. Radio Times writer, from Doctor Who to Detectorists and beyond.
There is high-concept and then there's Space: 1999... Happy Breakaway Day to those who celebrate – as @radiotimes.bsky.social did last year... www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/ge...
How the spectacular Space: 1999 set the bar sky-high for TV sci-fi
As the high-reaching Gerry and Sylvia Anderson show turns 50, RT talks to family and fans about dreams, nightmares, lofty aims and a lasting legacy.
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"I really do think that the comedy becomes richer as we go on," producer John Howard Davies told @radiotimes.bsky.social as The Good Life returned for a new series on Friday 50 years ago. illustration by Barry Fantoni.
Remembering Radio Times's star photographer Don Smith, born #OTD in 1932, pictured in 1992 with a Rolleiflex camera bought around 1954 for £126 when he was earning £8 per week. Plus one of Don's classic portrait shots, of comedian Tony Hancock. @radiotimes.bsky.social
"Maybe we are all a bit Reggie..." The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is 50 years old today. What a joy it was to ask fan, writer and Reggie collaborator Simon Nye all about the classic sitcom for @radiotimes.bsky.social: www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/re...
Fancy a little light reading..? Coming very soon: The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin at 50. Stay on this channel. @radiotimes.bsky.social
We Three Kings... What an amazing privilege it was to see the reunion of Kathy, Charles and Nan – Hayley Mills, Alan Barnes and Diane Holgate – and hear their memories of making Whistle Down the Wind, after a BFI screening with a theatre full of fans. Thank you, Josephine Botting, for organising it.
I remember this @radiotimes.bsky.social illustration and billing, and how excited I was for a new season of #DoctorWho, as though it was yesterday. The Masque of Mandragora by Louis Marks is 50 years old today. www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do... @patrickmulkern.bsky.social
Remembering Pauline Collins, born #OTD in 1940. Photographed on 3 January 1969 with Polly James for the Comedy Playhouse pilot of The Liver Birds. @radiotimes.bsky.social
Derek Fowlds, born #OTD in 1937, photographed as Bernard Woolley in Yes Minister on 1 February 1981 by Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
Mr Saturday Night... Starsky and Hutch star David Soul, born #OTD in 1943, photographed in November 1976 by Jeremy Grayson for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
Oo-er! @radiotimes.bsky.social photos, taken by Don Smith, of the gifted and very funny actress Pat Coombs, who was born #OTD 100 years ago.
A wander down memory lane... @radiotimes.bsky.social celebrates The Duchess of Duke Street, nearly 50 and still doing well on Saturday nights... www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/duc...
Today is yesterday Everyday in Metroland* John Betjeman Night, full of archive treats, starts tonight at 10pm on BBC Four. Photos by @radiotimes.bsky.social *Words by OMD.
"He was a consummate actor and I think his performance was outstanding. It deserved the Bafta. Spielberg saw him in Edge of Darkness and took him off to do Jurassic Park, which was amazing." Ian McNeice on his co-star Bob Peck, born #OTD in 1945. Photo by Andrea Cringean for @radiotimes.bsky.social
UFO on positive track... Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's sci-fi series UFO lands on Rewind TV from today at 12 noon and 7.30pm. Here's a @radiotimes.bsky.social tribute to the series, written for its 50th anniversary: www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/uf...
As UFO celebrates its 50th anniversary, family and fans look back on a dark sci-fi classic
Remembered for its purple wigs and cars with gull-wing doors, Gerry and Sylvia's scary and thrilling first live-action TV series debuted in September 1970, and can now be viewed by a new generation.
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Happy birthday to Sylvester McCoy! 🎂🪐Photos as the seventh #DoctorWho by @radiotimes.bsky.social. A few months ago I asked him about the 1996 Movie and his time in the Tardis: www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...
Ah... Ludwig! The new series starts tonight at 9pm on BBC One. Does anyone else still think of the 1977 animation when seeing that name? I can't help thinking there are a few nods to it in the @radiotimes.bsky.social photoshoot by Rob Parfitt.
Boom! Boom!.... Happy birthday to Sir Tony Robinson, photographed as Private S Baldrick in Blackadder Goes Forth by @radiotimes.bsky.social
Human after all... The fantastic Fulton Mackay, born #OTD in 1922, photographed as the no-nonsense Mr Mackay in Porridge, sharing a laugh with Ronnie Barker's Fletch. Photo taken by Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
Happy birthday to Elizabeth Estensen 🎂 Photographed with her Liver Birds co-star Nerys Hughes on 25 January 1975 for @radiotimes.bsky.social
Capital gains... magnificent views and a friendly atmosphere on a Saturday stroll from Borough Market to Westminster...
Working under pressure... Remembering screenwriter Terry Nation, born #OTD in 1930, photographed by Don Smith in 1972 judging a Dalek competition for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
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.
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.
