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In 37,166 AD, the time traveling alien known as the Doctor (Doctor 4) and his companion Sarah Jane Smith answer a distress call on the planet Zeta Minor. At first the Doctor is accused of murder when they arrive but soon he discovers there is more going on than simply murder and it involves antimatter. ("The Planet of Evil" Doctor Who, TV)

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The Man Who Finally Died: based on an ITV serial written by Lewis Greifer from 1959, then adapted for the big screen by Greifer and Louis Marks in 1963. John Burke novelised the script for Pan that same year, with cover art by Sam Peffer.

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Episode Two of Planet of Giants is all queued up for tomorrow! To celebrate, here is possibly my all-time favourite bit of InfoText. Louis Marks, I salute your florid didascalia. And indeed whichever gleeful archivist-type worded this observation.

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Special Branch: Reported Missing (2.12, Thames, 1970)

"Windsor; Oxford; shopping in the King's Road, Chelsea!"

"Their government wants them to be seen around, plenty of press coverage."

"But you told me I was going to hand them over to Chief Inspector Edgeworth!"

"That's right, but he's been called down to Porton."

"Leaving me to be wet nurse to these load of Russians!"

"Jordan, you know you'll do it very well. Now, ballet dancers are part of a very important cultural exchange and they call for VIP security treatment."

"You know, you sound like a government white paper."

"I know, I know, it's Moxon's influence. Now off you go."

#special branch #Special branch rewatch #Reported missing #1970 #classic tv #derren nesbitt #Fulton mackay #Morris Perry #Nicola pagett #Rachel Herbert #Brian wilde #Brian hanes #Milos kirek #Sheila ruskin #Roger kemp #Ron hickey #Dennis vance #Louis marks #Regular readers of the waffling I do in the tags of my old TV posts (so basically that means just you @thisbluespirit) can only imagine #The creeping unease that came over me when Louis Marks' name appeared over the opening scene. Marks was to put it mildly an uneven #Writer whose works can be frustratingly patchy or downright disappointing. He did some good stuff too and I'm happy to say he was having a #Good day when he wrote this penultimate episode of the nesbitt era SB. Having played an increasingly background role in the last few #Mackay's supt Inman takes centre stage for a slightly bitter and rather mournful episode about attempted defections from the Russian ballet #Like so much of this earlier era this too has its origins in the real world: Rudolf Nureyev had famously defected from the soviet Union #Whilst touring Paris in 1961 and the years after this episode aired would see several more high profile defections from Russian artists #Pagett is excellent as always and even once she is exposed as more manipulative and scheming than first thought she still has a beautiful #Scene at the end which keeps her sympathetic. Mackay is at his best in those closing scenes too. Lovely Rachel Herbert rocks up as a kgb #Minder with a thick Russian accent and Brian wilde is as perplexed and stuttery as ever. The ending is hardly a surprise but it's still #Effective and surprisingly moving. A very human episode and one of the highlights of Marks' writing career

Doomwatch: The Human Time Bomb (2.10, BBC, 1971)

"Look, we don't intend to imprison a lot of people in little boxes like a lot of broiler chickens."

"I'd say that's exactly what you are doing."

"On the contrary! We want people to be happy."

"Of course, every farmer knows that unhappy chickens go off their feed."

#doomwatch #The human time bomb #Bbc #classic tv #1971 #John Paul #Jean trend #Simon oates #Patrick godfrey #philip bond #Roddy mcmillan #John quayle #Kevin brennan #Joan Phillips #Talfryn thomas #Ray Armstrong #Ursula hirst #Doreen andrews #Joan kemp welch #Louis marks #Oh louis marks you clod. This is an intensely frustrating experience because although the episode as a whole is a bit of a dud as #@thisbluespirit had warned it does contain the framework of something very very good. The horrors of high rise living was (and to a degree #Remains) a very timely and relatable concern. And again the show accurately comes down on the right side of things in predicting that #Anonymous grey blocks of living space have a detrimental effect on mental health and overall wellbeing. But marks spoils it by focusing so #Much of the episode on what a troubled lady dr Chantry is and how her feeble woman self can't stand up to the strains of investigation (the #Same dr chantry who quite capably coped with a deadly virus killing schoolchildren in her first episode) and by having Ridge and worse #Quist treat her like a hysterical little girl. It's horribly patronising and entirely out of character for them all (well certainly Chantry #And Quist). A strong but large guest cast means great actors like McMillan and Philip Bond are sidelined in very minor roles #A lot of potential here for a j. G. Ballard style critique of batteryfarm living but let down by Marks' mishandling of the leads #Kemp welch's direction however is urgent and effective so this is at leasy more compelling than the islanders

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Doctor Who Television Review: The Masque of Mandragora

Title: The Masque of Mandragora Story Number: 86 Season: 14 Screenwriter: Louis Marks Director: Rodney Bennett Thoughts: Coming near the end of a legendary run pairing Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen, this is an example of how even the “lesser” stories of the era were still pretty good. The TARDIS escapes the Mandragora Helix, landing in 15th-century San Marino, bringing a piece of the helix with…

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Talking Pictures has been screening the surviving episodes of Doomwatch recently, the screenings of season two nearing their end with this week’s broadcast of the remarkably prescient “The Human Time Bomb” by Louis Marks. The episode was first broadcast in 1971, four years before JG Ballard’s equally recommended novel, High Rise.

It’s actually scary seeing how the themes covered in this show are still relevant today. Very surprised no real attempt has been made to properly revive it.

There’s a useful Quick Guide to Missing Episodes here that also notes that behind the scenes differences may have led to its cancellation.

By Anthony Brown and Scott Burditt THE political and scientific thriller series DOOMWATCH centred on a team of scientists led by the incorru

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Reviewed: The Essential Terrance Dicks - Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks (Target)

Reviewed: The Essential Terrance Dicks - #DoctorWho and the Day of the Daleks (Target)

Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks is one of the best of the Target novels. You will be amazed to hear that it is based on the television story entitled Day of the Daleks. I can remember its first broadcast, even though I was still at primary school; I found it absolutely entrancing and didn’t then notice that the Daleks themselves were oddly static or that their voices weren’t great, though I…

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