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Always a joy to find another Robert Holmes written episode of any series, because it's usually pretty good. The Dr Who and Blake's 7 writer here comes up trumps with this Doomwatch script. Watched this last evening and it was gripping, but not in the usual Robert Holmes way. Story- A little...

Note- Gruebleen ( Green/Blue) first appeared in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. All Emeralds, examined, are Green, the unexamined ones, not yet dug up, are presumed Green too. Now introduce a new property Grue, which is defined as; Grue things are examined and Green or unexamined and Blue. Not...

Already being talked about as a must listen to new album of 2023, The Church forthcoming release The Hypnogogue is being drip fed to us eager fans. Two tracks so far made available by the band. It'll be 6 years since their last release in 2017 when The Hypnogogue sees the light of day in March...

Statement 1 " All ravens are black" is logically equivalent to; Statement 2 " Nothing which is not black is a raven." A white pen confirms the second but surely does not confirm the first, although they say the same. To say 1 is logically equivalent to 2 is to say that in every possible...

Before you are two boxes, a transparent one containing £10,000, and an opaque one which contains £1,000,000 or nothing. You have a choice between taking the opaque box alone or taking both of them. A Predictor with a highly successful record predicted whether you are going to take both boxes or...

There is nothing illegal about asking someone for money, nor is it illegal to report someone's theft. But if, for example, you threaten to expose someone's crime unless she pays you money, you are guilty of blackmail. Why? This case has the superficial appearance of a paradox, but although...

17 is an interesting number because it is the only prime which is the sum of four consecutive primes: 17= 2+3+5+7. It seems unlikely however that every natural number is interesting. But every natural number must be interesting, for if this were not so there would be a first uninteresting...

THE PARADOXICAL QUESTION 1 Markosian's Paradox ( paper author- Yunji Ellen Shi of the LSE) In the paper The Paradox of the Question, Ned Markosian told the following story: during an international conference of leading philosophers, an angel miraculously appeared. The angel claimed to be the...

Catweazle is in the woods hiding behind a tree, spying a strange sight. A middle-aged man, in a raincoat carrying a shotgun stops in a clearing, checks that nobody is around, then fires into the air. The man, Colonel Upshaw, then walks off, leaving Catweazle clutching his ears, and wailing...

Catweazle is in the woods, crouching down sharpening his knife Adamcos on a stone,satisfied he stands. CW " now Adamcos even thistledown will fall to thy blade." He puts blade back in its sheath around his neck. Then picks up a telephone receiver he acquired recently at the local vicarage (ep...

Catweazle, the magician from 1066, who escaped from The Normans and ended up in 1970's England runs into Hexwood Farm Yard, looking for Carrot, the young boy who befriended him. He looks skyward as an aeroplane roars overhead. Confused and scared he turns looking for a hiding place, he sees...

Catweazle is in the woods near his Castle Saburac water tank home. He is looking for Touchwood his toad, when he sees a strange sight, strange to him. Naturalist Professor Fitton is crouching down in the woods, tape recorder slung over his shoulder, and a high tech ( for 1970) microphone...

Just watched this again, a very memorable episode. There's something magnetic about watching episodes about killer rats. There's a real gory scene at the end, and it's quite disturbing to think what would happen if rats got acquired some real intelligence. SYNOPSIS Doomwatch are alerted to...

Diane Morgan as Cunk, created by Charlie Brooker in various mockumentary series.

Just rewatched this episode, very good. Patrick Troughton as a diseased ex Naval Officer suffering from Myelitis and Wilson's disease, with the help of his medical genius son in law has cheated death by hooking himself to a life support machine as his body wastes away, leaving him a head only...

Some intriguing photos from this "thoroughly evil" series as Mary Whitehouse called it.

Hilarious comedy with Matt Berry playing Steven Toast , an actor, who isn't exactly successful. Full of madcap characters. Appearances by Louise Jameson, Paul Darrow Peter Davison among others. 1. Addictive Personality Actor Steven Toast is informed by agent Jane Plough that Braz magazine...

A very interesting story from series 1, about the extremes of advertising including subliminally transmitted instructions to unsuspecting public. Maurice Roeves , Stott from Dr Who Caves of Androzani is great in this. Archivetvmusings review below, as mentioned the tension between Quist and...

With Sympathy '83 - Revenge Twitch '86 - Over The Shoulder

Review by Archivetvmusings, plus highlighted additions by me. In my thread "Doomwatch ranked Worst to Best" this episode ranked high at number 3, but for reasons of comedic entertainment, this after watching it again, first time in 6 years, I find unfair. It's definitely worthy of its high...