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Meanwhile in the sitting room of King's Farthing Inspector Pugh from the local constabulary is making notes in his notepad as he questions Lord and Lady Collingford, Cedric's parents about a burglary at the residence. P " where was the stolen property?" LC (points to mantelpiece) " over there...

In Duck Halt, the abandoned railway station that is home to Catweazle, he is reciting the rhyme, the flying spell he translated from the cellar of Kings Farthing, written on the wall by Cedric's great grandfather. CW " twelve are they that circle round, if power you seek they must be found. Look...

Pickle is agitated and says to Cedric, P " he's mad, he attacked me, I'm going to phone the police" Pickle marches off, Cedric can hear Catweazle from inside cupboard, cursing away, he opens door. CW" Owlface! He tricked me, he lied" Cd " buzz off quickly" CW " I am no bee" Cd " I told you...

Cedric runs after truck as it speeds off. About ten minutes later, the vehicle arrives at Pickle's business premises. The truck goes through wooden gates and into a covered yard. Mr Pickle get out and goes to back of vehicle and starts unloading. First he removes tricycle, and sees Catweazle...

Catweazle goes back to Cedric, sitting on grass on village green. Cd " jolly good, put them down" Cedric opens bottle of drink, it fizzes up out of bottle. CW " it boils ! It boils !" Cd " don't you like it fizzy?" Catweazle leaps up in fear and notices something, CW " look!" Cd " what's the...

Catweazle is sitting on the grass eating the food Cedric has provided, bread. Cd " finding you somewhere to live isn't going to be easy." CW " we must cast the runes, they will tell us." Cd " the runes?" Catweazle stands holding small sticks, three in each hand, he walks a few yards arms...

In the library Cedric and handyman Groome carry large books, encyclopedias, and put them down on the table. Lord Collingford is there, looking at the pile of junk cluttering the room. LC " amazing the rubbish one hangs on to isn't it" Gr " yes My Lord " Cd " Dad, if you were a hermit where would...

Catweazle recently having time travelled to the 20th century for a second time, is outside King's Farthing, the ancestral home of the Collingfords, it is early morning and Catweazle runs up to the mansion looking for a way in. He spies a half open ground floor window, pulls it up and climbs in...

Review by Archivetvmusings.com Geoff heads down to the country as Doomwatch’s representative at an inquest due to be held into the death of Marion Duffy, a ten year old girl who died from rabies. John McAlister (Robert Cawdron) from the Min. of Ag. and Fish believes that this rabies infection...

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...

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At first sight it looks as if you are being offered an easy chance of enriching yourself. The temptation is to take one box to get the million. For, if you take one box, won't the Predictor have anticipated your choice and put a million in that box? The expectation from the alternative two box...

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...