Mark Braxton 💙
@BraxM
Radio Times journalist & fan of funny. Classic TV, music and pop-docs. Editor of Dad's Army at 50, and Monty Python at 50. Also on @braxtm.bsky.social
These are so bloomin' gorgeous. Brand new from Anderson Entertainment - part of our Thunderbirds anniversary range. Corrrrrrr! >> gerryanderson.com/collections/an…
Years of the Cat... Remember Cat Stevens's spellbinding set at Glastonbury in 2023, when his younger self sang to him on stage? See the half-hour In Concert from 1971 that the footage came from – repeated tonight on BBC4. It's utterly wonderful. @YusufCatStevens @RadioTimes
Such a characterful face. Here he is on the cover of @RadioTimes in July 1977...
Scottish roving reporter Fyfe Robertson began his own series of investigations, Robbie, #OTD 50 years ago. And am I dreaming it, or did the theme tune used to be the instrumental track Arrival by Abba? @RadioTimes
Scottish roving reporter Fyfe Robertson began his own series of investigations, Robbie, #OTD 50 years ago. And am I dreaming it, or did the theme tune used to be the instrumental track Arrival by Abba? @RadioTimes
A fox was the @RadioTimes cover star for the nature documentary Private Lives #OTD 50 years ago. @ChrisGPackham
Ian Carmichael was back as Lord Peter Wimsey in a four-part adaptation of Dorothy L Sayers' Five Red Herrings #OTD 50 years ago. Photo by Don Smith for @RadioTimes.
Penelope Keith, Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal and Paul Eddington rehearsing The Early Birds, tonight's episode of The Good Life at 8pm on BBC4. Photo taken on 13 June 1976 by Don Smith for @RadioTimes.
There was a Kenneth Williams Playhouse #OTD 50 years ago, featuring Miriam Margolyes and Lance Percival. Illustration for @RadioTimes by Alan Cracknell.
Thank you so much, Rodney. It was a treat to be reacquainted with an old friend. @ITV really ought to show the programme again in its entirety. It's a beauty.
A huge thank you to @BraxM for a superb chapter on Catweazle for our forthcoming book on Classic Children's TV. Mark has genuinely captured the magic - no pun intended - of one of the best-loved children's dramas. So good, it has put me in the mood to rewatch all 26 episodes...
Can't stop dreaming bout the world as one. #Peace #Birthday
Happy Birthday to our beloved pal Robin. Miss him every day.
Remembering Bill Pertwee, born #OTD in 1926. Photographed, as Chief Warden Hodges in #DadsArmy, by Don Smith for @RadioTimes.
The gang helped Albert get for a guide dog for the blind in Here Come the Double Deckers! #OTD 50 years ago. Also that day, Tom and Jerry engaged in some western-style cat-and-mouse games, and a rogue computer took control of the Enterprise in Star Trek @RadioTimes.
Remembering Dame Diana Rigg, born #OTD in 1938. Photographed for @RadioTimes in 1973 to promote her self-titled American sitcom.
Late to the party, but isn't Mark Gatiss marvellous as Gabriel Book in the new @alibi_channel crime drama #Bookish? I liked him, and it, instantly. Superb cast. I hope people will be able to see it on Freeview too, one day..?
The hugely underrated Bebop Deluxe, fronted by Bill Nelson, were on The Old Grey Whistle Test #OTD 50 years ago. @RadioTimes
Mike and Bernie Winters were top of the bill on Seaside Special #OTD 50 years ago. They were joined by The Three Degrees, singer and dancer Peter Gordeno and impressionist Paul Melba. @RadioTimes
