Richard Bignell
@NothingLane
Nothing at the End of the Lane - The Magazine of Doctor Who Research and Restoration
This video of the B-2 Stealth Bomber is cropping up a lot lately, but I can't help thinking it looks exactly like a shot that's come out of Century 21's studio in Slough in the 1960s! x.com/i/status/19366…
Six USAF B-2 stealth bombers dropped twelve, not six, 30k pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) on Iran's Fordow nuclear enrichment facility tonight. -CNN A total of 180 tons of bombs dropped on Fordow tonight.
August 1964: Good to see the Boy Scouts in Sidcup giving the Sensorites some love!
Terror of the Zygons + Q&A with Philip Hinchcliffe - our @bbcdoctorwho Series 13 event at 12pm on Sat 20 Sept 12pm @bfi Same day 10am Screening of Ian Marter doc from @ChrisChapman81 Tickets on sale 5 Aug to members & 7 Aug everyone else @bbcstudios
About the YouTube trailer…
That’s not representative of the master. There’s a total absence of grain which is present on what I delivered, while the DVD shows mpeg-2 compression of analogue noise. I believe the trailer went through at least 2 consecutive mp4 compressions and YouTube compresses further.
Does anyone happen to have a decent copy of this Daily Mirror howler from 2013 in their collection?
The pacy trailer for the November 1999 repeat of Spearhead from Space (which couldn't be included on the S07 Collection for various reasons) featured an odd non-DW cut-in shot of a colourful giant eye. I recall someone once identifying where it came from. Can anyone remember it?
All I can say is thank goodness we didn't have social media back in the seemingly-perfect classic series run. You can only imagine the online whinging that would have gone on over the likes of Genesis of the Daleks, The Deadly Assassin and The Armageddon Factor! 🤣🤣
The Seeds of Doom is by far and away my all-time favourite of the classic Doctor Who run, so it's very sad to hear that Michael McStay (who once sent me a fabulous letter about his time on the programme) died on Sunday, aged 92.
Fifty years ago today, this was the sad news... youtu.be/bq4zkS34nlI
Pop this on your Westminster Abbey photographic cut-out and you too can recreate your own version of The Quatermass Experiment!
Basket Starfish have so many branches/appendages it seems unreal out of the water
Back from another week-long stint at the BBC Written Archives for a further Doctor Who and Blake's 7 (plus a little bit of Quatermass) scanning mission. 6391 images procured. Nice to see Ncuti and Millie adorning the latest BBC Group Annual Report & Accounts publication.
At last I can announce the publication of my life’s work: The Quatermass Experiment - The Making Of TV’s First Sci-Fi Classic Published by Ten Acre Films in May. There’s also a numbered, limited edition hardback with exclusive artwork. Pre-order here: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/the-qu…
Forty-four years ago today, I filmed about 3½ minutes worth of the last episode of Logopolis on my Halina cine camera. Didn't know when the regeneration was going to happen, so I ran out of film before it was shown! Managed to get it on 2 June when it was repeated on Ask Aspel!
It always makes me chuckle when they have to specify in the scripts that space scenes are "Night"! 🤣
