I heart BBC4
I'm loving BBC4 at the moment. It's season on British Sci-Fi is a real telly feast.
Tonight, for example, kicked off with a repeat of The Day of the Triffids, one of the programmes that really scared the sh*t out of me when I was little.
Seeing it again was a real nostalgia hit, although second time around I was less worried about the motile pitcher plants and more disturbed by the early Eighties fashions.
Yellow jump suits. *shudder*
Then there was a fascinating documentary about Utopias (and dystopias) in British Sci Fi. All the way from A Brave New World to Brazil via 1984, Judge Dredd and Doctor Who. All excellently researched, with knowledgeable experts, and presented by a syrupy-toned Peter Capaldi*.
It was the telly equivalent of a lovely warm soup with crunchy bits.
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*I sat opposite Peter Capaldi in a restaurant once. I kept saying to my friends "that's Peter Capaldi!!", and they kept saying "who's Peter Capaldi?".
Tonight, for example, kicked off with a repeat of The Day of the Triffids, one of the programmes that really scared the sh*t out of me when I was little.
Seeing it again was a real nostalgia hit, although second time around I was less worried about the motile pitcher plants and more disturbed by the early Eighties fashions.
Yellow jump suits. *shudder*
Then there was a fascinating documentary about Utopias (and dystopias) in British Sci Fi. All the way from A Brave New World to Brazil via 1984, Judge Dredd and Doctor Who. All excellently researched, with knowledgeable experts, and presented by a syrupy-toned Peter Capaldi*.
It was the telly equivalent of a lovely warm soup with crunchy bits.
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*I sat opposite Peter Capaldi in a restaurant once. I kept saying to my friends "that's Peter Capaldi!!", and they kept saying "who's Peter Capaldi?".
Tranny and TV are on holiday.
He played Uncle Rory I do believe.
Magic stuff.
It first reared its head in "Space: 1999"; the show where each week you were treated to the sight of a grown man screaming hysterically, then expanded into shows such as "Moonbase 3", "Star Maidens" (fashion for men), "Quatermass" (the one with John Mills), "Survivors", "Day of the Triffids", "Blake's 7" and "Star Cops" and finally HTV's "Knights of God" before dying a death...along with all other British sci-fi drama for the next 10-15 years. Personally, I blame Judith Hann.
Wonderful series.
(Unless they ruin it.) :-)
.... Oooh wrong genre...
Dystopias. Ahhh... Give me the future: the dark future. You can keep your flying cars and silver jumps suits. Give me railguns, biotech and a sky the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel. :)
Neverwhere. That was a quality (if short) series.
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