We’ve covered Doomwatch before – the unlikely hit BBC TV programme about the exciting adventures of a Government department which aired for three series in the early 70s. Such a huge hit was the TV show, that […]
Go With Me is the kind of lower budget thriller that Hollywood seemed to make by routine back in the day, but since the inexorable rise of the blockbuster it has become more of the preserve of […]
In one of the extras writer and director William Peter Blatty (author of The Exorcist) describes The Ninth Configuration as two acts comedy, with a final act of dramatic resolution. And to a certain degree […]
This delightfully silly series is a huge success for two main reasons. Firstly the casting of Michael Aldridge and Robin Bailey as our investigative heroes Charters and Caldicott is superb. Secondly the script, by ace journalist […]
The Sign of Four, also made originally to be screened on HBO in 1983 like The Hound of the Baskervilles, isn’t quite as successful as the other Sir Arthur Conan Doyle adaptation. It’s possibly more […]