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George Markstein (1926  —  but perhaps 1929  —  to 1987) was a journalist and writer, probably best known as script editor of the first 13 e...

“Informed public opinion is infectious, even to governments.” (p. 149) Thursday, 30 July 1964 saw publication of two paperback “Penguin Spec...

This is a review of a comic science-fiction novel from 1968, sort of John Wyndham done as sitcom. Yet in poking fun at the mores and anxieti...

This is the last of the five Garry Halliday novelisations, published in 1965. That was three years after the last new episode of the TV seri...

How do you bring an audience up to speed on the story so far? I posted in April that the surviving episode of children's adventure seria...

In 1967, BBC Two broadcast a 13-episode anthology of adaptations of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle. The series was variously known ...

The new issue of the official  Doctor Who Magazine is out today. My regular Script to Screen feature (pp. 26-30) this time covers the slug-...

I'm ploughing on with my  episode guide to the BBC children's serial Garry Halliday (1959-62) , and ahead of an entry there on the f...

By fun coincidence, I received a copy of this book - recommended to me by various friends since publication last year - two days after happe...

I've posted the first two entries in what I hope will be an exhaustive guide to Garry Halliday , a BBC serial about the adventures of an...

River Cartwright is a nepo baby in MI5, his grandfather a retired top spook. But River cocks up a big operation and, in disgrace, is assigne...

You can now download for free the four-page postscript to my biography of David Whitaker , detailing some of the things I've learned sin...

I was in London for a bit on Saturday to attend the live recording of the final Eggpod , where I caught up with several good friends. Having...

This is a sharp, funny memoir by someone behind a glut of much loved children's TV, including Jackanory , Rentaghost and  Round the Twis...