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First published on 16 July 1992, this was the second of a series of illustrated, non-fiction comedy titles written by Terrance Dicks for Pic...

I really enjoyed this engaging insightful study of the first Beatles movie, filmed and released in 1964. It’s the first book written by my f...

This second volume of prose adaptations of TV episodes was first published a year after the first, in February 1968. So says the indicia of ...

A fortnight ago, I was again at the BBC’s Written Archives Centre to undertake more research for my forthcoming biography of Terrance Dicks....

I've had a busy couple of weeks chasing about, and need to write up notes on various things read. Yesterday, I was at Riverside Studios ...

Who are the leading characters in the original Star Trek ? The front cover of this breezy paperback adaptation of seven early TV adventures ...

“If we want to capture something of the essence of working-class life … we must say that it is the ‘dense and concrete life’, a life whose m...

This short, 82-page novella first published in 1936 was recommended to me after I posted about the 1934 and 1941 editions of A Short History...

I read this compelling account of the early days of the American space programme — and the egos involved — an age ago, before my 2009 trip t...

I’ve greatly enjoyed this enormous, 540-page oral history of children’s television on the BBC between 1967 and 1997, published by Ten Acre B...