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Rekindling the spirits of lost television An absorbing new history of the interwar period, gleaned from the echoes left by early, experiment...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out today, and features another Who Connections piece by me, this time on Star Trek (pp. 44-49), ex...

You can now watch my talk, "The David McKee Sketchbook - The Origins of Mr Benn and Elmer", on YouTube: The talk was given on Frid...

The talk I gave on Doctor Who writers David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks for the York Festival of Ideas earlier this month is now up in full ...

I am in the Telegraph again, this time with a piece about the photographs that recently came to light of the never-broadcast dry-run episod...

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 ...

The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine is out today, featuring an exclusive extra comic and a  preview of the two episodes of Th...

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

A matter transporter in Star Trek works like a fax machine that destroys the original. That, effectively, is the case put by Dr Leonard McC...

I've written a piece for the Telegraph about the thrilling discovery, announced today, of two episodes of Doctor Who that have been lost...

The latest Doctor Who Magazine special edition is out today, The Yearbook 2026 . Among its wonders is something by me: How You Watch Who (p...

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...

I've written a piece for the Telegraph about Blake's 7 (£), in response to yesterday's story in Deadline  about a new reboot  w...