MANY HAPPY RETURNS, WOODSY FROM SCOOP!

 

Happy Birthday Woodsy!

There's No Escape Batman!

 Tracking down clones or origins of Sixties TV character toy guns is fun.

Here's another.

Lincoln's cool Batman Escape Gun.

And here are it's clones or maybe origins.

Do you have any of these? 

Larami Space Shooter. Presumably a later clone.

Unbranded Satellite and Rocket Pistol. Could these be older than Lincoln's gun?

Images: courtesy of Ebay

THE DALEK CHRONICLES: THE EMISSARIES OF JEVO

 

By Altered Vistas' Stuart Palmer, it gives me great pleasure to present once more his short animation from 2015 of the Dalek Chronicles: The Emissaries of Jevo.

BILL EV'S URBAN LEGEND

Bill Everatt has sent me this great graphic for this week's coming Urban Legend

on Celtica Radio.

A LOOK AT A TRIO OF X-SERIES ROCKETS

 As Christmas is almost upon us I'm getting nostalgic thoughts of past Christmas presents, so time to dig out some old space toys, and although all the X - series have been featured from time to time on the Blog, my favourites are these three. 

As far as I'm aware there's 8 in the set, beginning with X-20, and ending with X - 90. (There may well be an X-10 I'm unaware of!) Apart from my three rockets, there's a  rocket car, a robot, a  race car,  based on the real 'The Spirit of America land speed racer,  'a satellite launcher, and a Gemini space capsule. 

Mine are X- 30 Space Explorer, X-40 Space Rocket, and a rebranded Century 21 toys X-60 Space Rocker & Launch truck..

TOM BAKER'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM CYGNUS ALPHA EVENTS

 

The great Tom Baker's Christmas message over on Cygnus Alpha Events on You Tube. He's 91. I thought I'd put in on MC [and I assume its not AI!]

The 4th Doc, Tom and his scarf, was part of that magnificent back-to-back pairing from my own generation's Dr. Who, with the fabulous Jon Pertwee immediately before him as the 3rd, my personal favourite.

Who was your favourite or back-to-back Doctors?

CHRISTMAS TELLY

I've just been browsing the TV listings for Christmas here in the UK. A few of my own personal highlights of what's on are:

1. Mighty Joe Young [1949]: the black and white original - I adored the lion cage scene as a kid!
2. Inside No.9; Sardines - a re-run of episode 1, which I don't think I've seen
3. Clash of the Titans [2010]: I'd prefer the original - but Greek mythology is always good.
4. The Haunting - one of the scariest old flicks ever relying almost entirely on sound effects for its shocks.
5. Wallace and Gromet Murder Most Fowl - the new one from the Lancastrian superstars
6. The Woman of Stone: BBC Ghost Story for Christmas - Mark Gatiss at it again; can't wait!
7. Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Speilberg's masterpiece and the he Grandon's favourite!
8. Kong; Skull Island; one of the modern King Kongers
9. A Christmas Carol [Alistair Sim] - the black and white ghost story that is as much Christmas as Santa himself.

I'm still looking for Jason and the Argonauts somewhere over the 14 day listings or indeed ANY Harryhausen. Its just not Christmas without a stop-motion monster!

I'll be checking the radio listings next. Ghosts and Ghoulies is what I want!

What are your TV and radio highlights around the world readers?