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Showing posts with label Gareth Thomas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gareth Thomas. Show all posts
Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Children of the Stones: Full Circle

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 "I think you have an exaggerated sense of your own importance..." And so it ends... rather suddenly, but entertainingly. I'm ...
Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Children of the Stones: Squaring the Circle

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 "There's no way out until the stones release us..." This penultimate episode is the most gripping yet, from start to finish. ...
Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Children of the Stones- Charmed Circle

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 "Perceptive and formidable..." An extraordinary gripping episode, this, with a pleasingly earned bit of exposition and the sinist...
Thursday, 26 March 2026

Children of the Stones- Narrowing Circle

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 "And then there were six..." The halfway point and the mystery, and the mood, continue to deepen. Theories are made about how peo...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

Children of the Stones, Part 3- Serpent in the Circle

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 "I feel things..." The intrigue very much continues here. It's 1977, times were different then, and I very much like how no b...
Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Children of the Stones, Part 2- Circle of Fear

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 "Don't meddle with the stones!" Another episode suffused with atmosphere, as we (and Adam, Matt and Margaret) dig further int...
Thursday, 5 March 2026

Children of the Stones, Part 1- Into the Circle

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 "I deny the existence of that which exists." Happy day! One episode in, and I'm hooked. No, actually... I was hooked by the d...
Friday, 25 August 2023

Knights of God: Episode 13

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" The king had to be found within yourself.” Sigh. This has been a pretty good series, but this final episode is profoundly disappointi...
Monday, 21 August 2023

Knights of God: Episode 12

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 "Noooo!" Well, that’s certainly a twist. SPOILER alert. It’s now clear why we have the contrast between Gervase and  Mordrin, wit...
Monday, 14 August 2023

Knights of God: Episode 11

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 "Not toys now. Real." There's a distinct feeling, and an odd one, as this often briliant and very '80s dark dystopian thr...
Monday, 24 July 2023

Knights of God: Episode 9

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 "Let him be a fisherman..." The plot gets thicker and thicker in this pivotal episode which, presumably, thrusts us into the fina...
Thursday, 13 July 2023

Knights of God: Episode 8

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 "You can call me Arthur..." There was me thinking this episode was going to be about Gervase and Julia in the "Wasteland...
Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Knights of God: Episode 4

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 "All hail the knights of God!" This episode isn't quite as intensely totalitarian as the last one, and that's sauying som...
Wednesday, 3 May 2023

Knights of God: Episode 2

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 "Worshipping a god of power, strength, and vengeance..." We begin with a "previously on"... and then it's straight ...
Monday, 1 May 2023

Knights of God: Episode 1

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 "You've got to live. For all of us." I have only the vaguest of memories of seeing bits of this in 1987 when I was young, and...
Thursday, 2 December 2021

Hammer House of Horror: Visitor from the Grave

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 "Be a good girl, and do exactly what I tell you!" Trigger warning: violent sexual assault is very prominent here. This is, on a s...
Tuesday, 22 November 2016

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Series 1- The Naval Treaty

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"Help yourself to tobacco from the Persian slipper!" SPOILERS Apparent diplomatic intrigue as a treaty is stolen, seemingly by...
Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Blake's 7: Blake

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“Stand still! Have you betrayed us? Have you betrayed me ?” So, it’s Chris Boucher who gets to write the last episode, not Terry N...
Sunday, 21 August 2011

Blake's 7: Terminal

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“Incidentally, you should always be careful about getting a second hand spacecraft. They can be very unreliable.” Ooh, Terry Natio...
Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Blake's 7: Star One

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“Avon, for what it’s worth, I have always trusted you, from the very beginning.” The final episode is written by Chris Boucher, wh...