Strangers in Space

Menahem Golan's rock opera with a hint of sci-fi was his attempt to break Hollywood by putting together a musical allegory of the Biblical birth of humankind. What we got instead was a movie widely regarded as one of the worst ever made. Clearly, we were meant to investigate! (Warning: includes explicit language right at the beginning) The Apple This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon A...

It's nearly half a century since Terry Nation's story about the aftermath of a genocidal virus, so how's it looking in 2023? Survivors This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Jim Cameron Dylan Rees

Season 22, Sontarans, Saward and Spain plus Robert Holmes, Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Servalan herself; The Two Doctors is a must-see recipe for success. Isn't it? The Two Doctors This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Simon Brett Iain Martin

Our attention falls on U2, as we go back through our history and the band's, and try to figure out what makes them work and, when they don't, what doesn't U2 This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Simon Brett Iain Martin

What if Eric Saward had done this, what if Eric Saward had done that - and what if Eric Saward had done the other? We just couldn't help ourselves This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Mark Donaldson Iain Martin

Chilean black comedy that reimagines Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire? Don't mind if we do! El Conde This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber

Brian Duffield's follow-up to Spontaneous has quietly appeared on Disney+ (here in the UK) to growing acclaim among The Kids. But what would we "adults" make of it? No One Will Save You (2023) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber

We hop back in time twenty years to the first Second Coming of Russell T Davies, to his last TV drama before the announcement that he was to resurrect Doctor Who, and see whether it stands up given all we've learned of Davies' work since The Second Coming This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Dylan Rees

Our thoughts on the new 60th anniversary trailer, and the reveal of Neil Patrick Harris' villain's identity, all digested into a handy near sixty minutes This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Iain Martin

It's been another one of those weeks in politics, so we couldn't go the weekend without putting our thoughts on the record about it This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber

Our conversations about British TV energy industry thrillers turns to the two American remakes released at the turn of the 2010s State of Play (2009) Edge of Darkness (2010) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber

Our thoughts on Wes Anderson's feature debut, Bottle Rocket, in which the Owen brothers play friends who want to be gangsters and there's a large side helping of romcom Bottle Rocket This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Simon Brett

More Doctor Who What Iffery, this time concentrating on the question of whether America should be making, or should have made, the series This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Mark Donaldson

Arriving around the same time as Edge of Darkness, this was another energy industry adjacent conspiracy thriller, albeit more in the classic Hollywood style; but man, the cast and credits Defence of the Realm on YouTube Defence of the Realm on Wiki This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber Mark Donaldson

Ken Stott as a dour Scottish detective solving themed religious murders in a rain-soaked city (for four series, before regenerating into Marc Warren), should be right up our street you would think... We (mostly) watched all of Messiah, so you wouldn't have to Messiah This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber Mark Donaldson

In which we ignore the controversy that is Gareth Roberts, and instead concentrate on the merits of the first series Sarah Jane Adventure which introduces the character and concept of the Trickster Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? This episode introduced by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Jim Cameron

A comparison of the two big Nazi hunter films of the 1970s, each starring Laurence Olivier in very different roles Marathon Man (1976) The Boys from Brazil (1978) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber

In another episode discussing a modern TV conspiracy thriller relating to the energy industry, we focus our attention on Paul Abbott's 2003 BBC One series State of Play State of Play (2003) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold

A double helping of Doctor Who What Iffery in this edition, as first one team and then another discuss what might have happened if we'd travelled into the series' past and radically altered the course of its history These episodes presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Simon Brett Iain Martin Dylan Rees

Our review of Jennifer Lawrence's recent romantic comedy, Gene Stupnitsky's follow-up to Good Boys No Hard Feelings This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Mark Donaldson

Fans of 1973's The Wicker Man are divided over its two follow-ons; divided over which is worse, the remake or the sequel. So we watched them again, only to discover that one wasn't as bad as we'd thought it was... The Wicker Man (2006) The Wicker Tree (2011) And our original review of The Wicker Man (1973) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jim Cameron Dylan Rees  

Our August news dispatch, in which we look at the stories behind the stories in the world of Doctor Who this month Our YouTube news playlist This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold

The fans hated one, but audiences ignored the other. So which Judge Dredd film is better - and what would they have needed to start a franchise? Judge Dredd Dredd This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Iain Martin Dylan Rees

In which we take Troy Kennedy Martin's story apart strand by strand, before finally declaring how great we think it is Edge of Darkness This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold

Our Time-Space Visualiser tunes into January 1965 so we can take a look at Doctor Who's first story post-Susan, The Rescue The Rescue This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Dylan Rees