VISION ON SOUND

STEVE HATCHER & ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON join me to chat about DOCTOR WHO's SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS. A VISION ON SOUND CHRISTMAS BONUS EXTRA EPISODE Here’s a bit of a Christmas Bonus for you… After the DOCTOR WHO SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS (THE STAR BEAST, WILD BLUE YONDER, and THE GIGGLE) were shown on television for the first time, that pair of regular contributors to VISION ON...

WARREN POPS IN FOR A CHRISTMASSY NATTER. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 24th 2023 Here we are once again having a Christmas Edition of VISION ON SOUND – don’t they come around so fast these days? – and this year I’ve invited one of our more regular guests – WARREN CUMMINGS - to come around to FAB TOWERS, raid the FAB TOWERS fridge and sit in front of our crackling...

NEW VOICES: LYNNE HARVEY on TV DRAMA. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 17th 2023 This week we welcome another new voice to VISION ON SOUND, LYNNE HARVEY, a creative writing tutor who has an interesting tale to tell involving WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN, as well as having some fascinating memories of PUBLIC EYE, and she’s someone who is also very fond of TV theme tunes, wh...

NEW VOICES: SUKY KHAKH's TV MEMORIES. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 10th 2023 This week we welcome a new voice to VISION ON SOUND, although I’m sure it will be a familiar one, as he’s the prolific podcaster SUKY KHAKH from the TREK THIS OUT, AROUND THE CONSOLE, and TAKE YOUR SEATS podcasts. I first met SUKY at WHOOVERVILLE THIRTEEN, which only goes to show tha...

THE SHY YETI RECOMMENDS SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 3rd 2023 This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, is back, but instead of continuing his journey through the history of American television shows that he’s discovering through YouTube recommendations, this time he wanted to make a few recommendations of his own. More specifica...

WARREN CUMMINGS REMEMBERS PARKINSON First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 26th 2023 Back in August this year, the lights came down on yet another of the broadcasting giants from the younger lives of many of us, when MICHAEL PARKINSON, the person who many considered to be one of the greatest television interviewers ever, passed on at the grand old age of eighty-eight. A co...

STEVE HATCHER ON DOCTOR WHO First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 19th 2023 There’s a lot of anniversary celebrations going on at the moment to commemorate the sixtieth birthday of one of those television perennials that crosses the void between archive and modern TV, DOCTOR WHO, and as here on VISION ON SOUND we rarely avoid any archive TV bandwagons, we thought we might...

GRAHAM WARD ON RICHARD CARPENTER First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 12th 2023 This week, we welcome GRAHAM WARD, yet another new voice to the ever expanding list of contributors to the VISION ON SOUND pool of talent, and, whilst we do start off today with my usual introductory interrogation about his own fascinating earliest television memories and so forth, we very sw...

Another 1970s USTV Quartet with THE SHY YETI First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 5th 2023 This week, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is back for another in his series of trawls through what YOUTUBE has to offer in the way of classic American TV, and this time he’s reached the mid-to-late-1970s, and his quartet of choices are DIANA, a 1973 American sitcom built around the co...

STEVE GETS RANDOM First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 29th 2023 This week it’s STEVE HATCHER’s turn to sit in the chair and face up to some of the questions designed to prompt one of our random chats, and, as ever, this prompts a fascinating telly-related conversation that heads off in all sorts of unexpected directions. So, by taking the recent untimely passing of PETER...

LISA GETS RANDOM First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 22nd 2023 This week we welcome back our good friend LISA PARKER, one half, alongside ANDREW TROWBRIDGE, of the team behind the rather fabulous ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST for yet another of our random chats about this wondrous thing that we still prefer to call Archive Television rather than simply “old telly”. “I can’t...

A QUARTET OF USTV SEVENTIES COP SHOWS First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 15th 2023 This week, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, is back with another quartet of TV shows that he’s been watching in his quest to discover what sort of television he might be able to find when he’s off on his travels and far, far away from his own personal archive of DVDs, blu-rays, and other tele...

THE FUTURE OF ARCHIVE TV WATCHING. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 8th 2023 Recently I was pointed in the direction of a particular streaming platform because it happened to have made available, gratis, for free, and without any need to subscribe to anything, the opening episode of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS season two, so that the more disinclined, or financially...

A FOR ANDROMEDA & THE ANDROMEDA BREAKTHROUGH. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 1st 2023 This week, our resident researcher of some of the earliest examples of television science-fiction, MICHAEL HERBERT returns, this time to talk all about the seven-part 1961 BBC television serial A FOR ANDROMEDA, and its six-part sequel from the following year, THE ANDROMEDA BREA...

PAUL CHANDLER on THE INVADERS, THE WILD WILD WEST, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, and BEWITCHED. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 24th 2023 This week, all the way from THE SHY LIFE PODCAST, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself is back here on VISION ON SOUND because, well, he had an idea that he thought that I might like to talk about for the show, and knowing - as...

WARREN CUMMINGS on T J HOOKER...!!! First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 17th 2023 This week WARREN CUMMINGS is back and we’re talking about a show we touched on when we discussed TV CHEESE a few weeks ago, the strangely successful WILLIAM SHATNER Police Series from the early 1980s, TJ HOOKER...!   So let’s kick up those FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL TIME ENGINES and do an un...

VoS live on stage at WHOOVERVILLE 14 with guests GARY RUSSELL, TIM TRELOAR, JONATHON CARLEY and STEVE HATCHER. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 10th 2023 As an Archive TV fan, I’m always very impressed whenever I hear about any kind of organized event where fans of a certain type of television gather together to celebrate and appreciate any kind of archive televisio...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 3rd 2023 This week we welcome back PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself for another one of our more random television-related chats, which will take us on one of those journeys where neither of us are really certain of where we’re going. However, somehow PAUL managed to make at least some little sense out of my usual word salad, and s...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 27th 2023 Like a lot of other archive TV fans, over the years I’ve accumulated a lot of Telly-related ephemera, much of which seems destined to sit around undisturbed in dark corners of the house waiting for me to notice that it’s there. Anyway, in a recent rare moment of churning, I randomly picked up a copy of the RADIO TIMES that was...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 20th 2023 Often it was the exciting thumping nature of the theme music that became most identified with so many TV series, and was remembered long after the various shenanigans of that week’s episode was forgotten, and so, for one week only, VISION ON SOUND presents an hour of what might be the most exciting TV theme tunes ever...! In a...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 13th 2023 Fans of archive television didn’t used to talk about CROSSROADS much, despite it having an iconic theme tune written by TONY HATCH, an amazing array of guest performers, a whole host of top behind-the-scenes talent often cutting their teeth on this show, and being a series that ran for twenty-four years across several golden a...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 6th 2023 “DOCTOR WHO IS THE MISS MARPLE OF SCI-FI!” This week, once again, that regular contributor to VISION ON SOUND, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, is our returning guest, and is sitting in the hot seat as I fling another of our random chat topics in his general direction, and, when we set out on our journey, neither of us have a clue...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 30th 2023 ANDY TATE who we’re welcoming today is a fan of the show, and got in touch with me with a whole list of exciting suggestions of subjects for shows we might want to do on VISION ON SOUND, so it only seemed fair to invite him along and talk to him about some of them. And what a fun guest he turned out to be, as I think you’ll disc...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 23rd 2023 A couple of years ago, back in our forty-eighth edition of VISION ON SOUND in September 2021, I welcomed ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON onto the show for the first time, and we spent a happy hour discussing his artistic life, creating his witty television-themed illustrations and graphic images, and about how his love of archive televisio...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 16th 2023 It’s been rather too long since we last heard from our Canadian Correspondent RICK LAWLOR on the show, so when I did finally manage to remind myself of this and get in touch, it was a joy to find out that he was still keen to contribute to the show, despite those pesky time differences that can sometimes make finding suitable mo...