Various bits and pieces about different TV shows, mostly from the distant past, organised in the usual shambolic fashion.
The Avengers
(Also including The New Avengers.)
Season 1
Girl on a Trapeze, The Frighteners, and Tunnel of Fear
Season 2
Bullseye and Mission to Montreal
The Removal Men and The Mauritius Penny
Death of a Great Dane, The Sell-Out, and Death on the Rocks
Traitor in Zebra, The Big Thinker, and Death Dispatch
Dead on Course, Intercrime and Immortal Clay
The Golden Eggs, School for Traitors and The White Dwarf
Man in the Mirror, Conspiracy of Silence and A Chorus of Frogs
Six Hands Across a Table and Killer Whale
Season 3
Brief for Murder and The Undertakers
Man with Two Shadows and The Nutshell
Death of a Batman, November Five and The Gilded Cage
Second Sight, The Medicine Men and The Grandeur That Was Rome
The Golden Fleece and Don’t Look Behind You
Death a la Carte, Dressed to Kill, and The White Elephant
The Little Wonders and The Wringer
Mandrake, The Secrets Broker and Trojan Horse
Build a Better Mousetrap, The Outside-In Man, and The Charmers
Concerto, Esprit de Corps, and Lobster Quadrille
Season 4
The Town of No Return, The Gravediggers and The Cybernauts
Death at Bargain Prices, Castle De’Ath, and The Master Minds
The Murder Market, A Surfeit of H2O, and The Hour that Never Was
Dial a Deadly Number, Man-Eater of Surrey Green and Two’s a Crowd
Too Many Christmas Trees, Silent Dust and Room Without a View
Small Game for Big Hunters and The Girl from Auntie
The Thirteenth Hole and Quick-Quick Slow Death
The Danger Makers and What the Butler Saw
The House That Jack Built and A Sense of History
How to Succeed… at Murder and Honey for the Prince
Season 5
From Venus with Love and The Fear Merchants
Escape in Time and The See-Through Man
The Bird Who Knew Too Much and The Winged Avenger
The Living Dead and The Hidden Tiger
The Correct Way to Kill and Never, Never Say Die
Epic and The Superlative Seven
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station and Something Nasty in the Nursery
Death’s Door and The £50,000 Breakfast
Dead Man’s Treasure and You Have Just Been Murdered
The Positive Negative Man and Murdersville
Season 6
Game and Super Secret Cypher Snatch
You’ll Catch Your Death and Split!
Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?, False Witness and All Done With Mirrors
Have Guns – Will Haggle, They Keep Killing Steed, and The Interrogators
The Rotters, Invasion of the Earthmen and Killer
The Morning After, The Curious Case of the Countless Clues, and Wish You Were Here
Stay Tuned, Take Me to Your Leader and Fog
Who Was that Man I Saw You With?, Homicide and Old Lace, and Thingumajig
My Wildest Dream, Requiem and Take-Over
Pandora, Get-A-Way! and Bizarre
New Avengers Season 1
House of Cards and Last of the Cybernauts…??
The Midas Touch and Cat Among the Pigeons
To Catch a Rat and The Tale of the Big Why
New Avengers Season 2
Dead Men Are Dangerous and Angels of Death
Medium Rare, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Obsession
Babylon 5
Season 1
Midnight on the Firing Line/Soul Hunter/Born to the Purple/Infection
The Parliament of Dreams/Mind War/The War Prayer/And the Sky Full of Stars
Believers/Deathwalker/Survivors/By Any Means Necessary
Signs and Portents/TKO/Eyes/Grail
Legacies/A Voice in the Wilderness (I&II)/Babylon Squared
The Quality of Mercy/Chrysalis
Season 2
Points of Departure/Revelations/The Geometry of Shadows/A Distant Star
The Long Dark/Spider in the Web/Soul Mates/A Race Through Dark Places
The Coming of Shadows/GROPOS/All Alone in the Night/Acts of Sacrifice
Hunter, Prey/There All The Honour Lies/And Now For A Word/In the Shadow of Z’Ha’Dum
Knives/Confessions and Lamentations/Divided Loyalties/The Long Twilight Struggle
Comes the Inquisitor/The Fall of Night
Season 3
Matters of Honour/Convictions/A Day in the Strife/Passing Through Gethsemane
Voices of Authority/Dust to Dust/Exogenesis/Messages from Earth
Point of No Return/Severed Dreams/Ceremonies of Dark and Light/Sic Transit Vir
A Late Delivery from Avalon/Ship of Tears/Interludes and Examinations/War Without End (I & II)
Walkabout/Grey 17 is Missing/And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place/Shadow Dancing/Z’Ha’Dum
Season 4
The Hour of the Wolf/Whatever Happened to Mr Garibaldi?/The Summoning/Falling Towards Apotheosis
The Long Night/Into the Fire/Epiphanies/The Illusion of Truth
Atonement/Racing Mars/Lines of Communication/Conflicts of Interest
Season 5
No Compromises/The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari/The Paragon of Animals/A View from the Gallery
Learning Curve/Strange Relations/Secrets of the Soul/Day of the Dead
In The Kingdom of the Blind/A Tragedy of Telepaths/Phoenix Rising/The Ragged Edge
Movies and Suchlike
In the Beginning/Thirdspace/River of Souls
Legend of the Rangers/The Lost Tales
Crusade
A Call to Arms/Racing the Night/The Needs of Earth/The Memory of War/The Long Road
Ruling from the Tomb/The Rules of the Game/War Zone/Appearances and Other Deceits
Battlestar Galactica
Disco-era Version
Battlestar Galactica: the Movie (aka Saga of a Star World)
Bush-era Version
Season One
33/Water/Bastille Day/Act of Contrition
You Can’t Go Home Again/Litmus/Six Degrees of Separation/Flesh and Bone/Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down
The Hand of God/Colonial Day/Kobol’s Last Gleaming
Season Two
Scattered to Resurrection Ship
Epiphanies to Lay Down Your Burdens
Season Three
The Eye of Jupiter to Crossroads
Season Four
Sometimes a Great Notion to Daybreak
Blake’s 7
Series One
Series Two
Series Three
Series Four
Related
Doomwatch
Series One
The Plastic Eaters and Tomorrow, the Rat
Project Sahara and Re-entry Forbidden
The Devil’s Sweets and The Red Sky
Train and De-Train and The Battery People
Series Two
You Killed Toby Wren, Invasion, and The Islanders
No Room for Error, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, and The Iron Doctor
Flight into Yesterday and The Web of Fear
In the Dark and The Human Time Bomb
The Inquest, The Logicians, and Public Enemy
Series Three
Waiting for a Knighthood, Hair Trigger, and Sex and Violence
Hammer House of Horror
The Incredible Hulk
Season Two
A Child in Need and Another Path
Season Three
Season Four
Deep Shock and Bring Me the Head of the Hulk
King of the Beach and The First
The Harder They Fall and Half Nelson
TV Movies
The Invaders
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Some general thoughts on the show
Sapphire and Steel
Space: 1999
Star Cops
Intelligent Listening for Beginners
Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits
This Case to be Opened in a Million Years
Little Green Men and Other Martians
Star Trek
The Original Series
Season One
The Naked Time/The Enemy Within/Mudd’s Women
Miri/The Conscience of the King (and various other early season one episodes)
Shore Leave/Arena (and points inbetween)
Season Two
Season Three
The Next Generation
Season One
Season Five
Season Seven
Deep Space Nine
Season Two
Season Seven
Voyager
Season One
Season Five/Six
Enterprise
Season One
Season Two
Season Four
Discovery
Strange New Worlds
Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
Survivors
Series One (1975)
Corn Dolly and Gone to the Angels
Garland’s War, Starvation, and Spoil of War
The Future Hour, Revenge, and Something of Value
Series Two (1976)
Birth of a Hope and Greater Love
The Face of the Tiger, The Witch, and A Friend in Need
By Bread Alone, The Chosen, and Parasites
New Arrivals, Over the Hills, and New World
Series Three (1977)
Manhunt, A Little Learning, and Law of the Jungle
Mad Dog, Bridgehead, and Reunion
The Peacemaker, Sparks, and The Enemy
The Last Laugh and Long Live the King
The Audio Series
Remake Series One (2008)
Episodes the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth
Remake Series Two (2010)
Episodes the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth
Episodes the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth
The Tomorrow People
A general look at the 1970s series
Series Six
Ultraviolet
Untitled and unbroadcast US pilot
The X Files
General thoughts ahead of Season 10
Some conclusions after watching Seasons 1-9 again
Season One
Miscellaneous Series & Programmes
Abigail’s Party (BBC 1 Play for Today, 1977)
Bergerac: Fires in the Fall (BBC1, 1986)
The Day of the Triffids (BBC1, 1981)
Dirk Gently (pilot episode) (BBC4, 2010)
Don’t Scare The Hare (BBC1, 2011)
The Execution of Gary Glitter (Channel 4, 2009)
The First Men in the Moon (BBC4, 2010)
Ghost in the Water (BBC1, 1982)
Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance (TV movie, 2018)
It’s a Royal Knockout (BBC1, 1987)
Life After Armageddon (Channel 5, 2010)
The Lone Gunmen: Maximum Byers (2001)
Murrain (Against the Crowd, ITV, 1975)
Mystery and Imagination: Dracula (ITV, 1968)
Mystery and Imagination: Frankenstein (ITV, 1968)
Our Friends in the North (BBC, 1996)
Outcasts: Episode One and the full series (BBC, 2011)
Penda’s Fen (BBC Play for Today, 1974)
Primeval (4.1) and the full Fourth Season (ITV, 2011)
Quatermass (aka Quatermass IV, The Quatermass Conclusion) (ITV, 1979)
Sakho & Mangane (Canal+, 2020)
Sherlock Season Two (BBC, 2012)
The Stone Tape (BBC2, 1972)
The Taking of Prince Harry (Channel 4, 2010)
This is Supermarionation (Gerry Anderson celebration, 2014)
Thunderbirds Are Go (ITV, 2015 – first episode reaction)
The Twilight Zone (2019-2020 version)
A Very British Coup (Channel 4, 1988)
The War of the Worlds (BBC1, 2019)
Whistle and I’ll Come to You (BBC2, 2010)
William and Kate: the Movie (TV Movie, 2011)
The Year of the Sex Olympics (BBC2, 1968)
Young Fishmonger of the Year (BBC3, 2010)
Young Plumber of the Year (BBC3, 2010)
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