Retro Game Lookback: Space Adventure For BBC Micro

Space Adventure, by Pro Software, is a rare Classic for the BBC Micro released in 1983 and one that I have been looking forward to revisiting for some time.

Although the game is called “Space Adventure” it’s not so much an adventure as a collecting shooter style game and is one of those games that [...]

Survivors Series 2, The Big Cliffhanger?

A closer look at Survivors, Season 2 Episode 6.

Actually, it wasn’t so much of a cliff-hanger as a coming together and resolution of various story threads including the re-uniting of Abby and Peter, the postcards, the virus origins, the future of Tom and Anya, and more about Landry and “Hope Never Dies”.
The episode focused [...]

Doctor Who 2010 Trailers

Geronimo!
We can’t wait (but we’ll have to!) for the new season of Doctor Who, featuring new Doctor Matt Smith, coming Easter 2010. In the meantime we’ll have to make do with these trailers from the BBC.

Watch carefully in the second trailer – that couldn’t be Professor River Song could it?
As the BBC tell us “Meet [...]

Audio: Just A Minute Panel Show

“Just A Minute” is a long running humorous panel show (43 years) on BBC radio, hosted by Nicholas Parsons, and has featured comedy greats including Paul Merton, Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Peter Jones.

The aim of the show is for contestants to talk on a given subject for just one minute – [...]

Survivors Series 2 Draws Nearer To The Big Cliffhanger

A Closer look at Survivors, Series 2 Episode 5

As we move into the penultimate episode of the new series of the re-imagined Survivors the group can’t possibly all have made it this far safely – could they?
This was definitely a reflective piece with not really much going on. However, the things that do happen [...]

Audio: Galton & Simpson’s Half Hour

“Without us they’re a bunch of Jonathan Ross’s”
Galton & Simpson, the incredibly funny writers behind comedy legends, Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe & Son and many other shows including The Handyman, Tittertime (Frankie Howerd) and Up The Chastity Belt, have some all time classic sketches to their name.  Four of these classics are re-enacted and [...]