Monday, 9 December 2024

REVIEW: The Stone Tape (101 Films Limited Edition Bluray)

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  The Stone Tape was my gateway Kneale. I’d turned six years old a few months prior to its TV premiere on 25 th December 1972, so it was ei...
Friday, 8 November 2024

'Wait 'til he's hungry' - Nigel Kneale's BEASTS by Andrew Screen

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This article was originally published on the now defunct Horrified website. Mention the summer of 1976 to those who were around at the time...

Happy Birthday Book of Beasts!

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Just over a year ago my study of the TV series Beasts was published by Headpress. Following an amazing book launch at the Festival of Fantas...
Wednesday, 30 October 2024

The Stone Tape to be released on Blu-ray

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 Nigel Kneale's play The Stone Tape (1972) will be released by on Blu-ray by 101 Films on 9th December, 2024. The limited edition set wi...
Friday, 29 March 2024

Remembering Beasts by Stephen McKenna (Editor, tpmckenna.co.uk)

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  T.P. McKenna was an actor well recognised for his diversity, but equally, his default was often as not men of intrigue and sinister purpos...

T.P. and Elstree by Stephen McKenna (Editor, tpmckenna.co.uk)

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  For some thirteen years, T.P. had been making his way up to Elstree on a regular basis. Either turning left to Elstree Studios, for the ...
Thursday, 22 February 2024

Shelagh Fraser (Dorothy Pummery in Baby)

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  Shelagh Fraser was born as Sheila Mary Fraser on 25th November 1920 in Purley, Surrey. Fraser’s father, John Newton Mappin Fraser, worked ...