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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1h

Breaking out the emergency joy earlier than planned:

OTD 1987: George Harrison – Got My Mind Set On You
Massive hit single heralding my favourite George album
(which, in turn, got teenage me into the Beatles, ELO, Roy Orbison…)
Incredibly catchy and sheer fun!

George Harrison Got My Mind Set On You single – George turned to one side, in mirrored shades, holding his Gretsch guitar, framed against blue sky and white clouds

George sitting playing his guitar and throwing a look to one side, unable to keep his face straight in the cosier / sillier Got My Mind Set On You video

George Harrison Cloud Nine LP – George grinning in mirrored shades, holding his Gretsch guitar, standing in front of blazing clouds

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1h

Bold choice! I’ll have to listen to it again – there are some I don’t remember.
I’ve Had Enough is considerably too close to Tom Robinson’s 2-4-6-8 Motorway, though…

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 2h

It’s infuriating that so mediocre and crude a power as Russia is running rings round European democracies and that they have so many willing collaborators.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 2h

OTD 1979 Douglas Adams’ The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the book of The Book)
“the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences…”
In which everything we love is bulldozed for stupid reasons by bloodyminded bastards who just hate everyone.
Yeah.

Evergreen: DON’T PANIC

Original book cover: “The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (in large, friendly letters) by Douglas Adams, based on the famous radio series)

From the original back cover: “DON’T PANIC” in large friendly letters. Possibly too late by now.

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🎃 Andy Lambert 🎃 @and-e-roo.bsky.social · 2h

Final monsters for my calendar - Aggedor, the Ice Warriors and Alpha Centauri.
Just the cover to go now.

A photoshopped image of four aliens from Doctor Who - in the foreground, is an Ice Lord. a reptilian alien with a domed helmet, shoulder/chest armour and cape. Behind him, to his left is an Ice Warrior, also reptilian, but more bulky and armoured. To the right, is Alpha Centauri, a monocular alien with a large egg-shaped head, and six pincered arms. At the back is Aggedor, a hairy bear-like creature, with a large snout, sharp teeth and claws and a single horn on it's forehead. They are positioned in a primitive, but elegant throne room with ornate drapes.

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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 18h

An epic, this one. The Doctor Who Monster Book by Terrance Dicks, in excruciating detail. 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The Doctor Who Monster Book, by Terrance Dicks

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 5h

…and did consider The Ultimate Foe, but it felt like a bit of a cheat.
I’m just relieved as I was sure one of you would go for The Five Doctors!

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 5h

A lively list and livelier aftermath!
I can either say what my tops would be or that I was pretty pleased with your choices, so, yes! Spoilers aside, I’d have picked your snap(s) and your number 1(s).
I might have found room for The Happiness Patrol or The Edge of Destruction…

The Doctor Who Show @thedwshow.net · 6h

📝THE LIST MAKERS📝

This month a listener has tasked us with the best classic #DoctorWho stories that are under 4 episodes.

What will be on our lists? What's on yours?

thedwshow.net/2025/10/12/t...

Stream from the link above, find us on your podcatcher, or Audible, Spotify, Amazon Music, etc, etc.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 5h

OTD 1998: Hex (Thomas Hector Schofield)
OTD 2021, 08.29: Hex signs in, then meets the Doctor—
In #DoctorWho The Harvest, in the Big Finish car park, and now, eerily, in the past, as another tale from the future recedes behind us…

Doctor Who – The Harvest by Dan Abnett, starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and introducing Philip Olivier as Hex: cover featuring the three of them with rippling circuit effects and a London cityscape with, oh look, St Paul’s, no reason

Sophie Aldred, Sylvester McCoy and Philip Olivier

Hex in NHS scrubs and the Doctor by Si Hodges

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 16h

Doctor Who – Planet of Evil
*Something* sweeps through a viscerally alien jungle
The planet’s own rage makes you a beast
But (half a century ago this very night) my scariest #HalloweenWho moment beyond all other Doctor Who was the horrific burial alive in space.

…Now one week until Blu-ray!

The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) crouch in a dark but fabulously colourful alien jungle

Sarah Jane Smith looks out in horror as the metal coffin she’s locked into starts to move down the chute into space

Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 13 Blu-ray cover: The Doctor (Tom Baker) with vivid blue eyes, Tam o’shanter and tartan scarf, holding a trilanic activator (you probably have one at home) and holding within a blaze of monsters, dark god Sutekh the Destroyer, glowing anti-matter beast from the edge of our Universe, walking plant human-Krynoid hybrid, rhino-faced Kraal, Egyptian Mummy-shaped robot, blobby bulbous suckered orange-red-green Zygon, Morbius (in composite body built to hold his brain with artificial eyes on stalks and huge claw) leading – as once he did the High Council of the Time Lords, then millions of fanatical followers when he dreamed the greatest dreams in history! All against a glistening indigo-blue honeycomb of translucent pinky-blue organic crystallography.

Planet of Evil film poster by Oliver Arkinstall-Jones
“Horror awaits you on the…
PLANET OF EVIL
Cert X”
Red-drenched across the jungle – the Doctor, Sarah Jane, an anti-matter monster and the two faces of Sorenson

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 18h

*Separate stories; not both at once. I’m not Little Rainbow Riding Hood.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 18h

Happy #ComingOutDay to all LGBTQ+ people, whatever stage you’re happy with!
It should be joy despite bigots and bullies (and those who know better but keep their heads down)
So I might tell one of my favourite coming out stories later – to my Grandma, or to someone I was already in bed with*…?

Me out at dusk today in the woods, glasses, beard, hairy chest, joggers slightly slipping to show waistband of rainbow jocks, but much more prominently holding Progress Pride Flag (rainbow plus) aloft

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 19h

OTD 1975: #DoctorWho Planet of Evil Part Three
Many of Doctor Who’s thrilling terrors enraptured little me, cliffhangers staying in the mind and nightmares repeating scary bits for sheer joy
But – 50 years ago today – this end terrified me beyond all others:
A horrific sci-fi twist on burial alive.

The Morestrans argue over whether ejecting the Doctor and Sarah Jane into space will help

The unconscious Doctor (Tom Baker) and helplessly all-too-awake Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) are locked into metal trays on conveyors, about to move into exit chutes

Sarah Jane looks up in horror as the metal coffin she’s locked into starts to move down the chute into space

Sarah Jane looks out in horror as the metal coffin she’s locked into moves further down the chute into space

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 22h

OTD 2014: #DoctorWho Mummy on the Orient Express
Stylish, unsettling, mysterious…
This Doctor gets both to be his most Doctorish so far and show off the most hilariously appalling bedside manner
“You knew this was no relaxing break. You knew this was dangerous!”
“I didn’t *know*. I certainly hoped.”

Doctor Who – Mummy on the Orient Express poster: the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and the engineer menaced by the mummy-wrapped Foretold as uniformed staff and glamorous passengers of the Orient Express – IN SPACE! – look on in horror

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, but I’d love it, though!

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

OTD MCMLXXIX: The Iron Legion invades Stockbridge
The IXth Legion of a Roman Empire that never fell falls upon an English village
Fortunately also OTD 1979: Doctor Who Magazine (née Weekly) has roving reporter Dave Gibbons there to capture the scene!

Doctor Who Weekly Issue 1
Doctor Who and the Iron Legion, page 1:
Fantastic Dave Gibbons art of robot legionaries with machine guns and stick grenades blazing through an English village, commanded by a tank topped by eagle-headed General Ironicus
“They fought their way across a thousand planets -- robot veterans of the Eternal War -- destroying, with ruthless discipline, all who stood in their way!
“And now, the peaceful tranquillity of the English countryside is rudely shattered as they appear -- as if from nowhere -- brutally dragging people out and razing their houses to the ground!
“And yet… For all the robots’ strangeness, there is something… grimly familiar about them!”
Writers: Mills + Wagner [Mills Primus] / Artist: Dave Gibbons / Editor: Dez Skinn

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Coming Out Day!
I’m gay.
Came out on general release, as it were, New Year’s Day 1989, aged 17, with a lot of badges and illegal on a few counts (though I’d make it more eventually).
Fewer badges today, but I have a husband. Here we are kissing in the pink.

Richard and I (both with beards and glasses) kissing under bright pink lights in the Winter Lights display at Canary Wharf this January. I like this one.
It was either that or post a pic of me in rainbow jocks.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t listen to this often but it always turns out to be surprisingly good. I’m hearing Café on the Left Bank, Backwards Traveller and Don’t Let It Bring You Down in my head now! But Morse Moose is both Macca’s completely random lyrics and absurdly catchy. The one I’ve played most, apparently.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 1d

#NationalComingOutDay
Coming out is a process.
For me that process truly began when Section 28 was passing into law.
Gay men and lesbians were told that we were ‘less than’, that our relationships were pretend.
I needed to stand up.
So I came out.
And never looked back.

Me on a Stop the Clause (aka Section 28) protest in Leeds in 1987.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 1d

🌈 Today is #NationalComingOutDay!

Whether you’re out, not out, questioning, or can’t share your truth safely, you’re valid, seen, loved and part of community regardless of how visible you are.

Coming out is personal. Be proud of who you are, in whatever way feels right for you. ❤️

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 1d

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

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Luke Sims-Jenkins @grumpy2eb.bsky.social · 1d

Helllo Everyone! This week on the Maran Chess Club @alexwilcock.bsky.social joins me to talk all about the Big Finish audio adaptation of Cold Fusion!

#DoctorWho

Spotify – Web Player

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, fair enough. Either it wasn’t a Manchester thing, or you caught the years where one was coming in as the other was going out (I’ve definitely not heard the older one in decades) 🤗

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

I was also shaving early. First beard aged 15 or 16 at school.
I was just thin, too, rather than slim. Scrawny and gawky (fortunately I filled out, but always ungainly). And I pre-date twink! The word was chicken in the ’90s…

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Doctor Who – The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit
I had intended #HalloweenWho as a distraction from everything going to Hell, but…
The Ood are indelibly Cthulhoid
And Gabriel Woolf’s silkily evil temptation is one of the most terrifying scenes in all Doctor Who:
“Don’t turn around…”

“DON’T TURN AROUND” – Ood in the dark (tentacled face lit by the globe in its hand)

Mild-mannered archaeologist Toby Zed beckons death, his face marked by ancient runes, his smile twisted with Satanic glee

The Devil himself (or so he says, and who could doubt his word?) thrashes and roars in the flames above the relatively tiny figure of the Doctor

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