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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈
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an uncommonly fastidious child [he/him] Kiwi-born Australian, Retired, Sci-fi, Horror Trans Rights are Human Rights, Tax the Rich
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · Jan 10
“Darling, please take my photo while I stand here with my arms outstretched.”
“Why?”
“It’ll take too long to explain. Just do it.”

#Blakes7
A man stands in a hardware store with his arms stretched wide. A large box in front of him features the words ‘Maximum Power’
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 1h
If we look to the U.S. (and obviously we’re talking one-off plays not serials) there are numerous examples; Requiem for a Heavyweight (1957/62) & Marty (1953/55) being just two examples
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 1h
I love symmetry like this. One of my fave examples is the first Star Trek episode (in regular production) and their final episode having similar shots of Kirk going through physical examination
Kirk exercising (Star Trek: The Corbomite Maneuver, 1966) Kirk exercising (Star Trek: Turnabout Intruder, 1969)
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Simon Threadgold🎃 @dimwittedly.bsky.social · 18h
Always loved that seasons 5 & 10 (Moffat's first and last as showrunner... so far) have these shots in their debut episodes. #DoctorWho
Dr Who The Eleventh Hour: 11th Doctor running across a green by a road. Dr Who The Pilot: 12th Doctor running by a green on pavement
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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 13h
Apart from the Hammer Quatermass movies and the Peter Cushing Dr Who/Dalek films are there any other TV serials that got adapted into movies ? (As in a story made for TV then turned into a film) ?
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 1h
Callan (1974) was adapted from the TV episode A Magnum for Schneider (1969)

The Strange World of Planet X (1958) was originally a 1956 TV serial
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Amra_the_Lion @nlogan77.bsky.social · 7h
#UniversalMonsters

Just an old dad remembering the good old days of yore when my sons were little boys and Halloween was bewitching to them. One is now an adult and the other a senior in high school. Just like we did at their age they abandon the family for Halloween parties with their friends now.
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 3h
Uhura saying “Bluey?” Bluey (Australian children’s TV character)
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 8h
Same thing ⬇️

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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · Feb 2
New ‘Old-person thing’ just dropped:

.. thinking of a good post and going to photos bc there’s an image for that and then forgetting what the heck you were gonna post by the time you get there 👴🏻
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Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · 1d
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 13h
🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.
1970s shot of a TV screen 1950s/60s? shot of a TV screen. Female presenter 1950s/60s shot of a TV screen. Unknown guitarists Blurry pink shot of a TV screen. Women in evening dress
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 10h
Looking a bit like a Three Stooges short with that Curly-lookin’ guy
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Attack of the Giant Retro Monsters 🔞 @monstersattack.bsky.social · 11h
"VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA: The Price of Doom"
(transmitted 12/10/64)

Bombed from the air and with a saboteur on board, the Seaview crew are besieged by an additional menace: a mass of ever-expanding, man-eating plankton...

#sciencefiction #horror #horrorfam #scifi #1960s #cult #TV
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 10h
The monster FX in this are pretty good
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · Dec 26
That episode where they meet the discoverer of warp drive, Zefram Cockroach
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Suzy Jackson @suzyj.net · 10h
From the front yard, so my house is in the foreground under the milky way. Sweet spot with this lens is f/2.8, 10 second exposure, ISO 6400. Six portrait frames with the 28mm f/2.0 Ai-s, stitched with hugin. Note the stitching errors on my house.
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 14h
I ❤️ Viz
A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones
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Zoe's feather boa @zoesfeatherboa.bsky.social · 22h
#DoctorWho from the start.
Death to the Daleks by Terry Nation.
Part Two
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 21h
This story ended up in my top ten DW list and I don’t care what the general consensus about it is
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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 23h
The Crezz - Thames's expensive and doomed attempt to create a middle class soap, covering the doings of the residents of a Kensington crescent who all have frightfully fancy interior design.
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The Crezz Isla Blair's frightfully chic split level chrome and glass pad. Nicholas Ball sleeps in his postmodern pilchard tin bed. The token gay couple's Italian restaurant-style abode.
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 21h
.. mostly known to those of us in the southern hemisphere thanks to being referenced in The Goodies 😁
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 1d
Of those I’d pick Quatermass, fwiw
(*wife would go Cabin in the Woods)
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Obligatory Hallow’Iain Joke Here Pls @iainhepburn.me · 1d
Finally, the Holiday Special is no longer the worst Star Wars Christmas thing…
A Star Wars action figure of an R2 astromech droid in red and white and gold Christmas decoration, with a baby Grogu Christmas decorated figure and a large Santa beard to apply to the droid. It is every bit as tacky and shit as it sounds.
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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 1d
Listen I know I’m old but THIRTY minutes of ads (nine trailers!!) in front of a kids movie is way too much - and that included THREE different ads for the movie theater we were currently in.
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iknowthezarbi 🏳️‍🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 1d
Wildly applauding audiences during britcom end credits, never seeming to stop 👏🏼

.. boarding the bus to go home, still clapping 👏🏼

.. arrives home 👏🏼
“You have been watching” end credit (Are You Being Served?) Card with bus routes & directions to TV Centre / TV Theatre / TV Studios where numerous BBC programmes were filmed
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