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Steven Flanagan

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Lives in NE England. Posts mostly about comics, Doctor Who, other old TV and films and random stuff. He/him

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · Oct 1

Hello, I'm Steven Flanagan, an ageing Englishman likely to post about #comics, #DoctorWho, and other old TV and film, as well as any other trivial stuff that seems interesting, useful or amusing.
I draw a bit and do some image editing.

Drawing mashing up The Quatermass Experiment for its 70th anniversary and Sooty for his 75th.

Fake advert for Sky Ray lollies featuring the actor and actress booked for the 1960s Doctor Who ad (only he appeared in the end product) and a Dalek.

Short comic strip written and drawn for the Paper Jam Comics Collective anthology "You Need a Holiday ... and That"

Mash up of Aladdin Sane and the first Doctor Who (David Bowie and William Hartnell shared a birthday).

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 4h

The central group of people in the poster appear nowhere in They Came from Beyond Space.

Poster for They Came from Beyond Space. In the centre is a group of people wearing skintight purple onesies and perspex helmets. The woman's outfit has cutaway panels, and one of the men has a strange dessicated face. The goggles they wear are loosely based on those worn by the film's heroes, not by the alien invaders.

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 5h

I try to keep my books neat and undamaged. I also wash my clothes and try not to shit on the furniture. Why would I treat books worse?

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 19h

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 1d

I promise that this is the only context in which I will refer to a bulge in Jamie's kilt.

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 1d

Is it the Paris Cine-Pit?
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 1d

Am I imagining it or can you see the lead weights above the bottom seam of Fraser's kilt? Just very slight bulges.

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 1d

An excellent podcast, intelligently moderated & full of thoughtful, articulate people talking about the fine work they do under often sensitive & sad circumstances. I learned a lot.
Podcast options: linktr.ee/missingeps_pod
Donations to Film Is Fabulous: filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-...

filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 1d

3 key members and trustees of the Film is Fabulous! team joined Tim of the 'Missing Episodes Podcast'

Film collector John Franklin, De Montfort University’s Prof Justin Smith & Sue Malden, renowned former Head of Broadcast Archives at BBC
YouTube Link
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 2d

A1 and DEADLINE, two of Britain’s seminal comics magazines are soon set to return as one, straight from the heart of UK comics counterculture.

https://downthetubes.net/be-ready-a1-and-deadline-are-back/

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 2d

Geri beginning her solo career.

Photo of Delegate Arcturus from Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon: a small green head with wizened appendages in a glass bowl on top of a hexagonal life support machine, with green liquid bubbling in transparent tubes.

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 2d

Lindsay said, while discussing "Reviewing the Situation" with Neil Brand, that when he did Oliver! he initially gave Fagin an East End cockney accent, but that it didn't work with the songs, whereas a yiddish accent did.

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 3d

But #TOTP has already shown you Heaven, Maria, albeit only a clip in the "Breakers" bit. It's at number 28.

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 5d

Bang Premier completely failing to understand that "I wish!" means "No chance!"
#DoctorWho

Doctor Who Production News @doctorwhopn.bsky.social · 5d

Russell T Davies at the Attitude Awards when asked whether another streaming service could come in to fund Doctor Who if Disney+ discontinues:

"We're not going there."
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'I wish!' Russell T Davies hopeful Prince William will make Doctor Who cameo

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies "wishes" Prince William would make a cameo in the BBC One sci-fi show, following his recent set visit.

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 5d

"Only you, Jeff. Only you."

Screen capture from The Celebrity Traitors, showing Charlotte Church wearing a long white dress and leaning on a tombstone with her name on it.

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe, but this town is big enough for the both of them.

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 5d

Can "The Encycopedia of the Worlds of Doctor Who, S-Z" be far behind?

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 5d

"Only you, Jeff. Only you."

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 5d

The Roman Invasion of 1960 was the biggest shock until the Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD.

Extract from the Taking Pictures TV schedule for Thursday 9 October. At 6:30 is "Look at Life: Roman Invasion 1960"

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 5d

I found the first episode of Film Club quite amusing, then saw this in the end credits and felt dismayed.

Screen capture of the following end titles:
"VFX: Coffee and TV.
"Titles: Momoco.
"Front titles created by design teams with assistance of [abbreviation of inaccurate description of World-burning Large Language Model plagiarism software redacted]."

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 5d

Does anyone draw a glowing robot sphincter accidentally?

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 5d

A booklet reprinting RTD's columns for the 2006 series (because they think Tennant sells, I suppose), and a poster with pictures of the Target audiobook inlay cards.