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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 7h
For paid subscribers, but with a taste and a link to a free piece and the chance to opt in. Can't say fairer than that.
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The Mind Robber
“It's too bad that all these things can only happen in my dreams. Only in dreams. In beautiful dreams.” In 1990 BBC Video really accelerated their Doctor Who...
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 29d
- and for those of you who prefer writing not about Doctor Who and which you don't have to pay for, I've done a guest column over at the legendary and long running twinpeaksblog. twinpeaksblog.com/2025/09/08/r...
Recap from BFI Screening of 'Twin Peaks' Pilot with Kyle MacLachlan
Recap from the BFI Southbank screening of the "Twin Peaks" pilot with Kyle MacLachlan held on Sunday June 15, 2025.
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 7h
For paid subscribers, but with a taste and a link to a free piece and the chance to opt in. Can't say fairer than that.
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The Mind Robber
“It's too bad that all these things can only happen in my dreams. Only in dreams. In beautiful dreams.” In 1990 BBC Video really accelerated their Doctor Who...
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1 9 13
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 7h
For paid subscribers, but with a taste and a link to a free piece and the chance to opt in. Can't say fairer than that.
buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
The Mind Robber
“It's too bad that all these things can only happen in my dreams. Only in dreams. In beautiful dreams.” In 1990 BBC Video really accelerated their Doctor Who...
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1 9 13
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 12d
For paid subscribers, but with a taste and the option to opt in, it‘s Planet of Fire over @ psychic paper. buttondown.com/cooray_smith... (There are also links to unpaywalled pieces further up this feed.)
Planet of Fire
“Fire! I want you to burn!” I wound up with a VHS copy of most of Planet of Fire in early 1990. It was an unlikely choice for only the sixth story I had even...
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 29d
For subscribers only, but with a taste and two links to free pieces contained within it, it's turn and face the Genesis of the Daleks, over at Psychic Paper.

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Genesis of the Daleks
“It’s time to start all over, make a new beginning.” As I’ve said before here, sometimes the most celebrated Doctor Who stories are both the hardest and the...
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Dr Julie Doughty @juliedoughty.bsky.social · 29d
this is a lovely read for Twin Peaks fans
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 29d
- and for those of you who prefer writing not about Doctor Who and which you don't have to pay for, I've done a guest column over at the legendary and long running twinpeaksblog. twinpeaksblog.com/2025/09/08/r...
Recap from BFI Screening of 'Twin Peaks' Pilot with Kyle MacLachlan
Recap from the BFI Southbank screening of the "Twin Peaks" pilot with Kyle MacLachlan held on Sunday June 15, 2025.
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 29d
- and for those of you who prefer writing not about Doctor Who and which you don't have to pay for, I've done a guest column over at the legendary and long running twinpeaksblog. twinpeaksblog.com/2025/09/08/r...
Recap from BFI Screening of 'Twin Peaks' Pilot with Kyle MacLachlan
Recap from the BFI Southbank screening of the "Twin Peaks" pilot with Kyle MacLachlan held on Sunday June 15, 2025.
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 29d
For subscribers only, but with a taste and two links to free pieces contained within it, it's turn and face the Genesis of the Daleks, over at Psychic Paper.

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Genesis of the Daleks
“It’s time to start all over, make a new beginning.” As I’ve said before here, sometimes the most celebrated Doctor Who stories are both the hardest and the...
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · Aug 21
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... At Psychic Paper, Esrever ni Emit buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
ESREVER NI EMIT
“But is tomorrow yesterday? Or has it been and gone today? I wish someone would say.” George Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1934 play Merrily We Roll Along is the...
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · Aug 20
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... Time in Reverse at Psychic Paper
“But is tomorrow yesterday? Or has it been and gone today? I wish someone would say.”
In the July 1994 cover dated issue of Doctor Who Classic Comics1 Marvel UK reprinted Time in Reverse, as the untitled story originally run in TV Comic in...
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · Aug 13
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Journey’s End
“You’re my number one, I’d do anything for you.” Only a handful of Doctor Who episodes have reached #1 in the television charts for the week they were first...
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · Aug 8
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New on Psychic Paper.

"BOOM!"
"Booooom???"
"BOOOOOOOM!"

It's all Greek to me.
Boom Town
"Boom boom boom boom, I’m gonna shoot you right down, right off your feet. Take you home with me. Put you in my house.” Anniversaries so often fly by once...
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · Jul 30
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The Time Warrior
Attentive readers of this newsletter, assuming it has any, will have been expecting Genesis of the Daleks next. It was, after all, on the same tape as last...
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