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John Williams

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I like telly and I talk about it here https://www.youtube.com/@WorldofTelly and write about it here https://worldoftelly.beehiiv.com/

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 5m

Another fascinating addition to the British Newspaper Archive. blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2025/10/06/j...

Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

We welcome iconic best-selling teen magazine Jackie to The Archive. Browse every single edition of the weekly magazine for girls, from 1964 through to 1993.

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 15h

Doomwatch series 2 episode 1

An old, sepia-toned picture of a man in a chicken suit. It's really very detailed and well made, the illusion is only shattered by his regular human face sticking out. No beak or anything.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks to podcasting, I now have a Clannad earworm.

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 15h

Actual big laughs here in Whitley Bay.

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 20h

None shall pass.

An implacable brown and tan rabbit guards a door.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 2d

The Cotswolds are disgraceful.

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

RIP, John Woodvine. A very fine actor, and son of South Shields

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 2d

A friend has just sent me the Sounds Readers' Poll from the end of 1985. It's a dense text. I think you might like this @whenisbirths.bsky.social

An image of the Sounds Readers' Poll from the end of 1985.

ALBUM
1 MISPLACED CHILDHOOD Marillion
2 LIVE AFTER DEATH Iron Maiden
3 HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush
4 POWER WINDOWS Rush
5 PSYCHOCANDY The Jesus And Mary Chain
6 LOVE The Cult
7 THE JEWEL Pendragon
8 FIRST LAST AND ALWAYS Sisters Of Mercy
9 THE WAKE IQ
10 PHANTASMAGORIA The Damned
11 BROTHERS IN ARMS Dire Straits
12 WORLD SERVICE Spear Of Destiny
13 LOW-LIFE New Order
14 ONCE UPON A TIME Simple Minds
15 NO REST FOR THE WICKED New Model Army
16 HEAD ON THE DOOR The Cure
17 BAUHAUS 79-83 Bauhaus
18 CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK SWORD Hawkwind
19 STRENGTH The Alarm
20 MEAT IS MURDER The Smiths

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 2d

I vomited throughout the day. Terrible case of food poisoning meant I literally spent the whole ceremony throwing up into a bucket. The tremendous puking only died down around the time Saturday Night Fever aired on ITV.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

A scene from the film Mr Deeds Goes to Town. A man in a three-piece suit is addressing an audience and points at a large graph which displays the labels Abnormal, Sane or Normal, and Subnormal.

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

Help Neil to celebrate his birthday!

Neil Perryman @neilperryman.bsky.social · 3d

Please celebrate my birthday today by watching my latest podcast. It would the best present ever. youtu.be/nmEqFSk2qzU?...

World of Telly Episode 12: The Strange World of Gurney Slade

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

BBC4 is showing an episode of Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan featuring a quite intense and slightly spiky interview with Dilip Kumar. It’s fascinating but I wish they’d also show a more run-of-the-mill episode from the mid-70s for the real “Sunday morning when I was eight“ nostalgia rush.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

“If wig you see, Brian Murphy out of character be.”

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

Is the right to protest in the UK “ancient”? Feels like a relatively recent hard-won right.

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

Believe. @neilperryman.bsky.social @radiofreeskaro.bsky.social

Milo Clancy from Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight I watched Doctor Who: The Beast Below which I remember being poor, but I really enjoyed it, and now I’m reading Vineland which I remember being disappointingly poor *35 years ago* but I’m really enjoying it. Maybe past me was an even bigger idiot than present me.

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

I love this series of articles by Simon and more than happy to contribute some cash to keep them going. I particularly like the references to the physical nature of the books. The Three Doctors was indeed a chonky unit.

Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 5d

OMG Omega!, and other learned thoughts on the novelisation Doctor Who - The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/doct...

Doctor Who — The Three Doctors, by Terrance Dicks

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

If you‘d like some archive TV goodness then I strongly recommend Evan Marshall’s Sixties NI. It‘s on ITVX and YouTube. youtu.be/s_8vErMp4YM?...

Episode 1 of Sixties NI

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

Ha! I know if I listen to Andrew’s podcast I’ll become obsessed with it and I just don’t have the time at the moment. A pleasure deferred.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

I've just realised you can just see @whenisbirths.bsky.social's new book on the right of the photo underneath the remote control.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

I only visited Cockfosters once for the same reason only on the Tube. It was snowing then as well, but I had no Who location consolation.

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

I enjoyed watching Planet of Evil Pt.2 on its 50th anniversary. "If water you see, then Ealing it be."

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

When's dinner?

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

It's days like this when I'm grateful Shirley knitted me a blanket.

A cold and bewildered old gentleman wraps up warm in a hoodie and a knitted blanket.

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