DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #203 – Don’t Tell Him, Vardan!

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After much thought, our old chum Suky Khakh chooses 4th Doctor story “Invasion of Time” for us to review.

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SHOW NOTES

(00:01:09) Our guest is Suky Khakh of the “Around the Console” podcast, the “Trek This Out” podcast and the “Take Your Seats” podcast.

(00:04:52) The helpful Erika Ensign (a.k.a. @hollygodarkly) is a denizen of the famed Verity podcast.

(00:09:24) Pictures of Mark’s action figure of Grand Mofff Tarkin can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:15:17) Mark’s new-found friend on Twitter is @daemonsmatt.

(00:19:18) “Campion” is a British television mystery drama broadcast on the BBC in 1989 and 1990 and adapted from the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. The series starred Peter Davison as Albert Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg.

(00:20:12) “Butterflies” is a British sitcom written by Carla Lane that aired on BBC2 from 1978 to 1983.

(00:26:57) The Whoovers are a group of Doctor Who fans based in Derby UK, who meet twice monthly alternating between in-person gatherings and online meetings via Zoomville. They also organise the annual Whooverville convention and, since 2018, have hosted Big Finish Day.

(00:28:47) The “Vision On Sound” podcast takes a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and Martin Holmes and his guests investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.

(00:29:22) “Shelley” is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1984 and from 1988 to 1992. It stars Hywel Bennett as Dr James Shelley, a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment ‘freelance layabout’ with a doctoral degree.

(00:35:44) “Screen Test” is a children’s game show that aired on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. It was first hosted by Michael Rodd from 1970 to 1979, then by Brian Trueman from 1979 to 1983 and finally by Mark Curry in 1984. It involved its contestants seeing clips from films, and then being asked questions about the films to test their memories of them.

(00:36:25) “Chorlton and the Wheelies” is an animated children’s television series created by Cosgrove Hall Productions which ran from 1976 until 1978 on ITV. 40 episodes were produced. The show followed the adventures of Chorlton, an anthropomorphic “happiness dragon”, in “Wheelie World” (where people moved on wheels instead of legs). The eponymous lead character gets his name from the suburb of Manchester in which the Cosgrove Hall studio was based.

(00:36:59) Brian Keith “Herbie” Flowers (19 May 1938 – 5 September 2024) was an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double bass and tuba. He was a member of groups including Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and was also a prolific session musician. Flowers contributed to recordings by Elton John, Camel, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Roy Harper, David Essex, Al Kooper, Bryan Ferry, Harry Nilsson, Cat Stevens, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. He also played bass on “Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds”.

(00:39:05) “The Water Margin” is a Japanese television series based on the 14th-century book Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Made in two seasons of 13 episodes each by Nippon Television it was shown in Japan in 1973 and 1974 as “Suikoden”. For an English-language version, it was adapted by David Weir without translations, using only brief plot synopses. The dubbed version, narrated by Burt Kwouk, was shown by the BBC from 1976 to 1978.

(01:18:18) “Shardlake” is a series of historical mystery novels by C. J. Sansom, set in 16th century Tudor England. The series features barrister Matthew Shardlake, who, while navigating the religious reforms of Henry VIII, solves crime and tries to avoid getting caught up in political intrigue. The first six books are set during the reign of Henry VIII, while the seventh, Tombland, takes place two years after the king’s demise. Sansom said before his death that he planned to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I.

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