Dr. Who: The Time Monster

'The Time Monster' is not the greatest Pertwee adventure by any means, but it has enough odd little points of interest to keep the viewers attention, and also introduces the concept of Tansmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time, or TOMTIT.

Written by playwright Robert Sloman (who had already written 'The Daemons' and 'Day of The Daleks', and would go on to write 'The Green Death' and 'Planet of The Spiders'), the script is literate (although occasionally somewhat florid) and ambitious, cutting between modern day (well, 1972) Britain and ancient Atlantis, as well as an interlude in the space between time, which all gets a bit trippy.

They Were Disgusting 2

They Were Disgusting

Electric Sitar Space Jam

Big Jim Sullivan, on the Moon, torn from orbit and spinning through space, playing a Coral Electric Sitar. That's possibly the most exciting sentences I've ever read, let alone written.

My thanks to Ninja Simone for reminding me of this.

Space 1999

If only 'Space 1999' episodes were as exciting and fast paced as the pre-credit sequences.

At The Hop

Four Dimensions of Greta

Zeta One

We'll return to 'Zeta One' some day, much in the way that someone with raging toothache keeps prodding at their mouth, even though it really hurts.

Persuaded

Heteroeroticism

The Persuaders

The Many Moods Of Jason King

4/30

Sinner Meet Your Maker

Fiendish moments from the original lobby cards. 

Beauty Beware

When I am dead and gone, say only this of me: he really, really liked 'The Fiend' ('Beware My Brethren' in the US). Like it? I love it. I love the music, the performances, the brown and olive world of the early 1970's, Tony Beckley, Patrick Magee, I love it all.

Beckley plays Kenny, a deeply religious security guard who lives with his aged Mum and, in his spare time, is a perverted sex killer. He's grown up twisted as a result of belonging to a very odd (but pretty funky) cult led by the ever bonkers Patrick Magee. The resulting tale is one of the most entertaining in the British horror canon, and it's just come out on DVD, so go and get it got immediately.

Here's the opening sequence of the film, which should probably clear up the whole 'shall I - shan't I' debate immediately. Bloody marvellous.

The Fiend