Island of Terror

‘House On Straw Hill’  has either an illustrious history or a terrible reputation, depending on how you look at t...

'Baby Love' centres around the familiar plot device of a stranger who enters a supposedly perfect househ...

What do these randomly selected band of Dickensian grotesques and cheeky urchins know about blood? Nothing. One bloke in...

FMIF as Harry Field's Dad in 'Who Killed Harry Field?', a 1991 episode of 'Inspector Morse'. If you're...

'Lifeforce' is a mostly enjoyable adaptation of Colin Wilson's classic  novel 'Space Vampires'. I...

I don’t know whether recent allegations about Cliff Richard are true. My only response is that it wouldn’t surprise me, ...

To kick off, here's a screenshot from a recently repeated episode of 'Top of The Pops' originally broadcast in 1980. It fe...

This is Issue 6 of The British Esperantist , the 'mix tape of books' that I have been working on since I left The Island a year...

It's been nearly a year since I last posted here, and I still miss the place. There's no point fighting it so, I'm going t...

It’s impossible for me to think about Northern Ireland for any length of time without hearing the wonderful music of The Undertones in ...

After  ‘The Sandbaggers’  hasty conclusion, the likeable and capable Ray Lonnen starred in   the critically acclaim...

What can one say about ‘The Sandbaggers’ that can adequately describe what a superlative programme it is? My fr...