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Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles – Wolf

Posted by ashleyelsdonon February 2, 2014in Books and Audiobooks

Another good story from the liberator chronicles. In keeping with the original stories and quite a lot of fun to listen to. I really should get the other box sets at some point too.

Blake’s 7: Liberator Chronicles 2 – False Positive

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 31, 2014in Books and Audiobooks

The Liberator Chronicles are good stories, and I’ve been enjoying listening to these again, but if there’s one thing I don’t like about them, it’s that these stories aren’t full cast dramas. I suppose that this is simply because I’ve recently listened to the latest Blake’s 7 story ‘Fractures’, which was a full cast drama and which is really good.

Anyway, the chronicles are very good, and I should probably get the rest of them at some point.

Space 1999 season 2

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 31, 2014in TV

Although I haven’t finished watching season 1 as yet I’ve already discovered that getting hold of season 2 isn’t easy. At least it isn’t easy to get hold of on DVD. However, it’s easy to get on iTunes. In fact, it’s really cheap on iTunes, comparatively that is.

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Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles 2 – The Magnificent Four

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 22, 2014in Books and Audiobooks

This is a great story. A true Blake’s 7 original, just like the episodes. I really enjoyed it even though I’ve heard it before, and of course it’s made me think that I should listen to more of the back catalogue now.

I think I probably will.

Space 1999: Season 1

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 18, 2014in TV

It is just as I remember it. The stories aren’t actually too bad by today’s standards, and it’s obvious that they’re trying to ideas and concepts in the show that weren’t being addressed elsewhere. The sets aren’t bad either, and neither are the special effects when you allow for when it was bad. Of course, the fact that it’s meant to have started in 1999 is quite amusing from today’s perspective as we’re so far away from having a base on the moon or indeed any kind of sophisticated space programme anywhere in the world.

It’ll take me a little while to get through it, but I’ll get there, and then I’ll have to decide if I’m going to get myself season 2 as well.

The 6th Doctor

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 13, 2014in Books and Audiobooks

I’d never been a big fan of the 6th Doctor. To be honest, by the time Colin Baker had taken over the role I wasn’t really watching anymore. Even so, the 6th Doctor never got a great reception. So when I had the opportunity to grab a 6th Doctor audio story from big finish as part of their Christmas sale, I thought, why not.

Anyway, I’ve just finished listening to “The First Sontaran”, and it’s great stuff. It far exceeded my expectations and made me want to listen more of the 6th Doctor stories. Also, this was one of the ‘Lost Stories’. I’ve got the 4th Doctor box set of these, but none of the others at all, apart from this one now of course.

So it doesn’t look like I’ll be running out of Doctor Who stories any time soon.

Finished the comic, watching the show

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 12, 2014in Comics, TV

Continuing my theme of being into retro space opera, I’ve finally got around to finishing the comic version of the start of Space 1999, at least the first edition anyway, and I was surprised by just how closely it follows the original episode.

It’s quite interesting to read the comic and watch the old series at the same time! Although having just had a look for series two it seems to cost a fortune!