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When Daffodils Attack: 1981’s The Day of the Triffids come to Blu-Ray – Episode One
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When Daffodils Attack: 1981’s The Day of the Triffids come to Blu-Ray – Introduction
Quick Links
Introduction
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four
Episode Five
Episode Six
The Blu Ray Package
An Early Red Dwarf Trailer
And so I ended up on the VHistory blog where, hidden in one of the sites earlier posts, I came across an early trailer for the first series of Red Dwarf.
Night of the Mini Dead (Love, Death & Robots)
This is a funky little thing – Night of the Mini Dead, from Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots. Apparently it’s from the show’s third season which, having firmly bounced off the first season (twice!), I’ve not yet seen. The uploader looks to have chopped it into two parts, though neither part is excessively long.
Part One
Part Two
And The Now Obligatory VFX Breakdown
There’s also a nifty VFX breakdown showing how the majority of the piece is actually augmented stock photography overlaid with GCI and with a tilt-shift effect applied.
FOLK as ROUGH as IRON Filings – Omnibus (1971)
And the BBC Archive has coughed up a lovely spot of old industrial folk music from the early 1970s. It’s certainly worth a listen and it’d be nice if the entirety of that edition of Omnibus somehow managed to make it to iPlayer…
WhoPlayer
As has been more than adequately commented on elsewhere, almost* all of the existent Doctor Who library has hit iPlayer – with the classic episodes, when queried by get_iplayer, reporting an expiry date of 2028-11-01T05:59:00+00:00. So that’s plenty of time to be thoroughly overwhelmed by choice!
*except for An Unearthly Child as – apparently – the writer’s son has issues….
Continue readingTime Trumpet
In spite of the BBC’s apparent determination to completely blackhole it (really, no repeats ever?), it appears that there is a complete as-broadcast set of Iannucci’s Time Trumpet stashed away on YouTube.
You should watch it. Now. Because how else are you going to learn about the Great War between Tesco and Denmark? Or how Charlotte Church coughed up all of her organs? Or what happened to Chris Moyles…
Episode One
Smeg
All of Red Dwarf’s Smegs.