ThePickards
standards, accessibility, and ranting and general stuff by the web chemist

It’s not new, exactly, having originally been made in 2005 (but obviously added to since, as some of the clips were filmed after that), it’s just a little homage to how often the phrase “what are you doing here?” crops up in Doctor Who.

For an added bonus, true Dr. Who geeks can play ’spot the [...]

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Watching CITV with my kids the other weekend, I discovered they were fans of something called Captain Mack. As kids TV goes, it’s fairly bog standard; caricatures in big bright costumes with a pantomime villain.
However, at the end, when Captain Mack had saved the day — by finding the baddie who had taken the [...]

Read: When you don’t really want to stay, but can’t think of a good reason… »

Every now and then you see a TV show which seems destined to fail, but yet you personally enjoy. One such was a rather unusual one-off comedy I saw early this year on BBC3 called Being Human, about a vampire and a werewolf who flatshare — and then discover that their house is haunted by [...]

Read: No Heroics - just Being Human »

For those of you unlucky enough to have missed Rentaghost, it was a kids TV programme. Basically, the concept was that Mr and Mrs Meaker had a company where they offered ghosts for hire. Hence ‘Rentaghost’.

There was Timothy Claypole, a mediæval court jester; Nadia Popov, a dutch ghost with hayfever who teleports when she [...]

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Sorting out BTP’s shelf of Doctor Who DVDs, which is starting to look really quite impressively geeky now (although I have to admit that he has got me back into it to the extent that half a dozen of them are actually mine, rather than having been bought for him), I thought it was about [...]

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Reading Meyerweb the other day, I caught sight of one of his ‘distractions’, titled ‘Summarized Cinema: Science Movies explained in a sentence’.
This sounded intruiging, so I headed over to the site to find out what it was about.
I became intrigued by the short description of Curse of the Fly that appeared on the screen [...]

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I recorded this the other night as I was out when it was on, so decided to watch it tonight instead.
I had been hoping to enjoy this: I’d really enjoyed the BBC Series ‘The Invisibles’, so when they were pushing another drama series, I thought I’d give it a bash.
I had to admit I was [...]

Read: Bonekickers »

If they have managed to pull that one off without people finding out about it, I am impressed.
But I’ll have to wait for next week to see…
(Anyone with ‘insider’ knowledge is welcome to contact me. Go on, pretend you really know - I’ll publish the wackiest ideas after next week’s episode… however, I can quite [...]

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…or so the infamous man in the pub told me.

Now I remember Davros, creator of the Daleks, as seen in Genesis of the Daleks and suchlike, and I remember Stavros, Harry Enfield’s Arsenal-supporting Greek Kebab shop owner, but I hadn’t realised he had previously been in Doctor Who.
I can just see it now:
Emi-rates! Emi-rates!
Exterminate the [...]

Read: Stavros returns to Doctor Who »

Is it fair to call a four-year old a sci-fi geek? Well, I was a dinosaur geek when I was a kid, able to tell you the difference between your Allosaurs, Tyrannosaurs and so on and could even tell you the periods the respective dinosaurs lived in, even if I now can’t tell my Cretaceous [...]

Read: Who’s Whovian? »