The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

  Creature From the Pit was a costume drama with some mock-gothic horror and a quite imaginatively stencilled in alien world. That’s the kin...

  Who remembers the Banana Splits?   They were a group of live-action anthropomorphic animals who played bubble-gum pop music, provided the ...

  Bob Baker is a lovely little plotter . And he has a knack for dreaming up out-there, borderline surreal science-fiction ideas. It was one ...

  People who don’t like science fiction sometimes claim that science fiction is difficult to understand. Which is fair enough. Genre fiction...

  Almost definitely the worst Doctor Who story ever, or a neglected masterpiece? The next in my series of retro-reviews of Season Seventeen ...

In the black and white era, Doctor Who was simply one more piece of BBC drama. Not necessarily the greatest drama ever written; certainly n...

Pantomime is a uniquely British form of theatre. Unlike Morris dancing and the Mummers’ play, it’s a living, popular tradition, as opposed t...