Steven Flanagan

@stoverfandango.bsky.social

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Lives in NE England. Posts mostly about comics, Doctor Who, other old TV and films and random stuff. He/him

The words "Too Darn Hot" against a row of colourful diamond shapes, under a photo of what I think is the original Broadway cast of "Kiss Me, Kate". From the cover of the book "Too Darn Hot: Kiss Me, Kate & the Making and Remaking of a Broadway Musical" by Hannah Robbins.
Ann Aston and Bob Monkhouse holding crossbows on the set of the TV game show The Golden Shot.
David Jason as Special Agent Bill Higgins, in newsboy cap and denim jacket, talking on the telephone.
"Top Albums" chart from the iTunes store this morning. Five of the top 10 are albums involving Paul Heaton: at 1, Carry On Up the Charts by The Beautiful South; at 2, Soup by The Beautiful South and The Housemartins; at 6, The Best of The Housemartins; at 8, Solid Bronze - Great Hits by The Beautiful South; and ay 10, The Last King of Pop by Paul Heaton.
From Things to Come (1936): The Boss (Ralph Richardson), a blustering bully, dressed in the threadbare finery of past, tawdry, military glory, sits in his tattered palace, failing to comprehend the threat of international tech-fascists like smug John Cabal (Raymond Massey).
Text reading: The year 1969 is remembered by long-term fans of Doctor Who as that in which the programme came within a hair's breadth of total cancellation. To add to the problems of mounting inflation, Bryant was suddenly faced with the loss of three stories which fell through at the scripting stage. And while this was going on, department heads at the BBC began to look for a possible replacement for what they saw as a waning programme. According to popular lore, a number of science fiction ideas were considered. One plan was to adapt a number of the classic SF novels into serials. Less straightforward was ...
Mark Edwards (right) on the set of Blood from the Mummy's tomb, with James Villiers, Valerie Leon and Valerie Leon's body double.
Screen capture showing the Content & Media menu.
Screen capture from Doctor Who: The Five Doctors. Watched by the Doctor (Peter Davison) and President Borusa (Philip Latham), the Castellan (Paul Jerricho) is being led away by three guards. He turns and a subtitle reads, "No, not the mind probe."
Tash Farrant, cricketer turned commentator, with a Sky Sports microphone.
Poster for the Second World War-set movie "The Heroes of Telemark", starring Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris.
The late Bill Oddie, as a master of the ancient Yorkshire martial art of Ecky Thump, in The Goodies: Kung Fu Capers. He is wearing a strped collarless shirt, braces, a red sweat rag and an enormous flat cap. He hands are together and his eyes closed in prayer. Oddie was actually born in Lancashire and raised in Birmingham.
Image from "Bowfinger", showing a cinema hoarding for the film-within-a-film "Chubby Rain", starring Kit Ramsey (played by Eddie Murphy).
Lionel Jeffries, a bald man with a moustache, and wearing a suit and tie, furrows his brow. He was actually 27 or 28 when this film was made.
Cover of Nirvana's album "In Utero", modified so that it is attributed to "The Seattle Nirvana".
Photo: Drilling the narrow hole.
Photo: Having drilled a narrow hole in the floor of the flat above a jewellery shop below, Cesare (Jules Dassin) tests a rig for opening an umbrella, while Mario (Robert Manuel), Jo (Carl Möhner) and Tony le Stéphanois (Jean Servais) look on.
Sleeve illustration for Doctor Who: The Violet Hour, showing a montage of images featuring Mandip Gill as Yaz, an Ice Warrior and Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor. The change to the original is that Yaz is now in her Police uniform rather than in civvies. Original by Rafe Wallbank.
Detail from the photo in the OP, showing two trees framed by red squares.
Excerpt from a BBC news report about the nurdle spill on the Tyne and coast, reading, "Unlike in the EU, there is no regulation to prevent plastic pellet loss in the UK, McFarlane said, and suggested solutions such like filters in drains and sturdier packaging could make a considerable difference."
Lots of movie posters or DVD covers, with these words superimposed: "Describe your favorite [sic] movie as boring [sic] as possible."
Opening image from an InstaTok or TikGram video, showing elderly, bearded, Sylvester McCoy in his Doctor Who costume, but with a traffic cone on his head. The BBC Doctor Who logo is at upper left. Across the middle of the image run the words, "sylvester mccoy being an icon for 26 seconds" (Lack of capitals and punctuation is as in the original.)
The Tardis at the Commonwealth Games. The King and Queen are just exiting the front door. Sir Chris Hoy stands on the right. On the left, Greg McHugh walks out of the cover of some bushes towards the rear of the Tardis prop,
Photograph of Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka, in her "Air Australia" uniform.
Screen capture from Doctor Who: Doomsday. Over Canary Wharf, Daleks fly out of a prison cell that is bigger on the inside.
Paragraph from a BBC News report on "No. 10 North," reading, "The percentage of civil servants in senior roles outside London stands at 13.5% compared with 34.7% in London."
Front page of the Daily Express reactionary-fascist propaganda sheet, 24 July 2026. The headline reads, "New cells will end the early release scandal." The photograph shows the current King and Queen of the UK leaving the Tardis police box prop.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article "Genetic history of Europe", reading: "A 2025 study conducted by scientists from the University of Ferrara had found that many of the prehistoric Europeans retained dark skin of their African ancestors until the Bronze and Iron Ages. The analysis suggested that lighter skin had evolved in Europe more sporadically than conventionally believed in academic scholarship. The study had analysed 348 samples pooled from human remains across the British Isles, mainland Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East with a chronological range extending from 45,000 to 1,700 years ago."
Cup of Iced Hot Chocolate from Pret à Manger.
Photograph through a thicket of Lime bikes, the Strand, London.
Graffito on brick wall reading, “Orlando was here.”
Photograph of a dark grey wheelie bin. Its lid is covered by a white bin-liner. On the wall behind it is a notice that reads, “This is not a bin. Please do not dispose of rubbish here.” Wardour Street, London, July 2026.
Harry Hill as Professor Branestawm, with 3 pairs of glasses on his head.
Detail from the OP, showing a packet labelled "POTATOE CHIPS" [sic].
Nosferatu (or Gary Numan) in profile.
Cover of North Tyneside Council's magazine, "Our North Tyneside," Summer 2026 edition, showing a group of people standing in front of St Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay. They are holding a placard that reads, "Tripadvisor: Best Lighthouse in England!"
The cover of "Doctor Who: Mad Dogs and Englishmen" by Paul Magrs, showing a pink poodle with human hands holding a ray gun and a cigarette in a holder.
James Hayter as Mr Pickwick, looking dismayed.
Title panel for the original Monster Fun run of "Gums: A Shark Worse Than Its Bite!" drawn by Robert Nixon.
From the OP: Cover for Weldon J Cobb's "To Mars With Tesla, or The Mystery of Hidden Worlds" (1901) - the main illustration shows one man being electrocuted by another, but down in the bottom left is a straw-topped barrel with three right hands holding pistols emerging from pre-cut holes.
Photograph of a Cinnabar Moth, with distinctive black and scarlet wings.
Screen capture from Top of the Pops, 6 July 1989. Nicky Campbell is saying, "Did you know that Chaka Khan is the African for 'woman of fire'?"
Screen capture from Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday part 1: The Doctor (Peter Davison) asks Tegan (Janet Fielding), "You speak the dialect?". She replies, "He's an Australian aborigine."
Screen capture from Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks part 4: The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) taunts Davros with a rant about "unlimited rice pudding, etc, etc!"
Cover to the Target paperback "Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen" by Gerry Davis, with a painting by Jeff Cummins of a Cyberman head from The Invasion packed in ice.
Panel drawn by Steve Ditko showing Spider-Man fleeing through a crowd while the Crime-Master shoots a pistol at him. His thought bubbles read: "Looks like the Crime-Master just NEVER gives up! But he can't hit me if I keep the CROWD between us! And that's just what I'll DO!" Spider-Man has one-hand on the top of another man's head, but is otherwise unsupported.
High contrast drawing of Debbie Harry in black, white and red.
Two panels from the Jerry Siegel / Joe Shuster Superman comic in the O.P.: Superman uproots a forest single-handedly.
Screen capture from the BBC News (Tyne) webpage. There is a headline reading, "School closed after lightning strikes building." Underneath is a photo of Churchill Community College, Wallsend.
Screen capture of an email from Microsoft 365. The main part of the text reads: We have an update about Office 2021 on your Mac. Starting on 13 July 2026, a security certificate update is required to keep Microsoft 365 and Office apps current. On devices that cannot support this update, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote will switch to view-only mode. You can still open and read all your files, but editing and saving will not be available on this device. Your files are safe. The good news: your Mac can support these updates. Two simple steps are all you need to keep everything running after 13 July. You can complete them any time before or after 13 July. Full editing and saving will be restored as soon as both steps are completed. 1. Update your Mac to macOS 12 (Monterey) or later. Go to "System Settings", then "Software Update". 2. Update your Office 2021 apps. Once your Mac is running macOS 12 or later, open any Office app, select "Help", then "Check for Updates". That's it. Once both updates are complete, everything will work just as it always has.
Logo for Mighty Jack, made up of a chevron pointing to the right of the screen and two overlapping circles, set against black space with stars.
Black and white image of Peter Cook as E L Wisty, dressed in a mac and a bowler hat.
Photo of Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy in black top and read vinyl trousers.
Photograph of British comedy duo Little and Large (Eddie Large on the left, Syd Little on the right - a thin-faced man in thick spectacles with chunky black frames).
Photo of German rock band Scorpions in 1990.
Screen capture of a post from Stylelib Themes & Templates, reading: Nyssa – Creative Modern Lottie Animation Multipurpose WordPress theme stylelib.org?p=798537 Underneath is a photo of a logo for "nyssa". Slogan: "create websites that stands [sic] out."
Ronnie Barker in between two large pyramidal heaps of oranges. Screen capture from an advert for Kia-Ora, included in The Footage Detectives episode 228, on Talking Pictures TV.
Screen grab: A picture of part of the Swing Bridge over the river Tyne. Underneath is a headline which reads, "Non-swinging Swing Bridge turns 150 years old." Below that is a sub-heading reading, "Present tense and max 100 characters with full stop."
Close up of the cover in the OP, showing the "Doctor Who Magazine" logo obscuring all but the mouth and chin of the painting's image of the 7th Doctor.