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S1E2 was on last night.
Another good story about an Oriental plot to takeover the US by replacing the President and other key figures with imposters that have been altered to look identical using a special serum that allows human flesh to moulded into a new shape.
"The Hundred Days of the Dragon"
I can recommend that you set a 'series link' if you haven't already.
And don't worry about it being old and in black and white - you soon forget that.

Thanks for the suggestion, I missed the first episode but enjoyed the second.
I wondered whether there would be a twist at the end where the vice president had actually been taken over by the duplicate as planned (but was more convincing). I thought he may have sacrificed the unconvincing president as the vice would automatically take over, but that didn't appear to be the case. Perhaps I was expecting it because there often seems to be a twist in modern fiction, no matter what the genre is!
 
Hmmm….This is the one review of the podcast

Big claims, doesn't deliver.​

The blurb for this podcast states 'For eight years he leverages his CIA skillset to try and solve the Black Dahlia murder. Now, he believes he has.' If that means that the writer has read some books and now talks about them, that is correct, but if you imagine that Lax has done any original research of his own, you will be sadly disappointed.

It starts with him meeting Steve Hodel and completely falling for Hodel's belief that his father murdered Elizabeth Short. It then moves on to Lax meeting Larry Harnisch, who has another theory, and thoroughly dislikes Steve Hodel. Lax now believes Harnisch and doesn't believe Hodel. Harnisch knows who killed Elizabeth, but won't say.

In the last episode Harnisch reveals the name of who he think did the awful crime, a surgeon who lived near where Elizabeth's body was found. Absolutely no proof, just a few coincidences, it feels as though this mans name has been picked out of a hat. The family descendants of this man are now living with the cloud of suspicion that their heretofore loving father and grandfather was in fact the most evil sadistic perverted murderer of all time!!!

Avoid this podcast, I wish I had.
 
I'm recommending this BBC Radio 4 series again. :)
Second episode, high hopes, fulfilled. :cool:

Male posters may like to put down hot drinks, sit back, give themselves legroom. :nods:

Room 5

‘It was unbelievably painful - I probably used a few Anglo-Saxon words.’
Jon is at Peppa Pig World with his family when he notices something very unusual about his body.

In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis.
 
Yes I thought pretty much the same but similarly I realised that the modern need to put in more twists and turns than a twisty-turny thing was not evident back then.
Exactly. People couldn't watch again to catch everything as they might now.

Can remember when the John le Carré adaptations were on TV with, as you say, more twists and turns etc. The ex pretended to follow it all but I soon lost patience.
Being able to wind it back and see who exactly walked past the park bench in the distance would've helped a lot. :chuckle:
 
Looking forward to tonights Outer Limits.
Episode 3. "The Architects of Fear", in which scientists create a fake "being" from another planet to frighten nations into a peaceful existence.

8pm GMT on Talking Pictures TV (virgin media channel 445)
 
Looking forward to tonights Outer Limits.
Episode 3. "The Architects of Fear", in which scientists create a fake "being" from another planet to frighten nations into a peaceful existence.

8pm GMT on Talking Pictures TV (virgin media channel 445)

Ah, the episode Alan Moore said he'd never heard of.
 
Episode 3. "The Architects of Fear"

Well it was a good story but I thought the SFX were not up to their usual standard.
And some of the direction and continuity could've been carried out a little more expertly (even by 1950s standards), along with what seemed like a little-more-than-usual willingness to cut corners.
However there were aspects of this tale that reminded of other things.
The aspect of the 'transformation' put me in mind of things like 'The Fly', 'The Quatermass Experiment' and 'District 9'.
The 'being from another planet' unifying the earth reminded me of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" in a way.
And there was a certain amount of character carry-over into ET too.
 
Outer Limits on Friday evenings at 8pm (as per channel details given upthread) continues to delight.
Donald Pleasance was a particularly wonderful addition last night.
 
Mischa and the Wolves, tonight at ten on BBC Four. You know those WTF? documentaries that have been popular these last few years? It's one of those, and a good one. Starts out with the story of a little girl who survived the Holocaust by living with a pack of wolves, and gets more surprising from there. Check it out, it's good Fortean stuff!
 
Mischa and the Wolves, tonight at ten on BBC Four. You know those WTF? documentaries that have been popular these last few years? It's one of those, and a good one. Starts out with the story of a little girl who survived the Holocaust by living with a pack of wolves, and gets more surprising from there. Check it out, it's good Fortean stuff!
This is well worth a watch & could equally go in the Frauds, Scams & Cons thread. Quite a story & some great detective work.

I must admit as I watched I was extremely doubtful to say the least that a 7 year old could survive as per her story.
 
This is well worth a watch & could equally go in the Frauds, Scams & Cons thread. Quite a story & some great detective work.

I must admit as I watched I was extremely doubtful to say the least that a 7 year old could survive as per her story.

What was more interesting to me was not her story, but that so many enabled it by saying, sure, we believe you. When the publisher started thinking, wait a minute, this is ridiculous, she practically ruined her career!
 
What was more interesting to me was not her story, but that so many enabled it by saying, sure, we believe you. When the publisher started thinking, wait a minute, this is ridiculous, she practically ruined her career!
Yeah, there were a few twists & turns.. I'm a fan 'Storyville' in general - they have some interesting stories.
 
BBC Sounds


Fake Psychic - 1 The Showman.

If you wanted to speak with the dead in 1960s America, there was one man who was ready to help. For more than a decade, Lamar Keene was at the top of his game, becoming known as the Prince of Spiritualists. Then, quite suddenly, he turned his back on it all. But Lamar Keene didn't go quietly. He published a tell-all expose in which he confessed that he was little more than a conman, a psychic fraudster, who manipulated people in their most vulnerable moments. And in doing so, he catalogued the many physical and psychological tricks he used to separate his followers from their money. It wasn’t just his own carefully-crafted reputation that Lamar Keene sought to destroy. He wanted to blow the whistle on the whole industry. He claimed that he had been part of a national underground network that included many other psychics, clairvoyants and mediums, who combined forces to fleece the unsuspecting public. He called it the “psychic mafia,” and said that his confession made him a marked man.
 
Paranormal caught on camera on the history channel was interesting.
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Casandra Crossing is on Filme4 now
3pm 16-2-22
 
The new series (4) of 'Drive to Survive' will release on Netflix on Friday March 11th, the weekend of the start of the 2022 F1 season.
Should be an absolutely cracking series as there was much shenanigans last season.
 
Season 2 of The Proof is Out There begins on Sky History on March 8th at 22:00
I quite liked the first series - a lot less of the "GEE WHIZ IT MUST BE REAL IT'S ON VIDEO!" attitude of most of that type of show and more of a serious look at strange phenomena where they get experts to analyse footage and provide a rational explanation or say it's a hoax or admit that they can't explain it.
 
Oh please tell me that it has Giorgio A. Tsoukalos in it?
I might watch it.
His name doesn't appear on the cast list and neither does Nick "Britain's Fox Mulder" Pope. It does however have a marine biologist with the appropriate name of Shea Conger.
 
Does it have that eastern european UFO investigator, Ivor Dodjipik?
 
BBC Radio 4's Archive Hour is about Mary Whitehouse tonight (at 8pm):
Link

I'd say she did have a huge influence on British culture - because of how many people reacted against her. Look what happened to the culture in the 90s, all those kids who grew up with her complaints basically went all in with the filth and lurid stuff.
 
The Mary Whitehouse doc seems to be getting a lot of flak from people who haven't listened to it, but it's well worth hearing. It makes the point that she was correct in her fears that the mainstreaming of pornography will damage children's psychology because it's so easy to get hold of now, but she was damned by her ridiculous views on homosexuality.

In fact, the most damning story was the most shocking:
She had a lawyer who advised her on what was able to be prosecuted, one John Smyth. He advised her to go ahead with her court case against the play The Romans in Britain, but he pulled out of leading it at short notice.

She never knew why, but we know now - Smyth was a predatory pervert who set up Christian camps where he could prey on young boys. His thing was to strip them and beat them across their bottoms until they bled. Often his victims would have to wear nappies to soak up the blood afterwards. When Smyth was rumbled, he went to Southern Africa and continued to beat boys in his camps there.

Presenter Samira Ahmed makes the point if Whitehouse was told about this, it might have made her reassess her priorities, and she could have been a force for proper reform. But she wasn't, she was a joke.
 
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