Children of the Stones is a scary children’s TV serial produced by HTV and first broadcast in 1977. It follows father and son (Adam and Mathew Brake) as they arrive in the Wiltshire village of Avebury to study Neolithic standing stones. There, they find the villagers under a mysterious spell. Stars Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7) […]

In the latest episode of The Channel I’m reviewing a cult movie that looks like it was made in the sixties, but was actually made in the mid-1980s. This classic film, loaded with one-liners and laugh-out-loud scenes, features the first motion picture appearances of Richard E Grant and Paul McGann. It flopped when it was

Many of us who watched the Ace of Wands when it was first broadcast have fond memories of the show, unfortunately, when it comes to the first two series – that’s basically all we have.  Of the show’s 46 episodes, first broadcast in the UK from 1970 to 1972, only 20 remain. And I think

In this edition of The Channel I take a look at the first incarnation of Thames TV’s The Tomorrow People. The show’s original line-up included Nicholas Young, Stephen Salmon, and Peter Vaughan-Clarke. The Tomorrow People was first broadcast in 1973, and is still going strong today thanks to books, reboots, and audio dramas. See my

In this edition of The Channel I take a step back in time to look at the James Bond movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. It was the only James Bond motion picture to feature the real life action man, model, and actor George Lazenby. However, while the movie slightly missed the mark when it

In this episode of The Channel I’m taking a look at a movie that was first released in 1971. It was the first major motion picture from George Lucas, and it bombed at the cinema. In fact, it was all the executives at Warner Brothers could do to release it at all, they were so