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Before smartphones were quite so, well, smart, there was the PDA.  The Personal Digital Assistant, often mocked as a digital filofax, was the most pocketable of mobile computing platforms before the advent of Smartphones. Many top manufacturers had their own range.  While HP expanded the Jornada brand, Dell’s range was […]

The Writer’s Toolkit, part 2 : The Age before Smartphones

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Before the tablet there was the netbook.  Before the netbook there was the Handheld PC, epitomised as it was by the HP Jornada range. Beginning life as the HP Jornada 680 in 1998, this clamshell portable computer went through a number of slight modifications before its final incarnation, the 728, […]

The Writer’s Toolkit : Yesterday’s Ultimate Mobile Computing

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Prior to Sherlock, the BBC dabbled with producing Sherlock Holmes back in 2002 and 2004 (one every other year – so only slightly less frequently than Sherlock).  I previously reviewed their 2002 The Hound of the Baskervilles starring Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart.  Just recently, cable channel “Drama” showed the […]

The Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

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Back in 2002 and 2004, the BBC commissioned two Sherlock Holmes adventures featuring Ian Hart as Dr Watson.  The first, an adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles in 2002 starring Richard Roxburgh.  The second, The Case of the Silk Stocking in 2004 starring Rupert Everett.  I’m not sure why […]

The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)

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I received the physical set of The Light at the End yesterday. This is the “deluxe CD” presentation.  It consists of two parts – a solid outer sleeve and an inner hardback book.  Together they’re a little larger than a DVD case but would fit on your shelf of trade […]

The Light at The End, Deluxe CD

 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews  tagged Big Finish / Colin Baker / Deluxe / Doctor Who / Geoffrey Beevers / India Fisher / Louise Jameson / Nicola Bryant / Paul McGann / Peter Davison / Sarah Sutton / Sophie Aldred / Sylvester McCoy / The Light at the End / The Master / The Revenants / Tom Baker / William Russell by
The Light at the End encouraged me to seek out Big Finish’s first multi-Doctor story from way back in 1999 and I began listening to the first part of The Sirens of Time last night to see how it compares to their latest multi-Doctor adventure. The following review may contain […]

1. The Sirens of Time

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In an act that almost brought down their servers and crippled their website, Big Finish released The Light at the End one month early (yesterday, 23rd October). Needless to say, everyone wanted to download it at the same time.  I was able to download it and I listened to it […]

The Light at The End

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Becoming a little disillusioned as I am with the BBC’s feeble efforts at celebrating Doctor Who‘s 50th Anniversary this year, I’ve been tempted to spend some time browsing the Big Finish catalogue of audios.  My present budget restricts my selection to the most affordable releases only, but there are a […]

Voyage to Venus

 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Jago & Litefoot / Reviews  tagged Big Finish / Christopher Benjamin / Colin Baker / Doctor Who / Henry Gordon Jago / Jago & Litefoot / Jonathan Morris / Professor George Litefoot / Trevor Baxter / Voyage to Venus by
Thanks to YouTube, I’ve finally had the opportunity to see an episode of the BBC Sherlock Holmes series starring Douglas Wilmer.  Wilmer was later replaced by Peter Cushing (episodes I’ve already seen), but it has been difficult to see the Wilmer episodes.  Most of them have been lost over the […]

The Six Napoleons

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I’ve just stumbled across another version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, this time starring Stewart Granger as Sherlock Holmes and Bernard Fox as Watson. Yes, it also stars William Shatner as Stapleton together with Anthony Zerbe as Mortimer. The main positive is the set design.  It’s very atmospheric and […]

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)

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