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Sherlock Holmes in New York opens with Sherlock Holmes (Roger Moore) disguised as Colonel Moran in order to infiltrate Moriarty’s secret hideout in London.   He tells Moriarty that he’s just rounded up all of his gang and, though he can’t prove Moriarty’s involvement, his latest crime has now been foiled.   […]

Sherlock Holmes in New York

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Sherlock Holmes Returns is one of those stories in which Holmes manages to bring himself into the modern age, without requiring any of the “reboot/reimaging” that tends to happen today. This wasn’t the first time this had happened.  Just six years earlier, the TVM entitled The Return of Sherlock Holmes […]

Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)

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Doing a bit of browsing last night, I discovered that someone has uploaded the Tom Baker Sherlock Holmes adventure, The Hound of The Baskervilles, to YouTube.  I’ve wanted to see Tom Baker’s take on the role for many years, so I’ve downloaded them to watch.  Although the primary note of this production is that […]

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)

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Bringing Down the House is the sixth episode of the first season of Superboy from 1988 featuring John Haymes Newton as Clark Kent / Superboy, Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang, and Jim Calvert as T.J.White.  Perhaps not the most action-packed and special-effects filled episode we’ve seen, but one that demonstrates […]

1.06 Bringing Down the House

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The fifth episode of the first season of Superboy from 1988 featuring John Haymes Newton as Clark Kent / Superboy, Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang, and Jim Calvert as T.J.White, featuring Doug Barr.   An episode that feels almost like a pilot episode with a more assured approach to some special […]

1.05 Countdown to Nowhere

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The Russian Exchange Student is the fourth episode of the first season of Superboy from 1988 featuring John Haymes Newton as Clark Kent / Superboy, Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang, and Jim Calvert as T.J.White.  A fairly simple morality tale about prejudice, incorporating some new and ambitious special effects. At college, a […]

1.04 The Russian Exchange Student

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A Kind of Princess is the second episode of the first season of Superboy from 1988 featuring John Haymes Newton as Clark Kent / Superboy, Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang, and Jim Calvert as T.J.White.  Guest-starring Julie McCullough as Sara Danner, the “princess” of the title caught up in a […]

1.02 A Kind of Princess

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Look!  Up in the sky!  It’s a bird!  It’s a plane!  It’s Superboy!  Yes. long forgotten amongst the latter day offerings from The Lois Lane Show with Dean Cain and the No Capes, No Thrills Show starring Tom Welling, we present The Adventures of Superboy. A strange programme from the planet […]

1.01 The Jewel of Techacal

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I listened to the first part of Spare Parts from Big Finish last night and really enjoyed it.  Spare Parts is the 34th story in their Doctor Who: Main Range series and features Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, accompanied by Sarah Sutton as Nyssa.  This is a full-cast adventure […]

34. Spare Parts, episode 1

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