Hate watch: Jonathan Creek
Who broke Jonathan Creek? BEN THOMAS revisits the scene of the crime.
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History cops: The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder
‘I have a criminal mind.’ ALWYN TURNER on the TV version of Edgar Wallace’s investigator J. G. Reeder, ‘a Jazz Age Columbo’. Continue reading
Sherlock on screen
Who was the best Sherlock Holmes? There’s only one way to find out. ALWYN TURNER watches ten versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Continue reading
Suite for Late Summer: the album
From Lammas Day to the autumnal equinox, BEN FINLAY has the perfect soundtrack. Continue reading
Last night on iPlayer: One Foot in the Grave
Why doesn’t she leave him? Why doesn’t he leave her? IVAN KIRBY on one of the great sitcom relationships. Continue reading
1977: the album
From Bryan Ferry to Roogalator, ALWYN TURNER compiles an album’s worth of singles from 1977. Continue reading
Rod Liddle: a tribute in bleats
How the good people of Bluesky responded to the death of columnist Rod Liddle. Continue reading
Have you heard… Alan Price
ALWYN TURNER celebrates the mid-1970s solo work of ex-Animal Alan Price. Continue reading
Final cut: The Runaway Bus (1954)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford and Petula Clark. Continue reading
Have you heard… Heron
BEN FINLAY on the bucolic charm of Heron, getting it together in the country. Continue reading
Bill Oddie
ALWYN TURNER on Bill Oddie and the making of ‘The Funky Gibbon’. Continue reading
Sutch is life
ALWYN TURNER confesses to having written the Official Monster Raving Loony Party manifesto for Screaming Lord Sutch. Continue reading
Have you heard… Bronco
BEN FINLAY celebrates Jess Roden’s great country-rock band Bronco and their early-1970s albums. Continue reading
