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Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

This week, we head off into the far future of the distant planet Pluto (yes, we know, shut up), to liberate humanity from the Company, in The Sun Makers. Hey Cordo, don’t bogart the pentocyleinicmethylhydrane, man.

Buy the story!

The Sun Makers was released on DVD in 2009. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

William Simons, who plays sub-Blakean rebel leader Mandrell in this story, is more famous for his role in ITV period police drama series Heartbeat, playing Alf Ventress.

The Company takes Marx’s phrase “opiate of the masses” quite literally, drugging its oppressed population to keep them compliant. The Federation will adopt a similar tactic in Season 4 of Blakes 7, using the drug Pylene 50.

Hooray! It’s the long-awaited return of German Expressionism.

Richard points out the similarities between this story and The Space Merchants, a 1952 novel by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. It’s still in print. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Richard also points out the story’s many visual references to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927).

How long since we last referenced Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay Notes on Camp? Far too long, if you ask me.

Henry Woolf, the Collector in this story, had already appeared in Eric Idle’s sketch comedy show Rutland Weekend Television. You can see him with Idle in this sketch, called Gibberish. He also appeared in BBC children’s programme Words and Pictures. Watch him here, he’s delightful.

After the credits, we chat briefly about the Big Finish Blakes 7 audio series, The Liberator Chronicles.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. And please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we’ll feed an index-linked two percent growth tax into your computers and blow the economy.

Bondfinger

The Bondfinger team are off to watch SPECTRE this afternoon, in preparation for our commentary track on it, expected some time in late 2017. In the meantime, you can enjoy our previous commentaries: Thunderball (1965), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia With Love (1963), and Dr. No (1962). You can keep up with the Bondfinger news on our website, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

In this episode we discuss Spacedads, Boyfriend Errors and Jim the Fish! Oh, and we actually liked it! Hosanna!

Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

In this episode we discuss Spacedads, Boyfriend Errors and Jim the Fish! Oh, and we actually liked it! Hosanna!

Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

Matt takes a quick look at S9E09 "Sleep No More". If you have any thoughts feel free to send them to uswhocast@gmail.com

In this episode we discuss Spacedads, Boyfriend Errors and Jim the Fish! Oh, and we actually liked it! Hosanna!

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

In this episode we discuss Spacedads, Boyfriend Errors and Jim the Fish! Oh, and we actually liked it! Hosanna!

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

Join me @Feexby and the redoubtable @Loll73 (try redoubting him, go on, it's fun) as we chat in front of, on top of, and behind The Caretaker. It's a Doctor Who episode that is almost unrecognisable from the Harold Pinter original. Though how good would a Clive Donner episode starring Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates have been? Puh-retty god, I reckon.

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The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

00:00 The Who Wars Podcast Theme 00:30 Introduction to the show; includes discussion of show ratings and an appeal for iTunes reviews and ratings; DWM 478 arrives and Rob has a letter in it; Big Chief Studios readies new 1:6 scale 11th Doctor figure; Rob talks about products from Big Chief in his Doctor Who collection; Rob fails to finish Star Wars: A New Dawn even though he promised a review this episode - super sub @Kamiduu to the rescue; Clone Wars Legacy revealed this week, but more in news; Listener feedback - @kenobidarth puts forward multiple Star Wars questions and comments over Twitter, which Rob replies to, covering why Episode VII is called episode VII, whether Disney was the right buyer for the Star Wars franchise, why Clone Wars was cancelled, "that bloody mouse", and re-treads last episode's commentary on canon in the Disney era and Star Wars Legends. 17:25 NEWS - Star Wars: Episode VII rumours and speculation; Images of chrome Stormtroopers hit the Internet. Who are they and what do Rob and Kate think of them?; Oscar Isaac talks to EW about the vibe on the Episode VII set; Possible production art leaked featuring Jedi/Sith fight, Millennium Falcon and a mystery sniper; Mark Hamill turns 63 and is now the same age as Sir Alec Guinness when making A New Hope.    24:05 NEWS - Star Wars Rebels getting rave reviews as it nears transmission. 26:50 NEWS - "New" Clone Wars episodes released as Clone Wars: Legacy. 28:45 NEWS - Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi says he hasn't sworn for two years. 31:24 BOOK REVIEW - Star Wars: A New Dawn by Kate @Kamiduu http://www.shotglassdigital.com/2014/09/04/a-new-dawn-audio-trailer-by-vanessa-marshall-jimmy-mac/ 42:05 TV - Doctor Who: Time Heist (BBC) by Lex @Lexerness 46:05 TV - Doctor Who: The Caretaker by Rob @WhoWars 1:10:46 PREVIEW - Doctor Who: Kill The Moon (BBC) by Rob @WhoWars 1:15:25 ADVERT - Become a Who Wars podcast correspondent. Here's how. 1:16:08 Closing remarks; Late news - Doctor Who actress Lynda Bellingham confirms terminal cancer and will stop her chemotherapy within weeks. 1:19:25 The Who Wars Podcast Credits (including how to get in touch with the show)

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

The Cultdom Collective Review: Doctor Who 'Sleep No More' with Spoilers! (Series 9 Episode 9)

Join me @Feexby and the redoubtable @Loll73 (try redoubting him, go on, it's fun) as we chat in front of, on top of, and behind The Caretaker. It's a Doctor Who episode that is almost unrecognisable from the Harold Pinter original. Though how good would a Clive Donner episode starring Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates have been? Puh-retty god, I reckon.

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We’re live at Long Island Doctor Who tonight, but after watching Episode 9, “Sleep No More” with roughly 1,000 other Whovians in attendance, we wanted to ensure our first thoughts were out there to commiserate…er, share. Yeah. That’s it. SHARE. … Continue reading →

Join me @Feexby and the redoubtable @Loll73 (try redoubting him, go on, it's fun) as we chat in front of, on top of, and behind The Caretaker. It's a Doctor Who episode that is almost unrecognisable from the Harold Pinter original. Though how good would a Clive Donner episode starring Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates have been? Puh-retty god, I reckon.

We’re live at Long Island Doctor Who tonight, but after watching Episode 9, “Sleep No More” with roughly 1,000 other Whovians in attendance, we wanted to ensure our first thoughts were out there to commiserate…er, share. Yeah. That’s it. SHARE. … Continue reading →

We’re live at Long Island Doctor Who tonight, but after watching Episode 9, “Sleep No More” with roughly 1,000 other Whovians in attendance, we wanted to ensure our first thoughts were out there to commiserate…er, share. Yeah. That’s it. SHARE. … Continue reading →

This week, we head off into the far future of the distant planet Pluto (yes, we know, shut up), to liberate humanity from the Company, in The Sun Makers. Hey Cordo, don't bogart the pentocyleinicmethylhydrane, man.

Buy the story!

The Sun Makers was released on DVD in 2009. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

William Simons, who plays sub-Blakean rebel leader Mandrell in this story, is more famous for his role in ITV period police drama series Heartbeat, playing Alf Ventress.

The Company takes Marx's phrase "opiate of the masses" quite literally, drugging its oppressed population to keep them compliant. The Federation will adopt a similar tactic in Season 4 of Blakes 7, using the drug Pylene 50.

Hooray! It's the long-awaited return of German Expressionism.

Richard points out the similarities between this story and The Space Merchants, a 1952 novel by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. It's still in print. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Richard also points out the story's many visual references to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).

How long since we last referenced Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp? Far too long, if you ask me.

Henry Woolf, the Collector in this story, had already appeared in Eric Idle's sketch comedy show Rutland Weekend Television. You can see him with Idle in this sketch, called Gibberish. He also appeared in BBC children's programme Words and Pictures. Watch him here, he's delightful.

After the credits, we chat briefly about the Big Finish Blakes 7 audio series, The Liberator Chronicles.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. And please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we'll feed an index-linked two percent growth tax into your computers and blow the economy.

Bondfinger

The Bondfinger team are off to watch SPECTRE this afternoon, in preparation for our commentary track on it, expected some time in late 2017. In the meantime, you can enjoy our previous commentaries: Thunderball (1965), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia With Love (1963), and Dr. No (1962). You can keep up with the Bondfinger news on our website, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

This week, we head off into the far future of the distant planet Pluto (yes, we know, shut up), to liberate humanity from the Company, in The Sun Makers. Hey Cordo, don't bogart the pentocyleinicmethylhydrane, man.

Buy the story!

The Sun Makers was released on DVD in 2009. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

William Simons, who plays sub-Blakean rebel leader Mandrell in this story, is more famous for his role in ITV period police drama series Heartbeat, playing Alf Ventress.

The Company takes Marx's phrase "opiate of the masses" quite literally, drugging its oppressed population to keep them compliant. The Federation will adopt a similar tactic in Season 4 of Blakes 7, using the drug Pylene 50.

Hooray! It's the long-awaited return of German Expressionism.

Richard points out the similarities between this story and The Space Merchants, a 1952 novel by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. It's still in print. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Richard also points out the story's many visual references to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).

How long since we last referenced Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp? Far too long, if you ask me.

Henry Woolf, the Collector in this story, had already appeared in Eric Idle's sketch comedy show Rutland Weekend Television. You can see him with Idle in this sketch, called Gibberish. He also appeared in BBC children's programme Words and Pictures. Watch him here, he's delightful.

After the credits, we chat briefly about the Big Finish Blakes 7 audio series, The Liberator Chronicles.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. And please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we'll feed an index-linked two percent growth tax into your computers and blow the economy.

Bondfinger

The Bondfinger team are off to watch SPECTRE this afternoon, in preparation for our commentary track on it, expected some time in late 2017. In the meantime, you can enjoy our previous commentaries: Thunderball (1965), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia With Love (1963), and Dr. No (1962). You can keep up with the Bondfinger news on our website, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

Join me @Feexby and the redoubtable @Loll73 (try redoubting him, go on, it's fun) as we chat in front of, on top of, and behind The Caretaker. It's a Doctor Who episode that is almost unrecognisable from the Harold Pinter original. Though how good would a Clive Donner episode starring Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates have been? Puh-retty god, I reckon.

This week, we head off into the far future of the distant planet Pluto (yes, we know, shut up), to liberate humanity from the Company, in The Sun Makers. Hey Cordo, don't bogart the pentocyleinicmethylhydrane, man.

Buy the story!

The Sun Makers was released on DVD in 2009. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

William Simons, who plays sub-Blakean rebel leader Mandrell in this story, is more famous for his role in ITV period police drama series Heartbeat, playing Alf Ventress.

The Company takes Marx's phrase "opiate of the masses" quite literally, drugging its oppressed population to keep them compliant. The Federation will adopt a similar tactic in Season 4 of Blakes 7, using the drug Pylene 50.

Hooray! It's the long-awaited return of German Expressionism.

Richard points out the similarities between this story and The Space Merchants, a 1952 novel by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. It's still in print. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Richard also points out the story's many visual references to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).

How long since we last referenced Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp? Far too long, if you ask me.

Henry Woolf, the Collector in this story, had already appeared in Eric Idle's sketch comedy show Rutland Weekend Television. You can see him with Idle in this sketch, called Gibberish. He also appeared in BBC children's programme Words and Pictures. Watch him here, he's delightful.

After the credits, we chat briefly about the Big Finish Blakes 7 audio series, The Liberator Chronicles.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. And please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we'll feed an index-linked two percent growth tax into your computers and blow the economy.

Bondfinger

The Bondfinger team are off to watch SPECTRE this afternoon, in preparation for our commentary track on it, expected some time in late 2017. In the meantime, you can enjoy our previous commentaries: Thunderball (1965), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia With Love (1963), and Dr. No (1962). You can keep up with the Bondfinger news on our website, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

This week, we head off into the far future of the distant planet Pluto (yes, we know, shut up), to liberate humanity from the Company, in The Sun Makers. Hey Cordo, don't bogart the pentocyleinicmethylhydrane, man.

Buy the story!

The Sun Makers was released on DVD in 2009. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

William Simons, who plays sub-Blakean rebel leader Mandrell in this story, is more famous for his role in ITV period police drama series Heartbeat, playing Alf Ventress.

The Company takes Marx's phrase "opiate of the masses" quite literally, drugging its oppressed population to keep them compliant. The Federation will adopt a similar tactic in Season 4 of Blakes 7, using the drug Pylene 50.

Hooray! It's the long-awaited return of German Expressionism.

Richard points out the similarities between this story and The Space Merchants, a 1952 novel by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. It's still in print. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Richard also points out the story's many visual references to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).

How long since we last referenced Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp? Far too long, if you ask me.

Henry Woolf, the Collector in this story, had already appeared in Eric Idle's sketch comedy show Rutland Weekend Television. You can see him with Idle in this sketch, called Gibberish. He also appeared in BBC children's programme Words and Pictures. Watch him here, he's delightful.

After the credits, we chat briefly about the Big Finish Blakes 7 audio series, The Liberator Chronicles.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. And please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we'll feed an index-linked two percent growth tax into your computers and blow the economy.

Bondfinger

The Bondfinger team are off to watch SPECTRE this afternoon, in preparation for our commentary track on it, expected some time in late 2017. In the meantime, you can enjoy our previous commentaries: Thunderball (1965), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia With Love (1963), and Dr. No (1962). You can keep up with the Bondfinger news on our website, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

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This week, we head off into the far future of the distant planet Pluto (yes, we know, shut up), to liberate humanity from the Company, in The Sun Makers. Hey Cordo, don't bogart the pentocyleinicmethylhydrane, man.

Buy the story!

The Sun Makers was released on DVD in 2009. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

William Simons, who plays sub-Blakean rebel leader Mandrell in this story, is more famous for his role in ITV period police drama series Heartbeat, playing Alf Ventress.

The Company takes Marx's phrase "opiate of the masses" quite literally, drugging its oppressed population to keep them compliant. The Federation will adopt a similar tactic in Season 4 of Blakes 7, using the drug Pylene 50.

Hooray! It's the long-awaited return of German Expressionism.

Richard points out the similarities between this story and The Space Merchants, a 1952 novel by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. It's still in print. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Richard also points out the story's many visual references to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).

How long since we last referenced Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp? Far too long, if you ask me.

Henry Woolf, the Collector in this story, had already appeared in Eric Idle's sketch comedy show Rutland Weekend Television. You can see him with Idle in this sketch, called Gibberish. He also appeared in BBC children's programme Words and Pictures. Watch him here, he's delightful.

After the credits, we chat briefly about the Big Finish Blakes 7 audio series, The Liberator Chronicles.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. And please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we'll feed an index-linked two percent growth tax into your computers and blow the economy.

Bondfinger

The Bondfinger team are off to watch SPECTRE this afternoon, in preparation for our commentary track on it, expected some time in late 2017. In the meantime, you can enjoy our previous commentaries: Thunderball (1965), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia With Love (1963), and Dr. No (1962). You can keep up with the Bondfinger news on our website, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

This week, we head off into the far future of the distant planet Pluto (yes, we know, shut up), to liberate humanity from the Company, in The Sun Makers. Hey Cordo, don't bogart the pentocyleinicmethylhydrane, man.

Buy the story!

The Sun Makers was released on DVD in 2009. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

William Simons, who plays sub-Blakean rebel leader Mandrell in this story, is more famous for his role in ITV period police drama series Heartbeat, playing Alf Ventress.

The Company takes Marx's phrase "opiate of the masses" quite literally, drugging its oppressed population to keep them compliant. The Federation will adopt a similar tactic in Season 4 of Blakes 7, using the drug Pylene 50.

Hooray! It's the long-awaited return of German Expressionism.

Richard points out the similarities between this story and The Space Merchants, a 1952 novel by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. It's still in print. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Richard also points out the story's many visual references to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).

How long since we last referenced Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp? Far too long, if you ask me.

Henry Woolf, the Collector in this story, had already appeared in Eric Idle's sketch comedy show Rutland Weekend Television. You can see him with Idle in this sketch, called Gibberish. He also appeared in BBC children's programme Words and Pictures. Watch him here, he's delightful.

After the credits, we chat briefly about the Big Finish Blakes 7 audio series, The Liberator Chronicles.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. And please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we'll feed an index-linked two percent growth tax into your computers and blow the economy.

Bondfinger

The Bondfinger team are off to watch SPECTRE this afternoon, in preparation for our commentary track on it, expected some time in late 2017. In the meantime, you can enjoy our previous commentaries: Thunderball (1965), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia With Love (1963), and Dr. No (1962). You can keep up with the Bondfinger news on our website, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

This week, we head off into the far future of the distant planet Pluto (yes, we know, shut up), to liberate humanity from the Company, in The Sun Makers. Hey Cordo, don't bogart the pentocyleinicmethylhydrane, man.

Buy the story!

The Sun Makers was released on DVD in 2009. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

William Simons, who plays sub-Blakean rebel leader Mandrell in this story, is more famous for his role in ITV period police drama series Heartbeat, playing Alf Ventress.

The Company takes Marx's phrase "opiate of the masses" quite literally, drugging its oppressed population to keep them compliant. The Federation will adopt a similar tactic in Season 4 of Blakes 7, using the drug Pylene 50.

Hooray! It's the long-awaited return of German Expressionism.

Richard points out the similarities between this story and The Space Merchants, a 1952 novel by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. It's still in print. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Richard also points out the story's many visual references to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).

How long since we last referenced Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp? Far too long, if you ask me.

Henry Woolf, the Collector in this story, had already appeared in Eric Idle's sketch comedy show Rutland Weekend Television. You can see him with Idle in this sketch, called Gibberish. He also appeared in BBC children's programme Words and Pictures. Watch him here, he's delightful.

After the credits, we chat briefly about the Big Finish Blakes 7 audio series, The Liberator Chronicles.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. And please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we'll feed an index-linked two percent growth tax into your computers and blow the economy.

Bondfinger

The Bondfinger team are off to watch SPECTRE this afternoon, in preparation for our commentary track on it, expected some time in late 2017. In the meantime, you can enjoy our previous commentaries: Thunderball (1965), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia With Love (1963), and Dr. No (1962). You can keep up with the Bondfinger news on our website, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

This week, we head off into the far future of the distant planet Pluto (yes, we know, shut up), to liberate humanity from the Company, in The Sun Makers. Hey Cordo, don't bogart the pentocyleinicmethylhydrane, man.

Buy the story!

The Sun Makers was released on DVD in 2009. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

William Simons, who plays sub-Blakean rebel leader Mandrell in this story, is more famous for his role in ITV period police drama series Heartbeat, playing Alf Ventress.

The Company takes Marx's phrase "opiate of the masses" quite literally, drugging its oppressed population to keep them compliant. The Federation will adopt a similar tactic in Season 4 of Blakes 7, using the drug Pylene 50.

Hooray! It's the long-awaited return of German Expressionism.

Richard points out the similarities between this story and The Space Merchants, a 1952 novel by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. It's still in print. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Richard also points out the story's many visual references to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).

How long since we last referenced Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp? Far too long, if you ask me.

Henry Woolf, the Collector in this story, had already appeared in Eric Idle's sketch comedy show Rutland Weekend Television. You can see him with Idle in this sketch, called Gibberish. He also appeared in BBC children's programme Words and Pictures. Watch him here, he's delightful.

After the credits, we chat briefly about the Big Finish Blakes 7 audio series, The Liberator Chronicles.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. And please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we'll feed an index-linked two percent growth tax into your computers and blow the economy.

Bondfinger

The Bondfinger team are off to watch SPECTRE this afternoon, in preparation for our commentary track on it, expected some time in late 2017. In the meantime, you can enjoy our previous commentaries: Thunderball (1965), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia With Love (1963), and Dr. No (1962). You can keep up with the Bondfinger news on our website, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.