Fifty Years of Jason King and The Persuaders!
September 15, 2021By Film Historian Andrew Roberts MA PhD FRSA The 15th of September 1971 saw the British premiere of Jason King, followed by the first episode of The Persuaders! on the […]
Simenon and Maigret
September 3, 2021By Barry Forshaw (author of Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide and a forthcoming study of Georges Simenon) Georges Simenon, the creator of Commissaire Jules Maigret, had a profound influence on […]
A Tribute to Una Stubbs 1st May 1937 – 12th August 2021
August 20, 2021In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Southern Television treated its young viewers to a master class in great acting. The Aunt Sally of Una Stubbs was one of the […]
Fireball XL5: Almost 60 Years On
August 13, 2021By Chris Dale Hot on the heels of our Supercar Blu-ray release comes another classic Supermarionation series in High Definition! All thirty-nine episodes of Fireball XL5 will soon be launching […]
Gideon’s Way: The Influential Police Drama
July 29, 2021There were few actors working in the 1960s that embodied solid, old-fashioned decency like John Gregson. Which is doubtless why producers Monty Berman and Robert S Baker zeroed in on […]
The Maigret Citroën
July 26, 2021A small and exclusive group of cars became as much associated with police dramas as the human casts; the Wolseley 6/80s and 6/90s of Scotland Yard, the Ford Zephyr Six […]
Bob Kellett's Short Films
July 9, 2021The great media historian Julian Petley famously used the phrase ‘lost continent of British cinema’, which could apply to many works, from ABPC major features to Rank light comedies. But to […]
The Champions: A Tribute to Stuart Damon 5th February 1937 – 29th June 2021
July 5, 2021The time – the late 1980s. The place – a village in Hampshire so boring that the headline in the local newspaper read “Local Supermarket to Be Opened by Dusty […]
High Seas Adventures
June 30, 2021Sixty years ago, Hammer Films set out to see if they could make swashbucklers as well as they could horror. Cannily deciding to release them during the summer holidays – […]