Jamie Beckwith
@terriblezodin
One half of the team behind The Terrible Zodin fanzine, Yes Virginia, This is a Podcast and Black Archive: A Christmas Carol
When me and my mate Will got collared by PC Gary McCann (Clive Wedderburn) at The Bill Studios Tour
16th August 1983 - ITV broadcasts one off play for the day called Woodentop about a young police officer's first day on the job. The success of Woodentop lead to the commissioning of a full series in 1984, renamed The Bill. The show would run for 26 years. Happy 43rd Birthday to The Bill
My friend sent me this shot of the DS9 episode she’s watching so I said “There’s always gold pressed latinum in the jumja stick stand”
Your actions are illogical Deidre! Beam me up Percy Computer, Betty’s hotpot. Extra Lancashire chippy tea Hello Sinead. You look nice… You petaQ! HELLO LITTLE ROMULAN! Helm, set a course for the Rover’s Return, maximum warp
Oh hello old friend. Bought many many years ago in a second hand book shop in Margate
In today’s episode of The Bill, DC Rod Skase is cosplaying as the Ninth Doctor
When the person from the advert in 2026 appears to be wearing the exact same shirt as the person in the show you’re streaming from 1998!
One is the living embodiment of trash and the other is Count Binface
Took this silly photo of my Mum outside a Halifax when we went to Halifax last year. Now it will be a window to a lost British landscape
On the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme I remember my Great Grandfather Ernest Valentine who served with The Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment in World War One. He survived a mustard gas attack in the trenches though it left him with respiratory problems for the rest of his short life.
Got this from a The Bill group I’m in but looking at the magazines date I wonder which nonsense Doctor Who rumour this was?
Post TV Movie viewing, post video chat with our friend @lokster71.bsky.social who watched along with us virtually. Tony said I should have arrived in my Seventh Doctor shirt then got changed into my Eighth!
A different postman from earlier has come bearing a box. I may have spent my bonus on filling the gaps in my Black Archive collection 😅
Because he’s just been in the episode of The Bill we’re up to and the inevitable IMDb check to see where do we know that face we have discovered that Timothy Bateson, Binro from The Ribos Operation is also the voice of the worm in Labyrinth!
To cheer Leslie up after surgery I bought a load of Pug movies. We’re starting with Patrick and Peter Davison has turned up in it so we have an unexpected Doctor Who connection too
Submitted my Star Trek: Enterprise article for the Journal of Popular Culture. Despite referencing Porthos’ gastrointestinal stress from all his cheese eating good judgement prevented me from using the phrase “faith of the fart”
“Cynical observers would suggest that [the decontamination chamber] was less about embedding a practical reality as part of the back to basics ethos of Star Trek: Enterprise as a prequel series, so much as it was an opportunity to see the cast in their underwear.”
Lucky the Mrs is also a Who fan otherwise imagine trying to explain if she walked in on me watching this!
Well I enjoyed this movie, despite the lack of any actual clairvoyant cheesy tomato dough
Now is an appropriate time to share my favourite Dalek Master Plan meme! Credit to Andrew Green who created it for the Terrible Zodin Facebook page
I posted this on my Facebook a year ago today as Holocaust Memorial Day coincided with ICE raids on schools in Texas. A year later “First they came from the Latinos” has moved on to “Then they came for white people of conscience”.
I ain’t seen the new Star Trek yet but I already seen the “iT wAs SuBtLe In ThE oLd DaYs” comments doing the rounds on social media. Really? Subtle?
This unexpected message from a colleague who I’ve only met in person once but because of our respective roles I interact virtually with regularly has bought some cheer on a gloomy day.
My Dad made camels out our egg boxes more than 40 years ago. They’ve take over from the giraffe