Simon Guerrier

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Writer and producer. Out now: David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, a biography of the first story editor of Doctor Who. Currently working on a biography of Terrance Dicks. www.simonguerrier.com

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Simon Guerrier@0tralala· 18d

I am told that the chocolate brownies I made for teenage son and his mates are “high peak” and “like sweet”.

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· 20d

Your next challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to sneak in a Kklak!

Chris Achilleos’s cover to the novelisation Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion by Malcolm Hulke, showing the Third Doctor in black and white menaced by a T rex and pterodactyls, the orange skyline of London behind them, and the word KKLAK! in bold letters.

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· 28d

This Friday, I am giving a talk on Mr Benn, Elmer the patchwork elephant and Not Now Bernard for St Barbe Museum + Art Gallery in Lymington if you should care to come along. www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Flyer for talk “The David McKee Sketchbook” with image of Mr Benn in the fancy dress shop with various costumes, plus Elmer the patchwork elephant

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Jul 12

Good morning, Womble. I am into the closing section of the deliciously horrible Covid-set thriller Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker.

Cover of Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker, showing a spray bottle of cleaner dripping with blood

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Jul 11

Fragments of Hookland have reached their tendrils into my home…

Cover of Hookland Fragments vol 1 by David Southwell, with black and white illustration of a bear juggling bones

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Jul 8

Excellent work. I heard it in this voice.

Head an shoulders of a bald, glistening, naked man looking apoplectic behind his enormous moustache. A screenshot of a Roger Livsey in the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Jun 28

Herculaneum was amazing. Hot weather also amazing. Blimus.

Some bald old geezer in from of a Roman doorway

Girl in a red dress in front of a Roman arch

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Jun 27

Gawped and gawped at Pompeii. Cor. Sadly, Peter Capaldi not at home today.

Small girl on the stepping stones across the street in Pompeii

Two kids sheltering in the shade by the dork in Pompeii

Distinguished academic outside the house of Caecilius (the Roman for Cecil) in Pompeii. Peter Capaldi either not at home or in hiding from nerds

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Jun 26

Having a nice time in Naples. Off to a Doctor Who location tomorrow. Excitingly, there is a dating controversy among academics, as 24 August 79 no longer considered the date of Boom by the Richard Bignells of archaeology, who favour late October.

Children on a roof looking out across a city plus a mountain with a big wedge of it missing

A faun larking about in the nip, and an old man not in the nip as that would be traumatising for you all

Cool Roman mosaic of a cheery skeleton dude going about his business

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Jun 24

A splendid gift from @nimbos.bsky.social - a Radio Times as venerable as me, but in considerably better nick.

An ancient, bald man in a maroon tee-shirt holding up the listings magazine Radio Times for the week of 26 June 1976, with artwork showing the Viking spacecraft on its approach to Mars

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· May 27

Oh no.

Tired old man in glasses and a pub, with a pint of cool, cool Helles lager

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· May 23

Title card saying “Doctor Who and the Silurians” over a shot of the space station Deep Space Nine, for stupid reasons

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· May 13

Blimey. That squiggle underneath looks characteristically Mac.

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· May 5

Excitement!

Paperback edition of Leap of Eighth - The Unofficial and Unauthorised History of the Eighth Doctor, by Reecy Pontiff, with a foreword by Paul McGann (Telos Publishing, 2026)

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· May 2

Captain Haddock update: our boat broke down, son saw a spider crab and a lobster, now we are having pizza in the rain on the beach.

Tired old man in a hoody in the rain on a beach with a pizza box

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· May 2

I am at sea.

Old man in glasses, hat and life jacket on a boat in the sea

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Apr 29

I have a cameo in this book.

Paperback edition of Master & Commander by Patrick O’Brian, showing a sailing ship and sailors

Page 20 of the novel Master & Commander by Patrick O’Brian with the word “Guerrier” highlighted.

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Apr 27

Go to bed, Simon, and stop reading the pretty book.

Front cover of The Time Team Unearthed / The Art of Adrian Salmon, with portraits of the first eight Doctors Who

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Apr 26

Hello Womble. Ooh, I’ve had my eye on Slow Gods. Will get to it asap. I’m currently with Kirk and Spock hunting a silicon-based rock monster whose internal organs are made of Teflon (then a new-fangled space-age material).

Cover of All New Award-Winning Star Trek 4, adapted by James Blish, with artwork showing the USS Enterprise between two pale blue worlds.

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Apr 19

Mild bit of gardening has brought out my Raynaud’s syndrome, with the tips of my fingers going bone white. Hoping George McFly snogs Lorraine before I vanish completely.

A hand, palm towards, with two fingertips very pale

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Apr 19

Good morning Womble. I’m on Fools by Pat Cadigan, which is all memory-swapping cyberpunk.

Cover of the SF Masterworks edition of Fools by Pat Cadigan, with a haunting image of faces behind broken glass.

Simon Guerrier@0tralala· Apr 18

How typecasting works. Lis Sladen carried by a giant in the Doctor Who story Robot (1975), and then the next time she works with Baz and Tel again, they’ve got her doing this…