Brigit Forsyth – MRQE

“Dark Season”

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dark Season is a British science-fiction television serial for adolescents, screened on BBC1 in late 1991. Comprising six twenty-five minute episodes, the two linked three-part stories tell the adventures of three teenagers and their battle to save their school and their classmates from the actions of the sinister Mr Eldritch. It was the first television drama to be written by Russell T Davies, and is also noteworthy for co-starring a young Kate Winslet in her first major television role.

The Likely Lads

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, its Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma – who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things dont go quite according to plan and before you can say I can see the way this is going we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.

The Night Digger

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more to Billy than meets the eye. Based on the novel Nest in a Fallen Tree by Joy Cowley.