6th January, 2026.
Right … I can now happily jump up and down, in a cheerfully demented way.
A demented way that will involve wearing clothes: it’s still cold, in Brentwood.
I’m not that mad!
At any rate, I’m reasonably cheerful … as I found out I’d lost weight, at yesterday’s Weight management meeting.
OK: I’ve only lost some four hundred grams.
But it’s all good.
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I’ve mentioned this, before now: back when I was reviewing The War Between the Land and The Sea.
Three Classic Dr Who stories — An Unearthly Child, Terror of the Zygons and The Seeds of Doom — are unavailable of the BBC’s iPlayer service.
In the case of the latter two stories, I’m told this is because the BBC hasn’t been able to negotiate a licensing deal with the estate of Robert Banks Stewart, the writer of both stories.
However?
Those latter two stories have recently been released on blu-ray: as part of the Season 13 box set.
Something I’m ripping, as we speak.
The reason I mention this, again … ?
Is simply that the contradiction seems blatantly obvious.
The two stories are available in one format, blu-ray: but aren’t on the iPlayer, aren’t on the BBC’s domestic streaming service.
I’m assuming that the iPlayer versions count as a public broadcast, and that the bluray versions count as private home viewing: and that the various license agreements allow one, but not the other.
Either way?
It seems odd … !
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