VISION ON SOUND

• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 256 - TX OCTOBER 12 2025

  MICHAEL HERBERT talks about DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 12th 2025.This week we welcome back MICHAEL HERBERT whose popular recent biography of the television writer MALCOLM HULKE “THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM” has been released into the world for about six months now, but it is still available via Lulu Books.MICHAEL hasn’t lost interest in the life and work of MALCOLM HULKE yet, however, and earlier in the year he suggested that we might talk specifically about one of his DOCTOR WHO stories for today’s episode, in a conversation which we recorded on the 22nd of JULY 2025. So, over the course of the next hour, we will mostly be talking about a seven-part story from the very first colour series which had the title DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS and which was first broadcast in 1970, and starred JON PERTWEE, CAROLINE JOHN, and NICHOLAS COURTNEY.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 255 - TX OCTOBER 5 2025

  NICK GOODMAN revisits the television year of 1975.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 5th 2025.This week we’re welcoming a new voice to VISION ON SOUND, NICK GOODMAN, and he’s here to talk about the television of 1975, and the effect it had on making him the archive television fan he is today.So I hope you enjoy what you hear as we end up chatting about THE GOODIES, THE CHANGES, THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, DOCTOR WHO, SPACE: 1999, although, let’s be honest, I DIDN’T KNOW YOU CARED…PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 254 - TX SEPTEMBER 28 2025

  STEVE HATCHER shares some of his eclectic viewing.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 28th 2025.Such is the wibbly-wobbly nature of how I put the schedule for VISION ON SOUND together that this week’s show features a conversation I had with STEVE HATCHER way back in July after he’d not been on the show for a while, in which we discussed his then recent viewing choices.Obviously since then there has been our appearance at WHOOVERVILLE 16 which went out a couple of weeks back, so you will have heard him more recently, even if, when we recorded it, you hadn’t.Or something like that anyway.Anyway, all will either become clear, or perhaps it will hardly matter at all, as we have a TV viewing related chat that covers a wide range of TV series including FAMILIES LIKE OURS, BOB SERVANT, THE DETECTIVES, PATIENCE, THE GOLD ROBBERS, VILLAINS and THE PROFESSIONALS…PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 253 - TX SEPTEMBER 21 2025

  MICHAEL SEELY talks to me about CALLAN.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 21st 2025.This week’s show features the return to VISION ON SOUND of one of our guests MICHAEL SEELY, the prolific archive TV author, researcher, and publisher of several books which forensically explore topics as diverse as THE NIGHTMARE MAN, DOOMWATCH, and the almost totally forgotten R3, through his SATURDAY MORNING PRESS imprint.MICHAEL got in touch with me because, earlier in the summer I’d been giving the TV series CALLAN a long-overdue re-watch, because it felt as if it had been far too long since I’d seen any of the surviving episodes from the black and white series which began on ABC television in 1967 after a successful pilot as part of the ARMCHAIR THEATRE strand, and was popular enough to be picked up by THAMES TELEVISION and continue into the colour era, eventually having four series of containing 44 episodes of which 34 survive.It was also remade as a feature film in 1974, and was resurrected for a one-off television play in the early 1980s.CALLAN is one of those somewhat legendary series from the 1960s and 1970s which gets talked about a lot – often in hushed, awe-filled whispers – in archive television circles, so I make no apologies for returning to the subject today.I’d been extolling its virtues online and claiming it as a classy example of how writing, direction, and performance can build suspense and tension in a multi-camera studio situation, push the boundaries, and create something terrific, occasionally shocking, and utterly intense within those limitations.MICHAEL popped up to remind me how brilliant EDWARD WOODWARD’s intensity was, and how it sells the whole thing and, after an exchange of messages, we both agreed that his return to the show was long overdue, and the following conversation, recorded on JUNE the 18th 2025, is the result, and I do hope that you enjoy it.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 252 - TX SEPTEMBER 14 2025

  VISION ON SOUND at WHOOVERVILLE 16.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 14th 2025.This year, for the fourth consecutive year, VISION ON SOUND was invited to once again take part in the annual event organised by the DERBYSHIRE WHOOVERS known as WHOOVERVILLE.This year was the sixteenth WHOOVERVILLE, or WHOOVERVILLE 16 as it was known on the day, and it took place on AUGUST THE 30th 2025 at THE QUAD creative centre in the very heart of the city of Derby.I’d been invited along by two of the main organisers for the event, STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON who are both old friends of VISION ON SOUND and have racked up several appearances on the show between them, and I’m always terribly grateful to both of them for their continuing support and enthusiasm for this show.STEVE managed to persuade the lovely M.C. PAUL GRIGGS to join us on the stage to chat about old TV for half an hour or so, and there was a promise of the sound engineering legend that is BRIAN HODGSON joining us later on in the session.I’m presenting the interviews featuring in this edition of the show unedited and as raw as on the day we recorded them, and so we find me in the middle of setting up some recording equipment as we attempt to get STEVE HATCHER, PAUL GRIGGS and myself on stage to try and have a natter that at least partly involves a few thoughts about the archive TV that all of us here at VISION ON SOUND know and love.Later we are indeed briefly joined by the legendary BRIAN HODGSON, and the show finishes with a catch up I had with STEVE a couple of days after the event.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

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