The story of the infamous serial-killer case nicknamed the Boston Strangler involved 13 sexual assaults and murders in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964. Officially, 12 of them have never been solved. The 13th, decades later, was proven through DNA techniques to be the chief suspect, and self-confessed “Boston Strangler” Albert DeSalvo. He was famously represented by F. Lee Bailey, who later would write a book about the case.
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The fact that there were, and still are, so many questions about it all did not deter Hollywood and others from exploiting the case to various degrees — most famously in the 1968 20th Century Fox...
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The fact that there were, and still are, so many questions about it all did not deter Hollywood and others from exploiting the case to various degrees — most famously in the 1968 20th Century Fox...
- 3/17/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
In the revelatory Boston Strangler, Matt Ruskin (Crown Heights) flips a well-known saga on its head. The story has been told onscreen many times, first and most famously in a 1968 feature starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda. In that movie, released only a few years after a series of murders targeted single women in their Boston-area apartments, the only female characters of note are victims. A select group of upstanding male detectives puzzle over the lurid details of the crimes and wax psychological about the perp. They get their man. Then came the straight-to-video thrillers about Albert DeSalvo, the confessed but not quite proven killer, and the countless episodes of true-crime series. This time around, the investigator played by Fonda has just one scene and a couple of lines; the center instead belongs to the two female reporters who broke the story and, in the process, put the Boston Pd on notice.
- 3/16/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Gallifrey returns to the Big Finish range with the first adventure of a four-part serial, Intervention Earth. When you promise the return of Omega, voiced by Stephen Thorne, who played the character so memorably in The Three Doctors, you had better deliver Omega in spades. This Big Finish almost does, and that “almost” is a real...
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Gallifrey returns to the Big Finish range with the first adventure of a four-part serial, Intervention Earth. When you promise the return of Omega, voiced by Stephen Thorne, who played the character so memorably in The Three Doctors, you had better deliver Omega in spades. This Big Finish almost does, and that “almost” is a real...
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- 3/1/2015
- by Chris Swanson
- Kasterborous.com
New details of BBC Worldwide's Doctor Who 50th Celebration have been announced.
Peter Davison is the latest star to be added to the guest-list for the three-day event, which takes place at ExCeL London from Friday, November 22 to Sunday, November 24.
The fifth Doctor actor joins Matt Smith and former Doctors Tom Baker, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy in attending the celebration.
It has also been confirmed that 50th anniversary special 'The Day of the Doctor' will be screened, in 2D and free of charge, on the evening of Saturday, November 23.
The screening will have limited availability and tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis, with Saturday attendees due to be e-mailed shortly with details about how they can reserve a seat.
The full guest list for all three days is as follow:
Friday, November, 22:
Waris Hussein, Anneke Wills, Kate O'Mara, Richard Franklin, Matthew Waterhouse,...
Peter Davison is the latest star to be added to the guest-list for the three-day event, which takes place at ExCeL London from Friday, November 22 to Sunday, November 24.
The fifth Doctor actor joins Matt Smith and former Doctors Tom Baker, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy in attending the celebration.
It has also been confirmed that 50th anniversary special 'The Day of the Doctor' will be screened, in 2D and free of charge, on the evening of Saturday, November 23.
The screening will have limited availability and tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis, with Saturday attendees due to be e-mailed shortly with details about how they can reserve a seat.
The full guest list for all three days is as follow:
Friday, November, 22:
Waris Hussein, Anneke Wills, Kate O'Mara, Richard Franklin, Matthew Waterhouse,...
- 11/1/2013
- Digital Spy
Omega in the Three Doctors. BBC
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March is a bumper month for BBC fans stateside as the network are releasing no less than four classic Doctor Who stories in North America. You can see recent Best British TV interviewee Stephen Thorne playing the infamous Omega in the Three Doctors. You can also watch Poldark producer Morris Barry’s best sci-fi effort in the shape of Tomb of the Cybermen. Tom Baker classics Robots of Death and Face of Evil complete the Doctor Who line up while Come Fly With Me and Planet Earth are also on the menu. You can sample the action by clicking on the links below.
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March is a bumper month for BBC fans stateside as the network are releasing no less than four classic Doctor Who stories in North America. You can see recent Best British TV interviewee Stephen Thorne playing the infamous Omega in the Three Doctors. You can also watch Poldark producer Morris Barry’s best sci-fi effort in the shape of Tomb of the Cybermen. Tom Baker classics Robots of Death and Face of Evil complete the Doctor Who line up while Come Fly With Me and Planet Earth are also on the menu. You can sample the action by clicking on the links below.
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- 3/10/2012
- by admin
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This weekend 48 years ago, the people of Britain and the rest of the world were still coming to terms with the death of JFK when the BBC One announcer introduced a new kids show about an elderly man and his mysterious granddaughter. It was called Doctor Who and was only supposed to last for a few months but 48 years later Doctor Who is still going strong. We have been lucky enough to have interviewed many of the people who helped make the show great during the past five decades and you can read those interviews by clicking on the links below. Also, you probably have your own views about the best Doctor Who stories but you can click the video links below to see which stories we regard as the best of the Whoniverse.
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This weekend 48 years ago, the people of Britain and the rest of the world were still coming to terms with the death of JFK when the BBC One announcer introduced a new kids show about an elderly man and his mysterious granddaughter. It was called Doctor Who and was only supposed to last for a few months but 48 years later Doctor Who is still going strong. We have been lucky enough to have interviewed many of the people who helped make the show great during the past five decades and you can read those interviews by clicking on the links below. Also, you probably have your own views about the best Doctor Who stories but you can click the video links below to see which stories we regard as the best of the Whoniverse.
- 11/18/2011
- by admin
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On 2 September, the BBC comedy show Outnumbered returns to British TV. The fourth series of the show will extend to six episodes although the BBC also plan to air a Christmas special. The show’s stars include funny man Hugh Dennis as well as one-time Miss Moneypenny, Samantha Bond and Sense and Sensibility actress Claire Skinner.
In the new series the Brockman family deal with issues ranging from terrorism to Top Gear. It is produced for the BBC by Hat-Trick productions, the company behind such hits as Father Ted and Drop the Dead Donkey. BBC America began airing the first season of the show on 30 July and fans in the U.S. can also see it on on Amazon.com’s live streaming service.
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On 2 September, the BBC comedy show Outnumbered returns to British TV. The fourth series of the show will extend to six episodes although the BBC also plan to air a Christmas special. The show’s stars include funny man Hugh Dennis as well as one-time Miss Moneypenny, Samantha Bond and Sense and Sensibility actress Claire Skinner.
In the new series the Brockman family deal with issues ranging from terrorism to Top Gear. It is produced for the BBC by Hat-Trick productions, the company behind such hits as Father Ted and Drop the Dead Donkey. BBC America began airing the first season of the show on 30 July and fans in the U.S. can also see it on on Amazon.com’s live streaming service.
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- 8/18/2011
- by admin
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South Riding lead man David Morrissey and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher star Peter Capaldi bring their not inconsiderable talents to BBC One at the end of August in the two-part crime drama The Field of Blood. David Kane’s screenplay is based on the novel by Denise Mina about newspaper employee who gets caught up in a murder case.
The Field of Blood follows the attempts of an aspiring journalist Paddy Meehan (Jayd Johnson) to make a name for herself at a Glaswegian newspaper. She decides to start looking into the gruesome murder of a toddler. To her horror, the main suspect in the case turns out to be her 10 year old cousin. Meehan has to choose between protecting her family’s honor and seizing her chance...
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South Riding lead man David Morrissey and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher star Peter Capaldi bring their not inconsiderable talents to BBC One at the end of August in the two-part crime drama The Field of Blood. David Kane’s screenplay is based on the novel by Denise Mina about newspaper employee who gets caught up in a murder case.
The Field of Blood follows the attempts of an aspiring journalist Paddy Meehan (Jayd Johnson) to make a name for herself at a Glaswegian newspaper. She decides to start looking into the gruesome murder of a toddler. To her horror, the main suspect in the case turns out to be her 10 year old cousin. Meehan has to choose between protecting her family’s honor and seizing her chance...
- 8/16/2011
- by admin
Counter Culture Blues co.PBS
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While we anxiously await the arrival of Inspector Lewis Season IV on PBS Masterpiece Mystery Theatre, the network have decided to whet our appetites by offering up some re-runs of past Lewis mysteries.
Tonight’s episode (which aired at 1 am in most markets!) was Counter Culture Blues in which Detective Inspector Lewis (Kevin Whately) is sent to investigate when the sound of gun shots disturbs the parishioners at a local church service.
One time Avenger, one time Ab-Fab lush, Joanna Lumley was great as a kind of Blondie-style aging female rocker called Esmé Ford who everyone thought was dead. She wasn’t dead and neither was Lewis’ passion for sixties rock. The rock band Midnight Addiction, were just about as cliched as the Oasis copycat band in the U.
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While we anxiously await the arrival of Inspector Lewis Season IV on PBS Masterpiece Mystery Theatre, the network have decided to whet our appetites by offering up some re-runs of past Lewis mysteries.
Tonight’s episode (which aired at 1 am in most markets!) was Counter Culture Blues in which Detective Inspector Lewis (Kevin Whately) is sent to investigate when the sound of gun shots disturbs the parishioners at a local church service.
One time Avenger, one time Ab-Fab lush, Joanna Lumley was great as a kind of Blondie-style aging female rocker called Esmé Ford who everyone thought was dead. She wasn’t dead and neither was Lewis’ passion for sixties rock. The rock band Midnight Addiction, were just about as cliched as the Oasis copycat band in the U.
- 8/15/2011
- by admin
Unlikely lovers - Harry and Ruth. co.BBC
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All good things must come to an end. The BBC have formally announced that the new season of Mi5 will be the last. During the last ten years, Mi5 has turned a number of promising young actors such as Rupert-Penry Jones, Keeley Hawes and Matthew MacFadyen in British TV superstars but the producers feel that the show has now run its course. Over the years, the producers have revamped the show several times and the storylines have been at times thrilling and at other times quite ridiculous – but always entertaining.
In the last season which airs on BBC1 in the fall, Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) has to stop secrets from the past from hampering his blossoming relationship with Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker). Meanwhile the betrayal of...
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All good things must come to an end. The BBC have formally announced that the new season of Mi5 will be the last. During the last ten years, Mi5 has turned a number of promising young actors such as Rupert-Penry Jones, Keeley Hawes and Matthew MacFadyen in British TV superstars but the producers feel that the show has now run its course. Over the years, the producers have revamped the show several times and the storylines have been at times thrilling and at other times quite ridiculous – but always entertaining.
In the last season which airs on BBC1 in the fall, Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) has to stop secrets from the past from hampering his blossoming relationship with Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker). Meanwhile the betrayal of...
- 8/15/2011
- by admin
Stephen Thorne as Omega. co. BBC
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Stephen Thorne has one of the most recognizable voices in Britain. He has worked on radio for over thirty years but he has also made some memorable contributions to British TV. He played three of Doctor Who’s most notorious villains and he took on the role of Aslan in ITV’s much-loved animated version of C S Lewis’ classic novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Kieran Kinsella recently had the opportunity to speak with Stephen and began by asking him about his time on Doctor Who.
Your first appearance in Doctor Who was in the Jon Pertwee story The Daemons in which you played Azal. How did you come to get that part?
“I was asked to do the voice of Azal but when I went for my audition,...
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Stephen Thorne has one of the most recognizable voices in Britain. He has worked on radio for over thirty years but he has also made some memorable contributions to British TV. He played three of Doctor Who’s most notorious villains and he took on the role of Aslan in ITV’s much-loved animated version of C S Lewis’ classic novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Kieran Kinsella recently had the opportunity to speak with Stephen and began by asking him about his time on Doctor Who.
Your first appearance in Doctor Who was in the Jon Pertwee story The Daemons in which you played Azal. How did you come to get that part?
“I was asked to do the voice of Azal but when I went for my audition,...
- 8/12/2011
- by admin
TV – where would we be without it? Who would have thought that an electronic box of tricks could have the ability to instruct and entertain? Well, unless you tune into jaw-droppingly atrocious Oompa Loompa convention, The Only Way Is Essex. Without TV, we wouldn't have been able to see key events like the first man on the moon, the first ever Doctor Who story...
Oh, and I suppose some might say the coronation of Mrs Majesty way back in 1952. Judging by the 15 or so extras in the latest Doctor Who story, The Idiot's Lantern, interest must have been very high – a fact that will no doubt come home to roost next year when Mrs Maj celebrates 60 years on the throne in the only way that she knows how: with a gaudy, money-burning festival (Come on kids, we're all in this together, remember?) and that usual sour-faced expression that she always seems to pull.
Oh, and I suppose some might say the coronation of Mrs Majesty way back in 1952. Judging by the 15 or so extras in the latest Doctor Who story, The Idiot's Lantern, interest must have been very high – a fact that will no doubt come home to roost next year when Mrs Maj celebrates 60 years on the throne in the only way that she knows how: with a gaudy, money-burning festival (Come on kids, we're all in this together, remember?) and that usual sour-faced expression that she always seems to pull.
- 6/7/2011
- Shadowlocked
Liz Sladen says goodbye to Tom Baker's Doctor at the end of The Hand Of Fear:
Elisabeth Sladen, Doctor Who's very own plucky Metropolitan journalist and all-time great companion, has passed away at the age of 63.
Born in Liverpool on February 1st 1948, Elisabeth's performing roots started at a very young age, with a keen interest in dancing and one appearance with the Royal Ballet. Drama school beckoned after this, and by the early 1960s, she was working at the Liverpool Playhouse repertory company - where she met her husband Brian Miller (Dugdale from Snakedance).
Liz's first on-screen work was as an uncredited extra in Gerry And The Pacemakers film, Ferry Cross The Mersey in 1965. By the early 1970s, she was starting to gain roles in popular TV series such as Coronation Street, Doomwatch and Z Cars. She nearly won the role of Betty in popular sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em,...
Elisabeth Sladen, Doctor Who's very own plucky Metropolitan journalist and all-time great companion, has passed away at the age of 63.
Born in Liverpool on February 1st 1948, Elisabeth's performing roots started at a very young age, with a keen interest in dancing and one appearance with the Royal Ballet. Drama school beckoned after this, and by the early 1960s, she was working at the Liverpool Playhouse repertory company - where she met her husband Brian Miller (Dugdale from Snakedance).
Liz's first on-screen work was as an uncredited extra in Gerry And The Pacemakers film, Ferry Cross The Mersey in 1965. By the early 1970s, she was starting to gain roles in popular TV series such as Coronation Street, Doomwatch and Z Cars. She nearly won the role of Betty in popular sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em,...
- 4/20/2011
- Shadowlocked
How appropriate that Arc Of Infinity is set in Amsterdam, since the whole thing's Double Dutch.
Arc Of Infinity was the first story of season 20, a clutch of stories that was designed to feature various friends and foes from The Doctor's past. A nice idea in theory - in practice it got a little botched. For one thing, the Dalek story planned to wrap up the season was postponed until the next one. The Mara had only been in the previous season, while the Guardians hardly featured in the much-anticipated Guardian trilogy. A bit of a con overall, especially since only two stories - Mawdryn Undead and Arc Of Infinity - heavily drew on the show's history.
What's more of a shame is that Arc Of Infinity isn't much cop. It's a casualty of one of the eccentric shopping lists that John Nathan Turner insisted on giving to his writers.
Arc Of Infinity was the first story of season 20, a clutch of stories that was designed to feature various friends and foes from The Doctor's past. A nice idea in theory - in practice it got a little botched. For one thing, the Dalek story planned to wrap up the season was postponed until the next one. The Mara had only been in the previous season, while the Guardians hardly featured in the much-anticipated Guardian trilogy. A bit of a con overall, especially since only two stories - Mawdryn Undead and Arc Of Infinity - heavily drew on the show's history.
What's more of a shame is that Arc Of Infinity isn't much cop. It's a casualty of one of the eccentric shopping lists that John Nathan Turner insisted on giving to his writers.
- 1/3/2011
- Shadowlocked
The Pirate Planet marks the debut of one of Britain’s most celebrated sci-fi authors Douglas Adams (he used to be a good friend of Lalla Ward’s, y’know). In keeping with his off-the-wall humour and vivid imagination, The Pirate Planet is an appropriately bonkers entry in the Key To Time season.
As if the concepts of half-robotic shouty pirates, killer robot parrots, planet-eating planets and shuffling telepathic goons aren’t crazy enough, we get a whole range of tongue-twisting technobabble. Polyphase Avitron. Macromac Field Integrator. Time Dams. The whole story is overloaded with dozens of complex scientific concepts (some of which are more plausible than others) and imaginative scenarios and characters – to the point where you need to see it more than once.
Another notable trait of The Pirate Planet is the fact that nothing is as it seems. The Mentiads are bigged up as a dangerous threat,...
As if the concepts of half-robotic shouty pirates, killer robot parrots, planet-eating planets and shuffling telepathic goons aren’t crazy enough, we get a whole range of tongue-twisting technobabble. Polyphase Avitron. Macromac Field Integrator. Time Dams. The whole story is overloaded with dozens of complex scientific concepts (some of which are more plausible than others) and imaginative scenarios and characters – to the point where you need to see it more than once.
Another notable trait of The Pirate Planet is the fact that nothing is as it seems. The Mentiads are bigged up as a dangerous threat,...
- 11/5/2010
- Shadowlocked
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