Jon Arnold

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Steve Cole of course brings some innuendo to the game. #TargetBookDay

And with that: the traditional adjournment to the pub. Or ‘Escape To Pub’ as the schedule delightfully has it. #TargetBookDay

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Steve Cole of course brings some innuendo to the game. #TargetBookDay

James Goss, here getting a much deserved round of applause and committing to another one of these next year. You should come. #TargetBookDay

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Two Steve Cole talks for the price of one: one on the recently discovered The Vampire Mutation and a history of how the new series Targets came about. #TargetBookDay

And we finish with Professor Esther MacCallum Stewart, intent on constructing a Target out of Targets via the medium of Choose Your Own Adventure and also announcing her Black Archive on The Giggle. Even when running events, James Goss loves some format breaking. #TargetBookDay

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Bloody autocorrect: it is of course John Grindrod.

On a Happy Days tie in (The Fonz: Ready To Go Steady adorned with a romantic pic of The Fonz and Richie): ‘was it the Heartstopper of its day?’

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Poor soul: he’s transformed into that terrible @cooraysmith.bsky.social and is talking about the Terrance Dicks Target canon.

John Grindrid, here rendering cover blurbs into something indescribably entertaining. #TargetBookDay

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The illustration portrays the first Andrew Orton, whose physical appearance was later transformed by a talk about regeneration in Target books. #TargetBookDay

…or possibly by tumultuous buffeting.

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*finding* even.

Zut alors! It’s only the author of the glorious …ish, Phil Pascoe with a roam through Targets in translation. #TargetBookDay

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Simon Guerrier telling us why it’s called The Six Doctors and giving us a reading from it. #TargetBookDay

More delightful cover talk from Paul M C Smith, funding the source material for the covers. #TargetBookDay

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Albert DePetrillo talking about future Targets: on top of already announced books there will be paperbacks of the new Key To Times and autumn 2027 projects being finalised but sadly not ready to announce. #TargetBookDay

Nigel Robinson giving us a couple of readings of a certain lost novelisation.

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Lord Goss doing the Lord’s work by untangling the evolution of the Armageddon Factor. #TargetBookDay

Steve Cole giving us his best Bruce Forsyth with a game of Play Your Target Books Right #TargetBookDay

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National Treasure Rob Shearman reading us some exclusive The Power of Kroll.

This is a *very* Rob novelisation by the sound of the short extract. #TargetBookDay

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Lovely to hear Stephen being so engaged with both Black Archives on his work too. #TargetBookDay

Finishes with some generous words for John Higgs’ Externinate Regenerate and its reading of the end of Greatest Show: ‘sometimes the writer doesn’t know what he created’. #TargetBookDay

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That Jonny Morris with some screen accurate re-novelising. #TargetBookClub

It’s only the author of the best Doctor Who story of all talking about how we’re getting his stories wrong. #TargetBookDay

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Paul Kirkley teaching us nothing, but being very funny. #TargetBookDay

The second talk with jizz jokes and Time-Flight in close proximity. #TargetBookDay

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The jovial Gary Brannan, with the use of only one and a half arms, taking us on a tour of the Dicks Archive. Terrance, you filth merchants. #TargetBookDay

Including the linguistic origins of ‘spack off!’ #TargetBookDay

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Jason Thompson delving into the drama and the source material for the covers. #TargetBookDay

The debonaire Dr Sweet on the trail of Lyle Stuart, one time distributor of Doctor Who books in the US. #TargetBookDay

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Julian Richards with a delightful and personal tribute to his dad. Naturally, a massive and heartfelt round of applause follows. #TargetBookDay

Robert Crighton being beautifully funny about the Very Serious Subject of Doctor Who and the Zarbi. This isn’t even the best joke in the talk. #TargetBookDay

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The justly legendary Dr Una McCormack proving the Targets are pure poetry #TargetBookDay

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Superman 2, late 80/early 81, Newport Odeon (though might’ve been the 1&2). Probably just a general impression of the wonder of Reeve’s Superman and his unerring ability to do the right thing.

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social

First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.

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Midday Matinées

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Because it seems you lot like #HorrOctober more than #LFF: When is a sequel not a sequel? In praise of the notorious "video nasty" Zombi 2 (1979). www.patreon.com/MiddayMatine...

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD

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James Goss

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Despite wegottickets being down yesterday for *cough* reasons, someone still managed to buy a ticket so we've.... TEN TİCKETS LEFT for #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub on Saturday if you're feeling lucky, try buying one at bit.ly/smallbluebox