Hypnogoria

In this show we take at a look back at the horror double bills screened on BBC2 in the late 1970s.Firstly we explore the 1976 season which was entitled Masters of Terror and then the longest ever season of summer horror doubles bills, Dracula, Frankenstein and Friends in summer 1977!

In this episode we discover the secret origins of the BBC2 horror double bills and take a close look at the very first season which aired in the summer of 1975 - the Midnight Movie Fantastic Double Bill season!

In the first of a little special summer season we look back on the legendary horror doubles bills shown late at night over the summer on BBC2 during the 1970s and 1980s. In this first part we discover why they were so special, how they came to be, and their direct ancestor - a forgotten BBC SciFi Film season

This chapter, we learn how two newcomers - producer William Alland and director Jack Arnold - forged a new direction for Universal, bringing horror out of gothic castles and into the space age!

In this chapter, we have two further monster mashups with Abbott and Costello, a new Invisible Man, and Universal quietly returning to horror movies with The Strange Door starring Boris Karloff and Charles Laughton

Mr Jim provides a commentary track for Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance, a short film from 1976 made for the TV show for schools Music Scene

In this episode we take a look at one of the more obscure television adaptations of MR James, a version of his tale Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance which aired on Midsummer's Day - 21st June - 1976

In this chapter of Universal horror history we learn how the famous monsters returned to the silver screen, when Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein Monster met Abbott and Costello, an unlikely resurrection in more ways than one!

In this podcast we revisit two ground-breaking computer rpg games from the early 1980s, the era of the home micro, when the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 were king - The Hobbit from Beam Software and Valhalla from Legend