Out of a sheer sense of boredom curiousity, I thought I’d compile a list of where you can see classic era (i.e. pre-1980s cancellation) episodes of Dr Who, preferably for free (video providers are listed in alphabetical order, by the way, no preference implied!). You might need to be in the UK for most of these though – sorry… Any errors, omissions etc, please comment! (more…)

Video on demand services seem to have sneaked up while I wasn’t looking and implanted themselves all over the web. First of all, there’s the disarmingly simple-looking Seesaw, a recent launch from the broadcast services company Arqiva (by “broadcast services”, I mean they own/run transmitters, digital radio multiplexes and so on). Seesaw perhaps doesn’t have the range of programmes that other services do, but it does a clutter-free interface well, along with high-quality compression (the “low quality” 500kb/sec still looks pretty impressive) (more…)