Cult TV Blog

New Year and I have a new blogging impetus. This is not a new year's resolution, I should say, it has just happened on its own so stands a chance of not being abandoned in the second week of January. There are a few things I am thinking of doing as series of posts: I have a lot of odd episodes of shows which may exist somewhere in toto but are not available and I thought this would be an interesting theme. Similarly I have episodes of series which are available on the internet but have never been commercially released. I have been reading Alex's Cox's book about The Prisoner and am interested (albeit far from convinced) in his idea that No 6 is a rocket scientist, so thought either a series of posts or one extended one examining this would be interesting. I want to work through Hammer House of Horror at some point. I was thinking of alternating between them but I think it would concentrate me better and make the blog more cohesive if I do them one at a time. The reason I...

As you all know I have a policy that shows I think are absolute duds will not appear here, and for most of my first viewing of this show I was thinking that I would have to comment that Black Carrion wouldn't appear here if I wasn't going through the appearances of the famous white Jaguar. In fact I have noticed that opinions about it on the internet tend to be very divided. Don't get me wrong, the majority opinion is very clearly that Black Carrion is utter dross. However there is also a solid phalanx of people who really appreciate it. I think that may be because this show draws on the mythology and folklore of the possibly abandoned or cursed village where people don't go and if they do they don't come back. The village in this case is even believed not to exist, but there are many real life examples of this.  Dode in Kent  would be an example,  Kuldhara in India  would be another. Sometimes these villages, or their inhabitants, vanish completely, such as  th...