Time Lords and Star Cops

Time Lords and Star CopsAuthor: Philip Braithwaite ISBN: 9781526187291 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 01 Mar 2025 Pages: 248 Format: Paperback softback British science fiction television of the 1970s and 1980s is full of Machiavellian protagonists and fatalistic endings. It presents a complex world of moral and ethical dilemmas, appropriate to the emerging political landscape of Thatcherite Britain. This book analyses the science fiction series

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Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s

and that disappointments can be as revealing as successes

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Your best friend is getting married

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