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All Haunted Generation badges now in stock at the same time - for the first time ever, I think! Including the lesser-spotted "Winter Kids" badge, unseen since 2021...

Watching an old Twilight Zone episode where a man becomes obsessed with a devil machine coin fortune teller. The machine gives generic answers but he becomes paralyzed, unable to make a decision without consulting it. Anyway, some of these episodes are a bit farfetched.

In 1973, Mego introduced BEAUTIFUL LAINIE, the dancing doll, to her young public. Unfortunately, she didn't so much dance as shake uncontrollably, and gave us yet another in a long line of unsettling doll adverts...

Just noticed that Thursday night is Moviedrome Night on BBC Four - The Wicker Man followed by Don't Look Now, each proceeded by the respective introductions from Alex Cox and Mark Cousins. #bfi #moviedrome

BBC will no longer broadcast “high-risk” performances after Bob Vylan Glastonbury controversy. (If you know, you know).

From 1979, electronics retailer MAPLIN published yearly catalogues of electronic, computer, and synthesiser parts and software. The cover art looked like a cross between pulp sci-fi novels and White Dwarf magazine. Argos should have retaliated with Conan the Barbarian covers.

Have you nabbed our books yet? Get 10% off with the case-sensitive code BOOKHUSTLE10 until midnight on Friday July 11! A combined 2,000 pages about the dark, weird pop culture of the 70s and 80s... Also available as colour eBooks! Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife

MADE IN BRITAIN (1982): Tim Roth made his explosive acting debut in David Leland and Alan Clarke's astonishing ITV play as Trevor, a 16 year-old racist skinhead. The great Eric 'Sgt Bob Crier' Richard plays his social worker.

SURVIVORS (1990): Colin Finbow's Children's Film Unit was a mirror universe Children's Film Foundation, delivering gritty, hard-hitting films by children, for children. Here, Ian Hogg is a teacher who suffers a breakdown on a school trip and hunts his pupils down like animals...

People of Stockton (or thereabouts), me and Bob Fischer are bringing our Folk Horror show your way on Wednesday 10 September, at the Stockton Arts Centre! There'll be ancient stones, rituals, and talk of suburban sex orgies (not on stage)! Tickets: bit.ly/44Jh9EJ

The first episode of Sapphire & Steel was originally broadcast on this day in 1979.

Seeing as everyone is talking about a certain decent, kind-hearted superhero in a goofy costume...

KING OF THE CASTLE (1977): Another HTV classic, written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin (Doctor Who, Sky). Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka in this nightmarish drama, deemed too scary for the weekday children's slot, and bumped to the Sunday teatime family viewing slot instead.

This week on the Scarred for Life podcast, Dave and Andy are joined by comedian and author Olaf Falafel and discover the three things that scarred him for life.

The brilliant Buried Treasure Records are releasing Eric Wetherell's spooky soundtrack to HTV's classic kid's folk horror series SKY! I believe it's officially out in September, and a special edition advance bundle is already sold out (fingers crossed for a second print!)