Daily Archives: August 23, 2023

Power Month (Day 23) – ‘Wheel of Misfortune’ (MMPR)

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Hello everyone! 🙂

Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’s blog and I’m Tim Bradley!

It’s time to check out a ‘Mighty Morphin Power Rangers’ episode in ‘Power Month’ that I think could have been handled better if it went in a different direction. It starts with Kimberley and her friends performing a school production of ‘Rumpelstiltskin’, which Bulk and Skull manage to mess up, especially with Bulk damaging Kimberley’s grandmother’s spinning wheel. Rita Repulsa then has her minions steal the spinning wheel and it becomes the evil ‘wheel of misfortune’. Can the Power Rangers thwart Rita’s latest evil scheme, especially when they fight Goldar and Scorpina as giants? Continue reading →

‘Doctor Who’ 60th Anniversary Marathon – ‘The Sontaran Stratagem’/’The Poison Sky’

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Hello everyone! 🙂

Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’ blog and I’m Tim Bradley!

It’s time to check out the first two-part story in Series 4 of the new ‘Doctor Who’ TV series. This is ‘The Sontaran Stratagem’/’The Poison Sky’ by Helen Raynor, starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna. This two-parter also features the return of Freema Agyeman as Martha, who now works for U.N.I.T. There’s also the return of the potato-headed Sontarans in the new ‘Doctor Who’ TV series, including Christopher Ryan as General Staal and Dan Starkey as Commander Skorr. This story also features Jacqueline King as Sylvia, Donna’s mum and Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred, Donna’s granddad. There are guest stars like Rupert Holliday-Evans as Colonel Mace of U.N.I.T. and Ryan Sampson as Luke Rattigan. ‘The Sontaran Stratagem’/’The Poison Sky’ can be checked out on DVD, Blu-ray and BBC iPlayer. Continue reading →