Retrogram #7601: Beginning The Bicentennial With The Brits
The week of December 29th, 1975: A heavy metal giant is born, a future pro golf legend is born…and airports and airplanes are becoming unusually dangerous places to be. Sitting in front of the TV is much safer – but just because the U.S. is hurtling toward the big 2-0-0 doesn’t mean it has a lock on the fantastic. (39:45) Right-click here and “save as” to download the podcast to a disembodied brain that we’re going to jam into Tom Baker’s head. Links: Feel free to help support the show at Patreon or Ko-Fi! January 1976 in theLogBook’s History Timeline Space: 1999 DVDs and Blu-Rays in theLogBook.com Store Doctor Who (Tom Baker era) DVDs in theLogBook.com Store Space: 1999: The Last Sunset in the LogBook Doctor Who: The Brain Of Morbius in the LogBook Doctor Who New Adventures novels in theLogBook.com Store Music by Jahzzar Also visit Pop Culture Retrorama (I’ve written a few articles there) If you like Retrogram, you’ll also enjoy Earl’s books about Doctor Who – VWORP!1 and VWORP!2 – and Star Trek – WARP!1 – in theLogBook.com Store! Music (in order): “Great Dark Spot” by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com) CC BY-SA from the album Galaxy “Traffic” by Jahzzar from the album Sunlight “Power Of Ten” by Dee Zee from the album Random Sanity
An episode of the Retrogram – theLogBook.com podcast, hosted by Earl Green, titled "Retrogram #7601: Beginning The Bicentennial With The Brits" was published on December 21, 2020.
December 21, 2020 · Retrogram – theLogBook.com
Summary
The week of December 29th, 1975: A heavy metal giant is born, a future pro golf legend is born…and airports and airplanes are becoming unusually dangerous places to be. Sitting in front of the TV is much safer – but just because the U.S. is hurtling toward the big 2-0-0 doesn’t mean it has a lock on the fantastic. (39:45) Right-click here and “save as” to download the podcast to a disembodied brain that we’re going to jam into Tom Baker’s head. Links: Feel free to help support the show at Patreon or Ko-Fi! January 1976 in theLogBook’s History Timeline Space: 1999 DVDs and Blu-Rays in theLogBook.com Store Doctor Who (Tom Baker era) DVDs in theLogBook.com Store Space: 1999: The Last Sunset in the LogBook Doctor Who: The Brain Of Morbius in the LogBook Doctor Who New Adventures novels in theLogBook.com Store Music by Jahzzar Also visit Pop Culture Retrorama (I’ve written a few articles there) If you like Retrogram, you’ll also enjoy Earl’s books about Doctor Who – VWORP!1 and VWORP!2 – and Star Trek – WARP!1 – in theLogBook.com Store! Music (in order): “Great Dark Spot” by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com) CC BY-SA from the album Galaxy “Traffic” by Jahzzar from the album Sunlight “Power Of Ten” by Dee Zee from the album Random Sanity
Episode Description

The week of December 29th, 1975: A heavy metal giant is born, a future pro golf legend is born…and airports and airplanes are becoming unusually dangerous places to be. Sitting in front of the TV is much safer – but just because the U.S. is hurtling toward the big 2-0-0 doesn’t mean it has a lock on the fantastic. (39:45)
Links:
- Feel free to help support the show at Patreon or Ko-Fi!
- January 1976 in theLogBook’s History Timeline
- Space: 1999 DVDs and Blu-Rays in theLogBook.com Store
- Doctor Who (Tom Baker era) DVDs in theLogBook.com Store
- Space: 1999: The Last Sunset in the LogBook
- Doctor Who: The Brain Of Morbius in the LogBook
- Doctor Who New Adventures novels in theLogBook.com Store
- Music by Jahzzar
- Also visit Pop Culture Retrorama (I’ve written a few articles there)
- If you like Retrogram, you’ll also enjoy Earl’s books about Doctor Who – VWORP!1 and VWORP!2 – and Star Trek – WARP!1 – in theLogBook.com Store!
Music (in order):
“Great Dark Spot” by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com) CC BY-SA from the album Galaxy
“Traffic” by Jahzzar from the album Sunlight
“Power Of Ten” by Dee Zee from the album Random Sanity
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