Category Archives: "2018 News"

Benji and Nick are taking a festive break, so instead of a podcast this week we’re featuring the pilot audiobook episode of a sci-fi political thriller set the day after tomorrow. Alien England is written and narrated by Nick. As the results of a general election come in and a new prime minister begins to

This week for The Benji and Nick Show, the boys have been watching the BBC TV adaptation of The Box of Delights. Based on the classic children’s novel by John Masefield (first published in 1935), the story follows the exploits of a young boy, Kay Harker, who finds himself drawn into a world of magic…

In the next The Benji and Nick Show, the boys discuss Escape Into Night, a six-part British TV serial broadcast on ITV in April/May 1972. Originally made in colour, only black and white telerecordings still exist. The serial, an adaptation of Catherine Storr’s novel Marianne Dreams, focuses on a young girl, Marianne, whose drawings become

In The Benji and Nick Show this week, the boys will be discussing London’s Burning – a British television drama series focused on the lives of the London Fire Brigade. London’s Burning began with a movie broadcast in 1986, followed by 14 series which ran from 1988–2002 on ITV.    

In this week’s The Benji and Nick Show, Benji and Nick are discussing the first episode of Columbo – an American television series first broadcast in 1971. Columbo pioneered the inverted mystery technique by showing the crime first and then having Lieutenant Columbo – a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department – solve

Chicago TARDIS, the Midwest’s largest Doctor Who event is about to begin! Three days of Doctor Who discussions, workshops, cosplay, gaming, kid-friendly activities and more from 23–25 November. Guests include Nicholas Briggs and Benji Clifford… All the details can be found here http://chicagotardis.com/trion/

In the forthcoming The Benji and Nick Show, the boys chat about all things ITC. The Incorporated Television Company is best known for its many successful British cult TV series broadcast during the 1960s and 70s, such as The Saint, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Danger Man, The Baron, Gideon’s Way, The Champions, The Prisoner, Thunderbirds,

Coming out soon in The Benji and Nick Show, the boys will be discussing Into the Labyrinth, a children’s television show broadcast on ITV in 1981. The series was based around a struggle between two timeless, feuding sorcerers…

In The Benji and Nick Show this week, Benji and Nick discuss The Fourth Horseman – the first episode of Survivors. Created by Terry Nation, Survivors is a fictional drama television series that was first broadcast on BBC1 from 1975–77. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an apocalyptic plague