Retrogram #7516: Going Viral

The week of April 14th, 1975: Pestilence, Cybermen, angry vegetation, and death – it was a week in 1975 that saw Doctor Who come up against a new show created by one of the writers most directly responsible for Doctor Who’s success, while a couple of genre shows for kids got pretty weird. Join us for a thoroughly British Retrogram…or avoid it like the plague. (63:14)

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GAAAAAAHHHHHHH! What the hell is this, and why would you put credits over it!??!?Links:

• Feel free to help support the show at Patreon or Ko-Fi!
• April 1975 in theLogBook’s History Timeline
• Sky: Juganet in the LogBook
• Sky DVDs in theLogBook.com Store
• The Tomorrow People: The Fastest Gun in the LogBook
• Tomorrow People DVDs in theLogBook.com Store
• Survivors: The Fourth Horseman in the LogBook
• Survivors DVDs in theLogBook.com Store
• Doctor Who: Revenge Of The Cybermen in the LogBook
• Doctor Who (Tom Baker era) DVDs in theLogBook.com Store
• What was the #1 song this week?
• Music by Jahzzar
• If you like Retrogram, you’ll also enjoy Earl’s books about Doctor Who – VWORP!1 and VWORP!2 – and his first volume of a guide to Star Trek, WARP!1 – they’re in theLogBook.com Store!

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Music (in order):
“Great Dark Spot” by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com) CC BY-SA from the album Galaxy