Running Around Winspit Quarry Looking for Daleks

Games

Series D, Episode 8. First broadcast on Monday 16 November 1981.

Episode 55

Sunday 9 February 2025

This week, Nathan, Brendan, Simon and James sneak aboard an orbital station somewhere near the planet Mecron 2, where they will encounter a series of increasingly lethal versions of Flappy Bird, in the hope of finding, once and for all, some explanation of whatever the hell happens at the end of the Blakes 7 episode Games.

And because you will forever regret it if you don’t look it up, here’s a link to the triangular Coleco Telstar Arcade from 1997 with its Mecronian-knife shaped cartridges.