The BBC’s marketing plan is clear. With the advent of a new series of CGI enhanced Dr Who about to hit our TV screens (that’s tomorrow for those who haven’t picked up on this), Auntie has obviously decided that now is a good time to scour the archives in search of all those old forgotten classics. In my excitement about the release of Day of The Triffids, I rang a friend and we reminicsed about old TV shows from the early 80’s and he mentioned that he’d tracked down the book of one that has also never been seen since; The Nightmare Man.

This is a series from 1981 that I think I only ever saw one of and it scared the crap out of me. So much so that I never watched any more of it but what I did see was burned into my brain from then until now. So I checked Amazon and sure enough it’s coming out for sale on the 4th April aswell. I can’t say I know much about it beyond the fact that it’s an adaptation of a Russian novel and is about a series of brutal killings that take place on a remote Scottish Island so it might be one to hire rather than buy.