For years now, I've had this weird thing about The Adventures of Stephen Brown.
 
Bit of context. A couple of years back, staying at my parents, I was flicking about on the TV late at night. And I found this TV show by mistake.
It airing on SixTV - the local public access-style network serving Oxfordshire - and it was called The Adventures of Stephen Brown.
 
The show seemed to have been made for about 50p and a roll of gaffer tape, yet it was a quirky, likeably amateurish attempt at apparently doing Doctor Who with the serial numbers sawn off.
 
Once you got past the surprisingly slick CGI opening sequence, what was left was was creaky, and hackneyed, and very very cheap looking.
 
And I kept watching. Each time I was in the area, I caught it. It was one of those shows that'd be on as I was getting into bed, or when I was getting back in from the pub with the old man.
 
It's the weirdest show, too. It's like someone trying to do a BBV fan video. A Doctor Who knock-off without ever using the words Doctor or Who in the titles. Tin foil costumes and bin-headed robots. It was like watching Manpuncher v Boxhead, but for real.
 
But it was also made with passion, and charm, and an attention to detail in writing and performance that belied its zero-budget ultra-local telly origins.
 
Various episodes have leaked out onto the web now, either via DVD or YouTube. And there's worse ways to spend a half hour than frootling about watching clips from it.