🪷 #50thAnniversary In the classic BBC TV series #IClaudius, which premiered on 20 Sept 1976, #Tiberius (played by #GeorgeBaker) wears the armour cuirass depicted on the Augustus of Prima Porta marble statue. Photos, info courtesy @ncdrusus38.bsky.social 🪷
September 20, 2026 at 11:42 AM
🪷 #50thAnniversary In the classic BBC TV series #IClaudius, which premiered on 20 Sept 1976, #Tiberius (played by #GeorgeBaker) wears the armour cuirass depicted on the Augustus of Prima Porta marble statue. Photos, info courtesy @ncdrusus38.bsky.social 🪷
PIcard has only been on for 2 minutes and he is already doing people in lol #IClaudius
September 14, 2026 at 9:35 PM
PIcard has only been on for 2 minutes and he is already doing people in lol #IClaudius
Wow, Jean Luc Picard lol. #IClaudius
September 14, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Wow, Jean Luc Picard lol. #IClaudius
Augustus is about to shuffle off this mortal coil #IClaudius
September 14, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Augustus is about to shuffle off this mortal coil #IClaudius
The sense of decay in the last couple of episodes of #IClaudius is great. No more sunshine for Claudians.
September 2, 2026 at 10:46 PM
The sense of decay in the last couple of episodes of #IClaudius is great. No more sunshine for Claudians.
Well, it’s time for the final two chapters of #IClaudius.
September 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Well, it’s time for the final two chapters of #IClaudius.
It’s Wednesday night, it’s BBC Four, it’s #IClaudius o’clock.
August 26, 2026 at 9:00 PM
It’s Wednesday night, it’s BBC Four, it’s #IClaudius o’clock.
Watching #IClaudius and there’s a scene where Brian Blessed (Augustus) is outraged at a group of Senators and he says, “ did someone titter”, and I was thinking haw hard was it for him to go full Frankie Howerd and instead say “titter ye not”. And they just fell about. I bet that happened!
Matt Sawyer Frankie Howerd
Alt: Frankie Howerd
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August 26, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Watching #IClaudius and there’s a scene where Brian Blessed (Augustus) is outraged at a group of Senators and he says, “ did someone titter”, and I was thinking haw hard was it for him to go full Frankie Howerd and instead say “titter ye not”. And they just fell about. I bet that happened!
August 20, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Watching #IClaudius ep7.
Tiberius' Capri house (Villa Jovis) is on screen and I'm just remembering the time I visited it in 2023.
Tiberius' Capri house (Villa Jovis) is on screen and I'm just remembering the time I visited it in 2023.
August 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Watching #IClaudius ep7.
Tiberius' Capri house (Villa Jovis) is on screen and I'm just remembering the time I visited it in 2023.
Tiberius' Capri house (Villa Jovis) is on screen and I'm just remembering the time I visited it in 2023.
Far scarier than #TheExorcist, IMO. My brother & I watched when PBS re-aired in the 90s, and despite bare bones production, it was mesmerizing. #IClaudius
August 20, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Far scarier than #TheExorcist, IMO. My brother & I watched when PBS re-aired in the 90s, and despite bare bones production, it was mesmerizing. #IClaudius
Ah, John Rhys-Davies - the drinking man’s Brian Blessed - has turned up.
#IClaudius
#IClaudius
August 19, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Ah, John Rhys-Davies - the drinking man’s Brian Blessed - has turned up.
#IClaudius
#IClaudius
Right, off to BBC Four for #IClaudius.
August 19, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Right, off to BBC Four for #IClaudius.
In case you never noticed, everything that Agrippina is describing was actually Caligula murdering his father.
##ICLAUDIUS
##ICLAUDIUS
August 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
In case you never noticed, everything that Agrippina is describing was actually Caligula murdering his father.
##ICLAUDIUS
##ICLAUDIUS
Always great to see Fiona Walker in full flow.
#IClaudius
#IClaudius
August 12, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Always great to see Fiona Walker in full flow.
#IClaudius
#IClaudius
Time for another #IClaudius double bill on BBC Four.
August 12, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Time for another #IClaudius double bill on BBC Four.
Right, eclipse over (sun behind roof of house opposite anyway) so time for some food, maybe a teensy glass of wine, then I, CLAVDIVS, meteor spotting and eventually bed.
#eclipse #IClaudius
#eclipse #IClaudius
August 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Right, eclipse over (sun behind roof of house opposite anyway) so time for some food, maybe a teensy glass of wine, then I, CLAVDIVS, meteor spotting and eventually bed.
#eclipse #IClaudius
#eclipse #IClaudius
One tough Welsh lady! Loved her in I, Claudius, Good Omens, Dune and so many more! So tough that she was even married Peter O'Toole for a time. #SianPhillips
#IClaudius #Dune
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#IClaudius #Dune
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sian Phillips, 93, to step back from acting after memory issues
Sian Phillips will step back from full-scale stage shows but continue other projects.
www.bbc.com
August 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
One tough Welsh lady! Loved her in I, Claudius, Good Omens, Dune and so many more! So tough that she was even married Peter O'Toole for a time. #SianPhillips
#IClaudius #Dune
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#IClaudius #Dune
www.bbc.com/news/article...
That's interesting. What source does she cite. I think suetonius thought so (read it a while back).
#IClaudius
#IClaudius
August 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
That's interesting. What source does she cite. I think suetonius thought so (read it a while back).
#IClaudius
#IClaudius
Apparently Caligula wasn't an evil incestuous mad tyrant, according to Mary Beard. What a disappointment.
#IClaudius
#IClaudius
August 6, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Apparently Caligula wasn't an evil incestuous mad tyrant, according to Mary Beard. What a disappointment.
#IClaudius
#IClaudius
That’s Senator IClaudius
August 5, 2026 at 10:56 PM
That’s Senator IClaudius
Brian Blessed’s death scene in #IClaudius is a pinnacle of television. You can see the light die in his eyes then he’s still. Blessed once said that he felt like he actually was dying.
August 5, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Brian Blessed’s death scene in #IClaudius is a pinnacle of television. You can see the light die in his eyes then he’s still. Blessed once said that he felt like he actually was dying.
Yet for his greatest scene – one of the greatest scenes in the history of television – silence.
#IClaudius
#BRIANBLESSED
#IClaudius
#BRIANBLESSED
August 5, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Yet for his greatest scene – one of the greatest scenes in the history of television – silence.
#IClaudius
#BRIANBLESSED
#IClaudius
#BRIANBLESSED
Livia had two weaknesses. 1) Time and 2) Her belief that Claudius was an idiot. #IClaudius
August 5, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Livia had two weaknesses. 1) Time and 2) Her belief that Claudius was an idiot. #IClaudius