Sunday, 1 December 2024

Dystopian Fiction/Double Feature

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In 1985, the thirteenth Fighting Fantasy gamebook, Freeway Fighter , was published, the seventh entry in the range to be written by its co-c...
Sunday, 17 November 2024

Digest This

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The Beano and Dandy Comic Libraries were digest-sized spin-offs of the two full-size comics, which were published at the rate of four per ...
Sunday, 10 November 2024

The Adventures of Some Kids Who Happen to Live on the Same Street in Toronto

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Degrassi is a long-running franchise which spans several different Canadian children's television series, all broadly linked by the adve...
Friday, 8 November 2024

35 on Sky

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Between January 14th and June 2nd of this year, Sky Showcase brought the abbreviated 18-episode Season 35 of The Simpsons to British viewer...
Sunday, 3 November 2024

Turn to 400

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In 1982, the British game designer Steve Jackson is editing the first Fighting Fantasy adventure gamebook, which he has co-authored with Ia...
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Sunday, 20 October 2024

Excellent Fun From the Noisiest Basement

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The Wayne's World sketches on Saturday Night Live , chronicling the adventures of metalhead Wayne Campbell and his friend Garth Algar a...
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Saturday, 19 October 2024

The Edge of Forever

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Several years ago, I had a little mystery regarding the 1988 film Just Ask for Diamond . You can go here for a full refresher, but in short...
Thursday, 17 October 2024

The Eve of the Wars

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In January 2001, the tenth issue of Robot Wars Magazine has exciting news for robo-nutcakes everywhere: The problem is that this planned nig...