Sunday, 27 January 2019

Broken Gamebooks #12: Legend of Zagor

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Pointless fact: The main part of the cover illustration was done by one artist, and the four portraits of the heroes by another. There a...
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Sunday, 20 January 2019

"In Some Ways, You and I Are Very Different Edits"

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It is often the case that there will not be one definitive version of a television show. The episode might change between broadcasts; may...
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Sunday, 13 January 2019

Techno Twins

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Not really enough has been written about Techno Games , a Robot Wars spin-off - effectively the Robotic Olympics - which ran for four ser...
Sunday, 6 January 2019

Doctor Who and the Lost 1986

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In February 1985, BBC One controller Michael Grade made the decision to put Doctor Who on hiatus. Initially thought to be an attempt to k...
Sunday, 30 December 2018

Long Reads #4

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We've reached the end of another year, so now seems a good a time as any to round up the best of the blog since the last time I did o...
Monday, 24 December 2018

Copyright Roasting on an Open Fire

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Longtime readers of the blog might remember my dissection of The Simpsons Xmas Book , a novelisation of the first ever full-length Simpsons ...
Sunday, 23 December 2018

Probabilities of Terror

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The final boss of Crypt of the Sorcerer , the twenty-sixth book in the original Fighting Fantasy series and published in 1987, is the tit...
Sunday, 16 December 2018

Genomvote

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Immediately before their coverage of the 1997 General Election, BBC One ran something rather interesting - a repeat of the election-the...