Saturday, 29 May 2021

Just Ask For South By South East And You Shall Receive

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Over three years ago , I first wrote about the long-missing 1991 CITV Diamond Brothers series, and its total obscurity to the point I voice...
Sunday, 2 May 2021

Broken Gamebooks #19: Return to Firetop Mountain

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The 50th book in the Fighting Fantasy series, the centerpiece of the range's 10th anniversary celebrations, a sequel to the very first ...
Monday, 19 April 2021

Gerry Anderson on the BBC

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Although Gerry Anderson's numerous sci-fi television series -- including the filmed in Supermarionation Stingray , Thunderbirds , Captai...
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Friday, 12 March 2021

Solo Pide Un Diamante

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Much thanks to commentator chyneeze for letting me know about this. Regular readers of the blog will no doubt be more than aware of my ongoi...
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Tuesday, 2 March 2021

A Little Variety

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Anyone with some level of familiarity with Calvin and Hobbes is probably aware of the story concerning the "missing" cartoon. Here...
Tuesday, 23 February 2021

The Clue Bibliography

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Radio 4 comedy shows, especially panel games, don't seem to get an awful lot of tie-in books. The one and only such release for Just a M...
Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Coping With Nostalgia

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I am sure that many readers of the blog around the same age as me will remember these. The Coping With... books, by Peter Corey, did for sel...
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Thursday, 21 January 2021

Poskitt's Puzzles

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Last year, I looked back at the Killer Puzzles -- a series of notoriously difficult puzzle books from the 1990s. If you haven't read sa...