Tuesday, 28 March 2023

Caption Captured

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Okay, if you're reading this, by this point I'm going to assume you know the whole deal this blog has with the 1991 TV series The Di...
Sunday, 19 March 2023

Revision Quest II

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A few weeks back , I compared the 1997 and 2011 editions of an obscure adventure gamebook called Egyptian Quest , the latter of which was se...
Sunday, 12 March 2023

A Slightly Convoluted and Badly Told Anecdote About Armstrong and Miller I Have Just Remembered

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Back in 2010, I attended the first night of The Armstrong and Miller Tour at the Bristol Hippodrome. And it proved to be significant that it...
Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Appointment with Susan

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I have written about Steve Jackson's  Appointment with F.E.A.R. , the seventeenth entry in the Fighting Fantasy series, before . But to...
Sunday, 19 February 2023

Ghost in the Magazine

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On 4 October 1996, Have I Got News for You returns for its twelfth series. For some reason, several listings magazines incorrectly report th...
Sunday, 12 February 2023

Revision Quest

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Adventure gamebooks, as I have discussed on many previous occasions, were massive in the 1980s, but then towards the end of the decade the m...
Sunday, 15 January 2023

Just Ask For A Massive Headache Related To 30-Year-Old Television Listings

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So, last week I wrote about a little mystery: How did ITV cope with Children's ITV lasting seven and a half minutes longer than usual on...
Sunday, 8 January 2023

Just Ask For The ITV Schedule For 16 April 1991

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15/01/23 Update! Please see here for a version of this piece that, er, isn't totally wrong after the third paragraph. So, I'm once ...