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- Take
It From Here - the BBC radio
series of sketches fronted by the late Jimmy
Edwards and which introduced listeners to that
dysfunctional family, The
Glums, gets the Stewart
Hopkins treatment with a definitive episode guide
Archive Gems takes over the magazine
this issue, with the following features:
- Edward
& Mrs. Simpson -
the ATV series chronicling the love affair and
subsequently the abdication involving American
Wallis Simpson and the King Britain never really
had, Edward VIII. Gary Phillips looks back at a
period drama regarded as one of the best of its
era
- Parker
Lewis Can't Lose -
American surrealism of the sort that pointed the
way for the current crop of teenage shows such as
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel
and Dawson's Creek,
this teen pals show was one American import that
got shunted around the British schedules and
deserved better, as John Hutchinson reveals
- Nigel
Kneale's Beasts -
famous for his creation in the Fifties of the Quatermass
serials, Nigel Kneale created and wrote this
series of supernatural plays for ATV in the
Seventies. It has since become a classic series
in its own right and here Richard Berry revisits
it
- Roots -
Alex Haley's books became best-sellers in the
Seventies, and it was only natural that they
would be made into mini-series. But these were
exceptional well-made in comparison to the many
others, as David May reminds us
- Out
Of The Unknown -
and in particular, a look back at one of the
episodes which was missing entirely until
recently when a substantial portion was
discovered. The Little Black Bag explores
blackmail, medical ethics and time travel rather
successfully, as Colin Cutler relates
- Points
For You! - the first throw
of our magazine letters page-cum-forum! And to
get things off to an interesting start, we print
a reply we had to a request to make a video
interview with the previously-mentioned Nigel
Kneale. If only I could put it on the net, but I
could be sued! Ah well - members, it makes
interesting reading ( and you can read it if you
join! )
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