From the pages of the Strange Skins Digital fanzine #5, our raving reporter Mrs C. L. ‘Moth’ Harris looks at the weird and wonderful world of Space Patrol. You know how the late, great Gerry Anderson – who had nothing … Continue reading Activate Yobba Rays: Claire ‘Moth’ Harris looks at ‘Space Patrol’
Summer holiday television is a thing of the past. Kids these days spend their annual 6 weeks away from school mainly playing computer games and any TV that they do watch is confined to digital or streamed channels dedicated to … Continue reading Summers of Love: The 60s in the 70s
If you’re reading this on the day it was posted (and why should you?) it has been exactly 57 years since Doctor Who was first broadcast. 57 years! That’s two generations! So, in celebration of this milestone, I’ll be taking … Continue reading An Unearthly Child: Unaired Pilot vs. Broadcast Version
“The Tyrant King! The Tyrant King! Find the Tyrant King!” In 1968, the newly formed Thames Television wanted to assess the feasibility of a dedicated location film unit, so they hired film director Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Flash Gordon) to … Continue reading The Tyrant King
This is a revised and updated version of material first published in the Strange Skins Avengers Special (2004). Such was the great impact and popularity of The Avengers that it was inevitable its success would impact upon other shows on British – … Continue reading The Avengers: The After Party
This is a revised and updated version of material first published in the Strange Skins Avengers Special (2004). There were big changes behind the scenes of The Avengers beyond the departure of Diana Rigg from the series. The top brass at ABC … Continue reading The Avengers: King’s Gambit
This is a revised and updated version of material first published in the Strange Skins Avengers Special (2004). With the departure of Honor Blackman and the imminent move into filmed production, The Avengers was changing. Out went the producer John Bryce, and … Continue reading The Avengers: ‘M’ Appeal
This is a revised and updated version of material first published in the Strange Skins Avengers Special (2004). It’s a popular myth that The Avengers grew directly out of the Ian Hendry vehicle Police Surgeon. It may have had the … Continue reading The Avengers: The Early Years
Having become an active fan of Cult TV (now there’s a phrase that’s fallen into disuse) in the 1990s, I often find myself clinging on to some of the received wisdom that was all the rage in that most judgemental … Continue reading Whom Networks Destroy: Star Trek Season Three Revisited
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