Remember Heroes? Series about super-powered folk and their problems (“Save the cheerleader, save the world”)? It ran afoul of that big writer’s strike which plagued Hollywood about ten years ago, and never quite […]

Clive was Daphne’s old boyfriend that came visiting in Season 4’s opening episode – the brother was Simon, played by Anthony Lapaglia, who was indeed from Australia; in fact, he was in the year above me at high […]

It was all good enough for Charlton Heston to thread up and watch in The Omega Man – he could even talk along with some of the lines.

Don’t forget the milk crate!

Bah – we “Hector The Helicopter” fans saw straight through that one.

Actually, that TISM uses bits of Power Drive a music library piece by Johnny Pearson.

For antipodeans of a certain age, it’s reminiscent of 70s TV police show Division 4 which used a truncated version as its […]

I received the letter but didn’t read it – but from the sound of the name would have responded along the lines of “Juliet Olivia, Juliet Olivia, this is X-Ray Delta Tango, do you copy?”

The Kadettes go way way out with Barry Gray…

The Super Dupers with their superduper version of the Tarzan theme

Sixty years ago Pan initiated their line of horror anthologies, edited by the exotic-sounding Herbert van Thal. Covers were initially illustrated, but they inevitably moved on to photography. This one I found […]

The Turtles are so considerate they not only list a whole pile of food, they even throw in a recipe…all in under three minutes.

If you have the patience (and you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t), top UK designer Mike Dempsey has a blog in which he wrote a four part history of UK book design…

…well worth the time, although frankly […]

He even did a couple of covers for 2000AD.

And don’t forget the Hindu Love Gods project – Wazza fronting a Stipeless REM.

My desktop Mac died. The hard drive was extracted and saved onto an external drive. A backup copy was made.

The drive died, one of the cat pissed on the backup.

Might as well face it, nothing lasts and you […]

Sparks appeared as themselves in mid-70s disaster flick Rollercoaster

I’m not a fan of crime fiction, but to represent the antipodean contingent I would suggest:

a) Carter Brown, nom-de-plume of UK-born Oz scribe Arthur Yates…I recall a few of these on the family bookshelf when I […]

‘ullo ‘ullo ‘ullo….someone must have been in a Marple frame of mind when coming up with the theme for early 90s Oz medico series “GP”

The Bard of Avon turned up in The Shakespeare Code, a Tennant & Martha Smith episode.

Those two you could pretty well expect – don’t think we’ll be seeing Carlos Castaneda or Iain M Banks as guest characters any time soon.

As covered by the Fun Boy Three on their second LP