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INFINITY NEWS

The Infinity team bring you news on your favourite TV shows and movie franchises, including a possible release date -at last -for Avatar 2, and more big screen mayhem from the director of Independence Day

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INFINITY REVIEWS

Allan Bryce, Anton van Beek, Steve Kirkham and John Martin review some of the the latest sci-fi and fantasy video releases…

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ISSUE 43 LANDING 23.12.21

TOPPER THE DAY TO YOU

Comics aficionado Mark Campbell sets aside his regular headgear of bowler hat or fez and tries on a top-hat for size as he looks back at another fondly remembered childhood comic…

A Visit To MIDSOMER MURDERS Country

Mark Hume-Jones checks out some of the most famous film & TV Locations in the Chilterns and Thames Valley…

‘FROM THE LAND BEYOND BEYOND!’

Master of the Majicks author Mike Hankin looks back on the making of the Ray Harryhausen fantasy classic, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad...

3-2-1

Allan Bryce looks back at Yorkshire Television’s 3-2-1. Hosted by Ted Rogers and a motorised dustbin it was surely the most gloriously eccentric game show of its day…

STAR TREK: PHASE 2

Stephen McCloughlin looks at the Star Trek series that might have been, and how its cancellation on the starting blocks brought the show to the big screen!

“Titter Ye Must!”

“No missus, don’t laugh.” Frankie Howerd’s comic genius made him a hero to new wave comedians and the older generation alike, as Robert Ross recalls…

A FUNNY WAY TO MAKE A LIVING...

Alan Wightman looks back on his career as a “so-called comedy writer” for the likes of The Two Ronnies, Jimmy Tarbuck and Des O’Connor, and recalls the tragedy of Tommy Cooper’s last ever stage appearance

MOLESWORTH’S MUSINGS

Richard Molesworth recalls the glory days when the Force was strong in the UK with Star Wars Weekly!

THE SKY’S THE LIMIT!

Andy Pearson takes flight with another column on vehicular model kits, only this time, where he’s going, he doesn’t need roads…

THE SOUND OF THE RINGS

Four decades on, Brian Sibley’s radio version of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has stood the test of time. Brian J. Robb explores the making of the radio series and examines its impact on Peter Jackson’s film trilogy…

BRian Sioley Talks Rings!

The adaptor of The Lord of the Rings discusses Gollum, his relationship with Christopher Tolkien, the importance of the Scouring of the Shire, and those Peter Jackson movies

‘HERE THERE BE MONSTERS!’

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