Next time round we have another feast of sci-fi, fantasy and cult TV to serve up, beginning with a fabulous and brand new interview with the legendary Kenneth Johnson, writer/producer behind The Six Million Dollar Man and many other hit shows. This is a real scoop for us, so don’t miss it. Now pay attention please, because we are also delighted to be able to bring you an interview - though in this case a vintage one - with James Bond’s ‘Q’, the late, great Desmond Llewellyn, conducted back in 1997.
Also in this issue Richard Molesworth remembers Robert Holmes, Bob to his friends, who was perhaps one of the most significant TV writers of the late 20th century. Certainly one of the least-lauded TV writers of his generation, at least during his lifetime, his influence is still tangible today in modern Doctor Who - the programme was just one of the many genre shows and series to have benefited from Holmes’s writing skills in the 1960, 1970s and 1980s. On the comics front Robert Ross remembers T.V. Fun, a sister title to the established Film Fun and Radio Fun featuring strips based on various TV shows and celebrities, and in Suffer the Little Children we look back at some of the low points of 70s and 80s children’s telly, including abysmal shows like The Sunday Gang and Emu’s All Live Pink Windmill Show. Grange Hill comes in for a bit of a pasting as well! We also pay tribute to actor Mark Goddard, who passed away recently. He went to the outer limits as Major Don West on Lost in Space but as you will discover the actor had an interesting life on Earth as well.
And that’s not all folks, because we also share some fond remembrances of Auf Wiedersehen Pet in which seven British construction workers escaped Britain’s ever-growing dole queues and travelled to Germany to work on a site in Düsseldorf. Yeah, like that would happen these days, eh? And last but not least we bring you Greg Kulon’s typically definitive look at the making of All that Money Can Buy (1941), a vintage classic also known as The Devil and Daniel Webster, in which a nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract. You won’t have to sell your soul to the Devil, just put £4.50 aside and you’ll be sorted.