Comics UK

In 1975 and 1976 Kev drew several issues of Legend Horror Classics. This might have been done for that title, but not been published. https://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... -days.html

I'm glad you agree with me.

The BBC has said Doctor Who will continue with or without Disney, and I don't think Disney have announced a decision.

stevezodiac wrote: 27 May 2025, 17:11 £11 for a magazine strikes me as meaning the book isn't free at all. Most magazines are 6 or 7.99.

I looked at the magazine cover online. The cover doesn't say the novel is free.

We here in Scotland have been here before. The Scottish equivalent to Smiths was John Menzies. In 1988 they decided to concentrate on distribution and sold their many retail outlets to W H Smith. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menzies_Aviation

I looked it up, and Last Of The Summer Wine is the world's longest running television SITCOM. Several series, such as Sesame Street and The Tonight Show in the USA and Coronation Street in the UK, have lasted longer. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240318-longest-running-tv-shows-programmes ...

The 27th October episode of Footage Detectives had an item on Harold Hare's Own Paper, and some storyboards for the film Zulu, which isn't comics but Zulu does seem to be of interest to many here.

The last entry on this Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_D ... rnal_links will let you access a list of Megazine supplements.

The current Radio Times says Rewind's coming to Freeview on Wednesday 18th September, on channel 95.

DavidKW wrote: 29 Aug 2024, 16:28 Am pleased to hear that "Z Cars" will soon be coming to TPTV. Let's hope they repeat all the surviving monochrome and colour episodes from 1962 -1978.

Great news. They showed as much as there is of Dixon, so presumably they'll do the same with Z-Cars.

Everybody seems to be thinking of old-fashioned weekly anthology comics, like the ones we read when we were young. By that measure we're down to The Phoenix, 2000AD, The Beano, and possibly The Megazine and Commando. However, if one looks at the broad field of comics Britain continues to produce ...

Sky channel 190. Schedule available at https://www.tvguide.co.uk/channel/rewind-tv

A film to watch out for on TPTV is Penny And The Pownall Case. It's based around a comic strip, obviously inspired by Jane and drawn by George Davies https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/davies_george.htm It's about the glamorous model for a comic strip who helps the police.

Not a great film, but ...

Re "Space Patrol was wiped" -- according to what somebody wrote on Wik
ipedia "For many years it was believed that all but a handful of episodes had been destroyed, until a complete cache of 16 mm prints was discovered in the garage of Roberta Leigh's home. "