I'm surfing tv.cream.org, and am looking through their list of things that must come back. #6 contains some damned true writing:
The Adventure Game
WHAT WAS IT?
A whimsical junior sci-fi game show in which a trio of agreeable celebs of the Johnny Ball/Floella Benjamin variety were set fiendishly complicated mental and physical tasks by a troupe of rather devious shape-shifting aliens, to be completed on pain of death by evaporation.
WHY SHOULD IT COME BACK?
It is, quite simply, the most well-remembered programme ever shown on British television, pound-for-pound. Only 22 episodes were made in total, but we’ve yet to come across anyone between the ages of 35 and 25 who doesn’t harbour some nagging vestigial memory of growling aspidistras, vortices, Drognas, or Keith Chegwin trying to communicate with a backwards-talking Australian. The pleasant eccentricity that ran throughout the programme is the very thing that has made it so enduring, a vindication of the carefree, pre-focus group era of ‘just stick some chaps in a room until they come up with a programme’ telly.
Only 22 episodes? I loved that show. I'm still kinda freaked out by aspidistras.
Hey, I remember that one too, ita. I always loved Johnny Ball.
Sadly, my most fondly-remembered and missed kids' show, Jigsaw (starring my future university lecturer David Cleveland and future Dr. Who Sylvester McCoy) doesn't get a great TV Cream rating.
And speaking of Dr. Who... I don't know of any good sites, Susan, but let us know here if you find some. The new series is good, isn't it? Although last week's episode was, I thought, one of the weaker ones. The previous WW2 double was a knockout.
I remember that too. I remember Graham Garden using his massive shiny brain to waltz through all the tests.
Part two of the WWII eps. is tonight on the CBC.
How many episodes are in this series?
The Adventure Game!
Loved
that show. My parents still say "gronda gronda", although I bet they can't remember why.
How many episodes are in this series?
Thirteen altogether. Which means you have three to go after tonight.
There's a Christmas Special planned plus a new thirteen-episode season ordered for the new year.
Can anyone point me to good websites, fanfic, etc.?
I just replied about fanfic in the fanfic thread. More generally, I'd recommend the BBC's own site, and their related sites at [link] and [link] Some people swear by Outpost Gallifrey, but others swear at it. There are also hundreds of smaller fan-made sites, but I'd be lost to know where to point you without knowing your 'shipping preferences, how much you're interested in previous incarnations, etc.
Hey Fay! How is - ummm - everything. And you disconnected your blog (I presume purposely).
Hee!
Someone is holding a Dalek hostage.
[link]
Hey there! Actually, the blog is still there, it's just that now it's under the name
not amelia peabody
(no spaces). Long story - had a bit of a freak out lest my boss find it under its previous name.
In other news -
all your Meara are belong to me!
Bwahahahaha!
t /evil
(Yesterday we went to Khan a Khaleili and to Karaoke in the Marriot Hotel. Today we went to Dr Rageb's Pharaonic Village and to the Pyramids. Apparently Jars is in Luxor too...Buffista F2F in Egypt! Go Team!)
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LOVE the dalek link. And particularly love the fact that the Dalek was lurking in Wookie Hole.
Poor Chewbacca.
