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TV Show Pages: • Dark Knight • Goodnight, Sweetheart • My Hero

Jump to links on this page for : • Andromeda • The Avengers • Babylon 5 • Bewitched • Blake's 7 • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • The Changes • Coronation Street • Chorlton and the Wheelies • Crusade • The Dead Zone • Doctor Who • Doomwatch • Early Edition • EastEnders • Farscape • The Lone Ranger • The Prisoner • • Robin of Sherwood • Seahunt • Space Patrol • Survivors • Timeslip • Time Tunnel • The Tomorrow People • The Trap Door • Vision On
See also separate links pages for: • Cop Shows • Gerry Anderson Shows • Robot Wars • Star Trek Cast and Crew • Star Trek Fan Clubs • Star Trek: The Original Series Episode Links • Star Trek News • The X-Files

General Links
• See also: TV Theme Music Page

• Action TV Online Homepage
Link: www.action-tv.org.uk

• Cherished Television
Link: www.cherishedtelevision.co.uk
This site features tributes to a number of shows, including Emergency Ward 10 and Orlando, but of most interest (as of Feb 06) is a Prisoner location feature, complete with behind the scenes pictures taken during the shoot. Recommended.

Cult Telly
Link: www.culttelly.co.uk
Communicate, chat and ask questions. Share your crazy cult tv memories! Plus over 1000 links to other TV-dedicated pages

• Digitalspy.co.uk
UK TV Listings: just type the programme of your choice into the search engine. Users say this is the best site available for future UK tv listings. Good for soap spoilers and lots of other things.

• Off the Telly
Link: www.offthetelly.co.uk
Ace tv site with interviews and features on all aspects of TV - or the ones that matter, anyway - from author Graham Kibble-White and others. As well as the html version you can download pdfs of material on the site for off-line reading, which is a useful bonus.

• Sad Geezers Guide to Cult TV Science Fiction
Link: www.sadgeezer.com
This is an award-winning and expanding collection of alternative TV Sci Fi Guides (some are the largest o-n the net!) and forums and resources for Cult Science Fiction fans.

Interesting Opinions
• Why American local TV is so bad
An article on the journalism.org site

• LoganandGlitz.com
Cult movie and TV site -- film and DVD reviews, tv series reviews and episode guides plus quizzes, biographies and more.

• The Science-Fiction & Telefantasy Databanks
www.clivebanks.co.uk

• TV Heaven
Reviews and news on cult TV -- not just SF. Database driven, although work in progress as or 10/9/02.

News Sites
• Digitalspy.co.uk
UK TV Listings: just type the programme of your choice into the search engine. Users say this is the best site available for future UK tv listings. Good for soap spoilers and lots of other things.

• SciFiSpace

• TV Tattle
US site, not just fro SF fans. Keep up with the latest developments from the world of the boob tube on this informative TV weblog. Linking to reviews and news stories from around the Web, this site is an indispensible stop for small-screen fans.

Specific Shows

TV Show Pages: • Dark Knight • Goodnight, Sweetheart • My Hero

I don't have enough links on some shows for them to merit merit their own page of links. As I collect more links, or have time to add them from existing bookmarks, I create individual pages for popular shows (like Star Trek).

Andromeda
• Official: www.andromedatv.com

The Avengers
• The Original Avengers
Great resource for the original show

• The Avengers Comics Strips
Link: wingedavenger.theavengers.tv
Terrific site about The Avengers comics. Works best in Explorer on a PC and Opera on a Mac (OSX)

• Avengers Artland
Artist Ian Duerden has created a series of short online Avengers strips which are a real labour of love and great fun to read. "I have to confess the work (which never seems like ‘work’) is a sort of professional practice," he says, "experimenting with the media before transferring the new skills over to commercial work. Six years ago it was all scanned watercolour on 140lb boards; now it is a complex mix of various media using all the resources of my studio. It is a style I can use commercially that wouldn’t have developed without all the practice on Avenger Artland, or the enthusiasm of the fans of the Avengers TV that kept encouraging me to develop the next story."

Babylon 5
• The Lurker's Guide
Probably the best Babylon 5 site on the web, packed with background information and news about the series

Babylon 5 News
• InterStellar Network News
Probably the best Babylon 5 news source out there, carying info on the activities of the show's cast and crew, plus other (largely) US SFTV news. The regular newsletter is excellent.

• The Babylon 5 Spoiler Junkies Page

Babylon 5 Main Cast

• Richard Biggs
Sadly, Richard died aged just 44 in 2004. A trust fund for his sons has been established:
For the Benefit of The Children of Richard Biggs II C/O Washington Mutual Bank
840 N. San Fernando Road Burbank, CA 91502 USA

Bruce Boxleitner (Sheridan)
• Official Site
Link: www.gilbert-boxleitner.com
Also devoted to his wife, Melissa Gilbert

• A& C's Tribute to Bruce Boxleitner
Link: www.maestravida.com/weinwalk/Boxleitner.html
Terrific web site devoted to Boxleitner's entire career

Jason Carter
• Jason Carter Fan Club
Link: www.jasoncarterfanclub.com

Claudia Christian (Ivanova)
• Official Site
Link: www.claudiachristian.net

Mira Furlan (Delenn)
• Official Site
Link: www.mirafurlan.com

Bill Mumy
• Official Site
Link: www.billmumy.com

Babylon 5 Guest Stars
Stephen Austin (Pak'Ma'Ra Ambassador)
• The Official Stephen Austin Autograph Website

Julie Caitlin Brown (Na'Toth)
• Official Site
Link: www.juliecaitlinbrown.com

Tim Choate (Zathras)
• Tim Choate's site

Robert Atkin Downes
Official Sites
• www.robinatkindownes.com
• http://byron.axiom.net.au

Ed Wasser
• Official Site
Link: www.wasser.com

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski
• The B5JMS List Home Page: Online posts archive: www.cs.sunysb.edu/~ezk/b5jms/
In addition to being the crerator of Babylon 5 and Crusade, Straczynski has written numerous comics, including Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel

• JMS Usenet messages

Babylon 5 Reference
• Babylon 5 Encyclopedia
Link: www.oinc.net/B5/Enc

• Datagirl7's Babylon 5 Page
Includes quotes

• Voltayre's Encyclopedia Xenobiologica

• Z-Team Productions at GRID EPSILON

Bewitched
• Bewitched.net
A terrific site on the show that may yet get to the big screen.

Blake's 7
• Horizon

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• www.buffy.nu

The Changes
• bilderberg.org

Coronation Street
• The Weatherfield Recorder
Link: www.corrie.net/kabin/recorder.html
Collection of news items about Britain's top soap

Chorlton and the Wheelies
• Steve Boyle's Chorlton and the Wheelies Shrine
Everything you wanted know about this cult show (including sound clips and the theme tune lyrics) but were afraid to ask.

Crusade
Information Welcome or see B5 links above

The Dead Zone
• Official Site
Includes contributions from producer Michael Piller, writer's guide etc.

Doctor Who
NEWS
• Official Website: www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/

• Gallifrey One
The best Doctor Who fan news and reference site on the web.

PRODUCTION REFERENCE
• Doctor Who Location Guide

EPISODE GUIDES
• Temporal Oribit 2000 - Doctor Who Web Portal
Doctor Who story guide, shop and more. Neatly laid out and well-written, too, from my quick visits, but the owner Stephen Bates has been too busy to update it for over a year, which is a shame.

DOCTORS
The Fourth Doctor
• Get the Scarf... : www.brimelow.thinkhost.com/scarf/fs_main.html

The Seventh Doctor
• The Seventh Doctor Fanzine BOSS

COMPANIONS
• Yee Jee Tso
More of a guest than a companion, Yee Jee played Chang Lee in the Doctor Who 1996 TV movie. Yee Jee has spent the last decade learning about filmmaking and television production from the inside out. His ambition is to turn this knowledge into stories that cross boundaries, turn heads, further the domestic film & TV industry, and above all, entertain.

MEDIA REFERENCE
• Doctor Who Image Archive
Compiled and Presented by Steve Hill. Established 9 January 1996 • Total Number of Images: 6215

• The Doctor Who Cuttings Guide
The Archive chronicles press and media coverage of the programme and contains a great many Doctor Who related articles from newspapers, general magazines and listings magazines. It also includes an extensive collection from the BBC's own listings magazine the Radio Times. In addition there are pages containing examples of adverts, comics and many other items of related interest.

• The Doctor Who Magazine Index

• Dalek Mania
Link: www.dalek-mania.co.uk
In addition to being a great site about Daleks, Mick Hall's fab Dalek site includes thumbnails of original art from The Daleks strip, which appeared in TV21, drawn by artists such as Richard Jennings and Ron Turner.
The entire run of the strip was most recently published by Marvel UK in 1994 as a Dalek special, The Dalek Chronicles.

• Andrew Skilleter
Official: www.andrewskilleter.co.uk
Brilliant illustrator whose work includes Doctor Who, the Chronicles of Narnia and more. His site will be fully live in November 2003.

• Doctor Who Comic Strip maker
Link: www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/comicmaker

Doomwatch

Created by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, "Doomwatch" was the nickname of the Department of Observation and Measurement of Scientific Work, a department of the 'Ministry of National Security'. The department was a watchdog to the scientific work, supposed to ensure that public and environmental safety was not compromised. Although its creation was a cynical attempt to win votes and they were not intended to have much sway, the leader of the group, Dr Spencer Quist (John Paul), ensured that they never stayed in the background for very long.

• Doomwatch.org
Superbly put together site on the show covering all three series, the film and TV movie. This site includes news on series stars and a forum. Recommended.

• Clive Banks' Doomwatch Page

• Peter Culley's Doomwatch Page
Episode guide and series overview information

• Doomwatch: The World in Danger
Article by Nick Cooper

• Doomwatch Wikipedia Page

• Doomwatch: Missing Episodes Information
Some Doomwatch episodes are Missing, Believed Wiped: this BBC "Treasure Hunt" page has details.

Early Edition
This show ran for four seasons on CBS, centring on a divorced guy, Gary Hobson (Kyle Chandler) who gets tomorrow's newspaper today - delivered by a cat - and tries to save people who might otherwise be killed or injured or killed, stop crimes (and other things).
Hallmark UK screened the entire series in 2004 and I enjoyed most of it, especially the myhology episodes where Gary tries to uncover just how or who the newsper is delivered. There's a great dynamic between the main characters (Gary's friendship with blind friend Marissa is one of the best platonic relationships between opposite sexes I've seen on fantasy genere TV), although the show does seem to stumble during season three with the introdcution of an 'annoying kid'. Thankfully he and his mother leave at the end of the season.
There are several web sites devoted to the show and there seem to be regular fan conventions in Chicago, where Early Edition was shot. TV Tome has an excellent episode guide, while this site run by the EElFest convention organisers (http://www.geocities.com/eelfestnews) includes an interesting Q&A section with script writer Sean Clark. Early Dues Early Edition includes interviews (most of them quite old) with some of the cast as well as a detailed episode guide and plenty of links (http://earlydues.hispeed.com/ee).For the picky viewer, there's a brief nitpicker's guide here: hobsonphile.homestead.com/nitpick.html
Actor Fisher Stevens (Chuck Fishman) has a fan web site here: earlydues.hispeed.com/fisher

Eastenders
Eastenders had a charity crossover with Doctor Who but that's about it, to be honest. However this is a great place to visit to annoy your soap fan friends and spoil their viewing: Walford Web

Farscape
• The Down the Tubes Farscape Page
• Farscape Discussion Board

The Lone Ranger
• Watch it Online

My Hero
• The Down the Tubes My Hero Page

The Prisoner
• The Unmutual Website
Link: www.theunmutual.co.uk
"The Unmutual Website", or "TUW", is dedicated to the 1960s TV series "The Prisoner", starring Patrick McGoohan, and the Village of Portmeirion, where the series was filmed. Its aim is to be an "online magazine" for all things Prisoner, including the latest news, photos, links, information about the series, plus providing a place for all the talent and discussion in Prisoner fandom to be collated (such as artwork, articles, etc).

Robin Hood
Robin of Sherwood
"Nothing's forgotten....nothing's ever forgotten..."

Robin of Sherwood is available on DVD from Aamazon.co.uk

• Season One: Click here
• Season Two: Click here
• Season three Part One: Click here
• Season three Part Two: Click here

Re-shown on ITV3 in 2005, Robin of Sherwood is the creation of the brilliant Richard Carpenter and was made in England from 1983-1985, produced by Paul Knight for Goldcrest. I'd quite forgotten what a cracking show this was, and will always treasure the time I spent alongside some of the series stars while editor of Doctor Who Magazine, at a Visions convention in Chicago, drinking the hotel bar dry of any imported beer with any strength to it!
Michael Praed starred as the Hooded Man in the first two series and Jason Connery became Herne's Son for the third series.

• The Official Robin of Sherwood Fan Club
Link: http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/~tirza/RoS/
SPIRIT OF SHERWOOD is the official Robin of Sherwood Fanclub, and was founded in 1990. They are an international club with members worldwide, enjoying a lot of input from the series creator and the actors. The club publish a newsletter (On Target), organise an annual RoS convention (Weekend in Sherwood), grant yearly awards for excellence in RoS zines (Major Oak Awards), and sell exclusive photos of the RoS cast members, t-shirts, and convention tapes.

• Robin of Sherwood Episode Guide
Link: hoodedman.smithereen.net

• Robin of Sherwood Location Guide
Link: http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/~tirza/SA/ros_locations.html
Part of the Silver Arrow convention site

• The official Clannad Site
Link: www.clannad.ie
The band behind that haunting theme tune. Irish folk band Clannad founded in 1970 and performed on traditional Irish instruments and sang only in Gaelic for many years. In 1984, however, they achieved broader public attention when they were commissioned to write the music for Robin Of Sherwood, incorporating rock instruments and synthesisers into their music alongside pipes and bodhrans, featured on the album titled simply "Legend".
• Amazon.co.uk Info on "Legend"

CHARACTERS/ACTORS
Michael Praed - Robin Hood
• Michael Praed Official Fan Club
Link: fanfare.michael-praed.com

Jason Connery - Robin Hood
To the Stars
Link: jasonconnery.tripod.com

Mark Ryan - Nasir
• Mark Ryan's Official Web Site
Link: http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/markryan

• An interview with Mark Ryan
Link: www.boldoutlaw.com/robint/ryan1.html
Includes info on his Greenwood Tarot cards

Ray Winstone - Will Scarlet
• Will Scarlet Inside
Link: www.copperlily.com/scarletinside

Robert Addie - Guy of Gisburne
• Gisburne's Nasty Knight Page
Link: http://nasty_knight.tripod.com
Some very funny bits!

FUN
• The Nottingham Bakery
Link: http://members.aol.com/XTMBakery/TheKitchen.html
Eclectic batch of info. Includes recipes, role-playing and fiction.

THE 'REAL' ROBIN HOOD
• The Robin Hood Project
Link: www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/rhhome.stm
A detailed academic site based at the University of Rochester NY. The project is designed to make available in electronic format a database of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales.

ROBIN HOOD - BBC SERIES, 2006
Official Site: www.bbc.co.uk/drama/robinhood

• Series Writer Paul Cornell's blog
Link: http://paulcornell.blogspot.com/

Fan Sites

• Robin Hood 2006
Link: robinhood2006.com

• The New Robin Hood Blog
Link: newrobin.blogspot.com

Sea Hunt
Adventure series which ran from 1957 to 1961 starring Lloyd Bridges as diver Mike Nelson. In part the inspiration for T.I.M.E.
• The Unofficial Sea Hunt Site

Space Patrol
'This is Earth - the year 2100. New York is the headquarters of Space Patrol and men from Earth, Mars and Venus live and work there as guardians of peace. This is the story of those men, whose courage and daring make the universe safe for us all.'

• http://homepages.tesco.net/~space.patrol/SpacePatrol/Home.htm
A great guide to this little-known UK puppet series created and produced by Roberta Leigh. This is an exhaustive guide to the show

Star Trek
• Star Trek Actors
• Star Trek Fan Clubs
• Star Trek News

Survivors
• Chris Smith's Classic televsion: Survivors Page

Taken

Official web site: www.scifi.com/taken/ (Requires Flash)

Timeslip
• The official site: www.timeslip.org.uk
This brilliant official site includes a complete "remastered" version of the Look-In comic strip and more, including merchandise information and more.

• Chris Smith's Classic television Timeslip Page
A well written overview of the show created by Ruth Boswell featuring time-travelling children

Time Tunnel
• The Time Tunnel
Features some great images from the show including a huge number of promitional shots by Joe Occhiuto

• The Irwin Allen Network/Time Tunnel Section
Includes news section and more, with of course to categories on other Allen shows such as Land of the Giants and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

• jamesdarren.com
Star of the show James Darren is better known for his singing career -- and these days for huis guest star role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

• thetimetunnel.com

• Excursions in Time Tunnel
Pictures, sounds a sketch book and a tribute to Alexi Sayle's pastiche of the show, "Drunk in Time". Plus of a lot of the site runner's models of the Time Tunnel set.

Tomorrow People
Jackies Scrap Book
www.effdee.demon.co.uk/tp/tomorrow_people.htm
Celebrating 30 years of the tomorrow people.

Trap Door
Fan Site: www.thetrapdoor.org

Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions - where nobody goes, stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place lives Berk, the overworked servant to The Thing Upstairs. But that's nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath The Trap Door. For there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out... www.trapdoor.org is a great fan site devoted to the British 1980s children's model animation show. Despite it being a kids show, it found a new audience with those that have grown up with it over the past two decades. It was created by both Terry Brain and Charlie Mills and ran for a total of forty episodes.
• Buy The Trap Door on DVD from Amazon.co.uk: Click Here

Vision On
• It's Prof Again: www.its-prof-again.co.uk/vision_on.htm
OK, it's not SF but Vision On was a terrific show with plenty of weird sequences. This site has a history of the show, archive pics of the great Tony Hart, forum and more.