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Time for another instalment in our TV CENTURY 21 cover gallery, this time featuring issues #21-30. Hopefully, these will bring a warm glow of nostalgic recognition to those who read the comic as kids way back in the '60s. Of course, as TV21 was dated a hundred years ahead, if any of us make it to 2065, we're due to meet our younger selves exiting the newsagent's, clutching a brand-spanking new edition of Britain's greatest comic.
Maybe our younger incarnations will allow their older selves to read the comics over their shoulders, eh? Hey, Presto - full circle!
I still think my entry to the competition in # 28, must have gotten lost in the post! Not even a stinking Dalek pencil!! sob,sob. I have subsequently tried to win a real Dalek with Sugar Puffs and the Radio Times! They should give me one for persistence!
ReplyDeleteYou can actually buy 'real' Daleks now, JP, but I agree that it's better to get one for free. I must have a look some time and see if your name was mentioned in the competition results.
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Took a look, JP - sadly, you never even got a runner-up prize. Maybe your entry WAS lost in the post after all.
It wasn't, but it was in a 2000 AD, when I won a JD board game. I can't remember which Prog had the results though, so if you ever come across that do let me know ,as I'd like to buy that prog again. If you want to name spot even further I did have a letter published in an early DWW (somewhere in the first 20). Hey, I'm part of comics history! ( What a big head!)
ReplyDeleteI should have DWW #20, so I'll take a look when I get a chance. What year did you win your JD board game?
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't necessarily IN DWW#20, but somewhere within the first 20 issues. I THINK the JD board game was in '86, not 100% sure though! By the way , my letter was cropped - I think my reminiscences of Bill Hartnell's old foes wouldn't have appealed to the younger readers!
ReplyDeleteI should definitely have it then, JP. Also, I was contributing to 2000 A.D. in '86, so I may well have the issue in question as well.
ReplyDeleteApparently, Lew Grade had offers from three U.S. TV companies for the rights to show Thunderbirds in the States, but they all withdrew their offers when he tried to play them off against one another in an attempt to raise the price. With no U.S. market for the programme, Grade ordered Gerry Anderson to abandon plans for another series of Thunderbirds and come up with something new, which he could then sell to American TV.
ReplyDeleteWith no new Tracy Island programmes on telly, interest in associated merchandise soon tailed off, which resulted in the start of the decline of TV21 and other associated forms of commercial exploitation. Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 just didn't seem to make the same impact on the public as Thunderbirds had. If Lew Grade hadn't gotten greedy, maybe TV21 would've lasted longer than it did. However, the Anderson era was all great stuff while it lasted.