Special Issue #45 • ships from Apr 25 2002
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TV Heroes: The Television We Love
• In this special collector’s edition - timed to celebrate TV Zone’s 150th issue - we ponder the question of why we’re fans of television in the first place. Which shows have captivated us as adults or children? What makes them seem so magical?
• We approached dozens of people to contribute some personal stories of the shows that are special to them. The results were certainly eye-opening…

• Each nomination is accompanied by background information on the show. Contributions include…

Rob Francis on Buffy
• “'What's Buffy like then?' Last Summer, I got to discover what Sarah Michelle Gellar was like in person for myself....”

Colin Baker on Twin Peaks
• “Every ingredient of Twin Peaks works. The music, the settings of the hotel, town and wider countryside…”

Stephen Gallagher on
The Avengers
• “My mother had taken against Patrick Macnee for no reason at all: ‘Look at him. The big girl.‘”

Sophie Aldred on Ally McBeal
• “Maybe Renee’s breasts finally grew so large that they exploded, taking her and Georgia to the great unisex toilet in the sky.”

JMS on The Twilight Zone
• “More than anywhere else, I acquired my love of language from Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone.”

Gary Gillatt on Doctor Who
• “What began as a teatime diversion for a tartrazine-charged child, ended up as something approximating a career.”

Steven Braun on Star Trek: The Next Generation
• “Beyond being brilliantly written and acted, TNG brings me a great deal of comfort.”

Tom Baker on Dad’s Army
• “Arthur Lowe had this marvellous way of playing a comic role absolutely dead straight.”

Jayne Heitmeyer on Seinfeld
• “I found the concept very clever in its simplicity, the writing ingenious and the characters a whole lot of fun...”

Louise Jameson on Tenko
• “It was wonderful to eat guilt free. My chest grew from 32 to 39 inches almost over night.”

Thomasina Gibson on Captain Scarlet
• “No matter that he was only 12 inches tall and walked as though he’d broken every bone in his body.”

• John Ainsworth on Ace of Wands
• David Winning on Andromeda
• Andrew Jackson on Batman
• Gary Russell on Batman (Animated)
• Ellen Dubin on Bewitched
• Mark Wyman on Blackadder the Third
• Jason Caro on Buck Rogers in the 25th Cent.
• Jac Rayner on Charmed
• Dominic May on Dallas
• Paul Spragg on Danger Mouse
• Nalini Krishan on Dark Angel
• Anthony Brown on Edge of Darkness
• Enid-Raye Adams on The Flintstones
• Jan Vincent-Rudzki on The Forsyte Saga
• Alan Oppenheimer on Get Smart
• John Binns on Grange Hill
• Steve Cole on The Incredible Hulk
• Peter Kent on I Love Lucy
• Janet Greek on Max Headroom
• Justin Richards on Mission: Impossible
• Simon Guerrier on The Muppet Show
• David Miller on Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Andrew Cartmel on The Outer Limits
• Victor Pemberton on Paul of Tarsus
• Tom Spilsbury on Randall & Hopkirk
• Keith Topping on Randall & Hopkirk (1970s)
• Rob Shearman on ... Reginald Perrin
• Jim Smith on Robin of Sherwood
• David Darlington on Roseanne
• Richard Atkinson on Roswell
• Jonathan Morris on Sapphire & Steel
• Don Franklin on Seven Days
• David Richardson on Sex in the City
• Steve Eramo on Space: 1999
• Gareth Wigmore on Star Cops
• Maggie Egan on Star Trek
• Lee Binding on Star Trek: Voyager
• Mike Fillis on Thunderbirds
• David Midthunder on The Twilight Zone
• Andrew Pixley on Virtual Murder

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: Images © Warner Bros, Contender, BBC Worldwide, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Avica International

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2002. Not for reproduction

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