The People Behind This Are Trying to Kidnap Liz Shaw!

A busy few days, mainly reeling from "The Ambassadors of Death" colour recovery bombshell.

Since the demise of the Restoration Team website (and the end of even the most feeble scrutiny and/or accountability), the lack of concrete information on this matter is rather irritating to say the least.

Bearing in mind that it was a combination of two separate and distinct processes that made the "Planet of the Daleks" colour recovery such a success, will a similar path be followed for Serial CCC? (The words "prohibitively expensive" have always accompanied the American part of the equation, and I wasn't aware that exchange rates were particularly favourable at the moment...).

Anyway, here's hoping for the best, and God bless chroma dots. That's what I say.

Somewhat of a coincidence in all this has been my choice of reading since last week. Whilst his name is not whispered in the same hushed tones as those of Andrew Pixley and David Brunt (for example), Richard Molesworth has written an almost painfully essential and level-headed tome on yer missing episodes and Archive shenanigans in general. It's called "Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes", it's over there somewhere, and is a must for Monoids like me who remember the sheer gut-wrenching horror of reading the first-ever published list of Archive Holdings in the Doctor Who Winter Special 1981...

Meanwhile, I notice that I can have multiple blogs, so the current intention is to have the entire legendary "Fluff-Alonga-Hartnell" project uploaded and linked to the Security Kitchen at some point in the near future.

That'll be fun, won't it?

And in an almost seamless-branching style conclusion, a recent evening of online excavating has yielded what appears to be the beginnings (or maybe even the final mutated form) of a "Five Hundred Eyes" tribute site, hosted by Mr Gibbs himself. Obviously not as good as the issue of "Happiness is Dragon Shaped" I wrote almost single-handed, but an amusing enough look back at the days of Proper Fanzines.

The link's over there...