"I might get that on cassette!"

"I might get that on cassette!"

If we could ever afford proper audience research, it would be fascinating to find out how many people have bought or watched a show after we've covered it.

Without the full data at our disposal we can only speculate for the most part, but we're pleased to report that Paul's piece on 'Dark Shadows' has at least encouraged Andy Priestner to dip his toe into the Collinsport water, thanks to the episodes being available on Amazon Prime.

Even I've watched the first two episodes this morning before writing this very blog entry, which will make Paul do a little happy Yeti Dance, I suspect.

Astonishingly, we've even had the odd appreciative word about our rendition of the end theme to 'Star Trek', which perhaps begs some questions about the sanity of our listeners, but that's neither here nor there.

For the record (don't worry, it won't be released on a single!), our lyrics to 'Star Trek' go something like this.

"Star Trek is on the TV!
Starring Kirk, Spock and Scotty!
The starship is driven by Sulu
When Chekov has gone to the space loo!
The Doctor is sometimes called Bones
Uhura, she answers the phones,
The show run to Season Three
Created by Gene Roddenberry!"

That's quite enough of that, though.

I've noticed that I warbled "Written by Gene Roddenberry!" on the actual take, which I can only attribue to over-excitement on the day, but I'm in no hurry to do a second version. Which will, at least, be appreciated by Rose Cat, who thought we were in pain when we were hitting the high notes.

Meanwhile, Martin has been hard at work producing a number of covers for potential 'Round The Archives' books and magazines, all of which are completely fictional.

Anyway, work begins in earnest this weekend on the inevitable Christmas Special...

We have already started trawling through some Christmas continuity for '3-2-1' and 'Terry & June', though thankfully they've not turned up in our dreams.

Yet...

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)

(Digital art jiggery-pokery by Martin Holmes)