The LOOK-IN PICTURE STRIP ARCHIVE

[Neil]

I remember buying 'Look-In' from the very first issue. Wasn't there a cut-out section with parts from the Magpie set in it? I remember making up the folded sections into a TV camera and the Magpie boat, then moored alongside the studios at Teddington.

I played with those cut-out sections for years.

I used to love the way Magpie took the viewer out of the studio and into the corridor in a way Blue Peter never would. Magpie was quite urban in that way. BP was middle class by comparrison.

Anyway, I've just joined and look forward to discussing stuff.

[Shaqui]

That's right Neil, John has a scan at his website of the studio from the very first issue at:

http://www.geocities.com/juniortvtimes2006/71No01/1971_no01_Pg12-13_magstud2.htm


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[Neil]

Thanks, Shaqui.

I tried the link a couple of times, but the picture isn't displayed, though the frame does. Maybe it's because I'm using a library computer at the moment - I've broken the comm port on mine.

It would have been nice to see the cut-outs again. I think they got lost or discarded when we moved house.

Remember the edition of Magpie when they had a group (can't remember who they were) on the programme singing 'Nice legs, shame about the face'? Jenny Handley was leaping up and down. My friend George was embarrassed, but I thought she was alright.

I might add, here, that men will recall Jenny Handley responsible for more than a few pre-pubescent stirrings.

[porkulator]

I've just been to the page Niel and it is appearing for me, guess you'll have to find another computer...!!

John.

http://www.geocities.com/juniortvtimes2006/

[Neil]

Thank you, John.

Stoked my old computer back into life. Although running Windows 95 - and slow - managed to get to the site and open the page and scan successfully.

Magical.

Was this the full scan? I remember having a waterline model of the boat, The Magpie and at least one of the studio cameras with mine.

Remember how the studio was at Teddington, on the river, which featured a lot during the series' run? Isn't Tommy Boyd still alive? I think I saw him on TV, but that was a few years ago.

Neil.

[porkulator]

The other things you talk about were available as cardboard inserts given with the comic, unfortunately it's pretty rare to find an issue with these still inside or intact. I certainly don't have access to these, and my issue 1 didn't even have the middle pages, I had to get those from Shaqui. Maybe someone will spot your thread who can oblige?

In answer to your other question, Tommy is still indeed alive, and is these days a DJ on BBC local Radio.

John.

http://www.geocities.com/juniortvtimes2006/

[Neil]

Thanks for all this. Excuse my dim-ness, I'm coming back to these things after a long time. It's good to hear that there are others who have a deep interest and knowledge on 'Look-In'.

I used to get 'Countdown' as well, though I've met few people who remember it. I was a bit of a space-nerd as a kid and, on a council estate where the twin religeons were football and fighting, I walked alone.

In which comic did 'Fatman & Sparrow' appear? I know I hated it as it spoofed something else. Even now I still hate it when people try to re-invent the wheel.

[porkulator]

Fatman and Sparrow appeared in 'Solo' in 1967, it was a spoof of 'Batman'. Find out more on Shaqui's site here:

http://www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Upload02/MarkoftheMysterons.htm

John.

[Neil]

Thank you very much indeed.

I'd forgotten all about 'Solo' and can't say how many issues I might have had. Maybe Science-Fiction was going through a transition period at the time and, certainly, British science-fiction has a justifiable place in the history of the genre.

I'll come back to the website again, which I've used many times while searching for info on the Gerry Anderson stuff I've been collecting - the man's a winner, though I drew the line at The Terrahawks. Ah, maybe I just bailed? Not sure.

Seeing the cover art for 'Solo' again now I'm still impressed by the graphics and the impact of the communication, though feel it had tried to get the readership under the wire. I'm all for encouraging kids to read and introducing them to an adult concept, but think 'Solo' tried using scare tactics to those not ready to make the leap.

Having said that, my cousins were older than me by 4 and 6 years, yet they got the Beano and Dandy until they were fifteen, when they changed their allegience to the Exchange & Mart.

Whacko, or what?

Thank you once again.