Interview: Why Danger Man Is Great

Fiona Moore is once again on the Dan Schneider Video Interviews, this time guesting with Sixties expert Gideon Marcus to talk about Danger Man, the prequel The Prisoner never had (OR DID IT?!).

Why "The Prisoner" is Great

 Interview with Fiona Moore and Dean Motter (author of Shattered Visage, a The Prisoner graphic novel) on why The Prisoner is great, 55 years after it aired:

We're Number Three, and Number Eight!

 Telos Publishing have released their bestseller list for the month of October. Liberation: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake's 7 (2003) is at #3, and Fall Out: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner (2007) is at #8! Find out more about these perennial favourites at the links.

Dancing Days

Another Magic Bullet person guests on the Time For Cakes And Ale Podcast, reviewing every episode of The Prisoner. This time, Professor Fiona Moore discusses feminism, psychoanalysis and apocalypses in "Dance of the Dead." Click the link for more!

New drinking game ideas

Alan Stevens guest stars on this week's Time For Cakes And Ale Podcast, talking about the classic The Prisoner episode "Free For All". Alan says: "See if you can count how many times I respond with "I don't know" when asked specific questions about the episode."

Peter Miles Tribute

Alan Stevens' tribute to Peter Miles in Celestial Toyroom is now online here.

Peter Miles

Taken by Alan Stevens last year on the release of Vworp Vworp!

Peter Miles

All of us at Magic Bullet are mourning the loss of Peter Miles, who has been a key part of our work since the very first audios, and a friend for decades. We can’t begin to describe what he’s been to us. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

Fiona Moore signing books at Worldcon

That is all. Photo credit Daniel Dern of File770.

A People's History of Telefantasy

For the academics among you, the paper A People's History of Telefantasy: Cult Television, Society and Identity in the Late 20th/Early 21st Centuries, by Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens (as presented at the Telefantasy and Society Symposium at the University of Lincoln in 2015) is now available to read or download for free from academia.edu. Click the link!

Catch The Prisoner

The short Kaldor City play, "The Prisoner", which featured on the compilation CD The Actor Speaks: Paul Darrow and which stars Paul Darrow and Peter Miles, is now available as a download from us! Buy it on its own for £2.99, or bundled with the other Kaldor City download-only play "Metafiction" for £5, or as part of our great-value Ultimate Download Megapack for only £18! Click this link for more details, including all the purchasing options.

We're On Podcasts!

Fiona Moore and myself are interviewed about The Prisoner and 1970s Battlestar Galactica on Jim Harold's TV You Grew Up With podcast! Click the link for a fun and insightful discussion of surveillance, the Sixties, cult TV, and Richard "Apollo" Hatch.

Holiday Schedule

Just so you know, we'll be taking our usual break between 22 December and 2 January. Since the 21st is a Sunday, that means: get all your holiday orders for physical products in by the 20th, or wait till 2015. Download orders will be processed as usual over the holidays.

New Telos website, plus discount offer

Telos Publishing have a new website, and to celebrate, they've got an online discount of 10% off all products! That obviously includes our books Liberation: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake's 7, Fall Out: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner, and By Your Command: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Battlestar Galactica vol. 1, as well as many other great works of fiction and non-fiction. Click the links to find out more.

Weekender Hello Plus Links

Just a quick note to say hello to everyone we met at the Sci-Fi Weekender, and a specially big hello to everyone who's just discovering this website for the first time! We had a lot of fun doing interviews and panels, meeting up with fans and making new friends.

Our books were so popular that the Telos Table sold out -- if you're one of the customers who missed them, there's a link to order "Liberation" (our guide to Blake's 7) here, another for "Fall Out" (our guide to The Prisoner) here, and you can get "By Your Command" volume 1 (our guide to Battlestar Galactica) here.

Liberation paperbacks available

Telos has now made the new Liberation paperback edition available for sale (Fall Out and By Your Command vol. 1, of course, can also be purchased!) If you'd like a new-edition Liberation in paperback or Kindle, visit Telos' site now.

Liberation and Fall Out are back!

Telos have announced that the new editions of Liberation and Fall Out are now in print! The text is mostly the same, but some typoes have been corrected and new information has been added, so visit Telos and order your copies today! People who prefer ebooks can also buy Kindle versions of the new editions.

"Liberation" and "Fall Out" re-releases

Good news! Liberation: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake's Seven and Fall Out: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner will now both be available as paperbacks and as Kindle ebooks! Visit the Telos website at www.telos.co.uk to keep up with developments.

October events

Events Page updated, with more details of the DWAS' Time and Space convention, plus Ian Rakoff's latest lecture, in Oxford on 15th October.