Exploring the hidden recesses of the small screen
With The Complete Avengers 50th Anniversary Edition DVD set for release this May, we have a terrific interview from Ian Johnston with Patrick Macnee, aka John Steed, originally conducted in 1998 and which touches upon the show's legacy, unwitting speed addiction and bondage
The Byzantinely plotted drug enforcement procedural that tore the cop show genre a new one, runs its course. With the release of Season Five on DVD box set and the final episode broadcast on TV last night, Rebecca Nicholson mourns the passing of a good po-lice show but points out it nearly sank without a trace.
Thirty years on from the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Peter remembers a childhood where music was an escape from the strictures of Communism and punk gigs in churches were subversive acts and asks, what needs to happen to complete the process of reunification? Photo of Di Toten Hosen at a church gig by Mark Reeder