Simon Dunn

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TV Zone #31: With Zaphod Beeblebrox

I found these in a drawer:

So guess what this blog will be obsessed with over the next few weeks?

Let’s start with the June 1992 issue, featuring a cover of Gates McFadden, and promising an insight into the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that the BBC banned.

The episode in question was season three’s The High Ground, which the BBC explained was not aired because “the whole tone is one trying to justify terrorism”.

Moving on, we see this.

It seems Sky One was about to show the first (and only) season of CBS’s The Flash, starring John Wesley Shipp and Amanda Pays.

One of the main colour spreads (this was when magazines still had black and white pages), is an interview with Mark Wing-Davey, talking about Zaphod Beeblebrox. Click the images to see them in full resolution.

The article was written by Jane Killick, who you might know as a novelist, or for her books about Red Dwarf and Judge Dredd.

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