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THE MAGAZINE BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION www.infinitymagazine.co.uk THE MAGAZINE BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION IT’S 05 WARFARE!GORILLA DOUBLE-SIDED BEHIND THE SCENES OF POSTER INSIDE! PLANET OF THE APES THE TV SERIES PLUS: SAPPHIRE AND STEEL • VWORP, VWORP! DOCTOR WHO & THE VINTAGE COMIC UNIVERSE RIP HUNTER - TIME MASTER • THE INVADERS NEWS, COMPETITIONS & MUCH MORE… CAPTAIN SCARLET ALAN THE INCREDIBLE HULK MOORE IS 50! THE NOT-SO-JOLLY GREEN GIANT! COMICS JOIN THE TO MOVIES FROM HELL! PARTY INSIDE INFINITY ISSUE 5 - £3.99 ISSN 2514-3654 05 9 772514 365005 05 05 THE MAGAZINE BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION www.infinitymagazine.co.uk THE MAGAZINE BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION IT’S GORILLA WARFARE! BEHIND THE SCENES OF PLANET OF THE APES DOUBLE-SIDED THE TV SERIES 8 14 POSTER INSIDE! 38 PLUS: • VWORP, VWORP! SAPPHIRE AND STEEL • THE INVADERS CAPTAIN DOCTOR WHO & THE VINTAGE COMIC UNIVERSE RIP HUNTER - TIME MASTER SCARLET NEWS, COMPETITIONS & MUCH MORE… ALAN IS 50! MOORE JOIN THE COMICS PARTY THE INCREDIBLE HULK THE NOT-SO-JOLLY GREEN GIANT! TO MOVIES INSIDE FROM HELL! INFINITY ISSUE 5 - £3.99 Cover art by Peter Wallbank (www.petewallbankart.com) 20 48 08: ADVENTURES IN TIME A look back at the TV cult classic Sapphire and Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. 14: A STUDY IN SCARLET It has been 50 years since Captain Scarlet first battled the Mysterons. Something to celebrate! 20: GORILLA WARFARE Mark Phillips reports on the monkey business behind the Planet of the Apes TV series… 38: DOCTOR WHO’S VINTAGE COMIC UNIVERSE Giacomo Lee chats to a very special fanzine about some of the Doctor’s lesser known adventures… 42 42: M IS FOR MOORE That’s Alan Moore, the undisputed bearded Northampton-based God of the British comics realm 52 56 46: A RIP IN TIME The adventures of Rip Hunter… Time Master, a DC comics hero from their Golden Age… 48: THEY’RE HERE! 50 years on from its debut, The Invaders still packs a punch. Remembering a landmark sci-fi show. 52: AN ENTERPRISING ENDEAVOUR Effects wizard Ken Ralston on organising the visual excess of Captain Kirk and company... 60 62 56: NOT-SO-JOLLY GREEN GIANT He was Marvel’s first big TV success and we loved him when he was angry. The Incredible Hulk revisited… 60: THE JAMES BOND OF CRIME Allan Bryce takes a look at Mario Bava’s swinging 60s spy-fi classic, Danger: Diabolik… 62: THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. The life and cinematic crimes of B-movie maestro Bert I. Gordon, whose films were bigger than life! Editor: Allan Bryce Web Master: [email protected] 06: INFINITY NEWS ROUND-UP Design & Production: Kevin Coward Website: ww.ininitymagazine.co.uk Advertisement and Subs Manager: Published by: Ghoulish Publishing Ltd, 12: YOUR LETTERS AND EMAILS Yannie Overton-Bryce 29 Cheyham Way, South Cheam, Surrey SM2 7HX. 19: THE DARK SIDE PROMO ULISH [email protected] 27: TAKE THE HELM O Printed in the EU by Acorn, W. Yorkshire. Online publisher: Ghoulish Publishing Distribution: Intermedia, Unit 6 The Enterprise 29: REVIEWS ww.ininitymagazine.co.uk Centre, Kelvin Lane, Manor Royal, Crawley, West GH PUBLISHING 45: SUBSCRIPTIONS Advertising enquiries: Sussex RH10 9PE [email protected] © Copyright 2017 Ghoulish Publishing Ltd. 67: NEXT ISSUE PREVIEW INFINITY 3 SCI-FI MOVIES AND THE HUMAN TOUCH… ne of the tricky things about doing a of strong laxatives all the time. We also wanted to see magazine that only comes out every him in a proper punch-up with Rutger Hauer. Where’s six weeks is it’s impossible to keep fully the fun if your villain can’t be arsed whether he lives up to date with all the new releases. or dies? Blade Runner was judged the second greatest OFor example, Blade Runner 2049 hit UK sci-fi film ever made in a Time Out poll earlier this cinemas on October 6th, but it wasn’t year. Doesn’t surprise me with that lot. 2001: A Space screened before we went to press at the end of Odyssey was their number one and I think that’s September, so though we would love to have brought overrated and pretentious too. I saw it as a teen and you a review we just never had a chance. I’m guessing wasn’t impressed. I quizzed my mum about the ending it’s going to be good, but it does seem to be hellishly and she suggested drugs were involved. The original long, a good forty minutes longer than the original Planet of the Apes movie followed it into cinemas and in fact. Wouldn’t it be odd if this followed the it was a lot more fun. I saw that one twice. The pattern of the original and was a big flop in Time Out mob also judged Terry Gilliam’s 2017 and feted in 2049? I bet the studios Brazil one of the top ten sci-fi films of all wouldn’t see the funny side though… time. Yeah, sure, much better than War of Infinity may be a mag about futuristic the Worlds (1953), Forbidden Planet (1956) movies and TV shows but we do love to and The Thing From Another World (either look back more than we do forward. It’s version). At least they got it right that The a cosy nostalgic approach that is yielding Empire Strikes Back was the top Star Wars dividends because five issues in and our picture, after The Ewok Movie of course. sales are going from strength to strength. Yes, Blade Runner and 2001 are great sci-fi Luckily there is not a shortage of great old TV shows films but for me they are too cold-hearted and lacking and movies for us to cover, and we have some cracking in humanity, though they probably fit right in with ones for you this time out, everything from Planet our modern world. But I recently rediscovered on of the Apes and The Invaders to The Incredible Hulk YouTube one great little sci-fi film you won’t find on and Sapphire and Steel. The latter was a particular Time Out’s list, namely Charly (1968), an intensely favourite of mine back in the day, but kids nowadays moving adaptation of the Daniel Keyes novel, Flowers would probably have a right old laugh watching the For Algernon. Cliff Robertson (pictured above), show because the effects were very tacky - all the deservedly won an Oscar for his portrayal of Charly budget went on the salaries of stars Joanna Lumley Gordon, a man with an IQ of 68 who becomes a genius and David McCallum. overnight after taking part in a scientific experiment. Getting back to the first Blade Runner, I must His advancement parallels that of Algernon, a confess that I didn’t like it when I first saw it, and super-mouse who has been operated on, and when that was back when it opened in the Leicester Square Charly sees that the mouse is regressing he realises Theatre in 1982. My pal Gary and I came out enthusing that his super-intelligence will also be short-lived. A about the amazing special effects but we were both really poignant and touching film with a great deal of disappointed with the rather dreary storyline. We humanity, sadly an ingredient that many so-called wanted to see Harrison Ford in chipper Han Solo sci-fi classics seem to lack. guise, not looking like he was miserable and in need Allan Bryce. HELP US KEEP UP TO DATE WITH WHAT YOU WANT We value every single reader and they value us, which is why we are flourishing at a time when print magazines everywhere are having a tough time. We want to encourage you all to send in your views on Infinity so we can get a lively letters section going, and if you have news of sci-fi-related conventions, movies, books etc, we will be happy to give you some publicity for them. Most importantly, THE MAGAZINE BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION please tell us what we are doing right and (perish the thought) what we are doing www.infinitymagazine.co.uk wrong! 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