Action TV
Anyone who remembers
Time Screen will find themselves on familiar territory with the magazine: in-depth articles accompanied by episode guides and interviews. The website features a regularly-updated news page, episode guides, articles, reviews and ordering details for the magazine. Highly recommended.
The Gerry Anderson Complete Comic History
Quite possibly the most thorough examination of a spin-off product yet to be seen on the web. The site covers comic strips based on all of the Gerry Anderson puppet series and live action dramas, from
TV Comic and the groundbreaking
TV21 in the 1960s through to
TV Action and
Look In during the 1970s. Related annuals and more recent efforts also get covered.
The Mausoleum Club
Features info on a number of series, with emphasis on possible DVD releases. Also contains a lively forum used by possibly the most knowledgeable bunch of archive television fans you're ever likely to come across.
Zeta Minor
Essential site for anyone in the UK who wants to keep up to date with news of forthcoming DVD releases. The site is also the home to
Roobarb's DVD Forum where all the latest releases are torn to pieces or praised to the roof!
Auctions
eBay UK
The only online auction site worth mentioning. If you're patient enough you should be able to pick up some great items at low prices.
Books: New
Amazon UK Play Waterstone's
Possibly the best three choices if you're not keen on paying postage within the UK. Note:
Amazon and
Waterstone's do require you to spend a minimum of £15 before a free postage option becomes available.
Books: Secondhand
BookFinder
One of the best places to search for out of print books. Options allow you to search by country and by price. Just stay well clear of the really expensive sellers — a cheaper copy will always turn up eventually.
Sparky's Collectibles
Masses of tv tie-in novels available to buy. Good mix of US and UK series.
Price Comparison
Best-Book-Price
Find-DVD (Region 2 DVDs: UK)
DVD Price Search (Region 1 DVDs: US / Canada)
DVD Plaza (Region 4 DVDs: Australia / New Zealand)
Epguides.com
Episode lists for just about every series you can think of.
TV.com
Episode lists and in-depth guides for many series. Useful for keeping up to date with the latest episodes from the USA. It's probably best to disable images, animations and Flash before using the site though...
Culttelly.co.uk
As well as featuring news on the latest releases, it also contains links to nearly 1000 Cult TV sites. Other useful features enable you to search for TV Themes and the lyrics to theme songs.
Memorable TV
Great site for tracking down those half-forgotten TV memories. Features brief overviews of just about every programme you can think of including dramas, comedies and obscure children's programmes. A great first-stop site to get the basics.
Television Heaven /
Teletronic
Two linked sites which add up to a top-notch reference source. The former has information on hundreds upon hundreds of individual television programmes, while the latter goes for the more in-depth approach, detailing the evolution of television as a medium as well as taking a more leisurely look at a number of individual programmes.
Teletronic also includes interviews, quizzes and biographies of some of the UK's most famous television contributors.
Whirligig
Fantastic site which delves way back into the mists of time and takes a look at the television programmes of the 1950s, when black and white were still exciting new colours. Programmes covered range from
Quatermass and
Whacko! through to
Watch with Mother and the numerous westerns which filled the schedules. The pages are liberally illustrated with photographs, so if you want to find out who played
Worzel Gummidge twenty-six years before Jon Pertwee, this is the site to check out.
Michael J. Bird Tribute Site
Website devoted to the works of Michael J Bird. Television series he created include
The Lotus Eaters,
The Aphrodite Inheritance and
The Dark Side of the Sun. Great reference site for some undervalued series.
Ace of Wands
The Ace Of Wands Web Site
Easily one of the best designed fan sites devoted to a UK telefantasy series. Features an episode guide, articles, press coverage, fan fiction and interviews.
The Avengers
TheAvengers.tv
Gateway to a group of
Avengers sites that together make up the most comprehensive overview of the series available. Amongst the most useful are:
The Avengers Forever
An online encyclopedia for the series which contains a complete episode guide.
Dead Duck: The Avengers Merchandise Archive
Half of the old
Noon Doomsday site. Contains details of the huge amount of
Avengers merchandise released over the years.
Deadline: The Avengers Press and PR Archive
The other half of the old
Noon Doomsday site! Contains details of the many newspaper reports and magazine articles that have been printed over the last 40 years.
Avengers on the Radio
A site that looks at the South African radio production starring Donald Monat — includes details on the recently re-discovered episodes that were previously thought lost, and efforts to restore them.
Century Falls / Dark Season
Dark Season & Century Falls
Nice little site devoted to two of the
BBC's best kids programmes of the 1990s. Includes episode guides, articles and details of other work by series creator Russell T Davies.
Doctor Who
The Official Site
The official
BBC website. News on the new television series, reviews, interviews, episode guide...
The Doctor Who Reference Guide
Detailed synopses for just about every
Doctor Who story that has been professionally produced or published.
The Doctor Who Restoration Team Website
If you want to know how much effort is put into preparing the stories for DVD and audio CD releases, this is the place to go. Also contains articles on the state of
Doctor Who in the
BBC archives and a lively forum.
On Target
Major reference site devoted to the
Doctor Who books produced by
Target Books between 1973 and 1991. Highly recommended.
Outpost Gallifrey
News, reviews, episode guides, forum...
Bookmark it now. If you're a
Doctor Who fan, this is the first place to visit.
The TARDIS Library
Details of all the latest
Doctor Who videos, books, audios and DVDs. You can also vote on your favourite (or least favourite!) releases and leave reviews.
Rentaghost
The Rentaghost Homepage
The only
Rentaghost page of note. Includes information on merchandise, the cast and an episode guide.
Robin of Sherwood
Spirit Of Sherwood — The Official Robin of Sherwood Fanclub
Information on the cast, merchandise and an episode guide.
Space Patrol
Space Patrol — The Website
An extremely comprehensive guide to the classic puppet series of the 1960's. Features an episode guide, a
Space Patrol encyclopedia, details on merchandise and much more. Highly recommended.
Star Maidens
Star Maidens
A comprehensive site devoted to the 1970s sci-fi series. Looks great, and contains all the information you'll ever need.
Survivors
The Survivors Newsletter
Exactly what it says. Details of how to subscribe and links to sites of interest for
Survivors fans.
Survivors — The TV Series
Episode guide, character profiles and cast information plus trivia and reviews for all the episodes. Easily the best
Survivors site around.
Timeslip
Timeslip — The Official Website
Full and comprehensive coverage of the classic 1970s children's series.
Trap Door
thetrapdoor.org
Devoted to the 1980s animated favourite, this is a comprehensive rounding-up of the adventures of
Berk,
Boni and a whole host of other plasticine creatures — most of which crawl up out of the dreaded trap door.
HTML-Kit
The stunning piece of software on which this site has been created. Probably the best all-round text-based HTML editor available, and it's free to download!
Mozilla
Home of the
Firefox web browser — the
best browser for
Windows users, even on prehistoric computers! It makes
Internet Explorer look like the outdated product it now is...
overLIB Homepage
The source of the extremely useful Javascript used for the episode detail popups.