Patrick Troughton as Robin Hood 1953 - clip Russell Devlin 2014-09-08 | Noted actor Patrick Troughton appeared as Robin Hood in a 1953 live to air BBC serial which makes him the first TV Robin Hood, beating the famous Richard Greene series by two years
Louise Jameson at Armageddon 2011 Melbourne Russell Devlin 2024-10-17 | Louise played the popular Dr Who companion Leela and talked about her time on the show at this large Pop Culture event
Dr Who Con guests Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, John Barrowman , Jenna Coleman Russell Devlin 2024-10-04 | The large Australian Supanova & Armageddon Pop Culture conventions have allowed fans to see notable Dr Who guests at minimal cost in recent years. These vids were taken at some of their Melbourne events in the late 20teens. Apologies for the sound and vid quality of some of this, the size of crowd & some of the venues were not always conducive to optimum recording
Geoffs World- 2024 edit + bloopers etc Russell Devlin 2024-09-24 | Geoff's World was originally a 30th anniversary Dr Who parody special screened at the Doctor Who Club of Victoria 30th Banquet in Melbourne Town Hall. As the You Tube Channel Sci-Fi Zone has presented the modern equivalent as a real programme, it seems an opportune moment to revive the original . This version has been heavily redited from the original as it used clips & video mashups from other fanfilms or which are currently blocked on You Tube
Dr Who Event- A day with Mark Strickson and Julie Brennan Russell Devlin 2024-09-18 | This 1988 Dr Who Club of Victoria event , (held the day after the FEIP event uploaded earlier) welcomed Mark Strickson (Turlough in the 20th & 21st Peter Davison Dr Who seasons) and his wife Julie Brennan, who had appeared in the McCoy story "Paradise Towers"
Starwalking 1 Con opener video & bloopers adj Russell Devlin 2024-09-13 | In the late 80's & 90's SF conventions often had a fanmade video as part of the opening ceremony . These were usually video mashups, where clips from movies & TV shows were dubbed with music , or re-edited for humerous effect. This is an edited one from the Star Wars con Starwalking in 1989 , and features Battlestar Galactica taking on Star Wars , in reference to the plagiarism lawsuit between these two shows . I present it now as a tribute to one of the redubbers, Craig Blythe, who passed away 2/9/24
B7 Movie 2 - The Claws of Tyranny Russell Devlin 2024-09-06 | The second and final compedium of my Blakes 7 Comic strip adaptions, this comprises the later strips from Blakes 7 monthly, which again have been subjected to a colorisation process. The stories reflect the darker tone of the later 4th Season of the TV series, with Avon's attempts to create an alliance between rebel groups met with treachery & Sleer's counterplots, and the final story setting up the TV series conclusion
Vampiricon 1991- David Prowse Interview Russell Devlin 2024-08-30 | A Con Panel Interview with actor & bodybuilder David Prowse, who physically played Darth Vader in the first 3 Star Wars films and has had roles in multiple Fantastic genre films & TV, including the Frankenstien monster in Hammer films, Clockwork Orange, Tommorow People, Doctor Who , Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy and many others
Dr Who- Planet of the Daleks Russell Devlin 2024-08-23 | Not to be confused with the later TV story of the same name, this adapts the Countdown/TV Action 3rd Doctor comics "Sub Zero" & "Planet of the Daleks ". These stories ran concurrently and featured the Daleks so I have adapted them as one long story. The comic format allowed considerable scope beyond the usual TV fare so the action moves from Antarctica with secret Dalek naval bases to post nuked Sydney to interplanetary adventure . Part of this story is in b/w as due to format changes the comic went from a full colour interior strip to colour cover with b/w interior. The Dr Who strip continued in the revised TV Action comic until that folded and then returned to TV Comic in a fully B/W version with Pertwee and then Tom Baker, though cost cutting saw some Baker strips reprinting Pertwee ones with Tom's face replacing Jon's but still wearing his dandy costume !
Spaceships spfx test reel Russell Devlin 2024-08-15 | A series of test SPFX using Spaceship minatures and art. Note that these would be used as inserts between live action scenes rather than a continuous narrative
SciFi Art spfx test reel Russell Devlin 2024-08-13 | This is a test reel animating SF art (mainly that of Chris Foss) with movement scanning and/or added fx work . Note that such scenes would normally be done as inserts in live action, rather than be a continual narrative .
UFO - Seek & Destroy Russell Devlin 2024-08-08 | This is the UFO comic from issue 1 of Countdown, the first UFO comic published anywhere. Its B/W art was supplemented by photo inserts, a trick used in several other Anderson related comics and in subsequent issues the comic was a much more elaborate affair in full colour with stories spread over multiple issues, as seen in my earlier adaptions on this site. As UFO was superceded as Countdown's banner comic, single issue b/w comics returned until UFO was replaced by adaptions of newer TV series
Blakes 7 Movie 1 - Against the Federation Russell Devlin 2024-08-02 | This is an edited feature length presentation of my earlier Blakes 7 animations, which I have prepared as I have found in the past that many people prefer omnibus editions rather than individual stories . It more closely follows the order that the strips appeared in B7 Monthly in the early 80's , as when I originally produced them I didn't have all the stories and hadn't intended to make them all. As an extra viewing incentive I have had these colourised, which variously provides the characters with flesh skin tones or produces an effect similar to the black & single colour print often used in British comics, esp those seen in annuals.
Jurassic World expo at Melbourne Museum - 2016 Russell Devlin 2024-07-30 | An Animatronic Dinosaur exhibition tied in with the Speilberg movies which has toured the World , here it is in Melbourne 2016. It's come out again in 2024 so this will give you some idea of it
Battlestar Galactica- Ralph McQuarrie pre production art Russell Devlin 2024-07-29 | When Glen Larson pitched Battlestar Galactica he signed Ralph McQuarrie to do the preproduction art . Ralph had earlier done the propod art for Star Wars and so Larson hoped to catch that vibe . This animation goes through the art for the pilot story and follows the same plot
Dr Who- Slaves of Voga Russell Devlin 2024-07-25 | This is an adaption of the 3rd adventure of the Pertwee Doctor from Countdown magazine of 1971, where the Doctor discovers a huge spaceship containing an alien race enslaved by the highly advanced but physically weak Vogans being transported to a mine planet. Concepts like giant spaceships with frozen passengers would turn up on the TV series a few years later as did the alien race name "Vogan" , while the Vogans are clearly modeled on the Dan Dare character "The Mekon" , see my earlier Dan Dare animation on this site
Timestorm with Sophie Aldred- Pt 2 Russell Devlin 2024-07-25 | The second part of the Timestorm convention featuring Sophie Aldred , who played the companion Ace in the last years of the original series
North India trip - 2008 Russell Devlin 2024-07-22 | A visit to Northern India with Vegan travel organisation Veg Voyages
Point Cook Airshow 2009 Russell Devlin 2024-07-21 | This is the first of a series of Airshows I am uploading to YT. Point Cook in Victoria, Australia was the main training base for the RAAF and has a large Air Museum & collection of Vintage aircraft . This video features WW2 & early jet warbirds and several other types of interest
Timestorm with Sophie Aldred Russell Devlin 2024-07-20 | Timestorm was a 1997 Dr Who convention organised by the Dr Who Club of Victoria , with guest Sophie Aldred, who had played the companion Ace in the final years of the original series .
60th Birthday Steam Train 2021 Russell Devlin 2024-07-16 | A Vintage Victorian Steam train trip I went on for my 60th Birthday , between Moorabbin & Kananook on the Frankston Line
Sri Lanka 2019- Dance Russell Devlin 2024-07-15 | This is the first vid in a series of Trip & Holiday videos, this was taken in 2019 in Sri Lanka and depicts cultural activities including, dance music and street theatre , The trip was conducted by Veg Voyages who we have travelled with several times and who are highly reccomended. facebook.com/VegVoyages
UFO - Forcefield Russell Devlin 2024-07-12 | A life or death struggle ensues when UFO's attack the Mars base and the sole survivor is the only one who can thwart an attack on Earth !
Ed Bishop at Huttcon 1990 Russell Devlin 2024-07-11 | Recorded at Huttcon which was held in Melbourne Australia in 1990 , Ed Bishop tells of his acting career , including UFO, 2001, Bond films and many others
Armageddon Con Guest clips Bernie Kopell, Margot Kidder , Helen Slater, Mira Furlan Russell Devlin 2024-07-08 | Some short clips taken at various Armageddon cons held in Melbourne Australia, with Bernie Kopell from Get Smart & the Love Boat, Margot Kidder from Superman the Movie, Helen Slater from the Supergirl movie & Mira Furlan from Babylon 5 & Lost
Star Trek Exhibition - Melbourne 1997 Russell Devlin 2024-07-05 | This is the first of a series of videos I am uploading concerning SciFi cons, events and fans . Much of this was filmed using early camcorders so make allowances for sound & picture quality This was a travelling exhibition of Star Trek related Minatures, Costumes and props which was displayed at Melbourne's Scienceworks Museum in the 1990's. Most were originals though there were some replicas, and the large Enterprise seen at the start of the vid was specially made for it and was originally displayed on a plinth, which explains the large bulge on the bottom of it
Dark Shadows - The Blank Tombstone Russell Devlin 2024-07-02 | The final story from the 1971/72 Newspaper adaption of the Series, in this Barnabas is persuaded by his unborn kinsman Thomas Collins to right an ancient wrong that will allow him to exist . The TV series had ended a year before and being a many episode soap opera, it had not gone into syndication so fan interest had waned, so making the Newspaper strip of limited appeal, hence cancellation
Dr Who - Timebender Russell Devlin 2024-06-27 | The Third Doctor vs the Third Reich !! . When a French scientist invents a primitive form of Time/Space Travel, the Doctor must prevent to stop the Nazis from conquering the Universe !! The second Dr Who adventure from the classic Countdown comic, this is quite a strong story despite the frequent "allo allo" dialogue
UFO The New Boss Russell Devlin 2024-06-14 | In this, Commander Straker has the abrasive General Calper appointed to oversee SHADO, but is he all he seems ? Adapted from the Countdown comic strp of the early 70's
Dark Shadows - The Cult Of Death Russell Devlin 2024-05-31 | In this, the 5th story from the Syndicated Dark Shadows strip of 1971-72 Barnabas must save Carolyn from the deadly poison of vengeful Desiree, the leader of an evil Cat Cult !
UFO- Traitor Russell Devlin 2024-04-10 | This is the second story from the Countdown strip adaption of the Andersons series UFO, and is an Earthbased story showcasing Skydiver & the SHADO base located beneath Straker-Harrington studios. Again this is a plotline which could easily have been used on the series and has the same serious approach as the series.
Dr Who- The Gemini Plan Russell Devlin 2024-03-28 | This is my adaption of the 1971 Countdown Comic of Doctor Who, based on Third Doctor Jon Pertwee. He had already appeared in TV Comic, but the Countdown version had much better colour artwork and serious SF stories in keeping with the First Season Pertwee stories like "The Silurians" & "Inferno". In this, the exiled Doctor manages to get the Tardis working, but it quickly conks out and deposits him deep in the deserts of Australia, where he discover a huge secret space project underway headed by a meglomaniac industialist which threatens all life on Earth...
Spacehawk - The Treachery of Smebar Russell Devlin 2024-03-22 | Based on Basil Wolverton's 8th Spacehawk story, this sees the intrepid space hero stop a coup and plan of conquest on the Planet Neptune. Basil Wolverton had been trying to build a career as a professional illustrative & comics artist through out the 30's in both humerous and serious strips. His eccentric style and downright weird characters worked best in comedy & the bizarre world of science fiction and the early 40's Spacehawk was one of his first successes. His editors were however opposed to his flights of fancy, and the advent of WW2 saw his hero change from fighting interplanetary menaces to more local villians on an Earth little advanced from the 40's USA, with streamlined trains replacing roaring rocketships.
Doctor Who- Pertwee Countdown Comic Trailer Russell Devlin 2024-03-19 | A trailer for my forthcoming Animation series based on the early 70's Pertwee Doctor comics from Countdown/TV Action
Docky Who - Attack of the Vegies Russell Devlin 2024-03-18 | Happy Birthday Greg !! A special presentation of the Countdown Annual comic which is something of a precourser to the Tom Baker "Seeds of Doom" story which appeared some years later
Stardust- 5th Column / Still Earth Russell Devlin 2024-03-15 | This is an animation based on the 40's Superhero Stardust, created by Fletcher Hanks. Hanks was a relatively old cartoonist who was briefly active in the early 40's. At this time the peicework nature of comic book production had not been fully established viz story/pencil/inking/coloring handled by seperate members of a production team , so Fletcher was a full autuer doing it all himself, and oh what comics he produced ! He did some std adventure comics, but is best known for his Superheroes, such as Fantomah the first female SH of any type and as seen here Stardust the Space Wizard. The storytelling was on an extreme level, gangsters or spies would come up with some awful plan that threatened millions but Stardust, an almost omnipotent alien Giant who operated from his own asteroid, would use his space TV to identify the evil doers and then subject them to some ghastly fate. The second story here is one of the most bizarre I've ever seen, three Gangsters use a machine to stop the Earths rotation so everyone floats away and then they can loot the Earth's wealth ... erm where can they spend it ? Hanks stopped working in 1941, the reasons are unknown but probably because he was out of step with the frequent & rapid changes in the comics industry . He was also a chronic alcoholic and abandoned his family and ultimately died homeless in miserable circumstances in 1976 at the age of 86, freezing to death on a Manhattan Park Bench. His work was rediscovered in the last decades of the 20th Century, his style and concepts appealing to the Pop Art & Alternative Comic sensibilities of serious comics fans, and well produced collections appeared in the early 2000's .
Blakes 7- THE OMEN Russell Devlin 2024-03-08 | This is my final animation of Blakes 7 and suitably it is the final comic that appeared in Blakes 7 Monthly. Avon has a vision of Blake just before a major Federation attack, which gives him a premonition of their final destiny.....
Dark Shadows- Curse of the Coven Russell Devlin 2024-02-27 | This story from the early 70's Syndicated Newspaper strip sees Mr Sinestre, evil occultist leader of a Coven of Witches, attempt to secure the Immortal Soul of Barnabas Collins, and throws his old lover & nemisis Angelique into the mix as well. I think this is the best story they did in this adaption and is closest to the TV plots, with a very close likeness to Lara Parker's Angelique, though the rotund Mr Sinestre resembles Simon Oakland more than the usual DS villian actor Humbert Allen Astredo
UFO: Too Old at 32 Russell Devlin 2024-02-23 | This is the first of my animations based on the British Countdown/TV Action comic of the early 70's. This was an indirect successor to the wonderful TV21 comic of the 60's (see my earlier Dalek & Anderson animations) and reprinted many of those strips, but had new strips for the Anderson series UFO , Doctor Who (taking over from TV Comic's version) and the 2001 inspired "Countdown" . This is the third story from the UFO strip and is remarkably close to the series format, with both Commander Straker and an Moon Interceptor Pilot questioning if he is too old for the job. The strip panels have been augmented with adjusted pics from a variety of sources & mu own FX to expand the story. For those of you unfamiliar with UFO, it was a revamping of Anderson's earlier Captain Scarlet series, with a secret hi tech organisation SHADO combating an invasion by an enigmatic Alien force . The series was noted for the SPFX by Derek Meddings in his last work for the Andersons and was the best FX work to appear on a TV series upto that time, and also the drama between the characters , Ed Bishop's Straker in particular
Star Wars Disturbance in the Force ‘The Fan Film That Never Was’ documentary Russell Devlin 2024-02-22 | This is a documentry about a Star Wars fanfilm from the early 2000's which was never completed, and is an interesting chronicle of fanfilmaking of that period, when hundreds of fanfilm projects appeared in response to the revival of the Star Wars franchise , many of which having aspirations to resemble the original. Interestingly many of these projects dealt with secondary & background characters from the Star Wars films, an approach subsequently adopted by some of the recent spinoff projects. I myself had some involvement with it, and it led me to the path which has produced the vids on this channel
Spacehawk- Planetoid of Peril Russell Devlin 2024-02-16 | This is the third Spacehawk adventure and is a sequel to the first adventure that I posted some months ago. It features the unnamed Spacegirl from the first story again in deadly danger, though this time she sees Spacehawk unmasked !
Blakes 7- Interception / Debris Russell Devlin 2024-02-13 | In my penultimate B7 animation, Avon attempts to secure a Federation Superweapon which has fallen into the hands of a rebellious slave force, then faces off against the remains of a destroyed Artificial Intelligence
Blakes 7- Target Practice Russell Devlin 2024-02-02 | Originally appearing in B7 Monthly issues 19/20 as a two part story, this depicts the Scorpio coming up against a Federation Secret Weapon . It was actually the second last comic in the magazine run, but we have another two stories in this adaption series before the finak "Omen" story...
Blakes 7 - Alliance & Overboard Russell Devlin 2024-01-20 | This instalment in the Blakes 7 Monthly Comic adaption sees Avon form an alliance to capture a new Federation Superweapon , while 'Overboard" sees Vila trapped in space and facing fiery death as he drifts towards an alien world
Blakes 7- Mission of Mercy Russell Devlin 2024-01-06 | This is the first comic story from Blakes 7 Monthly, in which Sleer/Servalan unleashes a killer robot on the Scorpio crew. I held back on this as I originally intended to make it in a somewhat different form, but in the end did a straight adaption as you see here
Dark Shadows- Werewolf of Collinsport Russell Devlin 2024-01-04 | The third story from the Syndicated Dark Shadows comic strip of 1972, in this Barnabas uses his Vampire wiles to track down a Werewolf that threatens Collinsport
Spacehawk Creeping Death from Neptune Russell Devlin 2024-01-04 | This is part of my ongoing series of adaptions of Basil Wolverton comics and depicts "Spacehawk" , a space adventure he did in the 1940's . Wolverton's penchant for the grotesque produced some very bizarre aliens.
The Dalek Chronicles - Movie #2- The Final Chapter Russell Devlin 2023-12-16 | As a tribute to the 60th Dalek Anniversary, this is my second compilation vid of my adaptions of the TV 21 Dalek strip. It comprises the stories post the Mechanoid War viz Terrorkon Harvest, Legacy of Yesteryear, Shadow of Humanity, Emissaries of Jevo and Road to Conflict. It is based on the artwork of second Dalek Chronicle artist Ron Turner, who gave a stylized pop art rendition as compared to Richard Jenning's more realistic style. These adventures are already uploaded in individual form, but as my earlier compilations of Dan Dare, Abslom Daak & the early Dalek Chronicles have proved popular I offer them in feature format also
Abslom Daak The Movie Russell Devlin 2023-11-17 | As part of the 60th Anniversary Dr Who festivities , this is my own small offering , a feature length edit of my earlier Abslom Daak adaptions . I personally think they work better as individual stories but in the past my compilations have actually proven more popular than the shorter versions so here it is. The Comic first appeared in the Dr Who Weekly & Monthly magazines and is set around the time of the DW Stories "Frontier in Space" & "Planet of the Daleks" It deals with galactic adventurer & all round scoundrel Abslom Daak, who is sentenced to be teleported off to kill as many Daleks as possible before he himself is slain . Arriving on the Planet Mazam which has recently been taken over by the Daleks , he rescues the beautiful Princess Taiyin and destroys the invasion force there, but not before a Dalek shoots her. He then arrives at the Draconian Empire with Taiyin preserved in a cryogenic unit in the hope of reviving her, and meets & befriends Prince Salander , but gets caught up in an Imperial power struggle and escape in an advanced Attack ship. Daak then gathers some old "friends" together and they form the "Star Tigers" and again destroy a Dalek attack force. However a suprise attack sees them crash on Planet Hell leaving Daak the only survivor, and he meets the Seventh Dr Who and they both confront "The Nemisis of the Daleks ". The story is very different from normal Dr Who fare, it strongly shows the nilhilistic & violent influence of the new 2000 AD comic not to mention its black humour, and the action it depicts was not possible in the TV series until the post Millenium revived series. The Music comes from a variety of sources, primarily Dudley Simpson's Dr Who incidental work, but there is also a sizable slab of Wagner, Rock & Roll, Mack the Knife and even "A Walk in the Black Forest" . Despite his terminal fate in this, Abslom & his friends appeared in later comic adventures instalments, though I prefer to end it as it appears here.
