Excalibur

Wonderful. A fabulously detailed, beautifully written and altogether very clever tribute to the greatest TV series that Terry Nation never wrote, in fake-Wiki form.

In a parallel reality where Nation became trapped in a lift on his way to the BBC canteen with only Bob Baker and Dave Martin, Dennis Spooner and Robert Holmes for company (and then sold the resulting story idea to Patrick Dromgoole at HTV), Excalibur would have been the inevitable result.

I lost myself in this for hours and I'd urge anyone else to do the same. Even for players not quite as steeped in the milieu from which this thing emerges as I am (it does feel rather like it's been written specially for me) there is an enormous amount to enjoy in this lovingly crafted and immersive account of the making of a television series that one cannot help but regret never actually existed. There's even a game, of sorts, to play if one feels the need to do anything more than just drink in all the delicious detail.

Highly recommended.

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