May 4th 2008 - Editing completed

Video editing for the new Dr Who fan film featuring A F Harrold as The Doctor is completed. Audio editing is slowly progressing. For more click here.

February 17th 2008 - Filming completed

On February 17th the bulk of filming for VortX Production's latest Dr Who fan film was completed. Watch this space for more information on this project. If you've got any questions about the fan film email me.

December 29th 2007 - Takara Myclone

I've added a few photographs of Takara's Myclone versions of Henshin Cyborg and King Walder to Cyborg page at Android, Cyborg and Muton

December 15th 2007 - Red Garden Manga

You'll have seen in a previous news item at VortX that Blackwell's, Friar Street Bookshop sadly closed in September 2007. If you frequented that long established sci-fi shop (in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom) for the latest Manga publications, you'll be very pleased to here that Red Garden Manga has now opened in Reading. Click here for more!

November 26th 2007 - Deathray Magazine

The November 2007 issue of UK sci-fi magazine, Deathray, had a feature on fan films. It mentioned Flight of the Daleks under a listing headed "Abandon all hope, You want bad? Oh, we've got bad..."

Flight' has had over 20,000 views on Google Video to date so somebody out there must like it! I emailed them saying something along those lines.

To my surprise they publlished the email in the Christmas/December 2007 issue plugging both SHP and VortX Productions whilst doing so.

One good plug deserves another... Rush out to your local newagents and buy a copy of Deathray ("the most exciting, in-depth, entertaining... important science fiction magazine on the planet") or visit www.blackfishpublishing.com for more on the magazine and subscriptions.

November 16th 2007 - TV Cream Toys

If you like the nostalgia toys pages of this website (click here) you should look for TV Cream Toys by Steve Berry (ISBN 978 1 905548 27 9) in your local bookshop, an excellent book, it also includes a couple of photographs from my own collection.

September 18th September - End of an era

My local Science Fiction and Fantasy bookshop Blackwell's, Friar Street Bookshop, has closed down, click here for a brief history.

August 31st 2007 - Nostalgia Toy Pages

Due to the costly demand on bandwidth, I have moved the Android, Cyborg, Muton, Adventure 2000 and Britains Space pages to a new server. Click here to go to the new site.

February 20th 2007 - UFO Warminster book published!

Formerly championed by VortX, UFO Warminster is now in print. This self-published book is available directly from Kevin Goodman himself for only £9.99 plus postage and package. Click here to visit the UFO Warminster website or here to visit the UFO Warminster MySpace site where you can find out more.

February 14th 2007 - VortX Productions at MySpace

VortX now has a MySpace webpage at www.myspace.com/vortx_productions! Click Here to have a look.

January 28th 2007 - Bikini Zombies from the Moon and Plasma

Shock! Horror! Probe! has now uploaded two further amateur films onto Google Video. Bikini Zombies from the Moon and Plasma. Both of which were created by, and feature VortX Productions cast and crew.

They can either be viewed at www.shockhorrorprobe.co.uk or at Google Video (where you can leave comments and ratings if you like.)

January 24th 2007 - UFO Warminster moved to new server

www.ufo-warminster.co.uk used to be hosted at VortX, I've now moved it to it's own server. Click here to visit the updated and growing site which all about one of the UK's very own UFO hotspots.

October 13th 2006 - Internet Premiere of Vengeance Comes To Those Who Hate

The 1997 TVTL James Bond fan film Vengeance Comes To Those Who Hate has been re-edited from the Video8 master tapes by VortX Productions. Given a new theme tune by The Haunting AD and a new soundtrack by musician by Joe Gooch. Shivering Cactus has added a title sequence and uploaded this virtually new production to Google Video. Click here for more.

Octber 12th 2006 - SpyGlass on Google Video

VortX's James Bond fan film, SpyGlass, has been available to download from the net since early 2002. Graham Quince of Shivering Cactus has added a title sequence using The Haunting AD's theme tune and uploaded this new version onto Google Video for all to watch. For more information click here.

July 30th 2006 - A Mummy Unbound

The creative team in front of and behind the camera at VortX Productions are also part Shock! Horror! Probe! Films. Their latest film is A Mummy Unbound and it is now available to watch at Google Video. Click here for mor information on SHP and to watch the movie.

May 22nd 2006 - The Haunting AD

The Haunting AD, the north London group who provided music for VortX Production's SpyGlass and Vengeance Comes To Those Who Hate have a brand new website, click here to hear the music, see photos and find out when and where they are next performing.

May 7th 2006 - UFOs over Warminster

Sounds like one of my fan films, but it is actually a soon-to-be-published non-fiction book concerning UFO sightings near Warminster in the 1970s. The book is presently hosted on the VortX web site. Click here for more.

April 24th 2006 - Google Video Update

At long last the the TVTL fan films The Persephone Complex (1995) and Still Life (1996) have been re-edited from aged VHS tapes and uploaded to Google Video to join Assassin (1998) The Plague of Lychwood (2002) and Flight of the Daleks (2004.) Visit each productions page for more.

January 30th 2006 - CuckooLand

Again, nothing to do with fan films, but maybe of interest to some. Coral Bliss & Greg Sharpe who appeared in the two TVTL Dr Who fan films were members of a punk/pop group called CuckooLand in the 1990's. Click here to find out more about the band.

January 30th 2006 - Adventure 2000

A new, unrelated to fan films page has been added. If you were a kid in the late 1970s / early 1980s and remember a range of Matchbox / 2000AD toys called Adventure 2000 click here for more.

October 15th 2004 - Logic and the Heart

A F Harrold who played Q in SpyGlass and The Doctor in The Plague Of Lychwood and Flight Of The Daleks is also an award winning performance poet. A book of his poetry, Logic and the Heart was published in October 2004 by Two Rivers Press. The book is available to order from all good book shops or directly from A F Harrold himself by clicking here.