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Bigfoot and Wildboy
Juvenile tv series (1977-1979). Krofft Entertainment for ABC-TV. Executive producers Sid and Marty Krofft (see The Krofft Brothers). Producer Donald R Boyle. Directors included Boyle, Irving J Moore, Gordon Wiles. Writers unknown. Cast includes Joseph Butcher, Monica Ramirez, Yvonne Regalado, Ned Romero, Al Wyatt Jr and Ray Young. 20 (or 28) 30-minute episodes. Colour. / In the back-story, Wildboy (Butcher) – no given name revealed ...
Teratoid Guide, The
US letter-size saddle-stapled Media Magazines Fanzine. Editor and publisher: Claude D Plume Jr. Four undated but numbered issues, 1973 to 1974. Publication schedule was roughly quarterly. / The Teratoid Guide attempted to list all magazines concerning any type of "fantastic" films that had been published in various countries up to and including 1973. Its subtitle was "The International Guide to Magazines dealing with ...
Augustinus
Pseudonym of unknown UK author (? -? ) whose two sf novels – Two Brothers: A Story of the Twentieth Century (1898) and Paul Rees: A Story of the Coming Reformation (1899) – are designed as religious propaganda; in both cases, saintly Catholics successfully oppose spiritualism and the spirit of untoward rebelliousness. In the second, set in 1905, a heathen UK is defeated by an Invention at the ...
Levie, Rex Dean
(1938-2013) US businessman and author whose The Insect Warriors (1965) deals with problems humans, who have no memory of arriving there, face on a Pocket-Universe-like planet where they are dwarfed by the insects that dominate their wilderness world (see Great and Small). [JC]
Carter, Chickering
A House Name – it is also the name of a minor continuing character – used for the Nick Carter sequence of Dime Novels about a detective whose life and powers (non-supernatural) prefigure many of the Pulp magazine-spawned Superheroes of the twentieth century. Authors who wrote as Chickering Carter include Frederick W Davis (1858-1933) and George C ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...