WILLIE AAMES SIGHTING! When last I heard, the former Hank was laid up with a foot problem, having to cut short his hi-tech evangelical fantasy show, BIBLEMAN. Well, I saw him on the tube a while ago, with his wife (he said she was, anyway). It started like one of those spots adsvertising some new prescription drug, but their remedy for humdrum was -- a trip to Branson, Missouri. If you know what Branson is, I don't have to tell ya; if you don't know, you're better off...
*** And while we're on the subject The actress who voiced Sheila is back at it in the "Totally Spies" series. Kinda "Charlie's Angels: The Movie" for the tweenie set
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YOU READ IT HERE FIRST!! British fan Kelly Grimshaw sent the following:
hello patrick sorry it has taken so long to get back to u but i do understand where ur cummin from and i do realy apreciate it but i have been infromed that fox kids will be releasing the series some time nx year
Will this be the way home at last? Or will Venger step in at the last minute again? Stay tuned, because I sure will...
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The following was sent to me by "Avitar", and speaks to the way technology has changed since the series premiered:
Just as a note..all episodes for Dungeons and Dragons are available on MORPHEUS.. get it at Morpheus.com..it will link you with MusicCity.com..d-load Morpheus and put Dungeons and Dragons in the search... it will give you a listing of users you can download from..also Download the version 4 Codec for DIVX, and you can play them on windows media player,... the digital quality is not bad for most...but some people digitized them poorly to save space... I have a Gforce2MX400 video card..outputs to TV, so I have most of the episodes on tape...
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June of 2001, almost 20 years since the kids got on THAT RIDE...and I got the following from Erica, a/k/a CountryGrrlHere:
HI there! Ive been playing the computer game Baldur's Gate II, and some familiar faces appear ... Believe it or not, Hank and Bobby show up on commemerative posters on a wall in a shop in the town of Athkatla! Unfortunately, although the caption doesnt mention their names, they do indicate that they were both eaten by Tiamat... >GASP!!< LET IT NOT BE TRUE! --Erica
Aw, c'mon, Erica, you know what rumors can be like...
WELL, IT WAS GREAT WHILE IT LASTED... The Summer of '00 saw the actual, for real return of D&D to the Saturday morning American airwaves. Fox Network affiliates began airing it again, and it was--nice, I suppose, to hear the character voices and see the images again, even if they were chopped up to insert commercial breaks where none should have been inserted, and with the stupid Fox watermark in the corner of the screen. But, in the usual kind of scheduling foul-up, Fox moved the series to mid-week, then...the kids vanished again. Still, what happens once can happen again...
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THE CAVERN'S FIRST AWARD! Actually, the award is one of the first annual "Eric" awards for D&D fanfic presented by the newsletter. My story "Time Lost, Time Found" won in the Elseworld category. You can skip right to The Story or read a few Remarks.
(3) Getting into the FanArt Gallery just under the millenial wire is the work of "Lesli Weird" (a/k/a Leslianne Wilder). Good stuff; go to Fanart.
(4) THE FINAL EPISODE!! I can't tell you how many times I've answered the question "How did the series end?" The lack of a definitive ending has generated a lot of controversy (and a lot of fanfic).
Well, the closest thing there was to a final episode, as I've said elsewhere, is an episode drafted by Michael Reaves, whose second-season scripts like "Child of the Stargazer" and "City at the Edge of Midnight" pushed the D&D envelope and made it such a memorable series. Reaves has said that he originally thought in terms of a trilogy of episodes: "Dragons Graveyard" and "Dungeon at the Heart of Dawn" to be followed by "Requiem", a season-ender in which he gets the kids right to the edge of the portal home, and leaves it as a cliffhanger (yeah, right!)--meanwhile pulling out all the visual stops!
Enough talk. Here it is--never produced--as close to the "official" ending as we can get--courtesy of Michael Reaves:
(5)Some of you may know, or have figured out by now, that I'm into Japanese animation as well as D&D. (I believe there's a cross-influence, but that's just My Humble Opinion.) For a listing of my anime collection, check the POLICY page.
(6) There was a reported sighting of Our Heroes awhile back--in a promotional comic from TSR. Kelly St.Clair has done a review.
(7) Thanks to Paula for sending something I hadn't seen before: "the Spanish lyrics to the theme song". PLUS, we now have a rather large (600+k) file of the French theme.
(8) D&D has its own newsgroup: alt.tv.dungeon-dragon. Drop in and post something...
(9) My meta-fanfic, "The Realm", has been appearing kinda-sorta monthly in 1999. Well, all 12 installments are done at last and posted in the Fanfic corner of the Cavern. This way to the fanfic section.
(10) October 1998 saw the addition of Brazilian fanart with a Japanese flavor. To check out Marcelo's delightful drawings, go to Fanart.
(11) Finally, you have to have noticed the reorganization around here. If you like it, and you'd like to have some remodeling done at your site, I recommend that you contact webmistress Niki Hollingsworth.