AVON NEWSLETTER

AVON NEWSLETTER #40

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: April 1990
Format: A5 digest, 28 pp., pale blue-gray card cover, center
staples

Fiction:
Dan Bowden, "Brake's Even!" (graphic story; humor)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Liz McCarthy, crossword puzzle
Jean Graham, "Zine Review: The Way to Rebellion, Part 1, by Ros Williams"
Interview with PD, from TV program "This Morning" (February 2, 1990)
Letters
"Trap for a Lonely Man" (theatre reviews by Sue Chadwick, Jackie Willmott, Judith M. Seaman)
Newspaper clippings on "Trap"
Excerpt from "Stage and TV Today"
Newspaper reviews of "Making News"
"Making News" (TV reviews by Judith M. Seaman, Sue Chadwick)
Program from "Solo" (PD's first appearance on stage, 1962)
Newspaper clipping on Space City 1990 committee
Ads

Art:
photo front c. PD in "Candida"
pp. 14, 16 cast of "Trap" (newspaper clippings)
p. 16 S3 crew
pp. 17, 18 PD in "Making News"
p. 23 Space City committee
back c. A
Dan Bowden p. 9 "Brake's Even"

AVON NEWSLETTER #41

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: July/October, 1990
Format: A5 digest; 36 pp. + 8 p. insert, "Janet Lees Price
International Fan Club" (humor); white card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Dan & Susan Bowden, "Brake's Even!" (graphic story; humor)
Judith M. Seaman, "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" (S2; A)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
"Space City 1990" (con reviews by Judith M. Seaman, John Chadwick, Barbara Eidinger, Maureen Mars [in verse!])
Newspaper articles
Viv Gover, Zen crossword puzzle
Janet Darrow, "'Looking Old Is Not Bad If You Keep Away from Mirrors' --Emily Carr" (autobiography)
Letters
"Orbit" (con report by Jean Airey)
Judith M. Seaman, "Cluedo" (TV review)
Newspaper clippings on "Trap for a Lonely Man"
Ads
Insert: "Janet Lees Price International Fan Club" (humor)

Art:
photo front c. PD
p. 17 PD (clipping)
pp. 18-19 Space City 1990 con
p. 20 cast of "Trap" (clipping)
back c. A
Dan Bowden p. 21 "Brake's Even"

AVON NEWSLETTER #42

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: January 1991
Format: A5 digest, 24 pp., yellow card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Daniel Bowden, "Brake's Even" (graphic story; humor)
Sue Chadwick, "The Hand of Fate" (S5; A)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Mary Ruiter, crossword
Paul Darrow, "Dark Justice" (autobiography)
Jackie Willmott, "BBC Blake's Seven Video Release"
Ralph Curzon, interview with Barry Jones (illustrator of video covers)
"Haggard" (TV reviews by Judith M. Seaman, Helen Parkinson)
Ads

Art:
photo front c. PD in "Trap"
pp. 12-13 PD as Mad Jack Haggard
back c. A
Dan Bowden p. 9 "Brake's Even"

AVON NEWSLETTER #43

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: April 1991
Format: A5 digest, 24 pp., pale blue card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Lee W. Vibber, "Concern for Your Health" (S1?; A-C, A-hc)
Dan and Susan Bowden, "Brake's Even in Turtle Recall!" (graphic story; humor)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Carole Howell, chain reaction puzzle
Sue Christian, "The Man in the White Hat" (essay; B)
"Dark Justice" (TV review by Lee Vibber)
"Competition" (stories: reporter interviews Avon)
"Fiddler's Three" (TV reviews by Sue Chadwick, Helen Parkinson)
"Pages from the Past" (old reviews of plays with PD, from 1963 and 1973), from Judith Seaman
Sue Christian, "The Thrill of it All" (essay on fandom)
Julie Talbott, "Death Only a Rumour" (essay on fandom)
Letters
Excerpt from book on drama, with "Mr. and Mrs. Avon"
Ads

Art:
photo front c. PD & JLP (by Gena Davies)
p. 2 PD (from newspaper)
p. 10 PD as Dracula in 1963
p. 11 PD in "Fiddler's Three"
p. 13 PD in "Fiddler's Three"
back c. A
Dan Bowden p. 7 "Brake's Even"

AVON NEWSLETTER #44

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: July 1991
Format: A5 digest, 36 pp., off-white card cover, center
staples

Fiction:
Carol Wyke and Sue Christian, "Of Mice and Men" (S4; humor)
Daniel Bowden, "Brake's Even" (graphic story; humor)
Story competition (reporter interviews Avon):
Sue Christian, "Strangeways" (S5; humor)
Carole Howell, "Avon: Face to Face" (S5; humor)
Libby Rator, "Avon: The 'Person' Behind the Legend" (S5; humor)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Letter from Paul and Janet
Ben Mott, crossword puzzle
Letters
Sue Chadwick, "Summer Drama Season Launch-- Connaught Theatre, Worthing"
Judith M. Seaman, "Open Day at the Connaught"
Newspaper clippings on summer repertory at Connaught
Judith M. Seaman, "Duel" (essay)
"Sue Chadwick Writes" (introduction to competition stories)
Ad

Art:
photos cover PD-JLP
pp. 18-20 Connaught cast (clippings)
Dan Bowden p. 25 "Brake's Even"

AVON NEWSLETTER #45

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: October 1991
Format: A5 digest, 28 pp. + 2 p. insert, pale green card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Dan Bowden, "Brake's Even! in Bloomers of Death!" (graphic story; humor)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Worthing plays: "Gaslight," "Relatively Speaking," "Dial M for Murder" (theatre reviews by Sue Chadwick, Helen Parkinson, Denise Baker, Sylvia Anderson, Judith M. Rolls, Lisa Taylor)
Letters
"Sue Chadwick Writes"
"Competition-- Take One"
Sue Christian, "What's the Attraction" (essay)
Judith M. Seaman, "Let We Forget!" (essay)
Judith M. Seaman, "The Paul and Michael Who Show--Nebula 91" (con report)
Ben Mott, crossword puzzle
Ads
Insert: newspaper clippings, with photos; Worthing

Art:
photos front c. PD & JLP in "Gaslight"
back c. Ann Bown with club banner
Dan Bowden pp. 14-15 "Brake's Even"

AVON NEWSLETTER #46

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: January 1992
Format: A5 digest, 28 pp. + unnumbered insert with dates for "Macbeth" tour, orange-yellow card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Winners of "Take One" story competition:
Judith M. Rolls, "In the Shadow of the World Tree" (S5; A-V; humor)
P. O'Duel, "A Farce in a Spacecuit" (S5; A-V; humor)
Dan Bowden, "A Very Brake's Even Christmas" (graphic story; humor)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Carole Howell, double crossword puzzle
"Sue Chadwick Writes" (intro to competition stories)
"Visions '91" (con reports by Shannon Rae Mowatt, Barbara Eidinger)
"Emmerdale" (TV review)
"Not in the Script" (book reviews by Judith M. Seaman, Sue Chadwick)
Letters
Ads

Art:
photo front c. PD
back c. A
Dan Bowden p. 15 "Brake's Even"

AVON NEWSLETTER #47

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: April 1992
Format: A5 digest, 28 pp., red card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Dan Bowden, "Brake's Even in 'Oesophagus!'" (graphic story; humor)
Julie Talbott, "Hamadryad" (S3 or S4; A)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Sue Chadwick, Gridwords puzzle
"Sue Chadwick Writes" (intro to "Take Two" competition)
Letters
"Macbeth: Dates and Theatres"
Paul and Janet, "Answers to Questions Most Asked in Ten Years of Fan Mail"
Ads

Art:
photo cover poster for "Macbeth"
Dan Bowden p. 13 "Brake's Even"
? p. 15 costume design for PD in "Macbeth"

AVON NEWSLETTER #48

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: July 1992
Format: A5 digest, 28 pp., pale gray card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Dan & Susan Bowden, "Brake's Even in A Grand Day Out" (graphic story; humor)
Eileen Carr, "Saurian Major, the Alternative Story" (S1, alt-Time Squad)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
B7 crossword puzzle from Tyne Tees Television Programme "Crosswits"
"Macbeth" (theatre reviews by Jackie Willmott, Lorna Newton)
Letters
"Space City 1992" (con report by Lorna Newton)
"The Blake's Seven Video Mix '92" (fannish music video, reviewed by Ann O'Neill)
"Sue Chadwick Writes"
Ads

Art:
photos cover PD
p. 7 PD in "Macbeth"
Dan Bowden p. 13 "The Blake's Seven Video
Mix '92" (cartoon ad)
pp. 14-15 "Brake's Even"

AVON NEWSLETTER #49

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: October 1992
Format: A5 digest, 36 pp., bright pink card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Dan Bowden, "Brake's Halloweven" (graphic story; humor)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Letter from Janet and Paul
Letter from Janet
"Extracts from Bristol BBC Radio Interview, 29/07/92" (sent by Donna Rocus)
Dorothy Dunnett, "King Hereafter-- How It Began?"
Janet Lees Price, "Wanting, Isn't Enough" (autobiography)
"Sue Chadwick Writes" (intro to "The Final Take" competition)
Letters
Ads

Art:
photo front c. PD
back c. PD in "Haggard;" clipping
Dan Bowden pp. 13-15 "Brake's Even"
p. 36 "The Blake's Seven Video Mix '92" (cartoon ad)


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