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it's gmt (not summer time)

Greenwich Mean Time.

Ah reckon Wake's keeping it like that to avoid it being Greenwich Surly Time.  Of course, it might change to Greenwich Vicious Time later.

Izzat so?

How do you smell?

Oh, one has people for that sort of thing...

I bet you still sniffed your prog, though.

Of course, just being a big eye with a claw, I'm not in any sort of position to go round sniffing anything.

No nose, see?

I was onto you right from the start, fishy fool!

You'd have to get up pretty early in the cheese to get one over on the Bone Machine...

But there must be more of you noticing this?

I see your evil plot, fishface!

You're just trying to get everyone to go and sniff their prog so that they look dead silly when someone sees them unexpectedly! Then you'll be like 'BWHAHAHA! I made you all look dead silly! Never forget the Trout is evil!'

And we'll all be like 'No way!'

And you'd be 'Yes way!'

And so on.

Unless someone rubs a gold coin on your chest or something.

Ah, but young Max is a Cyberman from the later CyberFaction period, otherwise known as 'the sort with the wetsuits and silver Army boots' - who are invulnerable to gold, but are vulnerable to falling over (admittedly, quite slowly in order to avoid damaging the costume) when they walk into a BBC-type spark-generator superimposition and being transformed into cardboard cut-outs and sucked out of airlocks.

But he does get to say 'YOU-KNOW-OUR-WAYS.'

Or, for those listening to the unrestored audio, 'PHEW-BLOW-AWAYS'.

It was only the later CyberNomads (otherwise known as 'Mk. I Shouty-type' or 'the ones with the flares') and the later CyberNeomorphs (Mk. II Shouty-type or 'the flash ones') that were vulnerable to gold.

larf - I think it was a military science project (maybe)and he had set up explosives around the building...

'Revenge of the Guinea Pig', prog 301.

His super fast speed allowed him to carve the bottom of the building away with his hands.

I'm sure he was standing on the surface of a planet/moon though, so it must have been a landed spaceship at least.

Definately a planet - it's in the prog with the ripoff transformers cover.

I actually pestered my parents to get me the Robot Machines for Christmas that year, just because they'd been on the cover of 2000AD.

How many one-offs can people think of that developed into proper series?

Bradley started off as a Future Shock, didn't he?

Was the first Hap Hazard a Future Shock, or were they all one-offs?

Well... let's just say that some of the classics weren't entirely original. *cough* The Pioneer *cough*

Indeed - although it was quite funny.

When plagarising a famous sci-fi writer's work, ensure that it's one of his most famous short stories and that it appears in a science fiction anthology that the said sci-fi writer is well known for reading regularly.

Oooooh the one where the family are fighting Space Invaders and get blown up then the bloke wakes up and realises somethings wrong and tries to escape ad it turns out Leeds (or somewhere) was destroyed with some weird bomb but the government copied peoples minds on to computer but the cost was so much they leased out the mainframe to test games...

Even if it was a complete rip-off of 'The Tunnel Under the World' by Poul Anderson...

I strongly suspect that everyone who's read it is going to say 'The Time Machine' by Alan Moore and Redondo! A stunning, thought provoking tale. It has a real emotional impact and some stunning imagery.

'The Hyper-Hysterical Headbang' by Moore and Gibbons was good, too.

'The Reversable Man' by Moore and Mike White, for the same reason as 'The Time Machine'.

hey what's the weather like up there!

Must...resist...urge...to...KILL!!

What about giant hairy spiders cralling over your face at night? That's more scarey.

Hmmm, Laurie must have told you that story at a very impressionable age...

It's Hob's End or Hobbes End, damnit!

Oops! (Heh! Didn't we have this converstaion before?)

Well, it's either Hob's Lane or Hobbes Lane (from the TV version) or Hob's End or Hobbes End (a tube station from the movie version.  Not to be confused with Devil's End which was in that Doctor Who.