Sunday 30th December 2001:
So how have you enjoyed seeing Interceptor back on our tv screens agains then? Don't just keep it to yourself, visit the discussion forum which is now really thriving since Interceptor's revival. Click "communications" to find the link or simply visit forum.interceptors-lair.com

I've just corrected a few page links on the side navigation bar of various episode guide pages.

Sunday 23rd December 2001:
Well I've finally done it! Phew! The episode guide is once again complete. I've just finished the last installment - Cornwall. This guide features over fifty new images from the programme.

The discussion forum was reinstated earlier this week. If you've not visited yet, please take a look and signup!

I doubt I will be adding any more content until after Christmas so I would just like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a peaceful new year!

Sunday 16th December 2001:
I've just noticed that the discussion forum has been deleted. I don't yet know if this is an error at the host or if the board has been hacked. I am currently waiting to be contacted by the host with a view to getting the board restored.

Sunday 2nd December 2001:
It really is excellent to see all of the activity in the discussion forum following the news that Interceptor is to be repeated on Challenge TV from next week. If you don't already know, Challenge are currently running at least two different trailers which show up in most ad breaks at the moment. If you haven't seen Interceptor since 1989 and you can't wait until next Saturday then the trailers are well worth a look - I still can't believe the picture quality. I can't wait to renew my copies of the episodes in digital format!

To celebrate the news, I've finished the Cotswolds episode guide - just Cornwall to do now.

Saturday 1st December 2001:
Okay - make a note of this date in your diary - Saturday 8th December 2001. Why? Because this is the date that Interceptor finally returns to our screens! After several years of pressure from several fans (myself included), Challenge TV have finally decided to show Interceptor. Now how cool is that????? Don't miss it!!

Sunday 25th November 2001:
New web links page created in Communications.

Monday 12th November 2001:
I've finally completed the Borders episode guide. It contains somewhere in the region of 37 new images from the episode. Only two more episode to go - hopefully this section will be complete by Christmas allowing me to start populating some of the other areas of the site.

Thursday 1st November 2001:
Quite a bit of news! :o) First of all, I've updated the Episode Guide home page. It is basically the same design, however I've used a better photograph of the actual Cornwall map used in the series - thanks to Clive Harris. In addition, I've changed the font of the episode titles to be more in keeping with fonts used in the site, improved the compass backdrop and best of all, all of the episode descriptions are now text rather than graphics. The end result is a nicer looking and much faster page.

That's the site updates out of the way, now for the real news.

First of all, Jonathan Souch has left a comment on the discussion forum. Jonathan is now a director of Castle Air and was one of the helicopter engineers responsible for directing the contestants to their start positions.

A couple of weeks ago I finally met Clive Harris and his wife Jenny. Clive was a contestant on the Cornwall episode of Interceptor. Clive very kindly took me for a flight over London in a Robinson R44 helicopter. It was my first ever helicopter trip and was absolutely fantastic! :o) We followed the London heli-lanes from Denham right along the Thames as far as the London Docklands. After the flight, we all went for a coffee and spent an enjoyable hour or two talking about Interceptor, Treasure Hunt and Castle Air. You couldn't hope to meet a nicer couple and my girlfriend and I had a brilliant time. Thanks Clive and Jenny.

My girlfriend wrote to Michael Malric-Smith in September to see if he would meet me and show me around Castle Air. He called Lorna as soon as he received the letter and agreed!! In the first week of October I was on holiday in Cornwall and we went along to Castle Air. I was pretty nervous! We walked into the reception and someone approached the hatch - it was Keith Thompson!!! He was Anneka Rice's pilot in "Treasure Hunt". He asked us to take a seat and a few moments later Mikie opened the door. He is a really nice guy and took us through to the hangar where there were several Agusta 109's in various states of repair. Notable helicopters there were G-TELY which looks almost identical to G-MEAN, the Navy and white 109 used in the BBC's "Flying Gardener" and G-SPEY which was the comms helicopter in "Treasure Hunt". I once again saw G-ONTV which I saw earlier in the year. I had assumed it was the old "Treasure Hunt" Jetranger that they had re-registered. It turns out that it was the Jetranger that Mikie ditched in the sea a few years ago. Apparently its at the bottom of the sea near Alderney(sp?). He says if you can find it, you're welcome to it! :o) Mikie spent a while talking about each of the helicopters there. He pointed out the £250,000 camera that was being removed from the "Flying Gardener" helicopter - they had been filming a new series the day before. He gave me a tour of the cockpit of a new Agusta 109 Power they had there and then he took me through to the end room. Well guess what was there - G-MEAN!!!! Unfortunately she has seen better days. Castle Air had sold her and her new owners proceeded to land her a little too heavily. She rolled on to her side and that was that. She is now being used for spares and was already heavily stripped down when I saw her. She had been re-registered as G-USTA and her new owners had removed the yellow stripe and replaced it with a silver one. I have lots of pictures which I will on-line soon.

All in all, October was quite a month! :o)

Thursday 20th September 2001:
Another page is now available in `Behind the Scenes` - Jerry Grayson.

Wednesday 19th September 2001:
I've created two new pages in `Behind the Scenes` - one for Annabel Croft and one for Michael Malric-Smith. More coming very soon.

Sunday 16th September 2001:
I'm back!! I have finally finished the Interceptor image CD I have been working on for the last five or six months. There are over 450 images indexed although many are duplicated into high quality and viewable versions. Anyway, I hope to start putting more images up for you shortly!

I'm going to resume development by starting work on the final episode guides. Look for them appearing soon.

I've got an exciting day ahead of me on October 20th. I will be having my first ever flight in a helicopter - piloted by none other than Clive Harris, the male contestant in the Cornwall episode of Interceptor. I can't wait!

Saturday 14 July 2001:
New rollover effect added to all site hyperlinks (Internet Explorer users only). Missing hyperlinks added to the MP3 icons on the audio download page.

Sunday 8 July 2001:
I've just completed the configuration of a brand new forum for this site. It is SO much better than the old one. Much nicer to view and use and infinitely more configurable and controllable than the FrontPage Forum that was running before. You may post as a guest or you can register for free and gain access to extra features. Hope you like it!

Thursday 5 July 2001:
Fixed a few strange links in the news section - it was impossible to view the 97 news - thanks Lorna! :)

Sunday 1 July 2001:
Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I'm in the middle of creating an Interceptor image CD - partly for myself so that I have an easy to browse library of every image I have for future web site use and partly for Clive who was kind enough to lend me his entire collection of Interceptor goodies recently.

In May, I had to visit Plymouth for a meeting. While I was there, I nipped in to Cornwall to pay a visit to Castle Air. I've been there several times before only to find the hangars all closed up and nothing happening. This time, I drove into the car park to find three helicopters on the apron, and most of the hangar doors wide open. There was an Agusta 109 outside, recently used by Mikie in the Flying Gardener series on BBC2. Next to it was a new Agusta 109 Power. To the side of the hangar was a repainted and re-registered Bell Jetranger - the ex-Treasure Hunt helicopter is now known as G-ONTV and is mostly white with a diagonal yellow and black stripe. Inside the hangar, I saw the Treasure Hunt comms Jetranger - G-SPEY and what appeared to be several A109's in various states of repair. I managed to get quite a few pictures which I will post at some point.

Finally for now, I've just returned from Cornwall again - this time I was on holiday with my girlfriend! I have visited most of the Cornwall episode locations before, but managed to visit a few new ones this time - the shire horse centre (where the Interceptor attempted to ambush Sarah), St Enedoc church (Sarah's start position), and Daymer Bay which was visited by both Clive and Sarah at various points in the episode.

I'm hoping to complete the image CD very soon, at which point I will continue to add more content to this site. Keep watching!

Wednesday 11 April 2001:
I have just published the Derbyshire episode guide as promised. It contains approximately thirty new pictures.

Sunday 8 April 2001:
I've almost completed the Derbyshire episode guide - I just need to create the first page. I am going away for a couple of days, but expect it on-line by Wednesday or Thursday.

On Friday I will be going to the Lake District and will be staying overnight in the King George IV Inn near Eskdale Green. This was the Interceptor's lair! I can hardly wait!

Sunday 25 March 2001:
Finally - I've just added the model of G-MEAN for use in MS Flight Simulator 98/2000 created by Andrew Tunley.

Sunday 18 March 2001:
I've added the new scroll effect to the Search page.

Wednesday 14 March 2001:
I've just added a trick to the news pages - allowing the news features to scroll within my design rather than having to scroll within the browser window. It looks a lot better but unfortunately only works in Internet Explorer. Netscape users will see the old style news pages.

Tuesday 13 March 2001:
I've added a great new picture of Annabel to page three of the Introduction. G-MEAN model for FS98/2000 to follow in the next few days.

Saturday 10 March 2001:
Added a new item to the downloads page and corrected a couple of minor formatting bugs.

Thursday 8 March 2001:
Phew - finally finished one of those jobs that seems simple but takes ages - namely converting all of the buttons at the top and the bottom of the page to site font - verdana - they were formerly Arial and somehow didn't look right anymore! Although I have been careful in my testing, I may have introduced some broken links - please hit refresh if you encounter any problems and if the problem persists please let me know.

Interceptor news. Quite a bit really. I've been provided with a huge amount of new content, from magazine clippings (TVTimes, TV Guide etc), some excellent new pictures and slides, programme production notes and a copy of the proper pilot episode. All I knew before I started watching it was that it was a French pilot for Interceptor. It is actually the pilot episode featuring Jon Iles previously seen in ITV's The Bill as DC Dashwood. I'm pretty sure it is a Chatsworth pilot although you wouldn't know it apart from what appears to be Malcolm Heyworth guiding one of the contestants from the helicopter. Everything is different to final show though - the Interceptor is in a leather jumpsuit with a black helmet and a hand held zapper resembling a gun. The host was not Annabel but I'm sure I've seen her somewhere before. The contestants seemed fake somehow and I'm convinced they were an actor and actress. The pilot was not Mikie and he piloted a white helicopter. The Interceptor conducted most of his dialogue with the main camerman who he called `Marcuzzi` - surely Henry Marcuzzi who was a cameraman in the UK Interceptor episodes. The Interceptor's only other form of transport was a three wheeled trike which looked most difficult to control!

Anyway the above will appear on the site at some point in the future - hopefully soon!

I've also received the answers to several questions I put to the Cornish contestant, Clive Harris which I will publish in the next couple of weeks.

I will shortly be adding another download - a model of G-MEAN (Agusta 109) for use in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 or 2000. Kindly created by Andrew Tunley.

Sunday 28 January 2001:
As you may know if you've looked at the discussion forum or the guestbook lately, one of the contestants from Interceptor has been in contact. Clive Harris, the contestant on the Cornwall episode has very kindly written a comprehensive account of the whole Interceptor experience it. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and I have published it on the 'Behind the scenes' page. Please be aware though that several behind the scenes secrets are revealed which may affect the way you perceive the show in the future!

Monday 22 January 2001:
Some minor navigational bugs corrected.

Behind the scene page updated with the new style as used on the communications and downloads pages.

Sunday 21 January 2001:
I've just uploaded another twelve pages and twenty-four new images - the guide for episode four - Cumbria.

Thursday 18 January 2001:
I've finally finished the next installment in the episode guide section - episode three: Wye Valley. There are twelve new pages with twenty-five images, most of which are new.

Have you seen Mikie on BBC2 the last couple of weeks? He is the pilot in a programme called Flying Gardener. Have a look this week. Its worth watching just for the aerial photography and to see what is probably the replacement for G-MEAN - a new Agusta 109. I'm not sure about the new colour scheme though - I preferred black and yellow! :)

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