Meet The Authors: Frank Collins

Evenin'.

Thanks to the august individuals at BTS for allowing me to come out to play and a warm welcome to my new, fellow collaborators and you lot who can be bothered to read my ramblings.

Gawd, where to start? I'm as old, in fact slightly older, than the programme itself. By the time you've reached my age I'm afraid the most exciting thing you can look forward to is a pair of slippers and a mug of Horlicks whilst tightly screwing up your eyes in an attempt to force mental pictures of Fury From The Deep to the front of your mind. Depressing, but Fury From The Deep is still a cracker even if I'm not. However I find the mantle of old age does allow you to waft reasonably unmolested through the 'Cursed Earth' of The Doctor Who Forum as it gets its knickers in a twist about the wrong size TARDIS windows.

I've written a number of articles on design for various publications (my background, y'see) and, cross fingers, will have some Doctor Who stuff published shortly in DWAS' Celestial Toyroom. You may often find me posting regularly on The Doctor Who Form too. Well, it passes the time. I've been running my own blog Cathode Ray Tube since late last year and you'll find me droning on and on about shows like Ashes To Ashes, Battlestar Galactica and Torchwood, as well as Doctor Who - old and new - and films, plays, books, music. Everything from KPM library music to Goldfrapp, Hammer Horror to Dennis Potter. I love British television and cinema, especially the so called Golden Age of the 1960s and 1970s. If I do go off on a tangent about Powell & Pressburger, The Power Game or Big Breadwinner Hog just stroke my arm and go 'there, there, there!' whilst attempting a Frankie Howerd impression.

I do drink to excess on occasions and the gin bottle is never far from my side.  It's my age y'know.