29 NOVEMBER 2024
More recovered Digi awaits you now, with the following editions having been unlocked from their VHS prisons:
Recovered by:
The anonymous gent: 13/11/93, 7/3/97, 30/8/00
Tom also found the missing Long Probe and charts pages from the 3/10/00 edition, which is now complete as a result. Hurrah!
Huge thanks to Tom and the gent for their hard work and kind contributions, and once again to Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree, heroes that make my life so much easier with their compiling and fixing-up of these editions.
It's a pretty light batch for extra material, but I've updated the reviews archive (Virtua Athlete 2K), and there's a new Man Diary:
29 OCTOBER 2024
The mighty river of Digi recoveries has slowed to a trickle of late (perhaps you can help with that by taking a load of VHS tapes off James O'Malley's hands?), but we're still finding some lovely stuff, as the latest pair of editions below prove.
Recovered by:
The anonymous gent: 20/1/96
The missing six pages from 13/4/98 have also been unearthed, which account for the last letters page, Man Diary and chart pages.
Gargantuan thanks as ever to our exalted recovery heroes, and of course to Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their hard work compiling and fixing them up for us.
From this batch I've added part 1 of the new TV show Ring-sir!, the Star Wars script that nestles at the bottom of its page, the "being a vet" Man Diary (we already had the 13/4/98 entry), the reviews archive has been updated (Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!, Doctor Who Pinball, Lost Secret Of The Rainforest), plus I've transcribed and added (with permission!) the interview with Mr Biffo (and me!) from the September 2024 issue of Pixel Addict magazine.
30 SEPTEMBER 2024
As we move into the final three months of the year, please help yourself to three more recovered editions of Digi - there may only be a small number, but they pack an enormous punch:
This splendid selection were all liberated from their VHS prisons by the anonymous gent and fixed-up/organised by Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree. Unending thanks to all three gents for their generosity and superb efforts.
Excitingly, this batch included a grail in the form of the very first EastEnders script! From the introduction to that, Grant Mitchell has been added to the characters A-Z, Bird Words and Pig-O-Punch now comfortably sit with the other fake adverts, I've added one more letter to Digi, one more outing for the Snakes, and the reviews archive has been updated (Thunder Zone, M1 Tank Platoon, International Superstar Soccer '98).
9 SEPTEMBER 2024
Here comes another update for you, but before we get to that, have you seen the latest issue of Pixel Addict magazine? Oh, you must! Why, not only does issue 23 include an article marking the 50th anniversary of teletext, but said article naturally features a fine interview with Mr Biffo, and indeed, another with me - Chris Bell, yours truly, the little guy that "does" this site - all about the joy of Digitiser. Get your print or digital copies of this spendid souvenir edition now, and bask in this glorious event. And on the subject of events, if you still want more - well then, you must proceed with haste to Cambridge, for the especial celebration that is Teletext 50 at the esteemed Centre For Computing History over the weekend of 21/22 September. All your faves will be there: Mr Biffo, Sanja, the Cuban Boys (not a lie), Yentl (lie), and Tot (lie II). Prepare to let the party balloons "razz off"!
And now that exciting news has been successfully relayed, you came here for recovered Digi, and recovered Digi you shall have. Here are the latest editions, all found by the anonymous gent:
20/10/94, 8/10/01, 9/10/01, 3/4/02, 10/4/02, 17/4/02, 24/4/02
Supermassive thanks to the gent for his excellent contributions, and as ever to the dynamic pricing duo of Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their hard work fixing-up and organising all the lovely recovered teletext. Which they've done while also helping to organise Teletext 50, pillars of the community that they are.
This batch being mostly Digigate-era, the funnees are thin on the ground, but I have added the final Spider-Man script-oh, and the reviews archive has been updated (MD Pebble Beach Golf, Puzzlemania, Ico, Dark Summit, Xbox Batman Vengeance, Super Mario Advance 2, Xbox F1 2002, Jet Set Radio Future, PC Italian Job, The Sims On Holiday).
30 AUGUST 2024
Just a bite-sized update this time, as the well of VHS tapes - while far from running dry - hasn't yielded much Digi recently. In which case, we've broken the emergency glass, and reached for a little selection of editions that vary in recovery quality and were held in reserve just such an occasion. While there's a number of recovery errors in places, there's still much to love here. Come along now, they're waiting for you...
Recovered by:
Adrian Burke: 13/11/93
Tim Bisley: 2/3/99
Enormous thanks to Adrian, Tim and Jason for these contributions, and to the charming team of Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their efforts fixing-up and organising these finds (and there was a LOT of fixing-up required this time). See the gratitude flow like a mighty river!
From this batch, I've added a new Zombie Dave, there's a set of seven Dr Heinous reveal-ohs, and the reviews archive has been updated (Max Power Racing, Dark Reign 2, DC Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Perfect Dark).
10 AUGUST 2024
A month since the last update? Apologies - blame my brand new PC being forcibly updated to Windows 11, and a subsequent BSOD meaning it had to be taken back to the shop for repairs. But never mind that, you're here for newly-recovered Digi, and it is here for you:
Recovered by:
Tom Pitt: 22/8/98, 7/10/98, 15/10/98, 26/10/00, 28/11/00, 12/7/01, 13/7/01, 29/5/02, 31/5/02
Neil Miles: 26/4/99, 29/4/99, 25/9/99, 30/12/99
Eternal thanks to Tom and Neil for these fabulous contributions, and to the techno-wizards Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for continuing to make archiving these finds so much easier for me with their super-organised ways.
From this batch, I've added four more letters to Digi, two outings for Insincere Dave, Peter Main is now among the celeb pin-ups, there's more Snakes, seven more reveals, Planet Of The Budgies has been added to script archive, the reviews archive has been updated (Star Trek: Dominion Wars, 1080 Snowboarding, Bloodlines, Big Air, Prince Naseem Boxing, Super Smash Bros. Melee, X-Games Snowboarding 2), and there's more Man Diaries:
22 August 1998 - PEARLY GATEKEEPER
15 October 1998 - PIXIE HUNTER
9 JULY 2024
There were moments where it felt impossible, but with this update the mountainous backlog of material from the incredible fifty-edition update back in May is officially: cleared! And of course, there's the small matter of 10 more recovered editions of Digi, all courtesy of Tom Pitt, which are coming right at your face right now: 15/1/96, 1/2/96, 20/6/96, 1/7/96, 12/7/96, 9/5/97, 12/5/97, 10/2/98, 13/2/98, 12/3/98.
Ruddy great thanks to Tom for continuing to be a one-man teletext recovery industry, and to those super-gents Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their amazing efforts processing and fixing-up them all up.
From this and all the recent batches, the Digi quotes page has had a mightily good update, I've added a Digi joke to the Man's Daddy page, three more letters to Digi, Cheese Sweezely and Count Dracula have been added to the characters A-Z, the reviews archive has been updated (Aces Of The Deep, Quest For Fame, Lone Soldier, The Muppet CD-ROM, PC Frequency, Battle Arena Toshinden 2, PS Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2, PS Actua Soccer Club Edition, NASCAR '98, PS Shadow Master, World Of Boxing), and there's more Man Diaries:
15 January 1996 - BEING A VET
1 February 1996 - BEING AN A&R MAN
20 June 1996 - LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
1 July 1996 - ROBOT INVENTOR
9 & 13 May 1997 - JOKE SHOP OWNER
26 JUNE 2024
Time for another delicious dozen Digis for you now, as we 12 more complete recovered editions have been added to the site, provided by:
The anonymous gent: 28/1/93, 29/1/93, 1/2/93, 1/12/94
Tom Pitt: 9/11/99, 8/12/99, 9/12/99, 11/12/99, 21/12/99, 28/8/00, 18/9/00
All the very many thanks that it's possible to muster go out to the fine souls above, and as ever, to the legendary fellows Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for processing and fixing-up these editions for us. We continue to be ridiculously lucky to have them all.
From this batch, I've added six more Man's Daddy jokes, another new phone prank, two more outings for Insincere Dave, two for Zombie Dave, a whole 26 reveal-ohs, 14 letters to Digi, there's more Snakes, the reviews archive has been updated (Pushover, Amiga Premier Manager, Outlander, GG Lemmings, Tom And Jerry, Chakan, Jaguar Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Zero Tolerance, PS FIFA 2000, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Turok: Rage Wars, Reel Fishing, Knockout Kings 2000, TOCA World Touring Cars, Rugby 2001), and there's a couple more Man Diaries:
10 September 1994 - DADDY'S LAST WISHES
1 December 1994 - GRANGE HILL
6 JUNE 2024
Now that you've had a chance to digest the epic 50 editions from the last update, how about another batch? Here come ten more Digi recoveries for you, all provided by the anonymous gent, all from 1995: 21/2/95, 28/2/95, 14/3/95, 21/3/95, 2/5/95, 9/5/95, 24/5/95, 29/5/95, 1/6/95, 6/6/95.
Huge thanks to the gent for the loveliness he's bestowed upon us, and of course to the teletext titans Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for processing and fixing-up these editions for us. What a swell bunch they all are!
From this batch, I've added Kate Moss to the celeb pin-ups, six more Man's Daddy jokes, a new phone prank, Lard King and Rah-Rah Bolts are now among the fake adverts, an Edward Lear limerick, two outings for Insincere Dave, the reviews archive has been updated (Big Red Adventure, Pac In Time, Super Punch-Out, Super Dropzone, Iron Soldier, The Story Of Thor, ATR: All Terrain Racing, Links 386 CD, Putty Squad, PC Alien Breed: Tower Assault, Desert Demolition, Aces Collection, Alien Legacy, Harpoon 2: Battleset 3 - Cold War, PC Daedalus Encounter, MCD Ecco The Dolphin 2), and there's a whoooooooole load of Man Diaries:
16 August 1994 - IN HOSPITAL
23 August 1994 - TIME TRAVEL
21 February 1995 - IS A TABLOID HACK NOW
28 February 1995 - IS A TABLOID ASTROLOGER
14 March 1995 - AND HIS SPACE SHOE SHOP
7 April 1995 - IS A WEREWOLF
12 April 1995 - IS THE EASTER BUNNY NOW
13 April 1995 - DESIGNING EASTER EGGS
2 May 1995 - IS A RAG AND BONE MAN
9 May 1995 - IS RUNNING FOR MAYOR
17 May 1995 - IS THE MAYOR NOW
29 May & 1 June 1995 - AT THE HOSPITAL
6 & 7 June 1995 - SURGEON'S ASSISTANT
5 July 1995 - MAGICIAN
2 August 1995 - CENTRE OF THE EARTH
4, 8, 9 August 1995 - SQUATTERS
11, 17, 18 August 1995 - ADULT CIRCUS
7 & 11 November 1995 - TV DETECTOR MAN
17 November 1995 - SLANG BOOK
20 February 1996 - BEING A COWBOY
21 May 1996 - BEING A SUPERMODEL
18 November 1996 - SECRET AGENT
12 December 1996 - STAR WARS MUSICAL
23 January 1997 - PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR
27 March 1997 - TOY DESIGNER
18 April 1997 - VILLAGE POLICEMAN
8 July 1997 - SCREENWRITER
9 August 1997 - GIANT CLAM
3 December 1997 - INVENTOR
8 January 1999 - COURT JESTER
14 January 1999 - ROBOT DESIGNER
9 MAY 2024
To mark the 5th birthday of Super Page 58's Digitiser Vault, which launced on 11/5/19, we've got the biggest single update to the archive of recovered Digi since it went live: 50 new editions! Yes: FIFTY. This astonishing number is provided by:
The anonymous gent: 12/6/93, 16/8/94, 23/8/94, 7/4/95, 12/4/95, 13/4/95, 17/5/95, 7/6/95, 5/7/95, 2/8/95, 4/8/95, 8/8/95, 9/8/95, 11/8/95, 17/8/95, 18/8/95, 8/7/97, 24/6/00, 20/7/01
Tom Pitt: 7/11/95, 17/11/95, 20/2/96, 21/5/96, 18/11/96, 12/12/96, 23/1/97, 27/3/97, 18/4/97, 9/8/97, 3/12/97, 3/1/98, 1/2/98, 15/11/99, 27/11/99, 8/1/00, 29/1/00, 5/2/00, 17/2/01, 3/3/01, 3/7/01, 23/8/01, 12/10/01, 25/2/02, 13/10/02, 6/1/03, 22/1/03
Adrian Burke: 11/11/95
Neil Miles: 18/12/98, 8/1/99, 14/1/99
We have those super sneaky superstars Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree to thank for processing and fixing up so many editions for us as such a big birthday treat, which came as a total surprise. There aren't enough thank-yous in the world sufficient to get across my gratitude to them both, and to all the heroes above who unearthed this absolute goldmine. It should keep us all busy for a while!
From this batch, I've added all the very many reviews to the reviews archive (arcade Saturday Night Slam Masters, SNES Saturday Night Slam Masters, Chessmaster 3000, Mystery Mansion, PC Brian Lara Cricket, Breath Of Fire, SNES Spider-Man, Transport Tycoon World Editor, Samurai Shodown, Sim City 2000 Urban Renewal Kit, PC Psycho Pinball, Star Wars: X-Wing Triple Pack, 32X NFL Quarterback Club, Slipstream 5000, MD Theme Park, Machiavelli The Prince, A4 Networks, 3DO Panzer General, Fever Pitch Soccer, Dr Drago's Madcap Chase, Cyberbykes, 3DO Cannon Fodder, 3DO Syndicate, SNES FIFA Soccer 96, Kingdom O Magic, Hyperblade, Floating Runner, Saturn Off-Road 4x4, Destruction Derby 2, Pathe News 20th Century Challenge, Mass Destruction, Killer Instinct Gold, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Reap, Colony Wars: Vengeance, Turok 2: Seeds Of Evil, Top Gun: Hornets Nest, DC Incoming, Gauntlet Legends, Donkey Kong 64, Creatures 3, Eagle One, Tiny Tank, PS Le Mans 24 Hour, Creatures Adventures, Catz 4/Dogz 4, Tachyon: The Fringe, NHL 2K, Ground Control, Everquest: Ruins Of Kunark, Moto GP, Quake 3: Team Arena, Oni, Severance: Blade Of Darkness, Pizza Connection 2, Freestyle Scooter, Evil Dead: Hail To The King, PS2 Unreal Tournament, Ace Combat: Distant Thunder, Super Mario Sunshine, Minority Report, Medal Of Honor: Spearhead), and that... is that.
15 APRIL 2024
We're getting straight to the point with this update, as a towering stack of 14 recovered editions of Digi have been added to the site, as found by:
Sound.And.Vision: 21/3/94, 9/12/96
Tom Pitt: 17/2/00, 18/2/00, 18/3/00, 8/5/00, 22/5/00, 23/5/00, 1/7/00, 27/7/00, 1/8/00, 8/8/00, 10/8/00, 11/8/00
Unending thanks and gratitude to both SAV and Tom for their hard work and generosity, and of course to the intrepid team of Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their vital efforts fixing-up and organising this huge amount of lovely old teletext.
From this batch, I've added four more Man's Daddy jokes, two new outings for Zombie Dave, two for Insincere Dave, another five reveal-ohs, an extra Morse & Lewis, the reviews archive has been updated (MD Castlevania, PS Pandemonium, PS Rally Championship, DC Crazy Taxi, Tzar, Ultima: Ascension, Zombie Revenge, Bishi Bashi Special, The Misadventures Of Tron Bonne), and there's a couple more Man Diaries:
21 March 1994 - SIGNING ON
9 December 1996 - STAR WARS MUSICAL
28 MARCH 2024
Welcome to your Easter feasty! Prepare to stuff yourself with something even better than choc, as the anonymous gent has another 12 recovered editions of Digi for you to indulge in: 26/7/94, 9/8/94, 6/9/94, 13/9/94, 20/9/94, 6/12/94, 13/12/94, 20/12/94, 22/12/94, 23/12/94, 29/12/94, 3/1/95.
Giant chocolate eggs of thanks go the gent for finding such a fine selection, and to the heroic duo of Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for fixing-up and organising this veritable bounty.
From this batch, I've added the Patrick Troughton celeb pin-up, one more letter to Digi, there's another top 10 (New Confrontations), the reviews archive has been updated (PC Soccer Kid, Spectre, MD Incredible Hulk, Shadow Of The Comet, Body Blows AGA, SNES Hardball 3, Claymates, Ultimate Domain, Star Crusader, CD32 Litil Divil, Amiga Bubble And Squeak, Transport Tycoon, MD Mr Nutz, SNES Micro Machines, SNES Street Racer, 3DO Road Rash, PC-CD-ROM Theme Park, GB Donkey Kong, SNES Mortal Kombat 2, US Navy Fighters, MD John Madden '95), and there's more Man Diaries:
26 July 1994 - FORMER COMPANIONS
9 August 1994 - WITH CAPTAIN FIVE SKILLS
6 September 1994 - WITH THE MAN WITH A LONG CHIN'S DADDY
13 September 1994 - IS THE INCREDIBLE GULLIVER
20 September 1994 - BEING A TEACHER
6 December 1994 - TV SITCOM
13 December 1994 - BAILIFF
20 December 1994 - BEING FATHER CHRISTMAS
22, 23, 29 December 1994 & 3 January 1995 - CHRISTMAS 1994
11 MARCH 2024
There's another big dose of recovered Digi ready and waiting for you, as we welcome back Neil Miles, who unearthed this little lot for us: 24/2/95, 15/11/95, 18/12/95, 10/10/96, 28/6/97, 30/6/97, 6/12/97, 24/1/98, 26/1/98, 26/2/98, 2/5/98, 2/12/98.
All the thanks to Neil for this brilliant selection - it's great to see him back uncovering more teletext again. As ever, vast appreciation also goes to the stupendous team of Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree - for everything they do to bring us this stuff, looking in such good shape - I couldn't do what I do without them.
From this batch, I've added more reveal-ohs (including the classic D. Vader-in-the-nude!), more Morse & Lewis, the Digi Level 2 Man's Daddy jokes, the reviews archive has been updated (Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure, Mega Man X2, Wetlands, PC Jungle Book, Surface Tension, PC Sonic CD, Redneck Rampage, Cool Boarders 2, Shanghai Dynasty, Actua Golf 3), and there's more Man Diaries:
24 February 1995 - IS CAPTAIN SHAVE NOW
15 November 1995 - SLANG BOOK
18 December 1995 - GERMAN TV PRANKSTER
10 October 1996 - CARTOON PRISON
28 & 30 June 1997 - DEAD CELEB PARK
6 December 1997 - SHOE ELF
2 December 1998 - PATENTS OFFICE
27 FEBRUARY 2024
Time for another delightful dozen editions of Digi, all of which have been recovered by the incomparably prolific Tom Pitt: 8/3/99, 2/6/99, 5/6/99, 8/6/99, 31/8/99, 9/9/99, 11/9/99, 13/9/99, 29/9/99, 13/10/99, 6/11/99, 8/11/99.
Eternal gratitude to Tom for continuing to pump out the recoveries in such numbers, and to the super-gent team of Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their hard work doing all the restoration and indexing work that makes my job so much simpler. Them's the best!
As well as the latest recoveries, I've updated the Digi quotes page for the first time in 23 years - 180+ of the choicest Digi utterances have been added to the page. This means that there's now not a single section of this site that hasn't had an update since it was relaunched in 2018. That's quite nice, isn't it?
Anyway, along with that I've added two new outings for Zombie Dave, three from Insincere Dave, one more letter to Digi, more reveal-ohs, The Snakes 'old dude' strip has had its gaps filled and been upgraded, the Man Miscellany page has had 'The History Of The Can Opener' and ' How Synthesisers Were Invented' added to it, the reviews archive has been updated (Alpha Centauri, Tomb Raider 2: Golden Mask, Wario Land 2, Puzzle Bobble Mini, Pen Pen, Dino Crisis), and there's one more Man Diary:
14 FEBRUARY 2024
Love-me-do! And love for you: the love that is the love of the recovered editions of Digitiser love. This lot should get your heart racing, all gifted to use by the anonymous gent: 8/3/94, 5/4/94, 12/4/94, 19/4/94, 26/4/94, 3/5/94, 19/7/94, 27/9/94, 4/10/94, 11/10/94, 18/10/94, 25/10/94.
Chocolate boxes and roses go out to the gent, and to Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their amazing work organising and fixing-up all the latest finds.
From this batch, I've added another letter to Digi, Super Sour, Violent Rudi, and Drunky The Scallop all now nestle within the characters A-Z, while Andy Warhol and Pete Postlethwaite are among the celeb pin-ups, there's an extra top 10, the reviews archive has been updated (MD Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing, CD32 Trivial Pursuit, Amiga Hero Quest 2, MD Ren And Stimpy, Young Merlin, Mutant League Hockey, SNES R-Type 3, Donk!, Sim City 2000: Disasters, Pink Goes To Hollywood, Apidya, Outpost, PC UFO: Enemy Unknown, Amiga UFO: Enemy Unknown, Twisted, Return To Ringworld, 3DO Battlechess, PGA Tour 486, Sherlock Holmes, System Shock, SNES Mickey Mania), and there's more Man Diaries:
8 March 1994 - DOING MUSIC
5 April 1994 - BEING A LOSER
12 April 1994 - STILL BANDAGED
19 April 1994 - THE INVISIBLE MAN WITH A LONG CHIN
26 April & 3 May 1994 - SMASHING THE SYSTEM
19 July 1994 - WITH A FAMOUS POP SINGER
27 September 1994 - BEING A TEACHER
4 October 1994 - IN THE FISH FACTORY
11 October 1994 - HAS FALLEN IN LOVE
18 October 1994 - ON THE RUN
25 October 1994 - INVENTOR
24 JANUARY 2024
It's the turn of the anonymous gent to bestow upon us a cornucopia of recovered Digi, with this little lot all flowing from his mysterious fingers: 22/2/94, 10/5/94, 17/5/94, 7/6/94, 28/6/94, 22/11/94, 29/11/94, 21/12/94, 19/7/95, 24/7/95, 26/7/95
And what a batch it is! Massive thanks to the gent for sharing all of this excellence with us, and to the teletext recovery royalty of Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for keeping on top of the submissions, and fixing them all up good as new.
I've added the eight Christmas 2023 Man's Daddy cracker jokes, and from this batch there are another three letters to Digi, a further instalment in the sinister life of Dr Derek Doctors, Brolly is now in the characters A-Z, there are two more top 10s, the reviews archive has been updated (Mega-CD Microcosm, Mega-CD Dragon's Lair, TFX, Ultima: Runes Of Virtue 2, Virtual Golf, K240, Dune 2, The Lost Vikings, Mario Andretti Racing, Colonization, MD Earthworm Jim, 3DO FIFA Soccer, SNES Shaq-Fu, Mario's Picross, Three Worlds Of Advanced Dungeons And Dragons, The Last Dynasty), and there's more Man Diaries:
22 February 1994 - IN HELL
10 May 1994 - WITH DIY "KELLY"
17 May 1994 - OLD FOLK IN THE ATTIC
7 June 1994 - CAPED CRUSADER
28 June 1994 - IN CAPTIVITY
22 November 1994 - STUNT MAN
29 November 1994 - GAME SHOW
21 December 1994 - BEING FATHER CHRISTMAS
19, 24, 26 July 1995 - NEWSPAPER
15 JANUARY 2024
Aaaaand we're back. Hopefully you had a grand festive. Now the deluge of Digi resumes, as we dive into another batch of the man machine Tom Pitt's recoveries: 18/1/93, 10/2/93, 13/2/93, 16/2/93, 26/2/93, 10/3/93, 7/4/93, 7/1/95, 18/2/95, 25/2/95, 16/6/95, 30/9/95
Exhaustive thanks to Tom for keeping us drowning in the good stuff, and to the exceptional duo of Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their hard work keeping it all organised and looking shiny and new-like.
From this batch, I've added the Paul Simon and Riiiiiccckkkyyy from EastEnders pin-ups, another four letters to Digi, Mr Bean joins the characters A-Z, the reviews archive has been updated (GG Shinobi 2, The Humans, GG Alien Syndrome, Darkseed, Rolo To The Rescue, Stadium Cross, Harrier Jump Jet, Piracy On The High Seas, Joe And Mac: Caveman Ninja, SNES Prince Of Persia, Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis, Chester Cheetah: Too Cool To Fool, MD Batman: Return Of The Joker, Hit The Ice, Amiga Desert Strike, PC Brutal), and there's more Man Diaries:
7 January 1995 - PERFUMIER
18 February 1995 - IS A TABLOID HACK NOW
25 February 1995 - IS A TABLOID ASTROLOGER
16 June 1995 - IN BORSTAL
30 September 1995 - WORKS IN ADVERTISING
19 DECEMBER 2023
Merry Fest! And a very merry Fest it is for Digi fans everywhere, with twelve more recovered editions, all unearthed by that modern miracle known as Tom Pitt. Not only that, but there's masses of great early material, as well as a few seasonal editions into the bargain.
Strap yourselves in for a good 'un: 3/4/93, 26/3/94, 31/5/94, 21/6/94, 23/6/94, 4/7/94, 18/7/94, 23/7/94, 29/8/94, 29/12/95, 24/12/96, 25/12/02
Quite literally infinite thanks to Tom for his astonishingly prolific recovery streak, and to the equally praiseworthy Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for keeping up with this torrent of teletext, with the fixin' an' the organisin'. What a year we've had - what a swell bunch.
From this batch, I've added the earliest Ring-sir! phone prank on record, three more fake adverts, four letters to Digi, three reveal-ohs, I've added a pic of Onion Owl to the characters A-Z, the reviews archive has been updated (Starfox, Soccer Brawl, F-15 Strike Eagle 3, Smash Tennis, Sabre Team, PC Sim City 2000, CD32 Gunship 2000, Scooter's Magic Castle, Privateer, Indy Car Expansion Pack, Universe, Micro Machines '96, Amiga Soccer Kid, Amiga Goal!), and there's more Man Diaries:
26 March 1994 - DOING THE DISCO
31 May 1994 - BEING A COPPER
21 & 23 June 1994 - IN THE USA
4 July 1994 - IN CAPTIVITY
18 July 1994 - WITH A FAMOUS POP SINGER
23 July 1994 - FORMER COMPANIONS
29 August 1994 - TIME TRAVEL
29 December 1995 - VISITING DADDY
24 December 1996 - "HOME ALONE"
30 NOVEMBER 2023
Time for another twelve teletextual treats, as the recovery bandwagon keeps on... er, banding. This latest dozen was unearthed and graciously provided by:
Tom Pitt: 30/6/00, 5/9/01, 7/9/01
The anonymous gent: 23/8/00, 24/8/00, 27/9/00, 3/10/00, 5/10/00, 15/5/01, 17/5/01, 18/5/01, 2/6/01
Profuse thanks as ever to both gents, and once more to the super-lovely Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their part in organising and fixing-up these precious relics.
From this batch, I've added three more fake adverts, five letters to Digi, five reveal-ohs, two new outings for Zombie Daves, an Insincere Dave, and the reviews archive has been updated (PGA Championship Golf 2000, Carmageddon TDR 2000, Moto Racer World Tour, Time Crisis: Project Titan, Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare, Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force Expansion Pack).
14 NOVEMBER 2023
You'll want to be sitting comfortably for this one - 12 whole complete editions of Digi, all recovered by the man machine that is Tom Pitt: 8/6/94, 8/1/97, 15/1/97, 22/1/97, 29/1/97, 30/1/97, 24/2/97, 19/3/97, 22/3/97, 24/3/97, 25/4/97, 30/5/97.
Why, there's even the index page of the 8/1/94 edition for good measure, if you want a little pallette cleanser to finish that meal off.
My gratitude for this generosity is as enormous as this quite extraordinary haul itself. Enormous thanks are also due to Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their tireless cataloguing and cleaning efforts that allow us to see this amazing material in such great shape.
From this batch, I've added two Man's Daddy-style Digi jokes, 12 more letters to Digi, the reviews archive has been updated (Amiga Pierre Le Chef, Cyber Gladiators, Steel Panthers 2, NASCAR Racing 2, Saturn Virtual On, Sega Ages, The Settlers 2: Mission CD, Super Mario 64 (UK N64 launch re-review), PS Micro Machines V3, PS Excalibur 2555AD, PS Crusader: No Remorse, 3D Ultra Mini Golf), and there's eight more Man Diaries:
8 June 1994 - CAPED CRUSADER
15 January 1997 - DEL BOY-STYLE TRADER
22 January 1997 - PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR
19 March 1997 - STAGE MAGICIAN
22 & 24 March 1997 - POSH WAITER
25 April 1997 - OWNER OF A BAKERY
30 May 1997 - MOVIE DIRECTOR
31 OCTOBER 2023
Scare-me-do! It's a spooky update tonight, with that most scary number of recovered editions of Digi: six. Six is a number! Here they come shambling past, exhumed from their graves by these terrifying creatures:
Tom Pitt: 25/6/97, 26/2/99, 12/2/00, 7/7/00
Adrian Burke: 19/8/99, 30/8/01
Ghoulish thanks to Tom and Adrian for their hard work and generosity, and to the mad scientists Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for dedicating so much time and effort to reanimating these long-dead editions. Victor Frankenstein would be proud.
From this infernal batch, I've added more reveal-ohs, another couple of letters to Digi, three Man's Daddy jokes, appropriately there's a new outing for Zombie Dave, the reviews archive has been updated (NHL Powerplay, Myth 2: Soulblighter, N64 Resident Evil 2, GBC Tomb Raider), and there's a creepy Man Diary:
25 June 1997 - DEAD CELEB PARK
Wooooooooooo!
17 OCTOBER 2023
There's seven more complete editions of Digi for you in this update, recovered by a triumverate of heroes:
Tom Pitt: 30/9/94, 11/1/97, 23/3/98, 21/7/01
The anonymous gent: 9/2/00
Unending thanks to the three of them for bringing all this lovely vintage stuff to us, and to Andrew Nile and Alistair Cree for their part in organising and fixing it all up. You're all proper gents.
From this batch, I've added seven more reveal-ohs, another four letters to Digi, there's another piece of advice from Mr T, a late-era Man's Daddy joke and Rapping Shoe rap, the reviews archive has been updated (Taz In Escape From Mars, CD32 Superfrog, Fighters Destiny, The Sims (PC), The Sims (PS2), Carrier, Hearts Of Iron), and there's one more Man Diary:
30 September 1994 - IN THE FISH FACTORY
5 OCTOBER 2023
The unstoppable Tom Pitt continues to be a one-man teletext recovery factory, gifting us six more complete editions of Digi, which have been fixed-up good as new by Andrew Nile: 16/2/95, 23/2/95, 15/6/95, 29/12/97, 5/4/00, 17/3/01
All the thanks to Tom and Andrew for their superb efforts - and indeed to Alistair Cree for his part in the process, which I recently learnt is key to what our recovery army do. Alistair, you have our eternal gratitude, along with the rest of the team.
From this batch, I've added five more reveal-ohs, another four letters to Digi, the reviews archive has been updated (Alien Olympics (review 2), MD Cannon Fodder, 3DO Theme Park, Soleil, MCD Earthworm Jim: Special Edition, Need For Speed: Porsche 2000), and there's three more Man Diaries:
16 February 1995 - IS IN THE B-TILLS NOW
23 February 1995 - IS A TABLOID HACK NOW
15 June 1995 - IN BORSTAL
19 SEPTEMBER 2023
The Tom Pitt train continues powering along, with another batch of recoveries entirely found by him and fixed-up by Andrew Nile: 5/1/93, 28/2/00, 14/11/00, 22/9/01, 7/6/02, 21/6/02, 19/7/02
A torrent of praise and thanks go out to both gents for their incredible work and generosity in bringing this material in front of our eager faces again, after so many years.
From this batch, I've added another couple of reveal-ohs, an Insincere Dave, and the reviews archive has been updated (SNES King Of The Monsters, LHX Attack Chopper, Roswell Conspiracies, GBA Lego Island 2, PS2 No One Lives Forever, UFC Tapout, Xtreme Air Racing).
6 SEPTEMBER 2023
Time for more recovered Digi - another seven editions have been added to the site, all unearthed by Tom Pitt and fixed-up by Andrew Nile: 6/1/93, 27/1/93, 24/2/93, 6/6/94, 20/6/94, 12/6/99, 26/6/99
See now, as a cascading fountain of thanks showers both Tom and Andrew in gratitude for their hard work and generosity in brining this excellent stuff to us. They're both heroes of the highest order.
From this batch, I've added 15 more reveal-ohs, the job vacancy Ring-Sir!, Daniel Bread now sits in the characters A-Z, the reviews archive has been updated (GB Speedball 2, SNES Desert Strike, George Foreman's KO Boxing, SNES Gods, Robin Hood: Legend Quest, Amiga Road Rash, Amiga Championship Manager '93, CD32 Sensible Soccer, SNES Metal Marines, CD32 Wembley Soccer), and there's two more Man Diaries:
6 June 1994 - BEING BURNT
20 June 1994 - IN THE USA
17 AUGUST 2023
There's more recovered Digi for you now, much of it from the primordial days of 1993, provided by:
The anonymous gent: 5/8/93, 12/8/93, 13/9/93, 22/9/93 (partial recovery)
Adrian Burke: 17/1/00
There are also some upgraded editions, with errors corrected and gaps filled: 14/1/95 (Dr Dave Gilbert), 1/5/99 (Tom Pitt), 22/8/00 (the anonymous gent).
Make sure you're wearing a hat, because you must now take it off to all those excellent types above for their generosity, and to Andrew Nile for his superb work fixing them up and coordinating all the donations.
With such a lot of early material, we're a bit light on updates to other parts of the site, but I've added four more letters to Digi, an Insincere Dave, and the reviews archive has been updated (GG Global Gladiators, PC Loom, Bubsy, Captain Dynamo, GB Asterix, Bionic Commando, SNES Mortal Kombat (one page only), Rocket Knight Adventures (one page only)).
6 AUGUST 2023
How was the Digi Weekend for you? Hat-tips, handshakes, and hugs to everyone I met over those glorious few days - what an unforgettable experience it all was. Especial thanks to Biffo for inexplicably placing an hour of Friday's show in my hands, and to all those who said nice things about it afterwards.
Now, back to reality - and on with the business!
We have four more recovered editions of Digi for you now, all of them unearthed by the anonymous gent - whom I had the pleasure of meeting and thanking in person at Chunky Fringe - and fixed-up by Andrew Nile:
6/2/99, 28/6/99, 11/9/01, 3/10/01
Huge thanks to Andrew and the gent for their tireless work getting these to us, it's monumentally appreciated.
From them and other recent finds, there's four more letters to Digi, another Insincere Dave, the games company complaint Ring-sir! phone prank, five more reveal-ohs, The Snakes Barry Manilow Stars In Their Eyes strip has had its gaps filled and been upgraded, there's another five Man's Daddy jokes that were out-takes from Digi Live that Biffo has graciously allowed me to share, the reviews archive has been updated (This Is Football 2002), and there's one more Man Diary:
6 February 1999 - GOLEM DESIGNER
20 JULY 2023
Last call for Digi Live! If you're reading this, there's a very high probability that you will have a very good time. Night 1 tickets - Friday 28 July. Night 2 tickets - Saturday 29 July. And of course, the free Chunky Fringe event takes place at the same venue from 11am on the Saturday, and is stuffed to the guts with retro tech goodness and general Digi-adjacent stupidity.
Now here comes your update, with more vintage Digi recovered by:
The anonymous gent: 23/7/97, 26/7/97, 20/3/99, 27/3/99, 2/8/99
Huge thanks to both stupendous fellows, and to uber-gent Andrew Nile for doin' the fixin' and the cleanin', as well as for providing a few replacement pages and fillers across various editions.
From this batch, I've added one more Insincere Dave, a Zombie Dave, the reviews archive has been updated (X-COM: Apocalypse, Lifeforce Tenka, International Cricket Captain 2, MiG Alley), and there's one more Man Diary:
23 July 1997 - BEACH PUMPKIN SHOP
See you at Harrow Arts...
6 JULY 2023
Are you coming to the Digi live weekend spectacular in north London at the end of July? What do you mean, you don't have your tickets yet?! You'd better go and get them sharpish, as it's only three weeks away and you just do not want to miss the shambolic fun: night 1 tickets, night 2 tickets. Uber-gent David Walford will once again be bringing his free Chunky Fringe event to the same venue on the Saturday afternoon, for all the teletext, retro tech and amateur enthusiasm you need (and more that you don't).
Now, update time! Eight more lovely complete editions of Digi have been added to the site, recovered by:
Tom Pitt: 15/4/93, 22/4/93, 1/8/95, 25/6/98, 22/5/99, 29/5/99, 7/8/00
Profuse thanks and gratitude to them both for their excellent efforts, and also to the man they call Andrew Nile (because it's his name) for his superhuman help organising and cleaning all the pages up.
From this batch and elsewhere, I've added 12 more reveal-ohs, four letters to Digi, the Bastardbury fake ad, the reviews archive has been updated (Cyborg Justice, Arabian Nights, James Bond 007: The Duel, Side Pocket, SNES Jungle Strike, PC Nuclear Strike, PS Command And Conquer: Red Alert, Wetrix), and there's three more Man Diaries:
1 August 1995 - CENTRE OF THE EARTH
2 December 1997 - INVENTOR
25 June 1998 - CURTAIN SHOP WORKER
21 JUNE 2023
Here come another seven complete editions of Digi (and one partial) for you, ably recovered by:
Tom Pitt: 5/7/97, 1/12/97, 15/7/98, 3/1/99, 25/3/99, 23/12/02
Adrian Burke: 7/11/01
All the thanks to all the gents for their hard work and generosity, including Andrew's ceaseless assistance in organising and cleaning-up all the fantastic submissions that come in.
From this batch and other places, I've added five new outings for Morse & Lewis, a Zombie Dave, an Insincere Dave, another three Man's Daddy jokes, the Dadpellet fake ad, three interviews with Mr Biffo, the reviews archive has been updated (PS Judge Dredd, PS MDK, PS Sentinel Returns, Heavy Gear (one page only, no rating), Running Wild, 90 Minutes, Zoo Tycoon), and there's three more Man Diaries:
5 July 1997 - "BRIT-POP" BAND
1 December 1997 - INVENTOR
15 July 1998 - POODLE PARLOUR
4 JUNE 2023
We have another 12 recovered editions of Digi for you now, stretching from its second month on air right the way through to its second-last, as found by:
Jason Robertson and @ghostwatch: 18/2/93
Tom Pitt: 31/7/00, 5/9/00, 11/12/00, 16/11/01, 12/2/03
Adrian Burke: 30/9/00, 27/5/02, 25/11/02, 26/11/02, 27/11/02, 11/2/03
This is exceptional work by these most excellent types once again, and my eternal gratitude goes out to them - as it does to Andrew Nile for his unending efforts to keep all these submissions flowing, organised, and in tippy-top condition. Za!
From this and recent batches, I've added Cardinal Wolsey, Darth Vader, Buzz Aldrin, and J.K. Rowling to the characters A-Z, nine more reveal-ohs, another three excellent Man's Daddy jokes, three new outings for Morse, a single new letter to Digi, and the reviews archive has been updated (Super Battletank, Waxworks, Homeworld Cataclysm, Heavy Metal: FAKK 2, Mr Driller, Plasma Sword, Sky Surfer, Tomb Raider Chronicles, Smugglers Run 2, Super Monkey Ball, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Red Faction 2, Eternal Darkness, Kingdom Hearts, Metroid Fusion, Treasure Planet, Unreal 2).
25 MAY 2023
There's another double-digit dose of recovered Digi for you in this update, with 10 more editions provided by:
Tom Pitt: 4/1/95, 5/1/95, 20/2/97, 5/3/98, 14/7/98, 23/9/98, 9/12/98, 11/12/98
Huge thanks as ever to Tom and Adrian, who just keep on coming up with the goods. "Special" thanks, too, to that esteemed gentleman Andrew Nile for all the excellent work he does with the organisin' and the fixin' of the pages.
From this batch, I've added three new outings for The Snakes, four letters to Digi, another top 10, the reviews archive has been updated (3DO Megarace, PC Magic Carpet, Little Big Adventure, PC Kick Off 3: Euro Challenge, 3D Lemmings, Club GTI International, Winter Heat, Tetrisphere, PC Street Fighter Alpha, Assault, Centipede, Asteroids, Star Wars: X-Wing Collector Series), and there's seven more Man Diaries:
4 & 5 January 1995 - PERFUMIER
8 November 1995 - TV DETECTOR MAN
20 February 1997 - ON A HEALTH FARM
14 July 1998 - STARLIGHT EXPRESS
23 September 1998 - YOUR STARS TODAY
9 December 1998 - VET
13 MAY 2023
Waterloo! It's another gold-plated update for you here, with more incredible vintage Digi finds... coming... NOW:
Adrian Burke: 30/12/93, 1/11/94, 2/1/95, 21/3/98, 9/2/99, 16/2/99
Tom Pitt: 28/3/98, 20/10/99, 16/8/00, 16/9/00
Both gents also provided us with upgrades for two editions from the last ever week of Digi, which now gleam and sparkle like new:
4/3/03 - Tom
8/3/03 - Adrian (the final edition - you can now see The Real Turner The Worm Being Sick in high-res!)
My eternal gratitude goes to Tom and Adrian for their continuing efforts and generosity, and to the colossus Andrew Nile for all the astounding hard work he does to round-up and clean-up these editions.
From this batch, I've added two new outings for Zombie Dave, an Insincere Dave, the Games Mag Complaint Ring-Sir! phone prank, the reviews archive has been updated (MD Sensible Soccer, SS Lucifer, SNES Sparkster, MD Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, Noctropolis, Pro Pinball: Big Race USA, Wipeout 64, Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, Terracon, Virtua Athlete 2K, Parasite Eve 2, Power Stone 2), and there's four more Man Diaries:
1 November 1994 - DOING A BIG FRAUD
2 January 1995 - CHRISTMAS 1994
9 February 1999 - GOLEM DESIGNER
16 February 1999 - DIMENSION EXPLORER
4 MAY 2023
The hits just keep on coming - there's another ten newly-recovered editions of Digi waiting for you now, found by:
Tom Pitt: 25/1/93, 14/4/93, 17/4/95, 27/8/96, 4/1/97
Adrian Burke: 21/10/93, 20/7/94, 21/4/95, 23/5/95, 27/11/95
Thanks so much to Tom and Adrian for such a wonderful bunch of gems, and to the rock that is Andrew Nile for his superb work organising and fixing-up all that glorious teletext.
From this and recent batches, I've added a new Man's Daddy joke, an Edward Lear limerick, top 10, one more reveal-oh, the reviews archive has been updated (Battleclash, GG Batman Returns, Two Crude Dudes, Airbus A320, Captain America And The Avengers, Spider-Man Vs The Kingpin, MCD FIFA Soccer, Tomcat Alley, USS Ticonderoga, Wolf, Discworld, 32X Mortal Kombat 2, Alien Soldier, Harpoon 2: Battleset 2, Saturn NHL, Phantom 2040, Athlete Kings), and there's five more Man Diaries:
20 July 1994 - WITH A FAMOUS POP SINGER
17 & 21 April 1995 - IS AN ARCHITECT
27 November 1995 - TRAWLER MAN
27 August 1996 - GIANT CATCHER
20 APRIL 2023
There's another big batch of recovered Digi for you now, with ten editions all found by the anonymous gent:
28/5/94, 2/6/97, 28/10/99, 10/11/99, 17/11/99, 23/11/99, 25/11/99, 28/6/00, 29/6/00, 30/3/01
Ruddy great big thanks to the gent for his generous contributions once again, and of course to Andrew Nile for putting in such a brilliant effort to organise and restore all of these submissions. My gratitude is quite literally unending - even if I choke on a chrysalis!
I've also added a new FAQ about the curious mouth-straps that a few Digi characters have sported over the years, there's two more outings for Zombie Dave, four for Insincere Dave, two for Dr Derek Doctors, three more letters to Digi, I've added the Pov'ry Day fake ad, the reviews archive has been updated (Axcellerator, System Shock 2, Rat Attack, Grand Theft Auto 2, Suzuki Alstare Racing, 40 Winks, Shadow Company, Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour, World Championship Snooker, Clive Barker's Undying), and there's two more Man Diaries:
28 May 1994 - BEING A COPPER
2 June 1997 - A BUTLER
6 APRIL 2023
It's an all-early days batch of recovered Digi this time, with the latest editions all coming from the first two years on air.
Found by:
The anonymous gent: 27/2/93, 19/7/93, 20/7/93, 21/7/93, 22/7/93, 2/8/93, 3/8/93, 9/11/94, 15/11/94
John Aspinall: 30/4/93, 10/12/93
All the thanks to both fine fellows for their amazing efforts - and especially to the gent for that very generous helping! Massive thanks also go to the marvellous Andrew Nile, of course, who continues to be indispensable to the cause with his stellar organisation and restoration efforts.
From this batch, I've added nine more letters to Digi, the reviews archive has been updated (Parodius, Space Lords, Spelljammer, Fatal Fury, 1869, Super Ninja Boy, Dropzone, Shadowrun, Wolfchild, Goal!, Mega Drive Micro Machines, SNES Blues Brothers, Loom, SNES James Pond Robocod, Amiga James Pond Robocod, SNES Dungeon Master, Amiga Syndicate, Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up Or Slip Out!, Zool 2, Mega-CD Star Wars: Rebel Assault, Wing Commander Armada, SNES Lion King), and there's two more Man Diaries:
9 November 1994 - SCHOOL REUNION
15 November 1994 - BEING A SCULPTOR
22 MARCH 2023
There are ten more recovered editions of Digi for you in this update, which have been unearthed by:
The anonymous gent: 27/5/00, 21/8/00, 19/2/02, 13/3/02, 28/11/02
James O'Malley: 27/11/00, 8/1/01, 26/3/01
Tom Pitt: 18/1/03
Obscenely large thanks to them all for putting these delights back on our screens, and especially to Andrew for cleaning them all up for us and sorting through the submissions.
From this batch, I've added four more letters to Digi, two Man's Daddy jokes, two outings for Insincere Dave, seven reveals, and the reviews archive has been updated (Metal Gear Solid 2, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Cricket 2000, WWF Smackdown, The Dukes Of Hazzard, Sheep, Aqua Aqua: Wetrix 2, Rock Manager, Xbox Spider-Man).
9 MARCH 2023
It's another engorged update for you now, with a whole load more recovered Digi, found by:
Tom Pitt: 11/6/94, 22/9/98, 4/3/99, 13/5/99, 18/11/99,
Adrian Burke: 23/1/98, 2/2/98, 16/4/98, 29/6/98, 21/4/01, 19/11/01
Huge thanks once again to Tom and Adrian for their hard work and generosity, and to the super(b)human that is Andrew Nile for everything he does to keep these recoveries organised and looking so sharp. We're very lucky to have them all.
From this batch, I've added one more outing for The Snakes, one very early one for Zombie Dave where he still has his original graphic, two more from Insincere Dave, four reveals (including the first ever recorded "moc-moc-a-moc!"), another six letters to Digi, and the reviews archive has been updated (Adidas Power Soccer 2, Overboard, Pitfall 3D, Circuit Breakers, Spearhead, Marvel Vs Street Fighter, Edgar Torronteras' Extreme Biker, Star Trek: Away Team, Duke Nukem: Land Of The Babes, Daytona USA 2001, Lego Island 2, Headhunter), plus there's more Man Diaries:
23 January 1998 - LOST PROPERTY
29 June 1998 - CURTAIN SHOP WORKER
22 September 1998 - TALK TO VEGETABLES
22 FEBRUARY 2023
There's twelve more recovered editions of Digi in this update, found by:
The anonymous gent: 22/6/00, 8/12/00, 15/2/01, 22/2/01, 12/5/01 (incomplete), 14/5/01, 1/12/01
Tom Pitt: 17/1/01, 23/1/01, 19/2/01, 27/3/01, 23/10/01 (also found by the gent)
Towering thanks to both excellent fellows for these recoveries, and to Andrew Nile for his amazing efforts organising and cleaning-up all of these submissions for us.
From this batch, I've added one more outing for The Snakes, two each for Zombie Dave and Insincere Dave, and the reviews archive has been updated (Delta Force 2, Gradius 3 and 4, F1 World Grand Prix 2, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Phantasy Star Online, Armoured Core 2, F1 Racing Championship, The Sims: House Party, Stunt GP, Planet Of The Apes, Burnout).
13 FEBRUARY 2023
Five years to the day since Super Page 58 relaunched, there's another big update for you, with twelve more complete editions of Digi provided by:
The anonymous gent: 21/7/95, 10/9/96
Tom Pitt: 25/1/96, 28/3/97, 31/3/97, 30/10/97
Adrian Burke: 14/3/97, 15/3/97, 5/4/97, 10/5/97, 8/9/97, 14/10/97
We've also had a photo sent in by Iain Wilson of a tips page from 2/5/95, taken in celebration of him getting his Worms tip on Digi.
Massive thanks to all four of them for their generosity, and as ever, to the esteemed Andrew Nile for his undying dedication in sifting through and making sense of all these submissions for us.
From this and the last batch, I've added seven more outings for The Snakes, three for Morse & Lewis, another letter to Digi, one more reveal, there's a new Ring-Sir!, three more top 10s, the reviews archive has been updated (Mega Man: The Wily Wars, Spot Goes To Hollywood, ESPN Extreme Sports, Battlecruiser 3000AD, Pod, Theme Hospital, Sonic Jam, Parappa The Rapper, Sega Worldwide Soccer 98), and there's more Man Diaries:
21 July 1995 - NEWSPAPER
25 January 1996 - BEING A BARBER
10 September 1996 - SUPER-HERO
28 & 31 March 1997 - TOY DESIGNER
5 April 1997 - RECORD BREAKER
10 May 1997 - JOKE SHOP OWNER
8 September 1997 - AMATEUR DRAMATICS
14 October 1997 - PRACTICAL JOKES
30 October 1997 - PUFFY JACKET
1 FEBRUARY 2023
Here comes yet another double-digit dollop of Digi for your delectation. This time, the recoveries are courtesy of...
Jason Robertson: 7/8/93 (tape provided by Boggenstrovia), 5/3/97, 20/6/97, 11/8/97, 14/8/97, 12/12/98, 2/1/01, 15/3/01
Adrian Burke: 26/5/95, 5/3/96, 19/12/96, 20/12/96
Eternal thanks to all three heroes for bestowing this greatness upon us, and especial thanks as ever to Andrew for the exceptional work he does organising and cleaning-up all the submissions for us.
Fro this batch and the previous one, I've added more Man's Daddy jokes, another Zombie Dave, I've added Johnny Nowhere, Clem From College and Space Robot XJ7 to the characters A-Z, the reviews archive has been updated (Street Fighter, GB Jungle Strike, The Flintstones, Angel Devoid, Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire, Jack Nicklaus 4), and there's more Man Diaries:
5 March 1996 - CRUISE SHIP CLOWN
19 & 20 December 1996 - THE NEW FATHER CHRISTMAS
5 March 1997 - MODERN ARTIST
11 August 1997 - GIANT CLAM
14 August 1997 - HAUNTED HOUSE
24 JANUARY 2023
It's time for another big update, as we get our hands on 12 more recovered editions of Digi, including the election for The Man's replacement, that I've been waiting to see again forever. Provided by...
Neil Miles: 27/11/93, 12/3/94, 28/9/94, 30/12/94, 28/11/96
Adrian Burke: 19/1/95, 6/2/95, 15/5/95, 31/7/95, 16/12/96, 18/1/97, 20/1/97
I can't emphasise enough how happy I am to get the election grail in the archive! Massive thanks to Neil for finding it and the other editions, to Adrian for his excellent recoveries, and once again to Andrew Nile for the fantastic work he continues to do for us organising and fixing-up all of this teletext gold.
In addition to the recoveries, I've also discovered another 20 single-frame screengrabs saved in an archive snapshot of the old Moleman site that I'd never seen before. They're all of the spoof scripts and covered in the script archive already, but now their pages are in the Vault too: 23/1/01, 24/1/01, 25/1/01, 26/1/01, 7/2/01, 14/2/01, 15/2/01, 16/2/01, 29/5/01, 12/6/01, 3/8/01, 20/8/01, 21/8/01, 22/8/01, 23/8/01, 24/8/01, 12/9/01, 13/9/01, 25/9/01, 26/9/01.
That's not all though, because I've also added lots of other finds from this and previous batches: Tom Baker has been added to the pin-ups, there are nine more reveals, 13 more letters to Digi, there's another four pieces of advice from Mr T, a bunch of new reviews have been added to the reviews archive (King's Quest Collection, Space Quest Collection, Stunt Race FX, Hebereke's Popoon, All New World Of Lemmings, Fantasy Fest, Front Page Sports Baseball '94, Renegade, GG James Pond 3: Operation Starfish, Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity, Realms Of The Haunting, Hunter/Hunted), and finally, there's loads more Man Diaries:
12 March 1994 - DOING MUSIC
28 September 1994 - BEING A TEACHER
30 December 1994 - CHRISTMAS 1994
19 January 1995 - ADULT EDUCATION
6 February 1995 - AND HIS NEW HOTEL
15 May 1995 - IS THE MAYOR NOW
31 July 1995 - CENTRE OF THE EARTH
28 November 1996 - INSECT FARMER
16 December 1996 - THE NEW FATHER CHRISTMAS
18 January 1997 - DEL BOY-STYLE TRADER
20 January 1997 - PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR
10 JANUARY 2023
Happy 2023 to you all, and especially to Digi - it turned 30 years old on 1 January! Congratulations to Biffo and all involved in this fantastic landmark. Shall we celebrate with some recoveries? Why, yes - let's have a "slew", in fact. Courtesy of...
The anonymous gent: 7/4/01, 14/4/01, 5/7/01, 4/2/02, 8/2/02, 19/12/02
James O'Malley: 10/4/01, 11/4/01, 12/4/01, 16/6/01, 2/7/01, 19/10/01
Bloomin' great 30th anniversary thanks to James and the gent for these excellent finds, and of course to Andrew Nile once again for his dedication organising and fixing-up all the submissions for me.
Speaking of the 30th anniversary, I've added all three Digi Level 2 specials to the Digitier The Show page, and the recent interviews with Biffo and Sanja to the interviews page. What else? How about five more Man's Daddy jokes, an Insincere Dave, a Zombie Dave, the Crazy Taxi script and Tomb Raider script (that's the great thing with these finds, they fill in a lot of the blind spots where none of the old Digi fansite archives had them).
And finally, there's a hefty number of reviews from this update that have been added to the reviews archive (Starlancer, Simpsons Wrestling, Hostile Waters, Zone Of The Enders, Serious Sam, Black And White, Star Wars: Starfighter, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Quake 3: Revolution, Star Wars: Battle For Naboo, Banjo-Tooie, Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing, MTV Music Generator 2, Tropico, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, PS2 Crazy Taxi, Startopia, Onimusha, Wipeout Fusion, Monsters, Inc.).
19 DECEMBER 2022
It's an all-1993 update this time out, with eight more recovered editions of Digi, all of which were found by the anonymous gent: 6/8/93, 9/8/93, 10/8/93, 11/8/93, 16/8/93, 18/8/93, 14/9/93, 20/9/93. Enormous thanks to the gent for his determination to help "flesh out" the 1993 roster, and to the incredible Andrew Nile for his continuing dedication and help organising all the submissions.
From this update, and I've added to the reviews archive (Day Of The Tentacle, Silpheed, Night Trap, Worlds Of Legend: Son Of The Empire, MD X-Men, MD Flintstones, GB Flintstones, Dizzy: Prince Of The Yolkfolk, SNES First Samurai, Yoshi's Cookie, Kirby's Adventure, GB Zelda, Bill Walsh College Football, GB Mortal Kombat, Shinobi 3), and from recent ones I've added four more reveals, another outing for Morse, Basil Brush and Pathetic Dick have been added to the characters A-Z, and Elon Musk's Musktext has been added to the pin-ups.
8 DECEMBER 2022
It's Digi by the dozen once again in this update, with an incredible 12 more recovered editions added to the site.
Found by:
James O'Malley: 14/11/01, 30/10/02, 4/11/02 (also found by Tom), 6/11/02
Tom Pitt: 20/5/02, 11/11/02, 10/12/02, 17/12/02, 18/12/02, 21/12/02, 7/1/03, 8/1/03
Massive thanks as ever to the heroes responsible for these recoveries, and to super-gent Andrew Nile for his steadfast support and help organising all this amazing vintage joy for us.
There are some real post-Digigate gems in this batch, not least the hitherto unknown 2002 Christmas pant-oh, which came as quite a shock - and a very timely seasonal one, at that. Other great stuff that's been added includes the Alec Guinness pin-up, 11 more reveals, two more letters to Digi, four more Man's Daddy jokes, an Edward Lear limerick, another Insincere Dave, a late-era Man Diary, and I've updated the reviews archive (Stronghold, Spy Hunter, ISS 2, Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers, Burnout 2, Scooby Doo, Kelly Slater Pro Surfer, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, Onimusha 2, This Is Football 2003, Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Crazy Taxi 3, The Simpsons Skateboarding, Monopoly Party, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, Die Hard: Vendetta). Phew!
23 NOVEMBER 2022
It's another delicious Digi dozen for you now, with 12 more vintage editions recovered by:
Tom Pitt: 10/3/94, 14/6/94, 14/8/95, 24/2/96, 21/10/96, 1/11/97, 18/12/97
Sound.And.Vision: 15/7/97
The anonymous gent: 29/11/97, 6/3/98, 26/6/98, 10/9/98
Eternal thanks to all for their incredible efforts, and welcome aboard to new recovery hero Sound.And.Vision - I'm absurdly grateful for all contributions. Profuse thanks as ever to Andrew Nile for his tireless organisation/fixing-up, too - we'd be waiting eons for this stuff without him.
From this and the previous batch, I've added two more outings for Zombie Dave, "String" and Kliss Evans have been added to the characters A-Z, I've updated the reviews archive (Riddick Bowe Boxing, Hoyle Book Of Games Vol 1, Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession, Al Qadim, The Vortex, Robert E. Lee: Civil War General, Battleground Shiloh, Guts 'n' Garters In DNA Danger, Jersey Devil, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Ultimate Race Pro, Panzer Commander), and there's loads more Man Diaries:
10 March 1994 - DOING MUSIC
14 June 1994 - THE MAN WITH A LONG CHIN'S CELEBRITY PALS!
14 August 1995 - ADULT CIRCUS
25 February 1996 - FAST-FOOD FRANCHISE
21 October 1996 - PUPPET PRISON
15 July 1997 - SUPER-HERO
1 November 1997 - PUFFY JACKET
29 November 1997 - INVENTOR
26 June 1998 - CURTAIN SHOP WORKER
10 September 1998 - SPACEMAN
10 NOVEMBER 2022
Digi recoveries seem to be coming in by the dozen lately - here are another 12 now, recovered by
Tom Pitt: 4/2/99, 5/5/99, 6/5/99, 16/12/99, 18/12/99, 4/2/00, 23/2/00, 2/3/00, 13/3/00, 3/8/00
Jason Robertson (from tapes provided by Boggenstrovia): 19/4/99, 22/4/99
Huge thanks to everyone responsibe for getting them in front of our faces - including, as ever, the mighty teletext legend that is Andrew Nile for his supreme efforts organising and fixing it all up.
From this batch, and a few leftovers from last time, I've added seven more outings for The Snakes at New Year 1999, two more Insincere Dave, five more letters to Digi, there's four more reveals, I've updated the reviews archive (Speed Busters, Civilisation: Call To Power, KKND Krossfire, Actua Ice Hockey 2, T'ai Fu: Wrath Of The Tiger, WCW Mayhem, Re-Volt, Ace Combat 3), and there's two more Man Diaries:
4 February 1999 - CEREAL DESIGNER
5 & 6 May 1999 - CAPTAIN FOAM
29 OCTOBER 2022
He may be new to teletext recovery, but John Apsinall has been busy - all 12 of this update's new editions of Digi have been unearthed by him: 19/3/93, 26/3/93, 2/4/93, 9/4/93, 16/4/93, 27/4/93, 10/9/93, 17/9/93, 1/10/93, 8/10/93, 2/4/96, 11/6/97. There's some quite wonderful material in this batch - thanks so much to John for enabling us to see it all again; and of course to Andrew Nile for doing such a superlative job of fixing them all up.
From this and the last few updates, I've added more Insincere Dave, more Snakes, updated the reviews archive (Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, Amiga Smash TV, Yoshi, Historyline, Evander Holyfield's Read Deal Boxing, MS Pitfighter, MD Gods, No Second Prize, MD Mega-Lo-Mania, Amiga Lemmings 2: The Tribes, Doomsday Warrior, Toys, Kid Dracula, MD Populous 2, The Patrician, Deepcore, Super Mario World, Nicky 2, P.T.O., Ranger X, Cut-Throat Island, Independence Day), and there's two more Man Diaries:
2 April 1996 - NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
11 June 1997 - WINDOW CLEANER
21 OCTOBER 2022
Please give a warm welcome to yet another addition to our fantastic roster of Digi recovery heroes - John Apsinall has joined the fray, with a lovely early edition: 3/9/93. We have plenty more from the rest of the gang too:
The anonymous gent: 19/11/96, 15/1/02, 4/3/02, 26/3/02
James O'Malley: 18/1/00, 19/1/00, 1/9/00, 15/9/00, 26/9/00, 14/10/00, 27/3/02
Massive thanks to everyone involved in bringing these delightful relics to our screens, including the phoenomenal work of Andrew Nile to fix them up and organise everything for us.
From these editions, I've updated the reviews archive (Keio Flying Squadron, Muhammed Ali Boxing, NHL 97, The Sims: Livin' It Up, Team Buddies, Wacky Races, Koudelka, F1 Racing Championship, Pokémon Pinball, Formula One 2000, F1 Championship Season 2000, Crimson Skies, Ghost Recon, State Of Emergency, Space Channel 5, Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault, Ecco The Dolphin: Defender Of The Future, Monsters, Inc.), and there's one more Man Diary:
19 November 1996 - SECRET AGENT
9 OCTOBER 2022
The Digi juggernaught isn't slowing down anytime soon - there's another 12 recovered editions for you now, spanning all through the eras. Recovered by:
Tom Pitt: 25/11/93, 11/1/94, 28/7/97, 1/11/99
James O'Malley: 28/11/95, 12/12/95, 20/1/00, 26/2/00, 6/5/00, 19/8/00, 13/5/02
The anonymous gent: 11/2/97
That excellent individual known as Andrew Nile is the man responsible for cleaning them all up and organising this huge number of pages for us - once again, my gratitude to him and all the recovery gents knows no bounds. Thanks so much to all of them.
From these editions, I've updated the reviews archive (The Fidgetts, Aero The Acrobat, The Ottifants, GG PGA Tour Golf, PC Destruction Derby, US Navy Fighters Gold, World Series Baseball, Thunderscape, Star General, Q.A.D., Overblood, Freespace 2, Toy Story 2, Army Men: Air Attack, Airport Inc., PS Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, DC Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver, DC Resident Evil 2, Medievil 2, Everybody's Golf 2, Virtua Tennis, South Park Rally, X-Men: Mutant Academy, Cel Damage), there's a new Insincere Dave, two more letters to Digi, another top 10, and the Man Diary archive has been updated with this bunch of entries:
11 January 1994 - WALK ON! WITH PAT WALKER
28 November 1995 - TRAWLER MAN
12 December 1995 - GERMAN CELEBRITY
11 February 1997 - FAT, UGLY SCI-FI FAN
28 July 1997 - BEACH PUMPKIN SHOP
29 SEPTEMBER 2022
There's another sizeable delivery of recovered Digi for you now, with no less than nine more editions added to the site, recovered by:
Adrian Burke: 28/2/98, 10/6/99, 15/6/99
James O'Malley: 22/12/98, 30/12/98, 22/9/99, 27/9/99, 16/10/99, 11/11/99
Once again Andrew Nile is the superstar responsible for organising and smartening them-up for. Unending thanks to him, Adrian and James for their dedication to the cause.
From these editions, I've updated the reviews archive (N64 Star Wars: Episode 1 - Racer, PC Phantom Menace, Mario Golf, Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver, Tarzan), there are 15 more reveals, a Zombie Dave, two more outings for Insincere Dave, seven letters to Digi, The Changing Man has been added to the characters A-Z, and the Man Diary archive has been updated with this lone nugget:
22 December 1998 - SANTA'S HELPER
20 SEPTEMBER 2022
Before anything else, I'd like to wish Mr Biffo and his family the deepest of condolences at a difficult time for them.
The site has been updated with 11 new editions of Digi, recovered by: Tom Pitt: 14/5/94, and Adrian Burke: 9/3/95, 2/6/95, 27/6/95, 28/6/95, 10/7/95, 11/7/95, 18/7/95, 1/2/97, 26/4/97, 12/8/97. Very grateful thanks to Tom and Adrian, and to Andrew Nile for organising them for us.
From these editions, I've updated the reviews archive (2 Unlimited, Virtua Fighter (review 2 - 10/7/95), CD32 Syndicate, Kingdom, 36 Great Holes, Super International Cricket, Clockwork Knight, PC Hi Octane), and the Man Diary archive:
14 May 1994 - WITH DIY "KELLY"
9 March 1995 - IS AT GHOST SCHOOL
2 June 1995 - HOSPITAL PORTER
27 & 28 June 1995 - BUSKING
10 & 11 July 1995 - MAGICIAN
18 July 1995 - NEWSPAPER
1 February 1997 - HUMAN GUINEA PIG
26 April 1997 - OWNER OF A BAKERY
12 August 1997 - GIANT CLAM
11 SEPTEMBER 2022
We've arrived at Digitiser's final days on Teletext with this update - seven more editions of Digi have been added to the site, all recovered by Tom Pitt: 1/2/03, 8/2/03, 15/2/03, 20/2/03, 22/2/03, 24/2/03, 27/2/03, plus the first edition of GameCentral on 10/1/03. Absolutely gargantuan thanks to Tom for gifting us with such an impressive haul, and to Andrew Nile for his hard work getting them to us looking so sharp.
Tom actually recovered five editions of GameCentral in total. The first edition has been added to The Vault because of its historical significance and Tony Mott's references to Digi on the news page, but I've made an editorial decision not to add more than that. However, as they all came together in this batch, and many include letters about Digi, you can download them in a zip. This is the only time I'll be making GC recoveries available, though.
From this and recent explosions of newly found teletextual treasures, I've added the latest Ring-sir! phone prank; Big Ben, The Man's Auntie, Sheila Wignall, Cockney Sparrow, and Axl Rose can now be found in the characters A-Z; there's a new EastEnders script, two more Man's Daddy jokes, three more pieces of advice from Mr T, six more reveals, a letter, and the reviews archive has been updated with reviews of IGI 2 and Rally Championship. Phew!
31 AUGUST 2022
The glut of recovered Digi just keeps on frothing forth, and here's another nine editions for you, unearthed by some superlative individuals:
Tom Pitt: 22/2/02, 18/3/02, 3/6/02, 29/6/02, 12/7/02, 27/12/02, 25/1/03
Jason Robertson: 15/7/02
James O'Malley: 19/11/02
Most humble thanks to everyone for their wonderful finds, and to Andrew Nile for continuing to be such a rock organising and cleaning all the pages up.
From this batch and other recent finds, I've added two more outings for Morse, seven reveals, and the reviews archive has been updated with a load more titles (Mega Man X6, Project Gotham Racing, Tarzan Freeride, Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, Cricket 2002, Super Trucks, GT Advance 2: Rally Racing, Project Nomads).
23 AUGUST 2022
Digi bonanza! We have no fewer than nine more editions for you, recovered by a whole host of superstars:
Tom Pitt: 21/1/93
The Anonymous Gent: 19/12/97
James O'Malley: 25/12/97, 6/2/98
Andrew Nile (from tapes provided by Brian Hirst): 7/3/98, 14/3/98, 1/2/00, 2/2/00, 14/6/02
Unending thanks to everyone who contributed to this downpour of Digi, and especially to Andrew Nile, who has fixed them all up and coordinated efforts for us to his usual sterling standard.
From this batch and other recent finds, I've added a new outing each for Insincere Dave and Zombie Dave, five more letters, the recent fake ad, two more reveals, and the reviews archive has been updated (Pigskin Footbrawl, Dalek Attack, Enemy Zero, F-22 Air Dominance Fighter, Sabre Ace, Gran Turismo 2, Grandia, GC Crazy Taxi), as has the Man Diary archive:
19 December 1997 - DEPARTMENT STORE SANTA
25 December 1997 - HAUNTED CHRISTMAS HOUSE
6 February 1998 - BALLOON ATTEMPT
12 AUGUST 2022
By Zsa Zsa, we're in for a treat in this update, as Tom Pitt has struck upon a seam of recovered editions of Digi from its final days, with three from February 2003 - meaning we have at least one edition from every month of Digi's life on Teletext at last. But quick now, don't waste any more time: 15/11/02, 22/11/02, 31/12/02 (the 10th anniversary edition, featuring Alex Garland's tribute!), 3/2/03, 10/2/03, 17/2/03. We have Andrew Nile to thank for fixing them-up for us - once again, undying thanks and gratitude to both gents for allowing us to see this brilliat stuff. And it is brilliant - Biffo was clearly revelling in bringing the humour back after its management-enforced exile.
From these golden nugs, I've added two more Man's Daddy jokes, an Edward Lear limerick, and the reviews archive has been updated with all the reviews from this batch (Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, Sega Soccer Slam, NHL 2003, Ghost Recon, Men In Black 2: Alien Escape, Contra: Shattered Soldier).
4 AUGUST 2022
We've hit the jackpot with this one, as the anonymous gent has had a run of vintage 1993 Digi recoveries, including The Man's assassination, a long-standing grail we've been searching for. There's also the aftermath of the election of his replacement, but sadly not a look at the candidates yet, which is still top of the hit list. All five editions have been fixed-up by that lovely Andrew Nile once again: 30/3/93, 17/11/93, 24/11/93, 1/12/93, 8/12/93. Massive great thanks to them both for bringing these amazing finds to us!
From them, I've added two new Digi top 10s, and the reviews archive has been updated with a big ol' range of new titles (True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club, On The Ball, CD32 Diggers, SNES Aladdin, Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Innocent Until Caught, Yoshi's Safari, Star Wars: B-Wing, GG Hook, Slater And Charlie).
28 JULY 2022
There's three more recovered editions of Digi in this update, which have been brought to us by an all-star cast of heroes:
13/12/97 - the anonymous gent
And we also have a fresh version of 30/12/95 thanks to Adrian Burke, which is now in high res and proper aspect ratio - and features the fully simu-reciting Wallace & Grommit. Thanks to everyone who contributed their excellent efforts, including once again that marvellous fellow Andrew Nile, who is absolutely vital to the cause.
From these finds, I've added Scooby Doo to the characters A-Z, a few more reveals, the recent Ray Liotta fake ad, and these Man Diaries:
25 September 1995 - AND HIS BOARDGAMES
13 December 1997 - TURKEY FARM
15 February 1999 - CRASH TEST DUMMY
14 JULY 2022
Just a little update this time, with one more recovered edition of Digi, found by the anonymous gent and fixed-up by Andrew Nile: 12/11/01. Thanks to them both for their efforts - it may be a Digigate-era find, but it has the full review of the 2001 game of the year, Grand Theft Auto 3 (which has been added to the reviews archive). I've also added a couple of reveals I didn't have time for in the last update, and that, for now, is that.
4 JULY 2022
We have a number of different recovery heroes to thank for the latest unearthed editions of Digi in this update, and they run the whole gamut of eras too:
24/9/93, 3/3/99 - thanks to the anonymous gent
29/1/94 - thanks to James O'Malley
5/12/02 - thanks to Nigel Reed
As ever, we have the excellent efforts of Andrew Nile to thank for organising these editions and fixing them up for us. From them, I've added a new Man's Daddy joke, a new Zombie Dave, Man Miscellany has been updated with a new lonely hearts column, there's loads more reviews in the reviews archive (MS Mortal Kombat, Blastar, WWE Smackdown Shut Your Mouth, James Bond 007: Nightfire, Extreme Paintbrawl - 12%!), and one more Man Diary:
29 January 1994 - JOINING A CULT
27 JUNE 2022
When one videotape comes to the end of its reel, another one starts playing: the anonymous gent has stepped into the recovery breach and gifted us these lovely vintage 1998 editions of Digi: 21/10/98, 4/11/98, 11/11/98, 18/11/98. Huge thanks to the gent for stepping in when the well was dry, and to our technical stalwart Andrew Nile for making these editions look spanking new for us.
From them, I've added a couple of Snakes mini-news bites, four letters, one more reveal-oh, there's four more reviews in the reviews archive (101st Airborne, Blasto, Rainbow Six, Ninja), and these here Man Diaries:
21 October 1998 - LONELY HEART
4 November 1998 - AFRICAN AMBASSADOR
11 November 1998 - CACTUS SALESMAN
18 November 1998 - MINNIE THE MONKEY
16 JUNE 2022
We're just about at the end of the recovery line for now, but we have three more unearthed editions of Digi for you that previously slipped the net: 29/6/96 (recovered by Adrian Burke, fixed-up by Andrew Nile), 22/10/97, 1/6/99 (both recovered by Tom Pitt and fixed-up by Tim Bisley). Unending thanks to all four of these incredible gents, and to everyone else who's contributed their finds.
From them, I've added a new Zombie Dave, five reveals, a letter, two more Rapping Shoe raps, and updated the reviews archive (full reviews of ICC Cricket World Cup England 99 and Multi Racing Championship, as well as a bunch of other titles rated). I've also added loads more to the links page, and these two Man Diaries:
29 June 1996 - ROBOT INVENTOR
22 October 1997 - SURVIVAL GUIDE
8 JUNE 2022
How about a nice quick update? Go on then. Jason Robertson gives us another two recovered editions of Digi this time - 8/3/97 and 11/4/97 - both of which were fixed-up by that fine fellow, Andrew Nile. Huge thanks to both gents for their marvellous efforts.
From these editions, I've added the Vampire Hunter Man Diary, an extra reveal, a letter from Dantendo, top 10, the reviews archive has been updated (including full Interstate 76 review), and there's a smattering of Morse & Lewis to clear the backlog. And that: is that.
2 JUNE 2022
We've come to the end of Adrian Burke's fine run of Digi recoveries for now, with one last blast of goodness: 5/8/00, 5/6/01, 5/12/01, 28/10/02. There have been some excellent finds among Adrian's current batch of tapes - eternal thanks to him for his kindness in sharing them with us. And of course to Andrew Nile for the superb job he continues to do corralling everything together and smartening the pages up.
From these editions, I've added three reveals, three letters, four more outings for Morse & Lewis, and the reviews archive is swollen with the following titles: Kiss: Psycho Circus, Dead Or Alive 2, The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling, Spin Jam, Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX, Wario Land 4, Silent Hill 2, Rocky, Firebugs.
25 MAY 2022
We're not done with Adrian Burke's Digi recoveries yet - there's another five for you now: 17/2/98, 18/2/98, 16/12/98, 20/5/99, 18/10/99. Thanks once again to Adrian, and to Andrew Nile for his continuing excellence in fixing them up and keeping track of everything.
From these and recent editions I've added a new Zombie Dave, four reveals, four letters, The Pun-Mesiter now has a pic in the, characters A-Z, there are new reviews in the archive (Bushido Blade, Flight Unlimited 2, FIFA 99, Actua Soccer 3, Trickstyle, FA Premier League Manager 2000), and these here Man Diaries have been added to the collection:
17 & 18 February 1998 - STAND-UP COMEDIAN
20 May 1999 - CAPTAIN FOAM
18 MAY 2022
Adrian Burke's big old box of tapes are continuing to yield all sorts of delights, with another six editions of Digi coming your way right now: 18/2/97, 19/2/97, 11/3/97, 18/3/97, 28/4/97, 2/1/98. Enormous thanks to Adrian for his generosity, and to Andrew Nile for continuing to do us proud fixing these editions up and making them look as good as new.
From them, I've added a new top 10, and now that I've returned from my adventure on the set of Digi Level 2, I've had time to add all of this and last week's reviews (Links 386 Fantasy Course, Iron Cross, Buried In Time, Nights, PC Virtua Cop, Twisted Metal 2, International Rugby League, Saturn Spot Goes To Hollywood, Namco Museum Vol 3, Magic: The Gathering, PC Sonic And Knuckles Collection) and Man Diaries:
7 August 1995 - SQUATTERS
19 February 1996 - BEING A COWBOY
5 September 1996 - MONKEY TRAINER
18 & 19 February 1997 - HAS THE FLU
25 February 1997 - OASIS TRIBUTE BAND
18 March 1997 - STAGE MAGICIAN
28 April 1997 - OWNER OF A BAKERY
2 January 1998 - SECRET AGENT
11 MAY 2022
We pass the recovery baton back to Adrian Burke for this update, who gives us another 6 classic editions of Digi: 25/5/95, 7/8/95, 19/2/96, 5/9/96, 7/1/97, 25/2/97. Vast thanks to Adrian for providing these editions, all from another new batch of tapes which is gushing forth the Digi recoveries with gusto a-go-go. Thanks to Andrew Nile too, who continues to do an essential job of pulling them all together and cleaning them up all spick and span. What else? Well, the new Man's Daddy joke from the above has been added, and for now that is all. Why? You'll find out why soon enough...
5 MAY 2022
There's 8 more of the choicest cuts of recovered Digi for you now, this time unearthed by Neil Miles: 17/8/93, 3/2/94, 10/2/95, 31/3/95, 8/7/95, 13/7/95, 17/9/96, 19/6/98. Thanks to Neil for providing us with such an excellent batch, and to Andrew Nile for once again fixing them up in top-notch fashion - we're lucky to have you gents.
From them, I've added the Phil Collins and Dr McCoy pin-ups, Dr Derek Doctors is back to indoctrinate you into the Temple Of Evil Love one more time, and I've updated the reviews archive with a whole "raft" of noteworthy titles (MD Jurassic Park, Take A Break Pinball, Mystical Ninja review 2, GG NBA Jam, Generations Lost, PC Premier Manager 3, Chaos Control, Victory Goal, PS Formula 1, Everybody's Golf). And finally, there are of course a host of new Man Diaries:
3 February 1994 - IN THE NICK
10 February 1995 - AND HIS NEW HOTEL
31 March 1995 - IS A HOLIDAY ENTERTAINER
8 & 13 July 1995 - MAGICIAN
17 September 1996 - CAVEMAN
19 June 1998 - ASTRONAUT
26 APRIL 2022
The super-team of Adrian Burke and Andrew Nile continue to bear the juiciest of fruits, with another six classic editions of Digi coming your way right now: 15/2/96, 3/7/96, 27/12/96, 27/2/98, 8/12/98, 18/1/99. As ever, it's Adrian on recovery duty and Andrew doing a great job of getting them looking just so - endless thanks to them both for the massive amount of work they put in for our benefit. From these editions, I've added new reviews (Zone Raiders, Pinball Prelude, Nagano Winter Olympics, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Delta Force), and a new Insincere Dave - quite possibly his first ever appearance, in fact. I've also created a new page for spoof scripts that were only one-offs, or we only have a single scene from. Finally, I have of course added all the new Man Diaries:
15 February 1996 - BEING A COWBOY
3 July 1996 - ROBOT INVENTOR
27 December 1996 - WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
27 February 1998 - MILLENNIUM DOME
8 December 1998 - VET
20 APRIL 2022
We welcome back Adrian Burke this week, who's gifted us another six recovered editions of Digi, all from the halcyon days of 1995: 25/1/95, 22/5/95, 12/6/95, 12/7/95, 25/7/95, 14/10/95. Oversized thanks once again to Adrian for his generosity, and to Andrew Nile for yet more sterling clean-up work on this batch. It's a packed one, too, and has yielded a new Man's Daddy joke, the Suggs simu-sing, which is now in the celeb pinups gallery, three more top 10s, loads of reviews (X-Calibre, Immercenary, Toughman Contest, Illusion Of Time, Daytona USA (Saturn), Gloom, Brutal).
Plus I've added five reveals and five Snakes that I found hiding on the Wayback Machine, and all the Man Diaries from the new recoveries:
25 January 1995 - ON THE FARM
12 June 1995 - SURGEON'S ASSISTANT
12 July 1995 - MAGICIAN
25 July 1995 - NEWSPAPER
14 October 1995 - BEING AN EXORCIST
13 APRIL 2022
Now here's something a bit good: this update's recoveries come thanks to Neil Miles, and they feature in their number not only the first ever appearance from The Man's Daddy, but the letter from Dantendo declaring that he'd officially changed his name by deed poll. Don't waste any time, here they come: 15/6/94, 20/3/95, 27/3/95, 3/4/95, 24/4/95, 5/5/95. Huge thanks to Neil for these amazing additions to the archive, and to Andrew Nile, who is once again responsible for making them look so grand.
From these editions, I've added that very first Man's Daddy joke, Ezrill Johns has been added to the characters A-Z, the Dantendo declaration is on the letters page, the reviews archive has been updated (deep breath: Mortal Kombat (Mega-CD), BC Racers, Road Rash 3, Warlock (Mega Drive), NFL Quarterback Club (SNES), Jelly Boy (SNES), Jelly Boy (Game Boy), Championship Hockey, Manchester United: The Double (Amiga), Manchester United: The Double (PC)), and these here Man Diaries are now in place:
15 June 1994 - THE MAN'S CELEBRITY PALS: EZRILL JOHNS
27 March 1995 - IS A HOLIDAY ENTERTAINER
3 April 1995 - PLAYING A JOKE ON DADDY
24 April 1995 - IS AN ARCHITECT
5 May 1995 - IS A RAG AND BONE MAN
5 APRIL 2022
There's no stopping the dream team of Adrian Burke and Andrew Nile right now, who bring us another seven gleaming recovered editions of Digitiser: 13/4/99, 15/9/99, 23/10/99, 23/12/99, 7/3/00, 3/7/00, 10/8/01. Once again they were unearthed by Adrian and fixed-up by Andrew - enormous thanks to them both for their continued excellence and unwavering dedication to the cause. From this bounty, I've added two more outings for Insincere Dave, an extra Edward Lear limerick, a reveal of an episode of Taggart, and the reviews archive has been updated with a bunch of titles, including full reviews of Championship Manager 3 and Destruction Derby Raw. And that: is all.
29 MARCH 2022
The deluge of recoveries courtesy of Adrian Burke continues, with another seven complete editions of Digi for your lucky eyeballs to witness: 28/2/97, 25/3/97, 1/4/97, 6/6/97, 13/6/97, 14/7/97, 9/9/97. Thanks to Adrian for his hard work and generosity, and once again to Andrew Nile for his magnificnet clean-up work on these recoveries. From these and the last few updates, I've added more letters, more Snakes, a fresh reveal (the Snakes/Inspector Morse reveal-oh, no less), and the reviews archive has been updated to include the new reviews (Cricket '97, Crusader: No Remorse, Pacific General, Pandemonium, Starfox 64). Finally, each of the latest Man Diaries are in their archive:
28 February 1997 - MEDIEVAL TORTURE VICTIM
25 March 1997 - POSH WAITER
1 April 1997 - TOY DESIGNER
6 June 1997 - PRIME MINISTER
13 June 1997 - DOCTOR
14 July 1997 - SUPER-HERO
9 September 1997 - AMATEUR DRAMATICS
23 MARCH 2022
The Adrian Burke recovery train just keeps on steaming along, and he's brought us another eight complete editions of classic Digi: 12/3/96, 26/3/96, 16/4/96, 11/7/98, 20/8/98, 13/10/98, 23/11/98, 27/11/98. There's also another three pages been added to 19/9/97 - which is curious, because we thought it was complete, but they appear to be "serious" versions of EncycloGame, replacing "less serious" pages from earlier in the day (see p173). It seems Biffo defaced the image of Garth Brookes to make him look less country cowpoke, more country Hellraiser in a little act of defiance over this.
Massive thanks to Adrian for this batch, and to Andrew Nile for doing a sterling job cleaning them up - especially considering there were some quite noisy pages to process.
On top of that little lot, there's a new Ring-Sir! been added, nine more Man's Daddy jokes that I found hiding in the depths of archive.org (head to the bottom of the page), a Channel 4 web chat with Biffo and Kevin Eldon that took place in the minutes immediately following the broadcast of Knife & Wife that was also dredged up from the archives, I've thoroughly updated the links page for the first time since 2018, and the reviews archive has been updated with the new reviews from the editions above (Tekken 3, Michael Owen's World League Soccer, Wild 9, F-Zero X, Caesar 3, and Total NBA being the reviews in question).
And as if that wasn't enough, all the Man Diaries from this update are now in their right place:
12 March 1996 - SOLD INTO SLAVERY
26 March 1996 - BEING A HYPNOTIST
16 April 1996 - BALLOON CHALLENGE
11 July 1998 - STARLIGHT EXPRESS
20 August 1998 - KING OF THE SEA
13 October 1998 - PIXIE HUNTER
23 November 1998 - GHOST MONKEY
27 November 1998 - PUNCH AND JUDY
16 MARCH 2022
The nine reviews from yesterday's update have all been added to the reviews archive:
Alpine Racer 2 - Arcade
Earthworm Jim 1 And 2 - PC
Internation Superstar Soccer Pro - PlayStation
Net: Zone - PC
Sonic 3D - Saturn
Starfighter 3000 - PlayStation
Wreckin Crew - PlayStation
Unreal - PC
Virtual Golf: Scottish Open - PC
15 MARCH 2022
There's eight more recovered editions of Digi for younow, once again unearthed by Adrian Burke and fixed-up by Andrew Nile: 30/5/95, 2/7/96, 15/10/96, 17/2/97, 21/3/97, 16/6/97, 18/6/98, 2/7/98. Needless to say, there's some excellent material contained within, and I'm forever grateful for their efforts and generosity providing this stuff to us. From them, I've added the Edward Lear fake advert, and all of the Man Diaries are now happily archived:
30 May 1995 - AT THE HOSPITAL
2 July 1996 - ROBOT INVENTOR
15 October 1996 - CARTOON PRISON
17 February 1997 - FAT, UGLY SCI-FI FAN
21 March 1997 - POSH WAITER
16 June 1997 - DOCTOR
18 June 1998 - CONSUMER WATCHDOG
2 July 1998 - ROBOT FRIEND
11 MARCH 2022
The reviews from the last update have all been added to the reviews archive: Doom on the Jaguar, 3DO
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo,
Dynamite Headdy,
Donkey Kong Country,
John Madden Football on the 3DO, and PC
Monopoly and
Rebel Assault 2.
8 MARCH 2022
Adrian Burke and Andrew Nile are both on fire at the moment - Adrian with the prolific unearthing of old Digis, and Andrew cleaning them up in next to no time. Here's the latest joyful batch they've bestowed on us: 16/12/94, 26/12/94, 27/12/94, 28/10/95, 7/12/95, 29/1/96, 8/2/96, 6/6/96. As ever, eternal thanks and gratitude to them both for their superb efforts - especially considering how much there's been to get through.
From these finds, I've added the two Man's Daddy jokes, Julian Clary now sits in both the celeb pinups gallery and on the reveal-o-page, and I've also added the seven Man Diaries from this collection:
16 December 1994 - BEING FATHER CHRISTMAS
26 & 27 December 1994 - CHRISTMAS 1994
7 December 1995 - GERMAN CELEBRITY
29 January 1996 - BEING AN A&R MAN
8 February 1996 - HIS WOODEN SON
6 June 1996 - BEING A STREAKER
5 MARCH 2022
Just a quick one - I've added the all the reviews from the last update to the reviews archive. That means full reviews of Dark Forces, Tender Loving Care, and Arcade Pool/Overdrive, plus I've added a number of titles that we only have the rating for to the index, such as 32X Virtua Racing Deluxe.
1 MARCH 2022
Back to the Digi recoveries now, and there's another four beauties for you right here: 3/9/94, 28/3/95, 14/4/95, 24/6/98. They were all unearthed by Adrian Burke and fixed-up by Andrew Nile - huge thanks to both gents for their vital work, and to Adrian for continuing to keep the recovery tap running. I've also added four more fake adverts, (one from 1995, three at the bottom from this year), and these here Man Diaries:
3 September 1994 - COMMENTATOR
28 March 1995 - IS A HOLIDAY ENTERTAINER
14 April 1995 - DESIGNING EASTER EGGS
24 June 1998 - ASTRONAUT
22 FEBRUARY 2022
It's 22/2/22 - days featuring all the same number only come round once every 11 years. Know what's also rare? A completely searchable index of Digitiser's game reviews. Well, not anymore it isn't, as for the first time since the original official Digi website's games vault closed its doors, there's a new games archive on this very site! Over 2,000 games rated - more than 1,000 full reviews. And thanks to Matt Barney's technical magic, the index page sports a fully searchable and sortable table of all those games. Monumental thanks to Matt for his superhuman efforts in giving it such great functionality, and for his general support for this site and enthusiasm - he's one of the best we have.
This has been a beast of a project to complete, over a year in the making, and a dream of mine that at times I never thought would come to fruition - and now, finally, it has. I hope you enjoy using it.
17 FEBRUARY 2022
There's another batch of recovered Digi in this update, thanks to the anonymous gent: 10/2/00, 5/7/02, 29/8/02 - all of which were fixed-up by that marvellous Mr Andrew Nile. We've also had another recovery from Adrian Burke (who's just taken receipt of 100 VHS tapes to plunder for teletext) - 17/2/93 - but we've actually seen this edition before, as it was previously marked as being from 18/3/93, due to it going out at 3.30am that day. I've added Adrian's pages as they're better quality images and removed the errant 18/2/93 entry - which means we're on the hunt for that one again.
Huge thanks to the two recovery gents for sharing their finds with us, and to Andrew for putting in all the effort managaing and cleaning the submissions, which is no small task.
If all goes according to plan, hopefully the next update will be something a little... different...
8 FEBRUARY 2022
It's another 1996 special in this update, with five more editions recovered by Tom Pitt and cleaned-up by Andrew Nile: 9/10/96, 16/10/96, 23/10/96, 6/11/96, 13/11/96. Eternal thanks once again to both gents for continuing to come up with such brilliant goods for us. Take a look at those dates - do we think we're going to see the last missing Christmas pant-oh soon? We can only hope...
The five Man Diaries from this update have all been added to their archive too:
9 October 1996 - STUNTS
16 October 1996 - CARTOON PRISON
23 October 1996 - MEDIEVAL ALCHEMIST
6 November 1996 - HOLIDAY CAMP ENTERTAINER
13 November 1996 - PHOBIA DOCTOR
30 JANUARY 2022
More Digi recoveries for you now, and these are the first fruits to emerge from Tom Pitt's latest acquisition of VHS tapes: 28/8/96, 4/9/96, 11/9/96, 18/9/96, 25/9/96. Huge thanks to Tom, and to Andrew Nile for doing the essential fix-up work on the pages once again - their efforts continue to amaze. Incidentally, Andrew has his own teletext archive site coming up on the horizon, which will be of interest to WLW-watchers, shall we say. Stay tuned for the details.
Along with the new editions, I've added an extra Insincere Dave which seems to have been a page error either broadcast a day too early or too late, and five new Man Diaries are all nestling safely in the archive as... follows:
28 August 1996 - GIANT CATCHER
4 September 1996 - MONKEY TRAINER
11 September 1996 - SUPER-HERO
18 September 1996 - CAVEMAN
25 September 1996 - BOUNCER
19 JANUARY 2022
And we're back with the first update of January 2022, which sees Andrew Nile fixing-up another fantastic batch of Digi recoveries for us, which were provided by the anonymous gent: 23/9/99, 30/9/99, 7/10/99, 14/10/99. Thanks to both chaps for continuing their awesome public service heroics into another year.
As well as the new editions, I've added 3 Man's Daddy jokes from the Christmas 2021 Digi video, two outings for Insincere Dave, one for Zombie Dave, and a link to the recent Couch Pilots Podcast about Biffovision has been added to the interviews page.
Finally, it's a new year and a new start for Super Page 58, as long-term friend of the site, Matt Barney - who's been offering his support for over 20 years now - is now providing the web hosting for it. This means it's more secure, and won't just vanish from the web if anything "untoward" ever happens to me. It's a brilliant development and something I'm incredibly happy about - Matt's generosity and community spirit are things I'll forever be grateful for. There really are some superb folk in this community. Thanks Matt!
20 DECEMBER 2021
We're squeezing in one more update before Christmas thanks to Neil Miles, who brings us these early Digi delights: 25/2/93, 13/3/93, 24/12/94. I've rushed them out because we've only gone and found the 1994 Christmas pant-oh! Yes, that's another grail found - and we're now only missing the 1996 outing. Huge thanks to Neil and the ever-heroic Andrew Nile for the fixing-up and the coordination - their festive timing is absolutely impeccable. I've also added the lone Christmas '94 Man Diary too.
Happy foetus, one and all!
15 DECEMBER 2021
There's another three recovered editions of Digi from the desk of Adrian Burke for you this week: 19/3/96, 4/7/01, 18/7/01 . Once again, these have been cleaned-up by Andrew Nile, who's really doing a sterling job with this batch, which have been in bad shape. Big old festive thanks to Adrian and and Andrew for their hard work and generosity - hopefully there are more treats still to come before the year is out.
As well as these new editions, I've added an outing for Insincere Dave, five more letters; Garth Brookes and Marcel Marceau are now residing happily in the characters A-Z, and no less than 20 Man's Daddy jokes have been added to his page. I finally had time to check for any that were missing and found a few - the archive of funnees is now as complete as it can be. The new jokes start with "QUESTION: What did the big barber say to the little barber?" Finally, one more Man Diary has also been added. And that is all. Merry!
8 DECEMBER 2021
It's Adrian Burke's turn to provide us with the Digi recoveries, as he gives us a compact but juicy bunch of editions: 14/1/95, 23/5/97, 20/11/99. Thanks to Adrian for these brilliant editions, and big, big thanks to Andrew Nile for his clean-up work this week, as there was a lot of signal noise in these ones, mostly in the 1995 edition, so an extra effort had to be made to make them all ready for your gaze.
From these and other recent stuff I've added the pin-up of Smokey Robinson, nine more reveal-ohs, two Man's Daddy jokes, and four more fake adverts. Plus? Plus these two Man Diaries:
14 January 1995 - EASTENDERS
23 May 1997 - GHOSTBUSTER
1 DECEMBER 2021
What's behind the first window on your Digi advent calendar? Why, six more recovered editions, just waiting for you to rub your eyes over: 21/11/97, 28/11/97, 5/12/97, 12/12/97 (all recovered by Jason Robertson), 27/7/99, 3/8/99 (both recovered by the anonymous gent). As ever, that man Andrew Nile is the excellent sort responsible for keeping this all organised and fixing them-up for us - great big thanks and firm handshakes all round to the "triffic trio" for all the hard work they've put in for us.
From this batch, two more early outings for Insincere Dave have been added, as have these here Man Diaries:
21 November 1997 - FREAK SHOW
28 November 1997 - INVENTOR
5 December 1997 - SHOE ELF
12 December 1997 - TURKEY FARM
24 NOVEMBER 2021
Time for another dose of Digi recoveries - six editions from its middle period, all found by Jason Robertson - The Teletext Archaeologist himself. Quick! There they go now: 31/7/96, 15/2/97, 5/9/97, 12/9/97, 19/9/97, 17/10/97. They were all cleaned-up and organised by the inimitable Mr Andrew Nile - ruddy great thanks to him and Jason for their superb efforts once again.
This is a particularly interesting batch, as we see what appears to be the first ever mention of puffy jackets on Digi (15/2/97), Biffo being told to "watch the sneaks, man" by one of them (17/10/97), the results of the latest poll on whether to keep The Man (19/9/97) - and Biffo runs into Calley from Grange Hill at ECTS (12/9/97), as referenced long ago in the Do You See? guide to Digi. And of course, the Man Diaries all now have a home where they didn't before:
15 February 1997 - FAT, UGLY SCI-FI FAN
5 September 1997 - AMATEUR DRAMATICS
12 September 1997 - PLUMBER
19 September 1997 - STAGE MAGICIAN
17 October 1997 - SURVIVAL GUIDE
17 NOVEMBER 2021
It's another bumper crop of recovered Digi in this update, and this week we're treated to a whole bunch from early 1994 (plus more besides): 25/1/94, 1/2/94, 15/2/94, 5/3/94, 26/2/96, 14/6/01. There's plenty of Man-related revelations and sinister goings-on with Doctor Derek Doctors and his cult in there. We also now have a complete and error-free version of 18/1/94, which is significant because it of course features Pat Walker's transformation back into The Man, which you can now see as originally intended.
All of these editions were recovered by the anonymous gent, and cleaned-up and organised for us by Andrew Nile - both of whom show no signs of slowing down, and we're the lucky ones who get to benefit. Huge thanks to Andrew and the Gent for everything they're continuing to do in bringing this amazing old material to light again.
From it, I've added loads more to the Doctor Derek Doctors page, two more top 10s, and these here Man Diaries:
25 January 1994 - JOINING A CULT
1 February 1994 - BIRTHDAY ENTERTAINER
15 February 1994 - IN HELL
26 February 1996 - FAST-FOOD FRANCHISE
10 NOVEMBER 2021
Our fine friends the anonymous gent and Andrew Nile have been busy again, bringing us another six recovered editions of Digi from its classic 98/99 era: 19/10/98, 28/9/99, 5/10/99, 12/10/99, 26/10/99, 2/11/99.
These were all recovered by the gent and fixed-up by Andrew - gratuitously large thanks as ever to them both for all the work they put in for us lucky lot.
From these, I've added two more outings for Insincere Dave, another one for Zombie Dave, and one more Man Diary:
19 October 1998 - GORILLA WATCHER
3 NOVEMBER 2021
Back to the recoveries today, and the anonymous gent has come up trumps, treating us to six more editions, including three crackers from 1994: 19/3/94, 29/9/94, 9/12/94, 5/1/00, 23/7/01, 3/1/02. They were all fixed up by the super-gent that is Andrew Nile, who continues to do the absolute business for us - huge thanks to both of them.
From these, I've added one more outing for Insincere Dave, and three more Man Diaries:
19 March 1994 - PRIVATE DICKS
29 September 1994 - HAS WON A COMPETITION
9 December 1994 - TV SITCOM
31 OCTOBER 2021
Just a quick one today. All of the reveal-o-pics that Biffo created as backer rewards for a random selection of supporters who donated towards Digitiser The Show Level 2 have been added to their own page as Twitter embeds. Eventually I'll add them as images alone so they load quicker and you can see them more easily, but seeing as there are 142 of them... this will do for now.
Elsewhere, I've also added another two chats with Biffo to the interviews page.
27 OCTOBER 2021
As I write this, the total raised in the Digitiser The Show Level 2 Kickstarter has just swelled to over £70,000 - a frankly staggering amount. Congratulations to Mr Biffo, and well done to everyone who chipped in to make it happen. There are still a few hours left if you haven't donated to it yet.
On the update front, there are another five recovered editions of Digi for you, all unearthed by Adrian Burke and fixed up by Andrew Nile, and all from 1998: 6/4/98, 23/5/98, 11/9/98, 28/12/98, 31/12/98. Huge thanks to Adrian and Andrew for their stellar efforts - as always, I'm blown away by the effort these guys put in for us.
From these editions, I've added three more Man's Daddy jokes (how they were missed at the time, I do not know - must have been a good Christmas in the Bellston house), and a couple of Man Diaries:
23 May 1998 - SAFARI PARK MONKEY
11 September 1998 - SPACEMAN
20 OCTOBER 2021
There are six more recovered editions of Digi eagerly awaiting your gaze, all of which have been lovingly fixed-up by the deft hand of Andrew Nile, and were recovered by:
Adrian Burke: 3/2/95, 29/3/97, 17/5/97
Tom Pitt: 15/9/02, 19/10/02, 22/10/02
The very biggest of love-ups to Andrew, Adrian, and Tom for their relentlessly excelent work, which is as always appreciated a quite stupid amount.
From these editions, I've added the new Ring-Sir!, Prints, and Man Diaries:
3 February 1995 - WITH POP STAR "PRINTS"
29 March 1997 - TOY DESIGNER
17 May 1997 - CIRCUS CLOWN
Plus I've put Biffo's highly entertaining recent interview withthe What's Wrong With Wolfie? podcast on the interviews page.
Last but not least: there just eight days left to back Digitiser The Show Level 2 on Kickstarter - do not miss out. No. Don't.
13 OCTOBER 2021
The Digi recoveries just keep coming, and this week we welcome back Adrian Burke, who has recently got his hands on a batch of 200(!) VHS tapes, the fruits of which are already flowing: 26/3/97, 25/1/99; while Jason Robertson is back with another clutch too: 20/8/99, 3/11/99, 23/11/01 (also found by Adrian), 26/8/02, 1/9/02. Stupidly great thanks to these guys for these editions - and to Andrew Nile, who is doing some invaluable work for us fixing all the editions up and keeping track of what's coming in. It's just daft how much work they all put in for our benefit - I'm incredibly grateful, and I'm sure you are too (yes? Yes).
From these last couple of updates, I've added 12 more reveal-ohs, a couple of Insincere Daves, a new Rapping Shoe rap, another letter to Digi, a mugshot for "Virtual" Eric to the characters page, and the Man Diary from this update's 1997 edition:
So there we are, a positively "stuffed" update. And don't be slackin', now: go and back Digitiser The Show on Kickstarter if you haven't yet. There are two weeks left and we're just five grand away from Ste Pickford doing the artwork, which really needs to happen. Go: give Biffo money! You know he'll spend it "wisely"...
7 OCTOBER 2021
Another week, another 7 recovered editions of Digi for you: 20/5/00, (courtesy of the anonymous gent), 17/6/00, 12/7/00, 22/5/02, 24/7/02, 26/7/02, 2/8/02 (all recovered by Jason Robertson).
Once again Andrew Nile was there putting in all the effort cleaning them up and organising these editions - huge thanks to him for all the crucial work he puts in, as well to the two excellent chaps above who provided the recoveries.
From them, I've added the new Ring-sir!, which is a bit of a classic. I've also added Mr Biffo's recent interview with the Absolute Bedlam podcast to the Biffo interviews page.
Finally, remember to back Digitiser The Show on Kickstarter. It's going great guns but the pledges have slowed down as we approach the mid-point of the campaign. Don't miss out on that lovely merch - and help to create another slice of Digi brilliance into the bargain.
1 OCTOBER 2021
Another 7 recovered editions of Digi for you in this update, all brought to you thanks to the stellar efforts of Andrew Nile, and recovered by:
Tom Pitt: 8/12/01, 21/12/01, 6/3/02, 2/5/02
The anonymous gent: 17/12/01
Jason Robertson: 5/1/02, 23/1/02
These all span the period known to us as 'Digigate', so no funnees, sadly, but some interesting stuff, and noteworthy reviews (Shenmue 2, Doom on the GBA) - plus predictions for 2002 - make these worth a look still.
Ruddy great thanks as ever to everyone responsible for putting this material cosily in our laps - for the hard work of the guys doing the recovering, and to Andrew for all the elbow grease getting them ship-shape.
And don't forget to back Digitiser The Show on Kickstarter!
28 SEPTEMBER 2021
The Kickstarter for the new series of Digitiser The Show is now live! In fact, it reached its funding target of £25,000 in just two and a half hours.
As an incentive to keep the pledges rolling in, Mr Biffo gave me his consent to add the Man's Daddy jokes from the first series campaign's digital joke book. Because another £10k was added before 10pm tonight, you can see another 90 - yes, NINETY Man's Daddy jokes right now!
I gave the backers 10 hours to reach that target, and they needed less than five - and it's still going strong. Never underestimate the power of Biffo.
The jokes have all been added to the bottom of the page (before The Man's jokes). They start from:
QUESTION: What noise do ducks make under water?
ANSWER: "Aquack!"
And finish with:
QUESTION: When will these jokes stop?
ANSWER: Almost immediately
There are some fantastic backer rewards available, so even though it's fully funded ON DAY ONE of the campaign, I highly recommend you get over there and get yourself some sweet, sweet Digi swag.
22 SEPTEMBER 2021
Are you ready for more Digitiser The Show? The Kickstarter campaign for the second series - billed as Level 2 - launches on 28 September. But that's just a few days away! It promises to be another injection of glorious televisual anarchy, and you can get some sweet, sweet backer rewards if you get in on the ground floor. Next week!
And from all-new Digi, to new-old Digi, in the form of six more recovered editions, provided once again by that nice Mr Andrew Nile, which were recovered by:
The anonymous gent - 4/1/94, 6/8/01 (Tom Pitt also found this edition), 29/10/01
Big love-ups to the excellent sorts who provided all of those editions for us, and especially to Andrew for continuing with the runnin' around' and the fixin' it togeth'.
Finally: back Digitiser The Show Level 2! About which, there is now a video by a man... a Biffo-man:
15 SEPTEMBER 2021
The Digitisier recovery juggernaut just keeps on powering along, with another five editions of Digi, cleaned-up by the legend that is Andrew Nile: 22/6/01 (thanks to the anonymous gent), 27/6/01, 28/6/01 (revovered by Tom Pitt), 29/6/01 (recovered by both Tom and the anon), 6/7/01 (anonymous gent again).
Huge thanks to all three gents for the incredible, invaluable work they continue to do for the cause - it never ceases to amaze me that we have people in the community willing to do this stuff for us.
As for the spoils from these editions, I've added two more outings for Insincere Dave, 10 reveal-ohs, eight more classic letters, and three Tomb Raider scripts.
7 SEPTEMBER 2021
How was Digi Live for you? By all accounts, it looked to be a smash hit on a grand scale. Congratulations to Biffo and the team for "pulling" it "off"!
And now back to the important business of recovered editions of Digi - Andrew Nile is showing no signs of slowing down, bringing us another six bulbous outings for your ocular pleasure: 31/5/97, 16/1/01 (both recovered by Tom Pitt), 22/1/01, 9/4/01, 8/5/01, 9/5/01 (all recovered by Jason Robertson).
Big sloppy thanks as ever to those three superstars for resurrecting this brilliant material for us - there really is some excellent stuff in this batch.
From it I've added two new appearances from Zombie Dave, and the butler Man Diary.
31 AUGUST 2021
Happy transfer deadline day! Sorry, wrong website. But we do have some new additions for you. Seven new editions of Digi, that is - all courtesy of Andrew Nile, who has again done sterling work cleaning them up for us.
Here they come now:
31/1/00, 7/2/00, 14/2/00 (recovered by the anonymous gent); 20/12/00, 3/1/01, 5/1/01, 6/1/01 (all recovered by Jason Robertson).
Gratuitously filthy thanks to all three of those most excellent fellows for their contributions and all the help they continue to provide.
As for other updates, I've also added 14 more Snakes pics, four from Insincere Dave, and a Wizard of Oz script-oh (right at the bottom of the page there - not sure how that originally slipped through the net).
Finally, do enjoy Digitiser Live this coming Saturday, those that are going - I hope you all have an absolute "blast". And all the very best to Biffo, Sanja and the crew for the performance. I have a feeling it'll be something special.
23 AUGUST 2021
And on this day our great benefactor Andrew Nile bestowed upon us such a bountiful harvest of recovered Digis. Eight editions, in fact! Chock full of all the things you love they are, too:
2/3/98, 19/9/98, 26/9/98, 3/10/98 (all recovered by the anonymous gent), 10/10/98, 5/12/00, 6/12/00, 7/12/00 (all recovered by Tom Pitt).
Thanks so much to Andrew for cleaning them up and organising them, and of course to our anonymous friend and Tom Pitt for all their work unearthing these delights for us. We applaud your efforts once again!
From these, I've added the Ring-sir! from the 26/9/98 edition, and the new top "10s" to their page (right at the very bottom), plus the two Man Diaries that weren't in the archive... now... are:
19 September 1998 - TALK TO VEGETABLES
26 September 1998 - YOUR STARS TODAY
16 AUGUST 2021
Our good friend Andrew Nile has been busy this week, and brings us six more editions of recovered Digi: 30/9/96,(recovered by Adrian Burke), 29/7/00, 14/8/00, 17/8/00, 2/9/00, 1/12/00 (all recovered by Jason Robertson). These are some hefty editions, with a fair few appearances from classic Digi characters.
Thanks as ever to Adrian and Jason for unearthing yet more teletextual gold, and to Andrew for doing the absolute business cleaning them up to such great quality images.
Lastly, the Man Diary from the '96 edition has been added to the archives:
30 September 1996 - OVERSEAS TEACHER
8 AUGUST 2021
Another three editions of Digi have been added to The Vault - and they're nice early ones, too: 4/2/93, 23/4/94, 15/8/95. The '93 and '95 editions were both recovered by Adrian Burke, while that engorged '94 outing comes courtesy of the anonymous gent. All three were fixed-up by Andrew Nile, who's doing a stellar job of processing and organising the recoveries that are coming in.
Grandiose thanks and effusive praise to all three lovely individuals who provided the material that's gone into this update: it is hugely appreciated.
Finally, the two Man Diaries from these editions have been added to the archives:
23 April 1994 - SMASHING THE SYSTEM
15 August 1995 - ADULT CIRCUS
2 AUGUST 2021
A couple more unearthed editions of Digi for you in this update, from two Januarys six years apart. Both of them were recovered by Adrian Burke: 12/1/95 (fixed-up by Andrew Nile), 27/1/01 (fixed-up by Adrian himself - his first attempt at doing so. Looks pretty good to me!). I've also upgraded the 13/8/93 edition with newly-resampled pages produced by Alistair Cree (there's nothing new here, but it's all now correct and CRC-confirmed).
From these editions I've added the 12th Jan EastEnders Man Diary, and three more reveal-ohs.
Huge thanks to all three excellent gents for keeping us running - and special thanks to Matt Barney for essential behind the scenes technical assistance, which has really helped me out. I continue to be amazed by the goodwill and dedication of the community in keeping our little show on the road - what a bunch of swell types they all are!
26 JULY 2021
The post-Tim Bisley era gets underway with the return of an old friend, in the form of Andrew Nile - who has graciously and heroically stepped in to help with compiling and fixing-up the recoveries. And? And here's the first one now: 8/11/94 - recovered by Adrian Burke, from an Evan Scanlon tape.
Huge thanks to the three gents involved in brining this to us, and especially to Andrew for stepping into the breach so we can continue seeing these great recoveries. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's incredibly grateful he's rejoined the fray.
There's a fair amount of notable material in this single edition, which has yielded a Man Diary, two more letters for the You Have Messed-Up page, including a classic Mean Machines one, which has prompted me to update the Digi/MMS feud page with it, and a Digi-obsessed MMS editorial column which I inexplicably missed when I first wrote that feature (see issue 27 - Jan 1995).
10 JULY 2021
It's with a heavy heart that I bring you this update, as it comes with the announcement of Tim Bisley's retirement from the teleetxt recovery scene. Tim has contributed an insane amount to the cause of Digi recoveries, and it's the understatement of the millennium to say that his efforts will be missed. He truly has been a titanic figure in the community, and has made my job so much easier with all the running between contributors and cleaning-up of editions that he's done. Tim - I salute you. Well all salute you. His departure is, happily, due to very positive life events, so we should all be very glad and thankful.
Tim leaves us with these final two editions of Digi that he's cleaned up, recovered by Jason Robertson: 15/6/00, 22/7/00. I've also added new Man's Daddy jokes and an Insincere Dave from these, too.
What an incredible run it's been since he started contributing in October 2019. He should know that the whole community owes him a monumental debt of gratitude. We all wish him well in the next chapter of his life.
With Tim moving on, that of course means there's a vacancy for anyone who might want to help out with the collating and cleaning-up of recovered editions of Digi. He's going to share all his workflow files on Github, and will hand over the outstanding Digi teletext t42 files to anyone who wants to pick up the baton from him - if you're interested, please do drop me an email to superpage58@gmail.com.
Does anyone else have a tear in their eye?
1 JULY 2021
More of a small but perfectly-formed update this time, with four editions of Digi, all recovered by Jason Robertson: 18/5/93, 11/3/00, 7/4/00, 5/6/00 (it's currently a mystery who provided the tapes, but if we ever find out I'll credit them). The most significant find in this batch is of course a first teletext glimpse of The Man's pet, Duncan, in the '93 edition - that's another grail found! I've added his image to the characters A-Z in place of the cartoon version from the image on the homepage.
Thanks to Jason for this brilliant selection, and to Tim Bisley, who continues to work tirelessly away bringing this stuff to us in such pristine condition.
24 JUNE 2021
It's another blast of recovered Digi for you now, from its very earliest days, right on into the new millennium. Courtesy of:
The anonymous gent: 23/8/93, 1/9/93
Jason Robertson: 26/11/99, 3/12/99, 21/1/00 (tapes donated by John Veness), 24/1/00 (tape provided by Martin Smith)
These editions were all fixed-up by Tim Bisley - thanks again to Tim for his tireless efforts, and to all those who recovered the editions above, or supplied the tapes for us.
This batch yielded one more Zombie Dave outing, and an Insincere Dave to boot, both of which are now on their pages.
And that: is: that. That!
19 JUNE 2021
A more compact update this time compared to recently, but there's still some lovely stuff to be found in these latest four recovered editions of Digitiser. Courtesy of:
The anonymous gent: 10/7/99 (tape provided by "Ben")
Jason Robertson: 5/11/99, 12/11/99, 19/11/99 (tapes donated by John Veness)
All of which were fixed-up by Tim Bisley, who not only continues to do a brilliant job of that, but is also doing the running collecting all the files from people. Thanks to everyone involved in bringing this great stuff to us once again.
The Mr T reveal-ohs from the 10 July edition have also been added to the Reveals page in his section.
14 JUNE 2021
It's another stuffed-to-bursting update, with 12 more editions of Digi added to the site, courtesy of:
The anonymous gent: 29/4/00, 24/1/01, 28/1/02
Adrian Burke: 4/1/01, 11/7/01, 16/7/01, 27/8/01 (tapes donated by Evan Scanlon)
Tom Pitt: 5/2/01, 17/7/01, 15/8/01, 20/10/01
All of the above apart from 30/10/99 and 24/1/01 have been fixed-up for us by Andrew Nile, while the other two were smartened-up by Tim Bisley, who also did all the running and organisation as usual.
Eternal thanks once again to all the many contributors who have allowed us to see this material - you are solid gold excellent fellows.
From this little lot, I've added the latest Ring-sir!, 20 more reveal-ohs, another outing for Insincere Dave, one more letter, The Punster is in the characters A-Z (though he's effectively the same character as The Pun-Meister), and the EastEnders entry of the Do You See? Digi A-Z has been updated to include the tale of how a tribute to Frank Butcher came to nestle on the pages of Digi the evening he departed the soap. Oh, and as far as my investigations have shown, the Planet Of The Budgies film script appears to have been the only scene ever published from it, so rather than starting a whole new page, I've added it to the bottom of the Planet Of The Apes page. Please excuse this outrageous transgression.
And with that... the backlog was cleared! It doesn't happen very often, so I'm going to enjoy that feeling. Ahhhh!
8 JUNE 2021
May the... just kidding. A wide-ranging update for you now, with stuff going on all over the shop. Starting with five vintage editions of Digi recovered by Jason Robertson: 2/9/98, 3/4/99, 15/10/99, 22/10/99, 29/10/99. The latter three were all liberated from tapes provided by John Veness (and in fact the first two may have been as well, we don't quite know at this point). Huge thanks to Jason and John for their contributions, and to Tim Bisley for doing his usual sterling fixing-up/organisational job.
I've managed to get through some of the recent backlog too, meaning that we now have no less than ten new characters in the A-Z: B2, Beggs, Bergerac, The Firelighter, Flipper, G.E., Humpty Dumpty, Piltdown Man, Commander Richard Lipzt, and The Rone. Not only that, but the latest Ring-sir! is also in place (it's a bit of a good one), there are five new Snakes pics, seven more Morse & Lewis, two from Insincere Dave, and five more letters to Digi are in the You Have Messed-Up page - including the infamous "S. Twain is an anagram of W. Stain" reply. We're getting all the classics now.
1 JUNE 2021
May the June the 1st be with you! The hits just keep coming, with yet another "knapsack" full of recovered Digis for you:
Recovered by:
Andrew Nile: 20/9/97, 18/10/97, 22/11/97 (fixed by Andrew himself)
Jason Robertson: 3/7/98, 1/8/98, 4/8/98, 27/8/99, 3/9/99, 10/9/99, 24/9/99, 1/10/99, 8/10/99 (tapes donated by John Veness)
Adrian Burke: 13/4/02 (tape donated by Evan Scanlon, fixed-up by Andrew Nile)
All of the above were cleaned-up by Tim Bisley unless otherwise stated.
Thanks as ever to all the heroic individuals who brought us this feast of Digi, including Tim Bisley, who once again organised and fixed-up (unless otherwise stated) these editions. He truly is Super Dude 73.
As well as the newly-recovered editions, I've added the Ring-sir! from 18/10/97 above, another Zombie Dave outing, and the Man Diaries that weren't already in the archive... now... are:
20 September 1997 - STAGE MAGICIAN
18 October 1997 - SURVIVAL GUIDE
22 November 1997 - LIMERICK RECITALS
24 MAY 2021
May the 24th be with you! It's another feast of recovered Digi in this update. Let's dive right in...
Recovered by:
Tom Pitt: 11/6/94, 3/2/96, 3/7/99 (fixed-up by Tim Bisley),12/9/02 (fixed-up by Andrew Nile)
Dan Tootill: 9/9/95 (fixed-up by Tim Bisley)
Jason Robertson: 30/7/99, 6/8/99, 7/8/99, 9/8/99, 13/8/99 (tapes donated by John Veness)
The anonymous gent: 25/9/00, 25/11/00 (fixed-up by Andrew Nile)
All of the above were cleaned-up by Tim Bisley unless otherwise stated. He continues to be the biggest possible credit to the Digi community and deserves our unending thanks - as do all of the other fine folks above, who are helping us absolutely gallop along with the recoveries.
As well as the newly-recovered editions, there are 8 new Snakes pics, one each of Zombie Dave, Insincere Dave, and Morse & Lewis; and I've added Dan Tootill's Paul McCartney simu-sing to the celeb pinups gallery. As ever, the Man Diaries that weren't already in the archive have also been added:
11 June 1994 - CAPED CRUSADER
3 February 1996 - IN ANCIENT GREECE
17 MAY 2021
May the 17th be with you! That is funny joke. And now: on with the Digi recoveries! Here come nine more plump editions just for you...
Recovered by:
Tom Pitt: 15/11/93 (fixed-up by Tim Bisley), 30/1/01 (fixed-up by Andrew Nile)
Adrian Burke: 30/6/99 (tape donated by Evan Scanlon)
Jason Robertson: 5/7/99, 9/7/99, 23/7/99 (tapes donated by John Veness)
The anonymous gent: 29/1/01 (fixed-up by Andrew Nile)
Unless otherwise stated, all of the above were fixed-up by the indispensable Mr Tim Bisley.
Thanks to everyone who contributed in some way to this update - these editions were a real team effort, with so many different people in the teletext community chipping in.
As well as the newly-recovered editions, I've dispersed the fruits of the last few updates across the site: 15 images have been added to the Snakes page - including what looks like their first couple of appearances from June '98 - there are 23 more Reveal-Ohs, 14 more letters to Digi are now in the You Have Messed-Up page, there's a new Zombie Dave, a new Insincere Dave, and one more top 10; plus the two Man Diaries that weren't already in the archive:
13 June 1995 - IN BORSTAL
6 February 1997 - FREAK SHOW OWNER
10 MAY 2021
May the 10th be with you! Hello, yes? I have been "indisposed", but am now "better". The Digi recoveries wait for no man, though, and just look at how many have come in since the last update.
Recovered by:
Jason Robertson: 6/6/98, 12/6/98, 13/6/98, 23/7/98, 24/7/98 (tapes donated by John Sinclair), 24/12/98 (tape donated by JimTheSchoolGirl), 5/4/99 (tape donated by John Veness)
Adrian Burke: 1/7/98, 6/7/98, 8/7/98, 17/10/98, 26/11/98 (tapes donated by Evan Scanlon)
As well as all the fine individuals above, we of course have Tim Bisley to thank for his essential work organising efforts and fixing-up all these editions into the sparkling condition you see them in.
From this enromous haul, I've added the Ring-sir! from 28/12/96, six more top 10s, 17 Morse & Lewis pics, one piece of advice from Mr T, and the 11 Man Diaries that weren't already in the archive:
28 December 1996 - WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
6 June 1998 - CELEB STAND-IN
12 June 1998 - MAN AND GRETL
13 June 1998 - EASTENDERS VIDEOS
1 July 1998 - ROBOT FRIEND
6 July 1998 - MEDUSA STAND-IN
8 July 1998 - LIGHTER MAKER
24 July 1998 - GHOST TRAIN
17 October 1998 - GORILLA WATCHER
26 November 1998 - PUNCH AND JUDY
24 December 1998 - SANTA'S HELPER
30 APRIL 2021
Time for another bumper crop of recovered Digi for you, recovered by:
Jason Robertson: 2/11/93, 20/11/97, 27/11/97, 4/12/97, 11/12/97, 9/5/98, 16/5/98, (tapes donated by John Veness), 23/5/98 (tape donated by John Sinclair)
Adrian Burke: 21/1/98, 4/2/98, 11/2/98, 3/3/98 (tapes donated by Evan Scanlon)
Tim Bisley is the tireless hero who keeps organising it all and cleaning the pages for us - eternal thanks to him for this mammoth job and all those above who have contributed towards allowing us to see these brilliant editions again. I've added the Ring-sir! from 16/5/98, and the seven Man Diaries that weren't already in the archive:
20 November 1997 - PAST LIVES
27 November 1997 - INVENTOR
4 December 1997 - SHOE ELF
11 December 1997 - FIFTH TELETUBBY
21 January 1998 - THE INCREDIBLE HULK
4 February 1998 - BALLOON ATTEMPT
9 May 1998 - ASTROLOGY SECTION
23 APRIL 2021
Fancy another update? Just a quick one? Of course you do. Another five recovered editions of Digi have been added to The Vault courtesy of the following fine individuals:
Jason Robertson: 6/9/97 (tape donated by JimTheSchoolGirl), 26/9/97, 3/10/97, 24/10/97 (tapes donated by John Veness)
Adrian Burke: 27/9/97 (tape donated by Evan Scanlon)
Thanks as ever to Tim Bisley for his vital part in bringing us these recoveries in such great condition, and to everyone who contributed them to the Digi preservation cause. The five Man Diaries from these editions are now in their archive, too:
6 September 1997 - AMATEUR DRAMATICS
26 & 27 September 1997 - SHORT-SIGHTED IDIOT
3 October 1997 - BUSKER
24 October 1997 - PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR
19 APRIL 2021
Ready for your next helping of recovered Digi? He comes the spoon, heaped with delights from... the anonymous gent: 22/4/94; Adrian Burke: 6/5/97 (from a tape provided by Evan Scanlon); Jason Robertson: 5/7/97, (tape donated by "Forsyth"), 11/7/97, 18/7/97, 8/8/97, 15/8/97, 29/8/97 (tapes donated by John Veness). Tim Bisley continues to work like a man possessed to bring us the shiniest versions possible of all these editions. Huge thanks as ever to everyone who contributed and allowed us to see this stuff - I say it every update, but I and the whole Digi community really are eternally gratefully for everything they do. The spoils from these editions have been divided up across the site once again, with Digi's three jokes from 1997 added to the Man's Daddy page, the tribute to Frank Butcher is in the celeb pinups gallery, and three new pages have been added to the lair of Dr Derek Doctors. The 14 most recently-recovered Man Diaries have all been added to their archive, too:
28 January 1994 - JOINING A CULT
4 February 1994 - IN THE NICK
8 April 1994 - UNDER THE KNIFE
22 April 1994 - THE INVISIBLE MAN WITH A LONG CHIN
7 May 1994 - JOURNEY TO HEAVEN
28 December 1994 - CHRISTMAS 1994
16 August 1995 - ADULT CIRCUS
26 August 1996 - GIANT CATCHER
6 May 1997 - DRIVING INSTRUCTOR
11 & 18 July 1997 - SUPER-HERO
8 August 1997 - GIANT CLAM
15 August 1997 - HAUNTED HOUSE
29 August 1997 - BAD SPACESTATION
14 APRIL 2021
It's a big welcome back to Adrian Burke for this update, who's been busy recovering more long-lost editions of Digitiser for us, from tapes donated by Evan Scanlon. As if that wasn't enough, the anonymous gent is also back with more early editions too. Here they all come now: 28/8/93 (thanks to Adrian), 28/1/94, 4/2/94, 8/4/94 (thanks to the anon), 7/5/94, 28/12/94, 16/8/95, 25/12/95 (missing 3 pages found, making this edition complete), 26/8/96, 1/3/03 (all thanks to Adrian again). Tim Bisley has once again done a superb job of fixing them all up and coordinating the submissions for us - profuse thanks to him and all these excellent individuals, who just keep the Digi recovery train powering along.
10 APRIL 2021
Another lovely big load of recovered Digi is now nestling comfortably in The Vault: 31/12/93, 7/1/94, both thanks to the anonymous gent, while Jason Robertson gives us: 8/11/96, 15/11/96, 29/11/96 (from tapes donated by John Veness), 14/4/97, (tape donated by John Sinclair), 14/6/97, 18/6/97 (tapes donated by "Forsyth"). The anon has also given us a new recovery of 25/2/94, so the charts have been added to it, along with a clean-up of the existing pages, many of which had a few words and/or rows missing. As ever, Tim Bisley is the genius who fixed them all up nicely for us. Thanks so much to all involved in getting this material to us, it's hugely appreciated.
The 7 Man Diaries from these editions have all been added to their archive too:
7 January 1994 - WALK ON! WITH PAT WALKER
8 November 1996 - PHOBIA DOCTOR
15 November 1996 - KNIGHT RIDER
29 November 1996 - ALIEN ABDUCTEE
14 April 1997 - VAMPIRE HUNTER
14 & 18 June 1997 - DOCTOR
5 APRIL 2021
There's no other way of saying it: this update is huge. So much recovered Digi has been added that we might as well get right to business.
Editions recovered by:
The anonymous gent: 4/3/94, 11/3/94, 18/3/94, 25/3/94 (fixed-up by Tim Bisley), 5/9/02, 16/9/02, 18/9/02 (fixed-up by Andrew Nile)
Jason Robertson: 6/9/96, 13/9/96, 20/9/96, 27/9/96, 18/10/96, 25/10/96 (fixed-up by Tim Bisley, from tapes donated by John Veness)
Xed: 14/11/97, 28/10/98, 22/1/99, 23/1/99, 2/6/00 (fixed-up by Tim Bisley)
Massive thanks to the whole team of people involved in getting this little lot to us - it beggars belief that this has all been submitted in less than a week. We truly are lucky to have so many people working to allow this material to be seen again.
The 13 Man Diaries included have all been added to their archive too:
4 & 11 March 1994 - DOING MUSIC
18 March 1994 - PRIVATE DICKS
25 March 1994 - BEING A SKELLIE
6 September 1996 - MONKEY TRAINER
13 September 1996 - SUPER-HERO
20 September 1996 - CAVEMAN
27 September 1996 - ENGLISH TEACHER
18 October 1996 - TV ADVERT PRISON
25 October 1996 - MEDIEVAL ALCHEMIST
14 November 1997 - CAVEMAN NEIGHBOURS
28 October 1998 - BIG TOMATO
23 January 1999 - PRACTICAL JOKES
1 APRIL 2021
I promise you this update isn't an April Fool. Except: it is! But only in that it's one of the most sought-after editions of Digi out there: the 1996 'Gamma 7' April Fool grail. 25 years ago today, Digitiser fans nearly had a coronary when we saw that index page - and now we can relive those terrifying moments. We have Jason Robertson to thank for allowing us to see this again, who recovered it from a tape donated by John Veness; while Tim Bisley did the fabulous clean-up and organisational work. I've also added the Man Diary from this edition to the archive:
1 April 1996 - NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
30 MARCH 2021
More Digitiser VHS recoveries by Jason Robertson for you now: 12/6/96 (tape donated by John Sinclair), 16/8/96, 23/8/96, 30/8/96 (all from tapes donated by John Veness), 10/6/98 (John Sinclair with the tape again). As ever Tim Bisley has done a superlative job organising it all together and smartening-up the images. Thanks and sweeping cap-doffs to all the gents involved for this great work. The choicest chunks from these and recent editions have been dispersed across the site, including: Ring-sir! regulator prank, 4 Man's Daddy jokes (near the top of the page as they're all oldies), 2 celeb song/story-shows (Chris Barrie and Liam Gallagher), 1 little Morse & Lewis pic, and 11 Man Diaries to the order of:
3 April 1996 - CEREAL GIFT DESIGN
14 & 17 April 1996 - BALLOON CHALLENGE
3 & 4 May 1996 - TEST PILOT
12 June 1996 - PERFUME COUNTER
16 August 1996 - BOXING CAREER
23 August 1996 - GIANT CATCHER
30 August 1996 - BORED MAN
17 November 1997 - PAST LIVES
11 June 1998 - MAN AND GRETL
25 MARCH 2021
The avalanche of recoveries coming in from Jason Robertson continues to shatter the stillness, with another six belters from 1996 crashing down around us: 3/4/96, 10/4/96, 13/4/96, 17/4/96 (from tapes donated by John Veness), 3/5/96, (from a tape donated by JimTheSchoolGirl), 4/5/96 (a Veness-tape again). But that's not all, because we have a new face taking to the teletext recovery slopes in the form of Xed, who's given us this splendid pair: 17/11/97, 2/12/00. As ever, the tireless Tim Bisley has coordinated it all and cleaned everything up until it sparkles. Massive great thanks to all involved in this work, which continues to knock these socks off: mine (and yours).
21 MARCH 2021
If you follow this site on Twitter, then you may have seen the news that Jason Robertson - the esteemed Teletext Archaeologist himself - recently put the mother lode of Digitiser recoveries in the hands of Tim Bisley to process for us. Ridiculously, over 100 editions are coming our way. Tim's done the business on the first eight, which I've uploaded and can be seen.... NOW: 16/5/95 (from a tape donated by John Sinclair), 24/1/96, 31/1/96, 7/2/96, 14/2/96, 28/2/96, 13/3/96, 27/3/96 (all from tapes donated by John Veness). Huge thanks to all four of these gents for their contributions - and to Matt Barney as well, who has made my life infinitely easier by coming up with a swanky way to save time creating the pages for these editions, for which I am forever grateful. And finally: the eight Man Diaries from this batch are all in their archive now, too:
16 May 1995 - IS THE MAYOR NOW
24 January 1996 - BEING A BARBER
31 January 1996 - BEING AN A&R MAN
7 February 1996 - HIS WOODEN SON
14 February 1996 - BEING A COWBOY
28 February 1996 - FAST-FOOD FRANCHISE
13 March 1996 - SOLD INTO SLAVERY
27 March 1996 - BEING A HYPNOTIST
14 MARCH 2021
We've reached the end of Adrian Burke's incredible run of recoveries in this update, meaning we're now all up to date. Hats off to Adrian, and to Tim Bisley for putting in the elbow grease fixing them all up. Here come the latest editions, look: 20/11/93 (recovered by Tim Bisley himself), 20/11/96, 23/11/96, 16/1/97, 27/6/97 (all thanks to Adrian Burke). What a run this has been - eternal thanks to Adrian and Tim for all the epic work. Of course, now we've reached the end, it means I've been able to clear the backlog too. And? And: the recent Dr Derek Doctors find has been added to his page, nine more letters to Digi are now in the You Have Messed-Up letters page, there are 11 more Reveal-Ohs, three more for Mr T and one for Morse & Lewis, and I've added a link to the Under Consoletation interview with Biffo to the interviews page. On top of all that, I've put the eight Man Diaries from this batch in the archive:
18 January 1994 - WALK ON! WITH PAT WALKER
25 February 1994 - AS A CHAIR
4 November 1994 - THINKING HE'S "BYRON"
29 April 1996 - ON INSECT ISLAND
20 & 23 November 1996 - SECRET AGENT
16 January 1997 - DEL BOY-STYLE TRADER
27 June 1997 - DEAD CELEB PARK
8 MARCH 2021
This is an extra special update, as not only do we have a bumper crop of 16 (mostly) complete editions of Digitiser - all recovered by Adrian Burke and cleaned-up by Tim Bisley - but in adding them to The Vault, it means we now have 1,000 editions of Digi represented by at least one archived page. That's about a third of all the editions ever broadcast by Teletext! The mind boggles. Not only that, but there's some brilliant relics unearthed in this batch, starting with one of the biggest grails that was still outstanding - The Man's return and face-melting transformation back from being Pat Walker. I highly recommend getting stuck right in: 18/1/94, 25/2/94, 4/11/94, 29/4/96, 30/6/01, 14/7/01, 27/7/01, 4/8/01, 14/8/01, 14/9/01, 29/9/01, 29/12/01, 31/12/01, 12/1/02, 23/11/02, 7/12/02. Enormous thanks as ever to Adrian and Tim for their heroic efforts - it's staggering how much recovered material has been added to the site since January thnanks to these guys. Adrian has given us over 100 editions! And there's still more to come...
2 MARCH 2021
There's ten more complete editions of Digi for you in this update, as Adrian Burke has brought us a lovely selection of recoveries from 2000 and 2001: 1/4/00, 3/4/00, 26/8/00, 4/10/00, 6/10/00, 1/1/01, 10/1/01, 13/1/01, 24/3/01, 31/3/01. Once again, massive gratitude to Adrian for providing them, and to the tireless Tim Bisley for his invaluable work cleaning and compiling the little critters. I've added the juiciest cuts from these editions across the site: Donny Rich now sits in the characters A-Z, as well on the reveal-o-page along with new Rollo Benny, Digi's take on Pokémon, and more besides; and Relapse's appearance on the mini news bucket makes it onto The Snakes' page. Brap!
24 FEBRUARY 2021
It's an all-1999 batch of Digi recoveries in this update: 2/2/99 (courtesy of Alistair Cree), 3/2/99, 23/2/99, 2/7/99, 16/7/99, 4/12/99 (all thanks to Adrian Burke). Once again the clean-up and coordination is done by the excellent Mr Tim Bisley - huge thanks to all three gents for their amazing work. The choicest chunks are all nestling in their respective pages - the two new Zombie Dave finds have been added to his page, we now have an image of Quaker Jones after all this time, so that's been added to the characters A-Z, the multi-page Santa story from 4/12 is in with the Reveal-Ohs, and I've put the three Man Diaries from this batch in the archive:
2 & 3 February 1999 - CEREAL DESIGNER
23 February 1999 - MONKEY TEACHER
18 FEBRUARY 2021
Time for more recovered Digi, coming courtesy of the irrepressible duo of Adrian Burke - who's re-done some of his early efforts with improved quality - and Tim Bisley, with the miraculous clean-up: 7/5/93 (gaps filled), 11/5/93, 6/1/94 (index only), 23/1/96, 1/12/96, 1/9/98. We're all in their debt - which I mean very much metaphorically, in case any lawyers are reading. Once again, the richest pickings have been dispersed across the site like so: I've added Father Mange Tout to ("tutu") the characters A-Z, and put the three Man Diaries from this batch in the archive:
23 January 1996 - BEING A BARBER
30 November 1996 - ALIEN ABDUCTEE
1 September 1998 - FREAK SHOW
12 FEBRUARY 2021
Special delivery! We have a large consignment of recovered Digi from the Adrian Burke warehouse, which has come via Tim Bisley to make sure it's all spick and span first: 12/11/94 (gaps filled), 18/10/96, 22/11/96, 4/11/97, 13/1/98, 20/1/98, 27/1/98, 30/1/98, 25/8/98 - thanks as ever to these tireless heroes. As well as this, I've added another 35 reveals to their page, and put the Man Diaries we didn't already have from today's batch in their archive:
22 November 1996 - SECRET AGENT
4 November 1997 - RICE GIRLS
13 January 1998 - THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
20 January 1998 - THE INCREDIBLE HULK
7 FEBRUARY 2021
Another fulsome update and more fulsome praise for Adrian Burke and Tim Bisley, who continue to work their socks off recovering old editions of Digi and making it all ship-shape. Here's the latest batch: 19/1/96, 2/2/96, 9/2/96, 8/3/96 (missing charts added), 9/3/96, 15/3/96, 9/4/96, 19/4/96, 6/5/96, 7/6/96. Enormous thanks as ever to this amazing duo. Once again, the richest pickings from these editions are now nestling across the site: the Man's Daddy page has two long-lost jokes from Daddy (near the top) and three from Digi (near the bottom), and we have eight more Man Diaries:
19 January 1996 - BEING A VET
2 February 1996 - IN ANCIENT GREECE
9 February 1996 - HIS WOODEN SON
9 March 1996 - SHIPWRECKED
15 March 1996 - SOLD INTO SLAVERY
19 April 1996 - BEING A GENETICIST
6 May 1996 - TEST PILOT
7 June 1996 - BEING A STREAKER
1 FEBRUARY 2021
Adrian Burke and Tim Bisley have gone into overdrive! The prolific duo have given another us nine editions of Digi from their recovery exploits: 27/6/94, 10/1/95, 17/1/95, 13/2/95, 14/2/95, 7/3/95, 19/5/95, 9/6/95, 4/12/95. Medals all round for those excellent gents and their remarkable efforts. The proceeds have once again been dished out across the site: Love Wire has been added to the fake adverts, "TOP 10 FAILED RESTAURANTS" has been added to the top 10s, and we have nine more Man Diaries:
27 June 1994 - FLYING
10 January 1995 - EASTENDERS
17 January 1995 - ADULT EDUCATION
13 & 14 February 1995 - AND HIS BEATLE BAND
7 March 1995 - IS A GHOST NOW
19 May 1995 - IS THE MAYOR NOW
9 June 1995 - SURGEON'S ASSISTANT
4 December 1995 - UNDER THE SEA
28 JANUARY 2021
There's just no stopping the Adrian Burke juggernaught, with another five editions of Digi added to the site - 15/3/94, 30/8/94, 14/10/94, 18/11/94, 3/12/94 - with ruddy great thanks to Adrian, and the ubiquitous Tim Bisley for all their work. These editions have all been pumped thoroughly for their goodness, which has been slapped liberally across the site: miffed 1950s British comics character Stevens now finds himself in the characters A-Z; there's another two top 10s, a (terrifying) depiction of Morrissey has been added to the celeb pin-ups, and we have five more Man Diaries:
15 March 1994 - BEING A MOD
30 August 1994 - IN THE FUTURE
14 October 1994 - ON THE RUN
18 November 1994 - PATERNITY SUIT
3 December 1994 - GRANGE HILL
25 JANUARY 2021
Adrian Burke and Tim Bisley continue to do the business for us, with more recovered Digi coming in thich and fast. The latest nuggets look like so: 22/3/94, 2/8/94, 30/1/95, 7/2/95. We also have the index pages only for 21/10/94 and 28/10/94. Eternal thanks to Adrian and Tim for all the amazing work they do for the cause. The richest pickings from these finds have all been dispersed across their various pages, in the form of the grail that is Mr Hurley and his Curly Pearlies's portrait at last sitting alongside his bio in the characters A-Z; there's two new top 10s, Captain Picard has been added to the celeb pin-ups, and Prints has a new outing, which is also among four more Man Diaries:
22 March 1994 - SIGNING ON
2 August 1994 - HEALING FEET
30 January 1995 - WITH "PRINTS"
7 February 1995 - AND HIS NEW HOTEL
22 JANUARY 2021
Time for another dose of recovered Digi direct from the desk of Adrian Burke: 29/3/94, 11/8/94, 18/8/94, 16/9/94, 23/9/94. Tim Bisley is the man responsible for the smartening up of this parade of beauties once again - ruddy great thanks to the two gents as ever for their hard work. The fruits of these five editions have spread out across the site in the form of Tricky Dicky being added to the characters A-Z, three top 10s, and five Man Diaries:
29 March 1994 - DOING THE DISCO
11 August 1994 - HAVING FEVER
18 August 1994 - IN HOSPITAL
16 & 23 September 1994 - BEING A TEACHER
18 JANUARY 2021
There's more very early Digi for you in this update, as Adrian Burke has been busy unearthing a load more editions from 1993: 21/5/93, 16/7/93, 17/7/93, 30/7/93, 13/8/93. Huge thanks to Adrian for the hard work, and to Tim Bisley for his continuous tireless efforts to corral everything together and clean it up all spick and span-like. Aside from that, the baby steps towards clearing the backlog from last year keep going, with the You Have Messed-Up letters page now totally up to date.
13 JANUARY 2021
This update sees recovered Digi from the earliest months of its life, thanks to a new gent on the recovery scene, Adrian Burke, who's been in touch via the Teletext Facebook group. Adrian has kindly provided us with a couple of complete 1993 editions, and a snippet of another: 8/2/93, 7/5/93, 11/5/93 - all of which were extracted and cleaned-up by the colossus known as Tim Bisley. Lovely great big-ups to these two excellent fellows. Meanwhile, the backlog is almost completely cleared: loads of new reveals have been added, the characters A-Z is now up to date (with new additions Broton Chronos, Cake and de Bono, Captain "F", Mr Harrison, Ian Beale, WH Smith: Refereee; and images added for the first time to the entries for Balls For Eyes, Cyber-X, Soccerman 2001, and Wyatt Earp & Josef Engels); and there's new Man's Daddy-style Digi jokes (at the bottom of the page). On top of all that, both Prints and Dr Derek Doctors have their own special character pages all to themselves. Cha!
2 JANUARY 2021
Happy New 2021! I trust you all had a splendid Festive? For the first update of the gleaming new annus, we have three complete recovered editions of Digi for you: 8/2/95, 15/2/95, 22/2/95 - all of which are especial thanks to Tom Pitt, with Tim Bisley doing the heroic fixing-up and collating. We also have a single frame recovery from 7/5/93, provided by Adrian Burke on the teletext Facebook group (EDIT 4/1/21 - and now expertly restored and spruced-up by Tim Bisley!). Elsewhere, it's still catch-up from the big backlog, so we have 24 new Digi top 10s (starting at OUR TOP 10 NEW EASTENDERS PLOTS), 17 Man's Daddy/Digi jokes (recently shared by Biffo for all your Christmas cracker needs), four more pieces of advice from Mr T, the Captain Kirk celeb pin-up from one of the editions above, a Wizard of Oz script extract from as far back as 10 February 1996, and finally, the three Man Diaries from the editions above have also been added to their archive:
8 February 1995 - AND HIS NEW HOTEL
15 February 1995 - IS IN THE B-TILLS NOW
22 February 1995 - IS A TABLOID HACK NOW
21 DECEMBER 2020
There's a whole bunch of different stuff in this Christmas update: starting with another three recovered editions of Digi. Once again supplied and cleaned by Tim Bisley, they were all recovered by the anonymous gent: 22/4/93, 16/7/96, 25/9/97. Massive thanks to these gents again for their efforts. Catching up on the backlog, all the Morse and Lewis finds - 26 of them - have been added to their page, and 12 Snakes outings have been added to theirs. I've also added links to all the Digitiser 2000-era Christmas Pant-ohs to the pant-oh archive index - PLUS - with Biffo's permission, the full script for the 2020 pant-oh, A Christmas Carol - a true classic - has its own page on here including the embedded video of the audio play. Finally, the Man Diaries from the recovered editions above are now sat in their archive:
16 July 1996 - IMAGE CONSULTANT
25 September 1997 - SHORT-SIGHTED IDIOT
Have a wonderful, safe Christmas everyone.
15 DECEMBER 2020
The drive to add all the recovered material to the variously-themed pages continues "apace": in this update we've got new Man's Daddy jokes, which go right back to his very first appearances in March '95 (and are thus at the top of the page... apart from the later ones which are at the bottom), more fake adverts, loads of celebrity pin-ups (including simu-sing and simu-recite), and appearances from both Zombie Dave and Insincere Dave. Enjoy!
9 DECEMBER 2020
What do we have for you on the day Super Page 58 turned 23 years old? Well, two new recovered weekend editions of Digi for a start: 9/10/99 (thanks to Tom Pitt), 28/4/01 (courtesy of the anonymous gent, tape donated by Julie Embury) - both of which were of course cleaned up all nice-like and sent over by the inimitable Mr Tim Bisley. But that's not all though - and what is not all is that all the editions of Ring-sir! found since August have been transcribed and added to the Ring-sir! archive. The number of editions has almost doubled in one fell swoop! See the telephonic prankingtons now:
22 OCTOBER 1994 - SUPER CONSOLES
1 APRIL 1995 - ORGANISING A SHOW
29 APRIL 1995 - GAMES HELPLINES
27 JANUARY 1996 - NEW TV SHOW (MISSING LAST PAGE FOUND)
1 JUNE 1996 - POINTLESS E3 LIE
22 JUNE 1996 - ARCADE SHOP
18 AUGUST 1996 - N64-OH CALLS
11 JULY 1997 - MARKETING
9 OCTOBER 1999 - BUYING A DREAMCAST
22 JANUARY 2000 - GAMES DEVELOPER
10 SEPTEMBER 2000 - PLAYSTATION 2 PRE-ORDER
5 DECEMBER 2020
The first update of December sees a single new edition of Digi unlocked from its VHS prison, and given a good polishing-up by your friend and mine, Tim Bisley: 30/3/96, which was recovered by the anonymous gent, from a tape donated by one "Stevie". Profuse thanks to all three of these excellent people for their contributions. Elsewhere, I've begun the process of getting all the material found since August filtered onto their various pages, starting with all the Man Diaries - 80+ of them, in fact! Look, here they come now:
21 January 1994 - DISCO GIGS
25 June 1994 - IN THE USA
2 July 1994 - IN CAPTIVITY
9 July 1994 - IN THE 4TH DIMENSION
16 July 1994 - WITH A FAMOUS POP SINGER
25 August 1994 - TIME TRAVEL
1 & 3 October 1994 - IN THE FISH FACTORY
15 October 1994 - ON THE RUN
22 October 1994 - INVENTOR
14 November 1994 - BEING A SCULPTOR
11 February 1995 - AND HIS NEW HOTEL
18 March 1995 - AND HIS SPACE SHOE SHOP
1 April 1995 - IS A HOLIDAY ENTERTAINER
22 April 1995 - IS AN ARCHITECT
29 April 1995 - HAS WON THE LOTTERY
6 May 1995 - IS RUNNING FOR MAYOR
13 May 1995 - IS THE MAYOR NOW
3, 8 & 10 June 1995 - SURGEON'S ASSISTANT
17 June 1995 - IN BORSTAL
3 August 1995 - SQUATTERS
10 & 12 August 1995 - ADULT CIRCUS
7 October 1995 - WORKING ON A PLANE
27 January 1996 - BEING AN A&R MAN
30 March 1996 - NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
15 April 1996 - BALLOON CHALLENGE
18 May 1996 - BEING A CYBORG
1 June 1996 - BEING DR WHO
8 June 1996 - BEING A STREAKER
14 June 1996 - SCENT DESIGNER
15 June 1996 - LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
22 June 1996 - BEING A JEDI KNIGHT
6 July 1996 - SMALL BRICK PARK
13 July 1996 - TRANSPORT CAFE
20 July 1996 - IMAGE CONSULTANT
27 July 1996 - HUMAN GUINEA PIG
3 August 1996 - MEDIEVAL BAKERY
10 August 1996 - BACK IN PRISON
17 August 1996 - BOXING CAREER
24 August 1996 - GIANT CATCHER
31 August 1996 - BORED MAN
6 March 1997 - MODERN ARTIST
19 April 1997 - VILLAGE POLICEMAN
7 June 1997 - PRIME MINISTER
12 July 1997 - SUPER-HERO
30 July 1997 - BEACH PUMPKIN SHOP
4 August 1997 - ON HOLIDAY
6 August 1997 - GIANT CLAM
13 August 1997 - HAUNTED HOUSE
20 August 1997 - MAN LOVES DODDY
27 August 1997 - STAR TREK
3 September 1997 - DAIRY FARMER
10 September 1997 - PLUMBER
17 September 1997 - BLUE PETER
24 September 1997 - SHORT-SIGHTED IDIOT
1 October 1997 - VAMPIRE BABYSITTER
8 October 1997 - HOLLYWOOD STAR
13 & 15 October 1997 - PRACTICAL JOKES
29 October 1997 - PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR
5 & 7 November 1997 - ROMANCE GUIDE
10 November 1997 - CAVEMAN NEIGHBOURS
9 & 10 December 1997 - FIFTH TELETUBBY
17 December 1997 - DEPARTMENT STORE SANTA
24 December 1997 - HAUNTED CHRISTMAS HOUSE
8 & 15 May 1998 - ASTROLOGY SECTION
30 June 1998 - ROBOT FRIEND
10 July 1998 - LIGHTER MAKER
17 July 1998 - POODLE PARLOUR
7 August 1998 - CLOWN HOSPITAL
12 & 14 August 1998 - CARTOON KIDNAP
21 August 1998 - PEARLY GATEKEEPER
28 August 1998 - FREAK SHOW
26 January 1999 - ANIMAL ORCHESTRA
11 February 1999 - CRASH TEST DUMMY
30 NOVEMBER 2020
The mega-batch of recovered Digitiser is all now sitting in The Vault, with the latest additions looking like this: 9/9/00 (kindly provided by the anonymous gent, tape donated by Julie Embury), 6/3/01, 22/5/01, 6/9/01, 8/9/01, 23/7/02, 23/8/02, 18/9/02 (all courtesy of the legendary hero that is Tom Pitt). And of course, we have the tireless work of Tim Bisley to thank for getting them to us, and cleaning them up into the shiny state they're all in. It's been one hell of a run getting this little lot archived, and I'm stupidly grateful for the efforts of everyone that has got us here. Now I "just" have to add all the new discoveries to the various (non-Vault) archive pages!
24 NOVEMBER 2020
We have another nine full editions of Digi for you in this update, all of them recovered and restored by our superstar team of Tom Pitt and Tim Bisley. They're nestling safely in The Vault right now: 28/8/98, 31/7/99, 20/12/99, 13/6/00, 28/10/00, 16/11/00, 18/11/00, 1/2/01, 27/2/01. Galactically large thanks to this tireless duo for their unceasing services to Digitiser recovery!
18 NOVEMBER 2020
A mountain of Digi may have been uploaded less than a week ago, but the recoveries just keep on coming. This time, they're very kindly supplied by:
The anonymous gent: 27/1/96
Tom Pitt: 1/5/98, 4/5/98, 8/5/98, 15/5/98, 22/5/98, 29/5/98, 7/8/98, 12/8/98, 14/8/98, 21/8/98
Tim Bisley is again the tireless man responsible for liaising and cleaning them all, except the 2001 edition, which was all thanks to Andrew Nile. Let the gratitude gush and overflow in each of their directions - heroes, one and all!
12 NOVEMBER 2020
Are you ready for this? No fewer than 41 recovered editions of Digi have just been added to The Vault, meaning we now have more than 20,000 archived pages from more than 900 editions. Crikey.
Tim Bisley is once again the indefatigable hero responsible for coralling them all together and cleaning them up, but I must also give huge credit to Matt Barney - a long-time friend of Super Page 58 - for working to create a script that would automatically generate all the pages for me, thus saving my sanity. He is a most excellent fellow indeed, and I'm forever in his debt. If you have need of any development skills, you should get in touch with him post haste.
Now, let's take a look inside this enormous treasure trove, provided by...
Tom Pitt: 9/7/94, 16/7/94, 25/3/95, 1/4/95, 22/4/95, 29/4/95, 17/6/95, 3/8/95, 10/8/95, 18/5/96, 1/6/96, 8/6/96, 15/6/96, 22/6/96, 10/8/96, 30/7/97, 6/8/97, 13/8/97, 20/8/97, 1/10/97, 8/10/97, 15/10/97, 29/10/97, 5/11/97, 10/11/97, 9/12/97, 10/12/97, 17/12/97, 24/12/97, 13/3/98, 20/3/98, 27/3/98
Jason Robertson, from a tape provided by thebigsink: 14/6/96
Anonymous gent, from tapes provided by Val & Bill Morgan: 6/3/97, 19/4/97, 6/3/00, 6/6/00, 16/1/02, 10/6/02, 10/7/02
4 NOVEMBER 2020
There's a vast payload of recovered Digi wating in the wings to be uploaded - that's coming soon, but in the meantime we have a more manageable batch for you. And? And here they are: 22/2/93 (recovered by Dan Farrimond), 29/7/95 (index page only, recovered by Tom Pitt), 7/8/99 (thanks to Ant Purves), 24/12/99 (thanks to our anonymous friend), 29/12/99 (Ant again), 4/3/00 (anon again), 15/1/01, 30/12/01 (also recovered by Ant, who gives us Cyber-X at last!). All of these pages have had the clean-up magic performed by Tim Bisley, who has been exceptional (and exceptionally busy) in his efforts to chase up and coordinate all of these editions. Every one of these gents has done superb work for the Digi community - effusively lewd thanks to them all.
20 OCTOBER 2020
This latest update includes some real classic recovered Digi - in fact, it finally unearths three grails we've long been waiting to see! Soccerman 2001? Hmm? Balls For Eyes? Uh-huh? Wyatt Earp & Josef Engels? Oh yes? Hey: even the near-mythical Birdok makes an appearance in the Jez San interview. Don't be wasting no time now, guy: 4/8/93, 25/6/94, 2/7/94, 15/10/94, 11/2/95, 18/3/95. It's Tim Bisley and Tom Pitt that we once again owe a huge debt of gratitude, and this time they've been ably assisted by the most excellent Alistair Cree in the clean-up process. Massive thanks to all three super-dudes!
16 OCTOBER 2020
Word has reached me from the distinguished Mr Tim Bisley that there's a pile of around 70 - SEVENTY - recovered editions of Digitiser coming our way. Here are another five from that staggering pile that Tim has done the business on: 25/8/94, 1/10/94 (huge thanks to Tom Pitt), 12/7/97 (courtesy of the anonymous gent), 17/9/97, 24/9/97 (both thanks to Tom again). As if that weren't enough, Tom and Tim have even provided cleaner vesions of some pages from 30/4/94 and 3/10/94 - though these are only for superfans and teletext code afficianados, as they're outwardly the same as they were before, and are just confirmed correct. Everyone involved in this little industry deserves masses of credit for the work they do. Seventy editions?! The mind boggles.
14 OCTOBER 2020
The Do You See? Digitiser A to Z has been updated for the first time in 20 (TWENTY) years! It's now the most exhaustive and comprehensive guide to Digi that you'll ever find anywhere. Everything that has come before has been leading to this.
9 OCTOBER 2020
The gush continues: no less than 430 new pages of recovered Digi are now in The Vault; 10 brand new editions, and 3 newly-completed ones that previously had gaps. This stonking feat is all down to the marvellous Tim Bisley and Tom Pitt once again, with one edition provided by the mysterious anonymous gent. Look at them now: 3/10/94 (thanks to anon), 6/5/95, 13/5/95, 20/5/95, 12/8/95, 19/8/95 (gaps filled), 27/7/96, 3/8/96, 14/9/96 (gaps filled), 21/9/96, 27/8/97 (gaps filled), 3/9/97, 10/9/97 (all of these thanks to Tom Pitt). And of course, Tim Bisley's diligent restoration services are responsible for them all looking so great. These most excellent dudes have outdone themselves yet again - thanks chaps!
5 OCTOBER 2020
Here comes the flood. The Superheroes of Teletext Recovery have ramped-up output on an industrial scale lately, and this jet-blast from the Digi hose is just the start: 278 pages, across 12 editions, 7 of them entirely new! Once again with remarkable clean-up and liaison work by Tim Bisley, we have new stuff in the order of: 21/1/94 (4 new images added to an existing edition, thanks to Jason Robertson, with Lee Thacker providing the tape), 8/6/95, 7/10/95 (both thanks to industrial recovery magnate Tom Pitt), 15/4/96 (Jason again, tape by Carl's Tech Shed), 6/7/96, 13/7/96, 20/7/96, 4/8/97, 13/10/97, 4/3/98, 10/4/98, 17/4/98, 24/4/98 (all thanks to Tom once again). There's some jaw-dropping work going on by this gang at the moment, with some quite brilliant discoveries. Thank you so much, gents!
30 SEPTEMBER 2020
The Digi recoveries continue to come in apace (and I'm reliably informed we're about to be deluged with a whole load more very soon). Tim Bisley has been the conduit/fixer-upper once again for this little lot: 26/8/93, 29/11/93 (both recovered by a new gent who wishes to stay anonymous), 14/11/94, 25/7/97, 17/7/98, and 5/2/94 has been updated with cleaner pages - all of these have been contributed by the prolific teletext recovery whirlwind known as Tom Pitt. Big, big, thanks to all three of these most excellent individuals!
24 SEPTEMBER 2020
The superheroes of teletext recovery are back with the absolute Digi mother lode for us in this update. We have complete editions thus: 21/1/94 (thanks to teletext recovery godfather Jason Robertson), 27/5/95, 3/6/95, 10/6/95, 17/8/96, 24/8/96, 31/8/96, 10/7/98 (all recovered by Tom Pitt and cleaned-up and supplied by Tim Bisley); plus the Tim/Tom team have also discovered the missing pages from 7/11/97, which now completes that edition. Huge heaps of gratitude go out to these three most excellent fellows for their efforts. There's some solid gold material in this lttle lot, mostly spanning arguably Digi's most anarchic era, so I wouldn't waste any time if I were you. Get: on it.
14 SEPTEMBER 2020
We thought we'd reached the bottom of Tom Pitt's pile of Digitiser VHS recoveries: we were wrong. He's already back with more, via the inimitable Mr Tim Bisley, who's cleaned-up another three complete editions that Tom has uncovered for us. Excitingly, they're all from the first few weeks of Digi's life, dating all the way back to January/February 1993: 16/1/93, 23/1/93, 6/2/93. We also have a sparkly new updated version of 9/1/93 provided by Tom, which replaces a recovery that wasn't as high res and contained some errors. Massive thanks once again to these hardworking gents for their stellar efforts. It's a bit good, this teletext recovery business, eh?
8 SEPTEMBER 2020
Four more complete editions of Digitiser are now ready for your lovin', with eternal thanks as ever to the Tim/Tom axis of messrs Bisley and Pitt: 22/1/00, 25/4/00, 2/5/00, 16/5/00. But that's not all, because they've also brought us the missing reveals from the 16/12/95 edition too - and when you catch sight of that advent image reveal, you'll know it was worth it (I've left the old and new side by side for "maximum" "impact"). Much appreciation to the T-Men!
6 SEPTEMBER 2020
Time for a "clutch" of Digi recoveries all from the Space Year 1999 AD now, courtesy of the Tim Bisley/Tom Pitt production line, which just keeps on pumping out the quality. Regard-le-pompt: 18/6/99, 25/6/99, 25/8/99, 26/8/99. Watch as ruddy great dollops of gratitude are thrust into the productive pair's laps. Thank!
1 SEPTEMBER 2020
Super-gents Tim Bisley and Tom Pitt are back once again with the ill behaviour splendid Digi recoveries, this time bequeathing us a batch of six editions, with 200 pages-worth of goodness: 22/10/94, 7/6/97, 26/12/97 (partial recovery), 30/6/98, 26/1/99, 11/2/99. Ludicrously large thanks to them for their stellar efforts: Tom for the recovery work, and Tim for cleaning them up all nice and shiny for us.
24 AUGUST 2020
We're back with another multi-flavoured updated, starting off with one new recovered edition of Digi - 22/8/97, with big old thanks as ever to Tom Pitt for unearthing it, and Tim Bisley for cleaning it up and sending it over. The other main update is to the You Have Messed-Up: Letters From Idiots page, which has been updated with a total of 154 of the most interesting/funny/sardonic responses to letters from Digi's readers. That's the first update the page has had since it first went up two years ago, so I had some work to do gathering all the letters that have been recovered since then! Other than that, we also have six new Man's Daddy jokes (plus one Daddy-style joke circa 1997, before he was brought back as a regular character); I've added "Clarkuss" and an image of Oberon Talc & Dogson Dagg to the characters A-Z, the Mr Biffo interviews page has had a new interview he gave to the Dis Is Your life podcast added to it, I've stuck a load more reveals up, and added the Star Trek Man Diary from the recovery above to the diary index. Lastly, I recently made an appearance on the esteemed Teletext R podcast, where I was interviewed all about Digi and this site. It went pretty well. So well, in fact, that according to Biffo it's possibly the best podcast about Digitiser ever, so you might like go and have a listen if you're "so inclined". Aaaaand that about does it.
21 JULY 2020
It's a varied update this time around, kicking off with three newly recovered editions of Digi, once more supplied and tarted-up by Tim Bisley: 7/5/96, 22/8/96 (both by anon), 7/9/96 (recovered by Tom Pitt). Big thanks as ever to these prolific gents. I've already added the spoils to their respective pages, so there are three more Man Diaries (see below), one new top 10 ("sentences using every letter of the alphabet"), and 20 reveals. I've also revameped the Mr Biffo interviews page - there are now 40 of them listed on there going all the way back to 1996 - that's 10 times as many interviews as there used to be. Now, how about those Man Diaries:
7 May 1996 - BEING A GIANT
22 August 1996 - GIANT CATCHER
7 September 1996 - MONKEY TRAINER
10 JULY 2020
The vast backlog of material from the last two months of recoveries have now been added to the site in their various homes: we have new stuff from Morse & Lewis, The Snakes, Insincere Dave, more fake adverts, more celebrity pin-ups, a new Ring-sir!, 31 extra Digi top 10s, 4 Digi jokes (not technically The Man's Daddy, but in his style - they're at the bottom of the page), and no less than 61 Man Diaries (see below). On top of that, the characters A-Z has been updated with the following parade of little guys: Advent Animal, Britt Slaps, Called Spite, Captain Five Skills, Catkin Hard, Dougli Starman, Gus Mann, Howard Howe, John Meccano, King, Lucy Parve, Niels, Odin, Pagan James, Robertson Sexus and Sarcastic Dave. Phew! Now, how about those Man Diaries:
29 December 1993 - WALK ON! WITH PAT WALKER
26, 27 January 1994 - JOINING A CULT
2 February 1994 - BIRTHDAY ENTERTAINER
5, 8 February 1994 - IN FRANCE
16, 19 February 1994 - IN HELL
26 February - DOING DISCOS
2 May 1994 - SMASHING THE SYSTEM
16, 21, 23 May 1994 - OLD FOLK IN THE ATTIC
27, 30 May 1994 - BEING A COPPER
3 June 1994 - BEING A FIREMAN
13, 17 June 1994 - THE MAN WITH A LONG CHIN'S CELEBRITY PALS!
1, 5 July 1994 - IN CAPTIVITY
7, 8, 11 July 1994 - IN THE 4TH DIMENSION
13, 15, 21 July 1994 - WITH A FAMOUS POP SINGER
22 July 1994 - FORMER COMPANIONS
29, 30 July, 4 August 1994 - HEALING FEET
5 August 1994 - WITH CAPTAIN FIVE SKILLS
12 August 1994 - HAVING FEVER
19 August 1994 - IN HOSPITAL
8 October 1994 - GETS SHRUNK RIGHT DOWN
29 October 1994 - IN COURT
5 November 1994 - THINKING HE'S "BYRON"
19 November 1994 - PATERNITY SUIT
17 December 1994 - BEING FATHER CHRISTMAS
17 January 1995 - ADULT EDUCATION
4 February 1995 - WITH POP STAR "PRINTS"
4 April 1995 - IS A WEREWOLF
10, 11 April 1995 - DESIGNING FUN FAIR RIDES
15 April 1995 - DESIGNING EASTER EGGS
18 April 1995 - IS AN ARCHITECT
25 April 1995 - IS A WRESTLER NOW
27 July 1995 - FAKING HIS DEATH
22 September 1995 - AT HIS FRIEND'S
18 November 1995 - TOURIST GUIDE
26 December 1995 - CHRISTMAS STORY
22 January 1996 - BEING A BARBER
20 April 1996 - BEING A GENETICIST
11 May 1996 - BEING A GIANT
2 May 1997 - DRIVING INSTRUCTOR
25 May 1997 - MOVIE SPECIAL FX
10 June 1997 - WINDOW CLEANER
19 July 1997 - TOY STORY MAN
31 December 1997 - SECRET AGENT
11 May 1998 - ASTROLOGY SECTION
30 September 1998 - PAVEMENT ARTIST
24 October 1998 - BIG TOMATO
3 JULY 2020
Another engorged update for you now, with recoveries from a total of 15 (FIFTEEN) different editions of Digi. As has been the case for the extraordinarily fertile last couple of months, they're provided and cleaned-up by super-guy Tim Bisley, with the recovery work being done by the prolific pair that is Tom Pitt and the gent who wishes to remain anonymous. Please observe: 31/12/97, 3/4/98 (h/t anon), 25/5/98, 30/9/98, 12/4/99, 25/12/99, 8/4/00, 10/4/00, 17/4/00, 10/7/00, 4/8/00, 22/8/00 (all by Tom Pitt), and the final three from anon: 26/7/01, 2/8/01, 31/10/97 (gaps in the charts filled only).
24 JUNE 2020
Six days is a long time when it comes to Digi recoveries at the moment - just that short wait has seen another 364 images from 13 editions (9 brand new, the others filling in gaps in existing pages) turn up via that man Tim Bisley. Let the feast begin: 12/5/93, 11/7/94, 13/7/94, 20/7/94, 21/7/94,4/2/95 (all recovered by our anonymous friend), 27/7/95 (recovered by Tom Pitt), 22/9/95, 26/12/95, 22/1/96, 24/5/97 (h/t anon), 4/5/98, 11/5/98 (h/t Tom Pitt). I say this every time, but I'm enormously grateful to them all yet again for their superhuman contributions. The whole Digi community is. I've also given a home to the stunning final episode of Mr Biffo's Lost Footage - if you haven't watched it yet, you really should you know.
18 JUNE 2020
We're staying in Digi's early days for this update, with another seven recoveries across 1993 and 1994: 11/3/93, 18/3/93, 25/3/93 (thanks to Tom Pitt for these three), 26/1/94, 26/2/94, 5/7/94, 7/7/94 (and thanks to our anonymous benefactor for these four). As ever, Tim Bisley deserves immense credit for doing all the running and cleaning these up, and Tom put in a huge amount of work to enable a poor quality tape to produce the splendid goods we have before us. All three of them really are most excellent fellows.
14 JUNE 2020
Time for a tour through Digi's earliest days in this update, with six recovered editions from 1993 and one from 1994. They're once again provided by your friend and mine, Tim Bisley, who continues to do tireless work getting hold of all this material, with the recoveries themselves being made by Tom Pitt and the same anonymous gent of the past few weeks. Point your eyes here now: 1/6/93 (h/t Tom), 23/7/93 (h/t anon), 27/8/93 (h/t anon), 4/12/93 (h/t Tom) 18/12/93 (h/t anon) 29/12/93 (h/t anon) 2/2/94 (h/t anon).
7 JUNE 2020
A quick blast of complete editions from Digi's eary and late periods in this update, unearthed by an ensemble cast of recovery heros, and coordinated by Tim Bisley: 4/3/93, 10/4/93 (both provided by Tom Pitt), 10/6/97 (thanks to Jason Robertson), 29/3/02 (thanks to Andrew Nile).
3 JUNE 2020
The updates continue coming "thick" and "fast". Tom Pitt and Tim Bisley are back yet again with another batch of Digi recoveries, plus there's one more contributed by our lovely anonymous gent. All have been recovered by Tom and cleaned-up by Tim unless otherwise stated. Now look here, will you: 8/4/93, 27/4/98 (gaps filled), 24/10/98 (h/t anon), 27/3/00, 17/7/00, 24/7/00.
1 JUNE 2020
Back again? Well: the well of Digis just keeps on spurtin' and gurglin' the good stuff. It might "blow" its "top" at any moment! We have another 318 recovered pages from 12 editions (9 of which are brand new, and 3 fill in the gaps in incomplete editions), courtesy of - you guessed it - Tom Pitt and Tim Bisley. Somebody give those boys a medal. One of these editions is kindly provided by the gent from a few weeks ago who wished to remain anonymous. Hey! Ho! Let's blow (go): 16/1/95, 4/4/95, 10/4/95, 11/4/95, 18/4/95, 25/4/95, 20/4/96, 2/5/97, 19/7/97 (anon), 20/4/98 (gaps filled), 18/5/98 (gaps filled), 1/6/98 (gaps filled).
29 MAY 2020
The dream team of Tom Pitt and Tim Bisley are back yet again with more wonderful Digi recoveries, all from 1994 this time round: 16/2/94, 2/5/94, 23/5/94, 30/5/94, 13/6/94, 4/8/94. Spoilt rotten, we are. I'm not sure there are enough sweets in the world to thank them for the bounty they're bestowing lately.
26 MAY 2020
The Digi windfall keeps on giving: Tom Pitt's back with yet more early '90s recoveries, ably assisted by the scholar and gentleman that is Tim Bisley with the cleaning and the organising. There are some significant discoveries in this batch, so you'd better not waste anymore time here: 31/8/93, 30/9/93, 14/10/93, 11/11/93, 27/1/94, 8/2/94.
20 MAY 2020
Prepare to be soaked in another torrent of brilliant complete early '90s editions of Digi - once again recovered by Tom Pitt and coming to us via the tireless Tim Bisley. Look, here they come now: 28/5/93, 16/5/94, 17/12/94, 15/4/95, 18/11/95.
16 MAY 2020
It's an absolute Digi bonanza of an update this time, with yet more incredible recovered editions - this time recovered by four separate heroes. Tim Bisley has done some sterling work coordinating things and cleaning up submissions from others. Let's not hang around, because there's some absolute gold to get through: 5/2/94 (recovered by Tim Bisley), 19/2/94 (the missing 10 pages have been added, recovered by MarcPL), 21/5/94, 30/7/94, 8/10/94, 29/10/94, 5/11/94, 19/11/94 (all recovered by newcomer Tom Pitt, and what superb editions they are), 27/7/95 (partial recovery, from Tim again), 11/5/96 (recovered by Jason Robertson from a tape submitted by John Veness). Enormous thanks to everyone for these brilliant efforts, it's been such a treat to see them. Do check out Jason's new teletext archive, as well, it's simply phenomenal. Finally, the wonderful most recent episode of Mr Biffo's Lost Footage - How Are Babies Made? - has been added to the site as well. Bonjour le pompt-de-do!
8 MAY 2020
The final batch of complete 1994 editions of Digi provided by our anonymous benefactor via Tim Bisley are now nestling safely in The Vault: 29/7/94, 5/8/94, 12/8/94, 19/8/94. Tim has also provided an edition from 1999 which he recovered himself - sadly the recording was poor and quite a few lines have been lost, but most of what's there is still readable: 9/3/99. A thousand thanks once again to both Mr Bisley and Mr Unknown for these lovely recoveries. Do we think we know when Onion Owl appeared now? Judging by Captain Five Skills, I'm thinking it was late July/early August '94, which would fit with when the X-Head comic strip was published in Mean Machines Sega. Hopefully we'll see him one day.
6 MAY 2020
Another four complete 1994 editions of Digi, bequeathed by our anonymous benefactor via the conduit of Tim Bisley (who also did an excellent job of cleaning them up), have just been added to The Vault: 1/7/94, 8/7/94, 15/7/94, 22/7/94. What a treat they are too - engorged thanks once more to Mr Mysterious and Tim.
4 MAY 2020
Ladies and gentlemen, we have another new teletext recovery gent among us - though he wishes to remain anonymous. The mystery man has been in touch via fellow recovery star Tim Bisley with a "clutch" of full 1994 recoveries of Digi. Tim has cleaned them up for us, and the first four are live for you to regard right this very now: 27/5/94, 3/6/94, 17/6/94, 24/6/94. Mr Mystery, whoever you are - thanks!
29 APRIL 2020
There's new stuff all over the bloody shop in this update - starting off with two new full recovered editions of Digitiser from 30/3/99 and 6/4/99, provided by the excellent Mr Tim Bisley; three more Digi Top 10s, an extra Rapping Shoe rap (at the very bottom of the page), one more Man's Daddy joke (again towards the bottom, before The Man's jokes), a single Snakes cartoon from the early Digitiser 2000 days (right at the end), 2 more star pin-ups have been added in the form of The Mitchell Brothers and Tommy Tallarico, 18 more reveal-ohs have been dotted throughout their page, the latest episode of Mr Biffo's Lost Footage can be watched on here, and four more characters have been added to the characters A-Z: Duddly King, Homer Simpson, Howard String, and Willy Wonka. Finally, another 10 Man Diaries have also been added to the archive:
12 July 1994 - WITH A FAMOUS POP SINGER
13 August 1994 - HAVING FEVER
12 November 1994 - BEING A SCULPTOR
25 March 1996 - BEING A SMUGGLER
22 December 1997 - HAUNTED CHRISTMAS HOUSE
20 November 1998 - MINNIE THE MONKEY
13 March 1999 - CAT WORMER
30 March and 1 April 1999 - POET LAUREATE
6 April 1999 - LONELY HEARTS
22 APRIL 2020
It's a varied assortment for you in this update: Insincere Dave now has his very own page - I'm sure he's worth it!!!!!!! - and Morse and Lewis' recently recovered exploits with cursed relics has been added to their page. I've also given a home to the full video of Digitiser Live 2019 now that's been shared, and the latest Monkeys episode of Lost Footage. On top of that, and I appreciate you'll probably be far less excited about this than I am, I've completely redesigned the site navigation system so that there are now landing page menus for the About Digi, Characters, Archives, Other Stuff, and Mr Biffo categories of content. Site info is still in the drop-down, but it's much tidier now as a result. It should make it far easier for you to get around the site - especially if you're viewing on mobile. There was just too much stuff for the drop-down menus to cope with before - I'm a victim of my own success!!!!!!!?!!!
14 APRIL 2020
A whole new section has just gone live on the site to keep a record of all the Digitiser-related live events that have taken place over the years. There's information, photos, video, and audio from everything from Mr Biffo's panels at retro gaming conventions, Digifest 2016's Digi love-me-do, all the way back to Biffo's Digi leaving party in 2003. The full video of Digitiser Live 2019 isn't included just yet - it'll be added once Biffo shares it beyond backers and Patreon supporters, which should be fairly soon. There's still loads of other material on Digi Live, though, and Chunky Fringe is covered in full - with all the details and extra video content you could possibly want. I've also got around to reorganising the Biffo videos page, which now has links to each and every episode of the shows it has listed, which are embedded on their very own pages right here on the site. Which is nice. Now stay safe, you lot, OK? OK.
30 MARCH 2020
More recovered Digi for you in this update, with lashings of thanks going once again to Tim Bisley for his stellar efforts in liberating them from their VHS prisons. There are four editions from 1999 this time, with highlights including the start of the spoof scripts appearing on the Man Diary page, and a performance from Morse that Linda Blair would be proud of: 19/1/99, 13/3/99, 16/3/99, 23/3/99.
22 MARCH 2020
We have the latest fruits of superstar teletext recovery gent Tim Bisley's work in this update, with six lovely complete editions of Digitiser from all across its history. Nestling comfortably in the The Vault now are editions from 12/7/94, 22/12/97, 16/2/98, 2/10/99, 18/6/01, and 27/10/01 (one of the early editions from the controversial 'Digigate' era, and the one from which Panel 4 columnist Stuart Campbell had his final column for Digi excised, a furious piece raging at Teletext's treatment of Digi. According to Biffo, it didn't exactly help Digi's cause). Anyway. That's over 200 images of Digi goodness for you to douse yourself in while you're social distancing (you are social distancing, aren't you?)
19 MARCH 2020
No, this site hasn't succumbed to coronavirus, thankfully - I haven't had access to my PC for the last 3 weeks amid an epic house decorating endeavour. Aaaaanyway, we're back now, and - hey, how about we complete the archive of Biffovision columns? The final four articles Mr Biffo contributed to Edge are now on the site, making 66 of them in total. They are: 183 (Christmas 2007), 184 (January 2008), 185 (February 2008), and 186 (March 2008). And then? Then regular updates can resume once more. Stay safe, everyone.
29 FEBRUARY 2020
Another four Biffovision columns for you in this update, with only four remaining to complete the set. This is what's new on the site: 179 (September 2007), 180 (October 2007), 181 (November 2007), and 182 (December 2007).
24 FEBRUARY 2020
Teletext recovery hero Tim Bisley has come into possession of a brand new batch of around 100 tapes, and the first Digi fruits of this pile are now nestling comfortably in the Vault: he's kindly given us a total of 147 recovered images to enjoy, spanning editions from 13/8/94, 12/11/94, 25/3/96, and 20/11/98. Lots to enjoy in this batch already; let's hope things continue in such a rich vein!
17 FEBRUARY 2020
Quite a varied update for you this time - we have a brand new page of Digitiser pin-ups and celebrity portraits, a flood of new reveal-ohs have been added to their page (the bulk of them are about half way down, but they're dotted throughout), and the most recent two fake adverts have been put on theirs. On the recovered teletext front, Tim Bisley has been doing more good work, giving us a full edition of Digi from 13/12/95, and he's managed to fill in the gaps on a previous submission of his from 1/3/97. It doesn't end there, though - I recently got my hands on issue 16 of Sega Pro from February 1993. This is the edition that included a news story on the launch of Digi - but what we didn't realise until now is that the accompanying images were never-broadcast pre-launch test pages from 1992! Excitingly, Tim was able to examine these pre-historic pages and accurately recreate them in a teletext editor - they now sit on their own unbroadcast 1992 page within the Vault. This is a monumental discovery, and I'm hugely grateful to Tim for being able to resurrect these pages for us to enjoy and gawp at. We all owe him our thanks on this one. What else could still be out there...?
10 FEBRUARY 2020
Four more Biffovision columns for you in this update, as we creep towards the end of the run - just eight left to be added now. This is what's new on the site: 175 (May 2007), 176 (June 2007), 177 (July 2007), and 178 (August 2007).
3 FEBRUARY 2020
A whole load of Digi pages have been added to the Vault - 279 images from 12 editions, in fact. Watch out, here they come now: 20/9/99, 4/3/00, 5/7/00, 15/7/00, 19/7/00, 8/8/00, 20/1/01, 27/12/01, 29/12/01, 13/3/02, 12/6/02, 29/6/02. As ever, profuse thanks go to: Andrew Nile for providing most of them (please note the 4/3/00, 29/12/01, 13/3/02, 12/6/02, and 29/6/02 editions are his 'offcuts'; recoveries from just a few minutes of recordings, so are missing pages and/or have a number of errors). To: Tim Bisley for kindly giving us the ediiton from 27/12/01. And to: Jason Robertson for providing the 20/1/01 edition. I was able to find the remaining three single-page updates hidden away in the vastness of the web, cold and shivering, from where I rescued them and have given them a new home here. Aww.
27 JANUARY 2020
Step right up, ladies and goyters, because this one's a doozy: a whole sweeping update to clear away the backlog of the last couple of months. Get a load of this lot: 3 Ring-sir!s (Saturn Stuff, Counterfeit Goods, PlayStation Profanity), 5 more Snakes, 8 pics of Morse & Lewis, 44 more reveal-ohs, 11 extra Digi Top 10s, 1 more Mr T outing, 2 for Zombie Dave, 29 Man's Daddy jokes (plus 3 Daddy-style jokes that were reveal-ohs, down the bottom of the page), 2 new fake ads (plus a star profile from Davros), images from the last missing edition of Super Control - number 8 - (plus a couple more from Mega Drive Advanced Gaming issues 18 and 20, with immense thanks to the man they call Reversible Sedgewick). And on top of all that? Atop all that sits a whole 22 more Man Diaries:
1/1/94: WALK ON! WITH PAT WALKER
30/4/94: SMASHING THE SYSTEM
24/9/94: BEING A TEACHER
31/12/94: PHOTO ALBUM
1/1/95: NEW YEAR'S PARTY
6/3/95: IS A GHOST NOW
6/4/95: IS A WEREWOLF
9/4/95: FUNFAIR RIDE DESIGNER
15/7/95: MAGICIAN
21/11/95: TOURIST GUIDE
23/3/96: BEING A SMUGGLER
5/4/96: CEREAL GIFT DESIGN
10/5/96: BEING A GIANT
18/7/96: IMAGE CONSULTANT
14/9/96: SUPER-HERO
1/3/97: MEDIEVAL TORTURE VICTIM
1/5/97: DRIVING INSTRUCTOR
16/5/97: CRISP MAKER
24/6/97: HAIRDRESSER
10/10/97: PRACTICAL JOKES
6/3/99: SONGWRITER
17/11/15: CHARITY WORKER
20 JANUARY 2020
It's another four Biffovision columns for you in this update. Not many left to go before we complete the collection now! Here's the latest batch: 170 (Christmas 2006), 171 (January 2007), 173 (March 2007), and 174 (April 2007).
13 JANUARY 2020
Tonight's update is a double-double-header. No, I'm not stammering; nor is it what Shaun Ryder calls a really-well headed goal in the game of football - it means we have two things twice, or something. Regardez: two new editions of Digi have been recovered in the forms of 22/4/00, (thanks to Tim Bisley) and 11/7/00 (courtesy of Andrew Nile); plus another two Biffovision columns in these shapes: 167 (October 2006), 169 (December 2006).
6 JANUARY 2020
Bon anniversaire! The first update of 2020 is here! Here is the first update of 2020: the next four Biffovision columns are ready for you now. Here they come, look: 160 (March 2006), 161 (April 2006), 162 (May 2006), and 163 (June 2006). Here!
30 DECEMBER 2019
Happy New Annus! In the words of BW in this update, how was your festive? Well, the festive isn't over yet, as here's one last big present for you: a full 10 (nearly) complete editions of Digi! That's 417 new images in total, sarge. Go on and start 2020 the right way by showering yourself in the brown goodness: 24/9/94 (thanks to Andrew Nile), 1/1/95 (thanks to Alistair Cree), 15/7/95, 23/3/96 (both thanks to Tim Bisley), 14/9/96, 20/2/01, 12/3/01, 13/3/01, 11/8/01, 1/9/01 (all thanks again to Andrew Nile). Toot-toot! Well done.
23 DECEMBER 2019
Your yuletide update is in the shape of this shape: the Biffovision shape. Four more columns have been added like a selection pack of "choc", in these varieties: 155 (November 2005), 157 (Christmas 2005), 158 (January 2006), and 159 (February 2006). Have a lovely festive break, everyone!
16 DECEMBER 2019
Another batch of Biffovision columns have been added to the site: 150 (June 2005), 151 (July 2005), 152 (August 2005), and 154 (October 2005).
9 DECEMBER 2019
It's Biffovision time again with this update, and another four of Mr Biffo's Edge columns have been added to the archive: 145 (January 2005), 146 (February 2005), 148 (April 2005), and 149 (May 2005). Thanks to John Veness for providing images for issues 145 and 146.
4 DECEMBER 2019
The teletext recovery dream team of Tim Bisley and Andrew Nile has come up trumps again, with another five complete editions of Digi - adding 243 more images, and sending us over 11k in the archive. And what a great batch they are - we see here for the first time since September 1993, the near-mythical, phallic-haired EastEnders crooner, Danny Taurus! Watch out, here they come now: 24/4/93, 18/9/93, 30/4/94, (thanks to Tim Bisley); 12/8/00, 4/12/00 (thanks to Andrew Nile).
2 DECEMBER 2019
We're heading back to Mr Biffo's 'Biffovision' columns for Edge again this time: his articles from issues 141 (October 2004), 142 (November 2004), 143 (December 2004), and 144 (Christmas 2004) are all now available. Thanks to John Veness for providing images of the latter two, where things take a turn very much for the 'Biffo'...
28 NOVEMBER 2019
And the hits just keep on coming! There's another nine complete/near complete editions of Digi for you in this update, plus a little extra one-image find from early '93. We have a full 269 images in this haul, so you'd better get started: copious thanks as ever to Tim Bisley (for providing Digis from 22/1/93, 1/1/94, 21/11/95, 10/5/96, 16/5/97, 10/10/97) and Andrew Nile (for 31/3/98, 22/7/99, 4/11/99, 23/3/01). You fine fellows are doing Important Work and we're all extremely grateful.
25 NOVEMBER 2019
There's another four of Mr Biffo's 'Biffovision' columns for Edge magazine in this update - specifically, from issues 134 (March 2004), 135 (April 2004), 138 (July 2004), and 139 (August 2004). Many thanks to John Veness for providing images of 134 and 135 for me to transcribe.
21 NOVEMBER 2019
Time for another Digi bonanza, as we have yet another eight full editions and 300 images, with eternal thanks once more to those superstars of teletext recovery, Tim Bisley (18/7/96, 24/6/97, 21/2/98, 4/4/98, 6/3/99, 15/12/99) and Andrew Nile (7/2/98, 20/2/02). There's so much great stuff in these ones, so you'd better waste no time and get stuck right in.
18 NOVEMBER 2019
It's a break from Digi recoveries for this update - right now we return to adding Mr Biffo's column for Edge to the site. Editions of Biffovision circa 2003 from issues 126, 127, 128, and 129 are all live now. And there's much more where they came from...
13 NOVEMBER 2019
The recoveries just keep coming: there's another four to add to the pile now, thanks to that ever-diligent pair Tim Bisley (17/4/93, 20/11/93) and Andrew Nile (11/10/99, 16/2/02). Thanks to these gents we're racking up Digis at the double!
7 NOVEMBER 2019
Another deluge of recovered Digi has just burst through the pipes, and it's Tim Bisley (31/3/93, 14/6/93, 6/3/95, 6/4/95, 8/4/95, 5/4/96, 1/3/97, 25/2/99) and Andrew Nile (1/5/97, 21/9/02) who are responsible for getting us emphatically over the 10,000 images mark. Better call a plumber, I guess.
2 NOVEMBER 2019
Time to strap in, because this is quite the update. A full 8 (EIGHT) editions of Digi been added to the Vault: 23/4/93, 7/8/97 (both thanks to recovery newcomer Tim Bisley, who has also converted the Larry Bundy Jr photo from 30/1/98 into teletext form), 31/10/97 (thanks to Jason Robertson), and 27/7/98, 31/7/98, 4/11/00, 2/2/02, 15/3/02 (all ecovered by Andrew Nile). This has all turned up a fair bit of extra material, so we have the following Man Diaries added to the archive - Giant Clam, Puffy Jacket, Cereal Manufacturer - plus 4 more Morse & Lewis pics, and 2 very early Snakes outings on the Tips page. On top of all THAT, I've also unearthed the letter to Mr Biffo from Teletext, giving him the gory details about Digigate, which I've linked to on the Timeline page, added a question about Ring-sir! to the FAQs, and finally - thanks to that 1993 edtion of Digi above - given The Man Who Taunts Fear his proper teletext image on the Characters page. That should all keep you occupied for a bit...
17 OCTOBER 2019
Yet more teletext recovery heroics from Andrew Nile have given us another eight full editions of Digi that have just been added to the site: 25/7/98, 13/10/01, 10/11/01, 19/1/02, 4/5/02, 2/7/02, 8/11/02, 14/12/02. That's 369 new Digi images. Crikey, aren't we being spoilt?
5 OCTOBER 2019
A major new page has gone live in this update - there now exists a comprehensive set of Digitiser FAQs, with full Mr Biffo endorsement and trivia contributions!
30 SEPTEMBER 2019
Recovery superstar Andrew Nile has found yet another 178 new Digi images within his mountain of tapes for your delectation. And: here they are - 16/10/00, 5/5/01, 3/12/01, 22/4/02.
22 SEPTEMBER 2019
Another four full editions of Digi have been added to the Vault, all from 2001, once again courtesy of Andrew Nile: 25/5/01, 26/5/01, 12/12/01, 15/12/01. On top of that, we now know that it wasn't only the pages of Super Control that The Man appeared in, but Mega Drive Advanced Gaming as well - I've found myself with five issues of containing Digi-related material, with the images all added to the Super Control page. And? And! With The Man's Daddy being victorious in the recent Digitiser Characters World Cup that I ran on Twitter, he posted a whole load of new jokes in celebration - which have been added to his joke page. Hurrah!
12 SEPTEMBER 2019
It's a real mixture of an update tonight, starting with the unearthing of a new Man With A Long Chin comic strip, from the pages of Super Control #10 - the last issue of the Maverick mag to be published, in March 1994. We also have another four editions of classic Teletext Digi added to the archive thanks once again to Andrew Nile: 21/6/97, 13/10/00, 22/1/02, 8/3/02. That's 159 more images in total between them. These recent additions to the Vault have yielded four new Man Diaries, which I've transcribed and are now included in the Man Diary archive: Paranormal
Investogator (24/1/97), Human Guinea Pig (31/1/97), Freak Show Owner (7/2/97), and Hairdresser (21/6/97). On top of that, there's a couple of new Morse & Lewis images at the start of their page, and new Reveals of Cracker and a Man's Daddy-style joke. Yessssssss!
5 SEPTEMBER 2019
A brand new feature has just been added to the site in the About Digi section - a brief guide to Digi and its history, to help fill people in on its remarkable story (in briefer terms than the tens of thousands of words in the timeline feature!).
3 SEPTEMBER 2019
We have more wonderful Digi recoveries from Mr Andrew Nile for you tonight - five full editions, and 198 new images of goodness are waiting for you: 7/2/97, 30/10/00, 9/11/00, 5/4/02, 17/7/02.
24 AUGUST 2019
Another 168 images from five full editions of Digi have been added to the Vault, thanks once again to the VHS recovery powers of the marvellous Andrew Nile - 24/1/97, 31/1/97, 22/3/02, 7/10/02, 11/1/03.
13 AUGUST 2019
This is an especially engorged update tonight - not only do we have
Andrew Nile's latest Digi VHS recoveries - 4/7/93 (featuring DIY "Kelly" and the Comic Trolley!), 11/7/93, 17/1/97, 6/6/02 - but I've also added a whole load of material from other recent recoveries. Which means: the 1993 and 1998 Christmas Pant-ohs, a Christmas 1998 Ring-sir!, loads of Snakes, including their 1998 'Christmas special' and few more from those halcyon in the run-up to the release of The Phantom Menace; a little more Morse & Lewis, a couple of reveal-ohs featuring The Devil, who I've added to the Characters A-Z along with Connis The Cow-bag, Fat Nost, The Quoon; a clutch of extra Digi Top 10s - and - And! These here Man Diaries:
20/12/93 - 25/12/93: WALK ON! WITH PAT WALKER
6/5/94: JOURNEY TO HEAVEN
17/1/97: DEL BOY-STYLE TRADER
1/8/97: ON HOLIDAY
6 AUGUST 2019
This site now has its very own 'About' page! Originally written for the Chunky Text teletext service that ran at Chunky Fringe on the afternoon of Digitiser Live, you can now read The Story Of Super Page 58...
4 AUGUST 2019
What have we got for you today? Only another seven full editions of recovered Digitiser, thanks to the continuing outstanding efforts of Andrew Nile. A total of 252 new Digi images have been added to the Vault, from 9/4/94, 3/1/97, 10/1/97, 29/6/99, 1/3/02, 5/10/02, and 2/11/02 - and that last one is historically significant, capturing the moment when the humour started to return post-Digigate. We now have over 8,000 images from more than 600 editions of Digi. That's around 1,500 more images than when the archive launched less than three months ago - maybe we will get everything one day after all.
28 JULY 2019
Another decent update for you tonight - this time it's a transcript of the 2005 Retro Gamer feature on Digi. It features an interview with both Mr Biffo and Mr Hairs - possibly the first time this has been done - and covers a nice amount of Digi history.
25 JULY 2019
How was Digitiser Live for you? What a superb show. Thanks to everyone who came to Chunky Fringe in the afternoon, too. The first post-Digi Live update is ready for your eyeballs - and they're in for another treat. We have seven new (nearly) full editions of Digi in The Vault thanks to both Jason Robertson and Andrew Nile: 6/5/94, 1/8/97, 25/12/98, 16/5/99, 24/12/00, 24/12/01, and 9/9/02. Go look now, as there's some brilliant stuff - especially in the 25/12/98 edition, which is surely ultimate Digi: a Pant-oh, Ring-sir! AND Snakes Christmas special. Don't cuss Relapse, man.
13 JULY 2019
Now - I hadn't planned on updating again before Digitiser Live. But that man Andrew Nile had something to say about it - specifically, that he'd recovered four full editions of Digi from Christmas 1993 to be added to the Vault. Including the first ever Digitiser Pant-oh, Chinderella! Oh yes - strap yourselves in, because here we go: 20/12/93, 24/12/93, 25/12/93, 27/12/93.
4 JULY 2019
It's another pleasingly bulbous update for you tonight: we have a grand total of 316 new Digitiser images across 8 editions now added to The Vault. Courtesy of TV Whirl Terence, we have an incredible early edition from 19/2/94; Andrew Nile gives us more top notch work: 26/6/01, 26/1/02, 11/3/02, 4/7/02, 13/8/02; and I've even found a near-full edition hidden in the depths of Archive.org from 22/2/97; plus a single screen of Mr T's Problem Page from 18/7/00. I'm shocked at how many are still coming in - thanks to the continuing the sterling efforts of the recovery heroes. On top of this, and in some cases as a result of them, I've updated the characters A-Z page with images of Dr Tina (plus a better bio) and LAPD (AKA NYPD); added a new Top 10, and a single image of The Snakes showing how they deal with wasps that stray onto their patch. That do it for you? See you at Digitiser Live on the 20th - do come and say hello!
28 JUNE 2019
The characters A-Z page has finally been updated! That's right - only took 18 years to do it. It's chock full of new names and images, so you better go check it out right now, man.
12 JUNE 2019
That man Andrew Nile has been busy again, and that's very good news for us! His recovery heroics have gifted 169 new Digi images to the Vault, across 4 editions - 3 of which are complete, and the other is just missing a couple of frames. These editions are: 2/4/99, 21/4/00, 11/11/00, and 15/9/01. Andrew is really coming up with the goods at the moment, and isn't showing any signs of slowing down, so be sure to thank him - he's doing a brilliant service to the community.
2 JUNE 2019
Well, it's a lovely big update tonight, with hardly an area of the site going without. This is all due to work on the Vault having unearthed a number of extras that needed to be added. We have new stuff in the Digi Top 10s, Edward Lear limericks, fake adverts, reveals, Snakes, Morse & Lewis, Zombie Dave, Super Control images from issue 9, two more Man Diaries (Practical Joke Fun from 30/5/98, and Department Store Santa from 18/12/97), and the backer special episode of Digitiser The Show has been added (which features me and my big face - see the 15.32 mark). Not only that, but less than a month after it launched, we already have a whole load more recovered Digi screenshots to go in the Vault: five full editions and a handful of other images. They are: 2/4/99, 4/1/00, 22/10/01, 27/2/02, 26/10/02 (courtesy of Andrew Nile, who's given us our first glimpses of Digigate-era pages with the 2001 and 2002 editions there), 30/5/98 (thanks to Jason Robertson), and 22/2/00, 30/8/01, and 22/9/99 (thanks to the wizadry of Alistair Cree - who also re-did his recoveries from 17/3/97 for us so they're even nicer). Gratuitously huge thanks to all for their contributions.
11 MAY 2019
It's here! It's here! It's finally ready! Yes: after more than eight months of work, Super Page 58's Digitiser screenshot archive - newly entitled The Digitiser Vault - is here. Ready for you to browse to your heart's content. The largest collection of full Digitiser pages anywhere on the internet is right here waiting for you to dive in.
The archive would not have been possible if not for the extraordinary efforts of a number of people. Eternal thanks go to Jason Robertson - The Teletext Archaeologist himself – for his incredible contributions to the community, including a large number of editions of Digitiser; Alistair Buxton, for uncovering many editions of Digi, and for creating the original code that allowed the recovery of teletext from video tapes in the first place; Dan Farrimond for being a legend of teletext art, a cornerstone of the community, and for his Digi recoveries; Ant Purves for making an astonishing number of editions of Digi available; Alistair Cree for his fantastic efforts, allowing us to see a number of key editions, and for general encouragement and support; Wagoo for saving dozens of TV card teletext files of truly classic Digi for over two decades; TV Whirl Terence and Alan Wilkinson for their recoveries of Digi from the early 2000s; David McCaffery for having the foresight with his old Digi-Me-Do page to save screenshots from a TV card - and to everyone else who contributed images to this archive, who remain unknown or anonymous. We’re all grotesquely grateful.
Thanks also to Paul Dunning for his help locating more archived images and ensuring they could be displayed in the best possible way, David Walford for the lovely Who-pics, and to the most excellent Matt Barney – long-time friend of Super Page 58 – for his invaluable technical help, which dramatically shortened the amount of time it took to finish creating this archive.
And of course, the greatest thanks of all to Mr Biffo, Mr Hairs, and everyone else who made Digitiser what it is - something worth preserving.
Salute-me-do!
11 FEBRUARY 2019
Zing! Biffo has re-uploaded episode 1 of Digitiser The Show, now remastered with the sound and frame rate issues resolved, so I've updated its corresponding page on the site. You can embed-it-up all you want now, guy.
31 JANUARY 2019
Hello Graham! And also hello to non-Grahams. Look: it's the first site update of 2019. It wasn't all just a 2018 wonder! And what do we have for you on this chilly January evening? Well for starters, there's new images from issues 4, 5, and 6 of Super Control, featuring The Man's comic strips, a Q&A - and! - the full unexpurgated Digitiser/Super Control Lard Challenge! Only three issues of Super Control featuring Digi remain to be tracked down (8, 9, and 10), so if you have or know of any, then by all means please do mail me-up here: superpage58@gmail.com. As if that weren't exciting enough, thanks to Alastair Buxton's fine work recovering teletext from old video tapes, a number of new Morse & Lewis images have been added to their page - including the classic reveal-o-story that featured Cracker. He does like cakes. Elsewhere, a whole 'slew' of Christmas-themed Man's Daddy jokes have been added - 36 in total, plus another four courtesy of The Man himself, from the period (1997) when his Daddy was on unexplained hiatus. Finally, thanks to another teletext recovery hero - Alistair Cree this time - we have one more new Man Diary added to the archive: 17/3/97 - Stage Magician. Go get 'em, kid!
(What's that? The screenshot archive? Yes, it is very much still happening - it gets a little bit closer to coming into existence every day. It's just that I miiiiiiiight have underestimated quite the amount of work that was involved. Sit tight, though, it'll defiitely turn up at some point.)
16 DECEMBER 2018
And so we reach the end of Digitiser The Show series 1, and what a blast it's been from start to finish. Episode 6 is up on the site now, and I've also added all of The Man's Daddy's jokes that have appeared throughout the episodes too. All together now, one last time: moc-moc!
9 DECEMBER 2018
Episodes 4 and 5 of Digitiser The Show are now on the site. I've also added the 2018 advent calendar images to the reveal-o-page - one of which is of The Man's Daddy, so I've also added that joke to his page.
25 NOVEMBER 2018
Episode 3 of Digitiser The Show is now up. This episode is commonly known as the one where Paul Gannon nearly dies.
18 NOVEMBER 2018
Digitiser The Show episode 2 has been added - why not go and play along with Mockety-Moc?
11 NOVEMBER 2018
Digitiser The Show has arrived! New episodes on YouTube every Sunday at 9pm - and they're being added to the site as embedded videos as they go up. Episode 1 is here: now.
6 NOVEMBER 2018
It may not be the screenshot archive yet (work continues on there), but this update should keep you going for a while. Thanks to the rediscovery of a huge cache of recovered Digi screenshots (thanks to Alastair Buxton and all who helped locate them), we have a nice big update for you: 25 Man Diaries have been added (see below), 2 editions of Ring-sir! from 1997 and 1999, what seems to the first ever Rapping Shoe rap from October 1997, 4 new fake adverts - including 1995's Rock Meister, the rock answer to 'Das Techno Zone' - and a whole load of Digi collaboration images from the recently-acquired issue 3 of Super Control. I've even updated the Digi timeline with a few corrections and clarifications that this collection of screenshots were able to illuminate (good luck finding them in there, mind...). There's loads to get through, so you'd better start digging in:
-22/12/93: WALK ON! WITH PAT WALKER
-20/5/94 - 24/5/94: OLD FOLK IN THE ATTIC
-6/1/95: PERFUMIER
-31/5/95: HOSPITAL PORTER
-23/6/95 - 24/6/95: HYPNOTISED COPPERS
-29/7/95: CENTRE OF THE EARTH
-5/8/95: SQUATTERS
-?/10/95 - 1/11/95: HALLOWEEN PARTY
-2/11/95 - 3/11/95: IN LOST PROPERTY
-4/11/95 - ?/11/95: ROMANCE GUIDE
-?/2/96 - ?/2/96: HIS WOODEN SON
-29/3/96 - ?/?/96: NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
-?/4/96 - ?/?/96: ON INSECT ISLAND
-?/5/96 - 2?/5/96: BEING A SUPERMODEL
-30/5/96 - ?/6/96: BEING DOCTOR WHO
-?/9/96 - 4/10/96: ENGLISH/OVERSEAS TEACHER
-?/11/96 - ?/?/96: LIMERICK RECITALS
-?/2/97 - ?/2/97: FREAK SHOW OWNER
-20/6/97 - ?/6/97: HAIRDRESSER
-13/9/97 - ?/9/97: BLUE PETER
-24/10/97 - ?/10/97: PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR
-?/11/97 - ?/11/97: ROMANCE GUIDE
-27/12/97: FESTIVE FUN
-20/2/99 - ?/2/99: MONKEY TEACHER
Only a small update for you this time, as I'm concentrating on harvesting Digi screenshots for the upcoming archive feature. Nevertheless, there have been a few little tweaks to the Digitiser timeline of events, and I've added the two recent fake adverts that Biffo produced for National Teletext Day.
19 SEPTEMBER 2018This is going to be the last update for a litle while as work will soon begin on the world's first consolidated, fully catalogued and indexed Digitiser screenshot archive, which will come before the end of the year. As for this update, we have a mammoth set of Man Diaries, with all of the Digitiser 2000 entries being added, plus a couple from the very earliest days of Digi on Teletext - see below. There's also three more fake adverts (including 'Das Techno Zone 3'!), and an extra little Rapping Shoe rap for you. Why, I've even found the time to add a couple of extra items to the Digitiser timeline of events. Good, eh?
-24/5/94: OLD FOLK IN THE ATTIC
-11/3/95: WORKS ON A GHOST TRAIN
-13/11/14 - 15/11/14: UKCP AND BROWNAROUND
-1/1214 - 3/12/14: FATHER CHRISTMAS
-9/1214 - 11/12/14: VLOGGING
-1/1/15 - 2/1/15: BACK TO THE FUTURE
-18/1/15 - 20/1/15: BEING A MURDERER
-6/2/15 - 8/2/15: HOW TO BE AN INVENTOR
-23/2/15 - 25/2/15: DANCING WITH MADONNA
-20/3/15 - 22/3/15: TOP GEER PRESENTER
-15/4/15 - 20/4/15: AVENGER
-24/4/15 - 26/4/15: MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY
-21/5/15 - 23/5/15: EUROVISION
-27/7/15 - 29/7/15: JAPAN
-1/12/15 - 3/12/15: MISERY AND GREGGS
-23/3/16: BACK IN TIME
-29/4/16: WORKING IN A SAUNA
-6/5/16: MAYOR OF LONDON
-20/5/16: POOING ON THE QUEEN
-27/5/16: ANDREW LLOYD-WEBBER'S CATS
-10/6/16: MALE STRIPPER
-17/6/16: BODY PARTS RESTAURANT
-29/7/16: HORROR WRITER
-1/1/18 - 2/1/18: TIME MACHINE
-3/1/18: QUEEN SINGER
Right, this is a big one - for the last three months I've been working on putting together a comprehensive Digitiser timeline of events. And it's finally done - for the first time ever, we know dates and order for key events. I couldn't have done this without the input and guidance of Mr Biffo, and the information provided by so many Teletext sites and recovery geniuses like Jason Robertson.And especially to the lovely David Walford for the image of Dr How. Thanks to you all. Enjoy!
3 SEPTEMBER 2018
It's another fine crop of Biffovision columns for you this week, with four more being added to the site. And? And: I've only gone and managed to acquire a whole 'slew' more for the purpose of the transcription purpose. Those will be coming soon, but possibly not just yet, for other plans for new content are afoot. This is what we have for you right now, though:
EDGE #165, AUGUST 2006 - IS SONY HISTORY?EDGE #166, SEPTEMBER 2006 - REFUND, SIR?
EDGE #168, NOVEMBER 2006 - DOES GAMING NEED CELEBRITIES?
EDGE #172, FEBRUARY 2007 - IS LENGTH EVERYTHING?
27 AUGUST 2018
Happy Bankuss! There's another four editions of Biffovision for you to gorge yourselves on today, plus I've added an image from the November 1993 issue of Super Control about Digi and The Man to the collaboration page. There be beasties (Biffovisions) here:
EDGE #147, MARCH 2005 - GIRL TALK: IS YOUR BOYFRIEND A VIDEO GAME ADDICT?EDGE #153, SEPTEMBER 2005 - SECRETS AND LIES
EDGE #156, DECEMBER 2005 - LISTING BADLY
EDGE #164, JULY 2006 - FEELING GREEN
20 AUGUST 2018
The Biffovision archiving continues: another four of Mr Biffo's columns for Edge have been added to the site, and there are still plenty more where they came from (I am quite literally in a transcription frenzy at the moment). See? See here:
EDGE #133, FEBRUARY 2004 - ON STAYING 17 AND GROWING BREASTS. KIND OF...EDGE #136, MAY 2004 - WORK, DAMMIT
EDGE #137, JUNE 2004 - SCRIPT FOR A TESTER'S TEAR
EDGE #140, SEPTEMBER - A TALE OF TWO DAVIDS
13 AUGUST 2018
First up: hello to all the fine Digi folk I met at PlayExpo London at the weekend. It was lovely to finally make contact with your carporeal selves. Second up: we have another four Biffovision columns for your delectation! Reading them back as I was transcribing the copy, it's remarkable how prescient some of them still are - and in some cases, how little things have changed in 15 years...
EDGE #125, JULY 2003 - TOO MUCH, TOO SOON - AND WE'RE ALL PAYING FOR IT
EDGE #130, DECEMBER 2003 - ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME LARA CROFT WAS SACKED AS A VIDEOGAME FIGUREHEAD?
EDGE #131, CHRISTMAS 2003 - GAMES ARE NOT BOOKS OR FILMS. DISCUSS
EDGE #132, JANUARY 2004 - JOHN: WE KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE! WE'VE HAD LESSONS
7 AUGUST 2018
Wha? Wassat? 'Wha' 'at' is, is the first update of August. And we're now archiving Mr Biffo's monthly columns for Edge - Biffovision. The first four they published are live now. I've also gone and added new menu images for most of the content that didn't previously have them, and done some general site admin and stuff, but that's not interesting, so never mind that and just focus on Biffo's writing, alright? Alright:
EDGE #121, MARCH 2003 - THE ACCIDENTAL JOURNALIST
EDGE #122, APRIL 2003 - MR BIFFO MOST DEFINITELY DOES NOT LOVE 1982
EDGE #123, MAY 2003 - OKAY CLASS, TURN ON YOUR PS2S AND TURN TO LEVEL FIVE
EDGE #124, JUNE 2003 - THE GAMES INDUSTRY CAN EAT SHIT AND DIE
31 JULY 2018
The final update of July sees the cast of Digi's correspondents join us, as a whole page of the best letters to Digi has been added (of course, the criteria for 'best letters' being 'best replies from Digi'). All the old favourites are there: Hardy, Dantendo, Fassbender (lie). As a consequence of this page going up, I've also been able to add the last ever letters page to the 'final Digi' section, so that's now entirely complete. Don't be the king of the mess-ups: go read them now.
25 JULY 2018
This one has it all. As updates go, it would be easier to list the pages that don't have new content - but that's a stupid thing to do, so I'm just going to tell you what's changed instead. Get this down your face-hole: characters-wise we have more Zombie Dave, more Snakes, more Morse & Lewis, more Rapping Shoe, and more Mr T. There's even another three Man's Daddy jokes from New Year's Day 1999 (they're the ones immediately before the Edward Snowden joke). Plus? Plus! Another Ring-sir! has been added, from the final week of Digi in 2003; a whole slew of extra joke adverts are now present (including classics such as Totally Turts And Phants and The Tea Prancer) more reveals are on board, and I've even found the time to add some new photos from Biffo's March 2003 Digi leaving do. On top of all THAT - we even have another NINE Man Diary entries for you - see below. I need have a lie down after all that...
- -19/6/95: WEEKEND 17/18 JUNE
- -4/10/96: OVERSEAS TEACHER
- -11/10/96: CARTOON PRISON
- -13/4/97: VAMPIRE HUNTER
- -4/7/97: "BRIT-POP" BAND
- -18/9/98: UP A TREE RECORD
- -16/10/98: GORILLA WATCHER
- -30/10/98: CROW MUSEUM
- -6/11/98: JACK FROST
19 JULY 2018
The mission to continue documenting the major hallmarks of Digi continues: today's update is a brand new page of reveals! Obviously, with more than ten years of Digitiser having been produced, this is far from complete - but there's some lovely stuff in here, and I'll be adding to it as more gets discovered. Reveal button chak-chak? Chak-chak-reveal-chak-chak!
12 JULY 2018
On 4 July I was lucky enough to be invited up to watch a day of filming for Digitiser The Show. To say it was a fantastic experience would not be going nearly far enough - and you can now read a full report of the day's filming, complete with photos, to find out exactly why. Oh, and to learn about how the show's coming along too, that bit's interesting as well, I suppose.
10 JULY 2018
There's something a bit different for you in this update: we now have Morse & Lewis reunited and on their own page, plus a new page parading Digi's joke adverts from down the years. But that's not the really exciting thing! The really exciting thing is this thing: Paul Mallinson, ex-staffer of SNES mag Super Control in the early-to-mid '90s, has provided a wealth of pictures from their crossover with Digi during that time - and I've collected them together in a gallery page. So we have a few of The Man's comic strips, illustrations by Mr Biffo, and even an extra previously-unseen photo from the 1993 Digitiser / Super Control Lard Challenge. This is super-rare stuff, man: hardly anyone has seen it for years. And now it's here (here). Bo!
3 JULY 2018
A whole load of different stuff for you in this update - we have a few extra outings for not just Zombie Dave and The Snakes (scroll to the bottom of their pages for two updates each), but Mr T as well. He also has two more messages for you - go down to the bottom of the first section, above the problem page, and you'll find them both. On top of that, there's a few more Digi top 10s, and there's even some more Man Diaries from 1998 to for you to enjoy:
- -11/8/98: CLOWN HOSPITAL
- -16/8/98: KING OF THE SEA
- -25/8/98: PEARLY GATEKEEPER
- -30/8/98: FREAK SHOW
- -10/10/98: PIXIE HUNTER
- -23/10/98 AND 24/10/98: BIG TOMATO
26 JUNE 2018
Hot on the heels of The Snakes, now it's Zombie Dave's turn to get a page all to himself! This should bring smiles to the faces of his putrid friends among the living dead, all frrrrrgn wrrrrrnggggrrrrrrz, and anyone else in fact.
21 JUNE 2018
This is the moment many will have been waiting for since this site's return - including me. Yes, prepare to be cussed bad, as The Snakes get their own page at last. You can thank @wagoo on Twitter for sending me a bulging sack full of old TV card files, mostly from 1998, which captured a whole load of the reptilian duo's earliest appearances on Digi - including the very first one, on 11 August 1998. Massive respect, man.
13 JUNE 2018
There's a real treat for you in this update: the 10th anniversary article that Edge published about Digi in January 2003 has been added to the site in its full 5,000+ words glory. And there's more where that came from...
4 JUNE 2018
We've nearly exhausted the available Digi that's out there on the web to be archived, but there's still some more for you in this update. We have 11 limericks from that crazy Edward Lear guy, and a whole bunch of spoof scripts: five Star Wars, five EastEnders, and three Planet Of The Apes. All the latest stuff has been added to the bottom of the pages - it dates from July to September 2001, so like the recent Man Diary updates, this comes from the final days before the shadow of Digigate was cast across the land. As far as future updates go, I still have a lot of transcription to do as there are plenty of quotes to be added, but after that we'll be moving onto completely new pages of content for the site. Mmmm!
1 JUNE 2018
A mixed bag for this update, with a variety of stuff from the final days of Digi on Teletext from 2003. The last 13 Man Diaries to be published are now available (from the days where he only had half the usual space, as he was sharing a pages with the tips), along with The Man's Daddy climactic four jokes from Digi's big blowout last week on air (search for 'kraken', and they're the next four down). And! Not only that, but we get a couple of outings from Mr T as well! Once more, this is from the last week of Digi from March 2003 - search for 'homebuyers' to find the two that have been added. Now is the time for the listing of the Man Diaries:
- -13/12/02: CHOKED ON A CHRYSALIS
- -14/1/03 - 16/1/03: ARCHANGEL
- -17/1/03: HISSSSSSSSS
- -27/1/03 - 30/1/03: ZOO
- -12/2/03 - 14/2/03: HENHOUSE
- -4/3/03: WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE
30 MAY 2018
The final 19 Man Diaries of 2001 have been added to the archive tonight - these are the last ones missing for the whole year, and cover the 'golden period' that spanned summer and early autumn 2001, before Digigate kicked in and all the funnees vanished. There would be no more from The Man until late 2002, when Teletext conceded that they'd been idiots and allowed Biffo to restore Digi to its former glory.
- -20/6/01 - 21/6/01: DISEASE SPECIALIST
- -6/7/01 - 11/7/01: ZOOKEEPER
- -24/7/01 - 25/7/01: FLAMENCO DANCER
- -14/8/01 - 16/8/01: BRASS BAND
- -30/8/01 - 31/8/01: MONKEY SALESMAN
- -5/9/01 - 7/9/01: ICED YAMS STALL
- -1/10/01 - 3/10/01: HINGE MUSEUM
28 MAY 2018
Today we have a total of 52 Man's Daddy jokes added to the site, mostly from 2001 (do a search for "gruel" - they start directly underneath), which bump up against the infamous Digigate Teletext-enforced culling of humour. From my research, this seems to have come into effect around 15 October 2001, which corroborates Biffo's memories of how things played out. Thanks to Craig Cooper-Flintstone for sending me the ones about tomatoes etc. which he'd saved, as well. We also have a few more Man Diaries, this time from 1999, to add to the growing collection:
- -?/1/99 - 28/1/99: ANIMAL ORCHESTRA
- -29/1/99 - ?/?/99: STAGE HYPNOTIST
- -?/2/99 - ?/2/99: CRASH TEST DUMMY
- -?/2/99 - ?/2/99: DIMENSION EXPLORER
25 MAY 2018
Another big Man Diary update for you today, this time with 31 editions from 1998. In amongst them are extra entries for Wormery Owner, from 20/4/98, and Giraffe Journey, from 24/4/98. You can thank the nice Mr @wagoo for many of these, who supplied a bunch of old PC TV card files that he'd saved back in the '90s. While I don't have the software to access them properly, I was at least able to get at the text by opening them in Notepad. If anyone can open and display teletext VTP files, then I'd love to get your help in viewing them properly - not least because there are a few full runs of The Snakes' outings on the weekend letters page that it would be brilliant to have on the site. Mail superpage58@gmail.com if you fancy doing a good deed.
- -?/1/98 - 16/1/98: ROBOT DESIGNER
- -?/1/98 - 22/1/98: PRACTICAL JOKES
- -20/4/98: WORMERY OWNER
- -24/4/98: GIRAFFE JOURNEY
- -?/6/98 - ?/6/98: CELEB STAND-IN
- -?/6/98 - ?/6/98: MAN AND GRETL
- -?/7/98 - ?/8/98: ESKIMO
- -?/8/98 - 1/9/98: FREAK SHOW
- -2/9/98 - ?/9/98: BIG-UDDERED COW
- -?/10/98 - ?/11/98: CROW MUSEUM
- -?/11/98 - 5/11/98: AFRICAN AMBASSADOR
- -6/11/98 - ?/11/98: JACK FROST
- -?/11/98 - 12/11/98: CACTUS SALESMAN
- -13/11/98 - 1?/11/98: BROWN SAUCE FACTORY
- -1?/11/98 - 21/11/98: MINNIE THE MONKEY
- -2?/11/98 - 30/11/98: PUNCH AND JUDY
- -1/12/98 - ?/12/98: PATENTS OFFICE
- -?/12/98 - ?/12/98: VET
23 MAY 2018
Twelve Man's Daddy jokes have been added - the first three on the page are from 1995, and the last nine (before the page gets into The Man's jokes at the bottom, after his daddy's) are more recent, from Digitiser 2000 (including the January 2018 25th anniversary material). Zing-zing-zing-zingers!
21 MAY 2018
Four editions of Ring-sir have been added to the site - two from 1995, one from 1996, and the special 2018 '25 Years Of Digitiser' run-out for Phoning Honey. The 'New TV Show' transcript is missing the last one or two pages, so if you have have them, please do mail superpage58@gmail.com with them so it can be completed.
- -2 SEPTEMBER 1995 - OUR INVENTIONS
- -7 OCTOBER 1995 - OUR FUNNY GAMES
- -27 JANUARY 1996 - NEW TV SHOW
- -4 JANUARY 2018 - ONLINE HELPDESK PRANK
19 MAY 2018
The Man Diary archive has been updated again with 27 editions from 1996:
- -3?/12/95 - ?/1/96: VISITING DADDY
- -10/1/96 - ?/1/96: BEING A VET
- -27/1/96 - ?/?/96: BEING AN A&R MAN
- -?/2/96 - ?/2/96: HIS WOODEN SON
- -?/2/96 - 21/2/96: BEING A COWBOY
- -22/2/96 - 4/3/96: FAST-FOOD FRANCHISE
- -5/3/96 - ?/3/96: CRUISE SHIP CLOWN/IMPRISONED ON SHIP
- -?/3/96 - 20/3/96: RUNNING A JOKE SHOP
- -21/3/96 - ?/3/96: BEING A SMUGGLER
- -?/6/96 - 2?/6/96: LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
- -2?/6/96 - ?/?/96: BEING A JEDI KNIGHT
- -31/7/96 - ?/8/96: BEING A BAKER
- -1?/9/96 - 21/9/96: CAVEMAN
- -22/9/96 - ?/?/96: BOUNCER
- -?/?/96 - ?/10/96: OVERSEAS TEACHER
- -4/11/96 - ?/11/96: HOLIDAY CAMP ENTERTAINER
8 MAY 2018
The Man Diary archive has been updated with a whole raft of entires from 1995 - older than any previously on the site, including some gems featuring Prints and Frank Butcher.
Here's the full rundown:
- -20/8/95 - 2/9/95: WITH PRINTS
- -4/9/95 - 9/9/95: DOG FOOD FACTORY
- -13/9/95 - 19/9/95: AT THE FISH FARM
- -20/9/95 - 2?/9/95: AT HIS FRIEND'S
- -2?/9/95 - 2?/9/95: AND HIS BOARDGAMES
- -2?/9/95 - ?/10/95: WORKS IN ADVERTISING
- -?/10/95 - ?/10/95: WORKING ON A PLANE
- -?/10/95 - ?/10/95: BEING AN EXORCIST
- -?/10/95 - ?/10/95: HALLOWEEN PARTY
- -?/11/95 - ?/11/95: ROMANCE GUIDE
- -?/12/95 - 20/12/95: GERMAN CELEBRITY/TV PRANKSTER
- -21/12/95 - 2?/12/95: SANTA'S ELF
- -25/12/95: FRANK DIARY - WITH FRANK BUTCHER
- -27/12/95: OLD PRESENTS
- -28/12/95 - ?/12/95: CHRISTMAS VIDEOS
5 MAY 2018
The in-depth feature on the feud between Digi and Mean Machines Sega was added. As was this very update page; a new page to cover Digitiser: The Show; a dedicated contact details page to make it easier to "engage" with me; and a Super Page 58 sitemap to help with navigation if the links aren't accessible for some reason.
13 FEBRUARY 2018
After nearly 17 years without an update, Super Page 58 came back with a full site redesign and relaunch. Actual new content was even added. Including! The final ever edition of Digitiser from 9 March 2003; a nascent Ring-Sir! archive, which wasn't covered before; plus the 1995 Digitiser Pant-Oh. We're back, Daddy!
