Editors: Jake Collins
(July 2001 – present)
Paul McIntosh (December 1995 – July 2001)
Contact : Issue Contents : Bring Back Knightmare
July
2001: New issues of TES now online!
The Eye Shield was a quarterly printed Knightmare fanzine, launched in December 1995. The magazine
was produced by life-long Knightmare fan - Paul McIntosh. He was disappointed to see Knightmare fade away, and so set up 'The Eye Shield',
originally intended to be an independent 'fanzine', separate from Broadsword
Television (who were keen on the idea).
Paul kept in
contact with Broadsword Television, and eventually the fanzine became ' The
Official Knightmare Magazine', and they did their
part by passing on all Knightmare mail onto him, and
helping out wherever possible.
"But I
never heard about 'The Eye Shield!'"
It is likely that
you did not hear about the magazine. It was going to be mentioned in the last
edition of 'The Quest', but there was a slight hiccup, and it was missed out.
All remaining copies of 'The Quest' were therefore sent out to as many people
as possible with a leaflet advertising the new fanzine. So well done if you were one of the lucky ones!
TES was packed
full with news, competitions, reader letters, games, puzzles and artwork. Not
forgetting exclusive interviews with David Learner
(Pickle), Hugo Myatt (Treguard),
Tim Child (Creator/Producer) and Jason Karl (Winner, Series 2). TES was also mentioned
on the Sci-Fi channel after an repeat episode of Knightmare in February 1996. A 15-second address card brought
in lots of new readers!
Part of The Eye
Shield's role was to start a 'Bring Back Knightmare' campaign. Indeed many readers wrote in
to CITV and other channels demanding Knightmare's
return, but they were not interested.
The magazine's
last issue was in December 1997, two years after its launch. Unfortunately,
there were fewer and fewer readers each issue so Paul decided it was time for a
break from producing the magazine, in order to devote his spare time and
resources to get a bigger fan base for the magazine, and in particular - the
BBK campaign. It would then be re-launched.
After I set this
site up in January 1999, I have managed to contact Paul and it was agreed that
this was the perfect opportunity to re-launch the magazine and the Bring Back Knightmare Campaign. Paul sent me all the issues, except
Issue 9 which was sent to me by Jake Collins.
You can now find all the issues on this site.
And thanks to
Jake, TES was re-launched in July 2001 and new issues are now available on the
site! However, the BBK campaign has now been taken over by Alan Boyd. See http://www.bringbackknightmare.co.uk
for more details.
If you have any
comments, questions, ideas or contributions regarding TES, you can e-mail the
Editor using the address at the top of this page.