Robert faced the floods to tackle an epic journey to Birmingham to attend the Dr Who and Torchwood convention, ‘Bad Wolf’. He signed a few things and interviewed the stunning Yasmin Bannerman (Jabe in ‘The End of the World’), voice of the Daleks and Big Finish boss, Nick Briggs, and Liz Fost: an Auton of no fixed abode! Much fun was had at the bar with the delightful actor Owen Teale. And all in all it was a rather pleasant way to spend the weekend.

Robert is still hard at work on various exciting DVD releases for ITVDVD. Infact, a bumper crop of titles have been released just recently. The Huggetts Collection includes Holiday Camp and the three Huggett family spin-offs, with a booklet and stills gallery compiled by Robert. The special editions of Terry Jones’s Personal Services and Michael Winner’s The Big Sleep are also currently available. As is the Stewart Granger Collection, the first box set in a series of classic British cinema showcase collections. The BBC’s 2entertain have released series one of Sorry! which features all six episodes, three of which also includes audio commentaries with Ronnie Corbett and Robert.

Sad to hear of the death of legendary jazz singer and historian George Melly. A lifelong fan of the ‘cheeky chappie’, Max Miller, George happily gave his services free to the statue appeal variety concert held at Brighton’s Theatre Royal. A cause very dear to Robert’s heart. And talking of Max, the statue will be returned to Brighton with a new unveiling ceremony on Sunday 12th August. To reserve your place please email josephine.blake@btopenworld.com.

Robert has recently taken part in a couple of online interviews, embracing this new-fangled ‘interweb’ thing. The B.O.U.N.C.E. radio station interviewed him for their ‘Breakfast with Foxxy’ slot, while a gaggle of enthused Goodies fans, the Giddies, caught up with him for a chat for their Goodies site.

Robert was delighted to be invited to a special Hammer Horror double bill at the Reel Cinema, Elstree. Marking the 50th anniversary of the company’s first Gothic horror film, Elstree Heritage are in their second year of celebrations for locally made films. Although he had to skip the screening of The Devil Rides Out, Robert couldn’t resist a bit of Scars of Dracula, especially as his good friend and Scars leading lady, Jenny Hanley, was in attendance.

Robert’s social diary is usually a closed book to these pages but he wants to thank the ever gorgeous Vera Day, Alan Coles and Henry Holland for a raucous lunch cum early-evening drink cum late-night laugh in Joe Allens and various pubs in the locale. Here’s to the next time!

After nearly two weeks of continual writing Robert took an enjoyable ‘day off’ to conduct four DVD audio commentaries for ‘Don’t Wait Up’ with the show’s creator, George Layton.

Back in to Soho for another two Doctor audio commentaries. Leslie Phillips was on sparkling form for Doctor in Love and Doctor in Clover. Liz Fraser joined him on the former and the stunning Shirley Anne Field on the latter.

Fun and games in London for Robert, with a quick meet regarding a Carry On documentary for next year’s 50th anniversary, a quick pint with beloved friend Sally Geeson and a few more, later in the evening, with Terry Jones.

The first day of recording for another pet DVD project for Robert: the definitive special edition release of the classic Doctor comedy films. Audio commentaries for Doctor in the House and Doctor at Large were put in the can; featuring sterling contributions from stars Sir Donald Sinden and Muriel Pavlow.