Vilaworld (Blake's 7 newsletter)

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Zine
Title: Vilaworld
Publisher: Yvette Clarke for Vilaworld (fan club)
Editor(s):
Type:
Date(s): 1981-at least 1995
Frequency: four times a year
Medium: print
Size: A4
Fandom: Blake’s 7
Language: English
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Vilaworld is a gen club zine newsletter published in the UK that includes fiction. The newsletter was issued four times per year.

It listed the following Blake's 7 actors as "honorary members": Michael Keating, Paul Darrow, Vere Lorrimer, Peter Tuddenham and Chris Boucher.

Issue 1

Issue 1 was published in June 1981.

Issue 2

Issue 2 was published in September 1981.

Issue 3

Issue 3 was published in December 1981.

Issue 4

Issue 4 was published in March 1982.

Issue 5

Issue 5 was published in June 1982.

Issue 6

Issue 6 was published in September 1982.

Issue 7

Issue 7 was published in December 1982.

Issue 8

Issue 8 was published in March 1983.

Issue 9

Vilaworld 9 was published in June 1983. It was reviewed in Chronicles #9/10 in 1983.

  • cover of issue #9

Issue 10

Vilaworld 10 was published in September 1983. It was reviewed in Chronicles #14 in 1984.

Issue 11

Vilaworld 11 was published in December 1983.

Issue 12

Vilaworld 12 was published in March 1984.

Issue 13

Vilaworld 13 was published in June 1984. It was reviewed in Chronicles #16 in 1984.

Issue 15

Vilaworld 15 was published in December 1984.

Issue 16

Vilaworld 16 was published in March 1985.

Issue 17

Vilaworld 17 was published in June 1985.

Issue 18

Vilaworld 18 was published in September 1985 and contains 19 pages.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 18

19pp, foolscap, duplicated newsletter of the Michael Keating fan club. As usual, it's packed full of reading; reviews of "Are You Lonesome Tonight" - the play in which Martin Shaw of Professionals fame plays Elvis Presley in apparently a believable and moving performance, which is still running (until May according to my last information), and of "Phoenix", a transcript of a radio interview with Michael, plus acute filksong. Worth it for MK fans.[1]

Issue 19

Vilaworld 19 was published in December 1985.

Issue 20

Vilaworld 20 was published in March 1986.

Issue 21

Vilaworld 21 was published in June 1986.

Issue 22

Vilaworld 22 was reviewed in September 1986.

Issue 23

Vilaworld 23 was published in December 1986.

Issue 24

Vilaworld 24 was published in March 1987.

Issue 25

Vilaworld 25 was published in June 1987.

Issue 26

Vilaworld 26 was published in September 1987.

Issue 27

Vilaworld 27 was published in December 1987.

Issue 28

Vilaworld 28 was published in March 1988.

Issue 29

Vilaworld 29 was published in June 1988.

Issue 30

Vilaworld 30 was published in September 1988.

There is a review by Carol Wicks in this issue of Are You Lonesome Tonight? that was reprinted in Aspects #2.

Issue 31

Vilaworld 31 was published in December 1988.

  • cover of issue #31

Issue 32

Vilaworld 32 was published in March 1989.

  • cover of issue #32

Issue 33

Vilaworld 33 was published in June 1989.

Issue 34

Vilaworld 34 was published in September 1989.

  • cover of issue #34

Issue 36

Vilaworld 36 was published in March 1990.

  • cover of issue #36

Issue 37

Vilaworld 37 was published in June 1990.

  • cover of issue #37

Issue 38

Vilaworld 38 was published in September 1990.

Issue 39

Vilaworld 39 was published in March 1991.

  • cover of issue #39

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 39

Loved Rose's story as always. She's inexhaustible! Only one LoC where are they all?

Jackie Willmott's anxiety about "that word." Whilst I am not so offended about it as she is, I can never understand why anyone uses the word anyway for swearing as it sounds so downright silly it is so unorigrinal. If you want to swear, why not use something colourful, artistic, suitable and, for heaven's sake, interesting? You'd think actors would be more original, especially if they are likely to get on to a sacred blooper tape. So full marks to Jackie for her protest and black marks to all the offending actors on this one for being darn boring with their language when they make a mistake. I begin to wonder if the blooper reel is worth seeing if all it contains is a string of unoriginal saxon expressions. [2]

Issue 40

Vilaworld 40 was published in March 1991 and contains 28 pages.

cover of issue #40
art from issue #40, Denise Donahue: "NEWS FLAS: CITY FATHERS CAVE INTO PRESSURE - VOTE TO RETIRE BILLY PENN'S STATUE: CITY RENAMED VILADELPHIA."

"With this issue, Vilaworld's ten years old.... Here's to the next decade."

  • Blake's Seven: The Guest Stars, article by Ros Williams (2)
  • Night Manoeuvres, fiction by Rose Prior (3)
  • letters from fans (introducing themselves, responding to previous letters, speculation and opinions about the episodes and characters) (5)
  • BBC Blake's Seven Video Release, review by Jackie Willmott (first printed in an issue of Avon) (7)
  • Time: The Greatest Healer of All, fiction by Renya Spratt (7)
  • The Greatest Thief, poem by Cheryl Beresford (9)
  • According the Latest Opinion Poll, fiction by Faye Bull ("Note: With New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain all having suffered general elections, I thought this would make a suitably topical subject for a story.") (9)
  • art by Denise Donahue (portrays Vila as a statue in Philadelphia) (12)
  • Eulogy, poem by Avril Brown (13)
  • The World Beyond Imagination (For Vila), poem by Cheryl Beresford (14)
  • April Fool, vignette by Rose Prior (15)
  • The Final Conflict, fiction by Donna Wheeler (15)
  • Galactic Trading Post, ads for zines, clubs (multifandom) (17)

Issue 41

Vilaworld 41 was published in September 1991.

  • cover of issue #41

Issue 48

Vilaworld 48 was published in March 1993.

Issue 49

Vilaworld 49 was published in June 1993.

Issue 50

Vilaworld 50 was published in September 1993.

Issue 51

Vilaworld 51 was published in December 1993.

Issue 52

Vilaworld 52 was published in March 1994.

Issue 53

Vilaworld 53 was published in June 1994.

Issue 54

Vilaworld 54 was published in September 1994.

Issue 55

Vilaworld 55 was published in December 1994.

Issue 56

Vilaworld 56 was published in March 1995.

Issue 57

Vilaworld 57 was published in June 1995.

Issue 58

Vilaworld 58 was published in September 1995.

  1. ^ from Chronicles #24 (1986)
  2. ^ from a letter in "Vilaworld" #40, likely referencing the actor's use of the word "fuck."
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