Monkey is back!

"In the world before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the phoenix can fly only when it's feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven all worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. It became magically fertile. The first egg was named "Thought". Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha said "With our thoughts, we make the world". Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it came a stone monkey.

The nature of monkey was irrepressible!!"



For a certain type of 30 something (well, me), news that Monkey is back will be greeted with a mixture of excitement and apprehension.

The original TV series, with its amazing opening sequence, brilliant characters, dodgy kung fu and even dodgier jokes, will be hard to beat. I bought a DVD of the old series about 18 months ago (for the kids you understand) - but this has had to be hidden as it unearthed psychotic tendencies in small children that gentler fare such as 'Aunty Mabel' helps subdue!

All we need now is a new series of Blakes 7 and my televisual life will be complete!