Any article on The Adventure Game would be incomplete without mentioning the Vortex. But video footage is rare – otherwise The Adventure Game wouldn’t be a ‘Lost Gem’ – so there wasn’t a clip available at the time I wrote the article. But I did promise Marie I’d try to find one for her.
Anyway, I managed it. Yey me.
Here’s David Yip and Madeleine Smith braving the Vortex, while the ‘mole’, Lesley Judd, shows her true colours and tries to evaporate them. It’s from the second series so there’s no green cheese roll to help them – and David Yip has unwisely given back the ham sandwich he was offered before entering the Vortex room…
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
