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18/04/2022: Another Zeppos update! This one celebrates the new Eyeworks feature film - Zeppos: Het Mercatorspoor - which was released in March this year. Consequently the feature film section has been completely changed and now has details about the movie itself, the synopsis and the cast and crew and also presents the film poster.

16/04/2022: It's long been an ambition of mine to get all my websites under a single domain. This happened to a degree when this and some other of my sites were incorporated as subdomains of the Hidden Tiger website. This however wasn't entirely to my satisfaction as I always felt that the websites appeared secondary to the books that I wrote and published. This was never intended but I guess the impression was inevitably the one conveyed. Therefore, I recently investigated the possibility of having a catch-all domain which would nicely sum up the content and all my websites could then be presented on an equal footing. Consequently, you now find yourself at Cult TV.uk, where Adventurer, along with Randall and Hopkirk (Declassified), The Avengers Declassified, JSFnetGB, Hidden Tiger and Tapezine Matrix, will be preserved and occasionally updated. I've purchased a long term contract on this domain, so rest assured all these sites will be available on the web for many more years to come!

Please note that the English language email address for this site has changed to culttv.uk@gmail.com.

Also today, I have had the sad duty of updating the biography page for Raymond Bossaerts as I have today discovered that he passed away in 2020.

07/02/2008: Some additional information today from Alex Hetwer about the BRT/VRT children's series. We're pleased to say that with his help, we are much nearer a full picture of the history and now we also have a full listing of the VRT's archive holdings for these series. Many thanks to Alex for his kind assistance. Also this evening we have added a biography page for Raymond Bossaerts, who played Ben Kurrel in Captain Zeppos.

05/02/2008: Further detail has been added tonight to the biography of Senne Rouffaer. Also, with grateful thanks to Alex Hetwer at the VRT archives for kindly supplying the information, we have been able to significantly update the page on the BRT/VRT children's series to include archive holdings and broadcast dates where they were previously absent. Your help is very much appreciated, Alex.

03/02/2008: The Feature Film! "What feature film?", we hear you cry! The one that's not been made yet, that's the one... We've received reports that Flemish film production company MMG is in the early stages of pre-production for a Captain Zeppos movie. This may not actually come to fruition, but we thought it well worth devoting some space to. We aim to keep visitors posted with news on this project as we get it.

02/02/2008: What? No updates in 2007??? Well, we're well and truly back. Sincere apologies for the lack of activity here. We've had one or two technical problems, and our email addresses have not been working for some considerable time. Fortunately, all messages were stored on the server and now we've got access back again, we've received the mail in one big hit and we're catching up with getting back to people. We apologise profusely to anyone who was waiting on a reply. We promise to deal with all email very soon indeed. The first of these is from Marc Van Imschoot, who has uncovered another location - Schellebelle, which was one of the locations used for Series Two. A page has been added for this filming locale and the page for Gent has gained an extra modern day image.

Thanks also to Alex Hetwer from the VRT for contacting us to put us right regarding the archive status of the VRT children's serial, Manko Kapak, which starred Senne Rouffaer. We were lead to believe that only a single episode remained, but Alex has let us know the good news that the VRT do actually retain the complete serial. These are in the form of kinescopes, films recorded from a television screen, and are not considered to be of a sufficient technical quality for broadcast. While this may be mildly disappointing news, many other kinescoped programmes such as The Avengers have been issued on DVD, so there is still hope!