Soon to be released on DVD.

 





Tie-in for the notoriously bad Queen Kong starring Robin Askwith.

 

Oliver Grape

The Adventures of... tie-ins

 

The Adventures of... films made by Stanley Long's Salon Film Productions, the best of which in both film and book form was Adventures of a Private Eye. As to who actually penned the tie-in books, I have thus far been unable to ascertain that info. Each book was authored by the character in each one, Joe North, Bob West & Sid South respectively, and written in the first person narrative. All three were published by Mayflower, a subsidiarity of Granada Publishing Limited.

Rosie Dixon series by Christopher Wood

Christopher Wood was a very prolific author who wrote a series of sex comedy books in the early to late seventies under various pen names of Timothy Lea, Rosie Dixon, Penny Sutton and Oliver Grape.

The Rosie Dixon series he penned for Futura Books was a spin-off from the Timothy Lea series, and ran for eight books. The series was popular enough for Columbia Pictures to make a film, as they had done very succesfully with the Timothy Lea books, based on Confessions of a Night Nurse but renamed Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (Dir: Justin Cartwright 1977).

Unfortunately for Columbia they didn't have as much success as they did with the Timothy Lea films and Rosie Dixon only had the one cinematic outing. The film was badly miscast with Debbie Ash in the lead role, but, as with a lot of British sex comedies, it did have a great support/guest star cast. Director Justin Cartwright, however, seemed more interested in making sure the photography was of the highest order - which it was thanks to Alex Thomson - than making a funny film and he doesn't appear to have made another film since.

The books were printed on cheap paper and each featured a photo of Rosie representing the particular career she was pursing in each adventure. The model on the cover representing Rosie seemed to be the same one through out the run of the series. The stories were relatively funny - with Package Tour and Lady Courier being my favourites. All books were written from the first person perspective.

The last book in the series was Rosie Dixon - Barmaid which, like the movie, dropped the Confession moniker and was published in 1977.