News & Updates Archive (2005 to 2006)

This page chronicles what I have done to this website, updates etc and will also contain T-Bag news.

The updates for prior to 2009 can be found on the following pages: 2003 to 2004 | 2005 to 2006 | 2007 to 2008.

DECEMBER 2006
25/12/06: Merry Christmas to all the website's visitors - hope you all have a truly magical Christmas.

21/12/06: The High-T Website has passed 24,000 visitors. Another 1000 in just over a calendar month!

NOVEMBER 2006
18/11/06: The High-T Website has passed 23,000 visitors. Another 1000 in under a calendar month!

OCTOBER 2006
22/10/06: The High-T Website has passed 22,000 visitors. Another 1000 in just over a calendar month.

SEPTEMBER 2006
21/09/06: The High-T Website has passed 21,000 visitors.

AUGUST 2006
16/08/06: The High-T Website has passed 20,000 visitors, another 1000 in another calendar month!

04/08/06: Updates for Georgina Hale's Birthday include:
T. Bag And The Rings Of Olympus image gallery updated with many new images.
Updated T. Bag and the Pearls Of Wisdom VHS eBay prices.

JULY 2006
16/07/06: The High-T Website has passed 19,000 visitors, another 1000 in three and a half weeks!

JUNE 2006
22/06/06: Here's the big news - there is now an interview with Elizabeth Estensen (Tallulah Bag) over in the interviews section.
The High-T Website has just passed 18,000 visitors, another 1000 in just over 3 weeks!

06/06/06: 21 years ago today the last episode of Wonders In Letterland was shown in the UK. To celebrate the airing of the entire first series of T-Bag 21 years ago in 1985, The High-T Website has had a few more updates added, these are:
- T.Bag And The Pearls Of Wisdom Image Gallery updated
- Nitpicker's Guide Updated (With 7 new mistakes!)
- Lee Pressman's 'Scrapbook' added with scans of photographs and cuttings.
- T-Bag In The Media Today added with scans of recent press articles mentioning T-Bag!
- Guest comments page updated (with a few of the comments I've recieved since the big updates on the 4th April)
Minor updates to various other pages including
- Cast Trivia page
- Frames main page and Hub page (with many more random quotes added!)
- A few of the episode pages in the series section.

MAY 2006
31/05/06: The High-T Website has just passed 17,000 visitors, another 1000 in just over 3 weeks!

08/05/06: The High-T Website has just passed 16,000 visitors, another 1000 in 3 weeks!

APRIL 2006
22/04/06: The High-T website is now listed on TV Timewarp.co.uk's Programmes External Links page. Thanks to Martin for the link.

16/04/06: The High-T Website has just passed 15,000 visitors, another 1000 in 20 days!

04/04/06: Today T-Bag celebrates it's 21st anniversary since first being broadcast in the UK. To celebrate this momentus occassion, The High-T Website has had a good spring clean and loads of updates added, these are:

Revamp for the entire website including:

General High-T pages updated
- Index Homepage updated.
- Frames updated with a random T-Bag quote.
- Hub page updated with a random T-Bag quote.
- Questions and Answers page updated
- Voting Polls page updated

Series section updated
- Index page updated
- All 94 episode pages updated with new quotes, images, cast and crew details and trivia.

Image Galleries updated
- Index page updated
- All Galleries updated
- with loads of new images added!

Downloads section updated
- Index page updated
- High-TV page updated more Video Clips added (now 50 to download lasting 54 minutes, these clips were previously available to members of The T-Bag Forum)
- Hi-Fi (Sounds section) updated
- P.C. Downloads updated (including new Wallpapers and for the first time PC desktop Icons and fonts)

Trivia section updated
- Index page updated
- Trivia pages updated
- Nitpicker's Guide updated (with 4 new mistakes added)
- 21 Years of T-Bag Trivia Quiz added

Merchandise section updated
- Index page updated
- T. Bag and The Pearls of Wisdom VHS page updated (with info + two new reviews)
- T. Bag and The Pearls of Wisdom VHS eBay prices page updated
- The Amazing Adventures Of T-Bag Book updated (with info of a reprint, promotional trailer & eBay prices)
- DVD Appeal page updated
- Theme Tune Polyphonic Ringtone updated
- 'TV Heaven' book page added

Making Of T-Bag section updated
- Index page updated
- Grant Cathro's Studio Days Photo album updated now with full-sized photographs!
- Origins of T-Bag page updated
- Studio page updated
- Scripts page updated (with new scans of some of the pages from a T-Bag episode script)
- Cast credits page updated
- Crew credits page updated

Interviews section updated
- Index page updated
- Interviews with Grant Cathro, Lee Pressman and Jeremy Vines added.

Cast Biographies Section updated
- Index page updated
- All biographies updated (with TV/Film appearances updated and some new images)

T-Bag Community
- Index page updated
- T-Bag Yahoo Group online
- About Me page updated

Links section updated
- Index page updated
- T-Bag Links page updated
- Children's TV links page updated (with more links added - thanks to everybody for their contriutions)
- Overview page updated (now with a High-T Website search!)

Promote The Website section updated
- Index page updated
- Promotion Banners updated - new banners added

The T-Bag Forum
- New look to celebrate 21 years of T-Bag
- New (and bigger) Avatars
- New member only video clips to download (100 clips in total including new clips from the This Morning Soap Icons section with Elizabeth Estensen talking about T-Bag)

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to these updates, these include Paul (for loads of images and more), Jeremy (for the interview and one of the new mistakes), Lee Pressman and Grant Cathro (for their interviews), Robin (for his Pearls of Wisdom VHS review), David (for some childrens TV links) and everyone else I might have missed - All your contributions have been very helpful to make the 21st Anniversary of T-Bag something to celebrate.

MARCH 2006
27/03/06: The High-T Website has just passed 14,000 hits - Another 1000 in 16 days!

11/03/06: The High-T Website has just passed 13,000 hits - Another 1000 in 18 days!

FEBRUARY 2006
21/02/06: The High-T Website has just passed 12,000 hits.

12/02/06: The High-T Website survey has been added, see the link from the index page. It's your chance to tell me what you think of the website and help me improve the website.

09/02/06: The Quick Link URL http://takeoff.to/tbag has been fixed.

JANUARY 2006
25/01/06: The High-T Website has just passed 11,000 hits. Welcome to all the new visitors - hope you come back soon.

18/01/06: Today alone the High-T Website got over 100 hits.

14/01/06: I've added a countdown to the 21st anniversary of T-Bag on the index page. Many updates are planned so in the meantime there may be slight disruption to the website.

01/01/06: Happy New Year to all my visitors. More updates are planned!

DECEMBER 2005
25/12/05: Just a little message to wish all my visitors a very Merry Christmas and I hope you visit The High-T Website again soon.

22/12/05: Just over two years since launching the High-T Website reaches 10, 000 visitors! Here's to the next two years and the next 10, 000 visitors.

09/12/05: The High-T website is now listed on DoYouRemember.co.uk's T-Bag page. Thanks to Michael for the link.

08/12/05: It is two years since The High-T Website was launched onto the world wide web, and what a great two years it has been. To celebrate here are some updates:
The Kids TV Links page has been updated with many more links added and a now a new look.
The Nitpicker's Guide has been updated with five new mistakes added.
The Pearls of Wisdom VHS eBay prices have been updated.
How did you discover The High-T Website poll (on the index page) has been updated - now with a choice of 'finding it through a publication (book, magazine etc).
A new cast page has been added (see The Making Of section)
and finally this updates page has been updated (with the old updates archived).

01/12/05: The T-Bag Forum has now gone all festive with a new look for Christmas. Check it out now.

NOVEMBER 2005
13/11/05: The High-T Website has surpassed 9000 visitors (in just 695 days - less than 2 years! Making an average of 12.95 visitors a day). Many thanks to all the visitors for visiting, hope you come back soon. More updates are in the pipeline (many for the 21st anniversary of T. Bag broadcasting in April.

07/11/05: The High-T Website is listed in a book released today called 'TV Heaven' (for more details see the post on The T. Bag Forum).

01/11/05: T-Bag links page completely revamped, new look and new links Thanks to Jeremy and Jen for their images.

OCTOBER 2005
04/10/05: The High-T website reaches 8000 visitors!

01/10/05: Crew page updated again (now with an almost complete listing of the crew and now set out in a table) - thanks to Paul for all the new crew credits!
The Nitpicker's Guide also updated, a general improvement and the addition of another mistake from T-Bag Bounces Back Episode 9.
The High-T website is now listed on Sausagenet.com's T-Bag page. Thanks to Ian for the link.

SEPTEMBER 2005
08/09/05: Crew Page updated with extra crew members added from Rings Of Olympus taken from the script (see Making of T-Bag for Script scans and more info).
About Me page updated with more of my favourite links!
T. Bag and the Pearls of Wisdom eBay UK prices updated.

AUGUST 2005
28/08/05: 7500 visitors reached! 500 more in just over one month! More updates are coming your way.

10/08/05: Updates for Elizabeth Estensen's Birthday include
High-TV takes to the world wide web - The Video Clip download page has been updated, two extra clips added!
Sound clip page added - with a few sound and theme clips (more audio clips to be added soon)
Updated DVD Appeal page
Updated Crew page - with links to the IMDB, find out what else the crew has done.

04/08/05: Updates for Georgina Hale's Birthday include:
Update to The Nitpicker's Guide with two new mistakes from Take Off With T. Bag ep1
New Guest Comments page (with more comments added)
Updated T. Bag and the Pearls Of Wisdom VHS eBay prices

JULY 2005
25/07/05: 7000 visitors reached - a big thankyou to all my visitors, check back soon more updates in the pipeline.

16/07/05: Crew credits updated - addition of Andy Armstrong (Props) for T. Bag's Christmas Carol.

JUNE 2005
10/06/05: Nitpicker's Guide updated with two new mistakes from T-Bag Bounces Back Ep2 & T. Bag and the Pearls Of Wisdom Ep4 both found by Jeremy.

MAY 2005
25/05/05: To celebrate the 6000 visitors a couple of days ago, it must be time for a quick update:
Brand new 'Voting Poll' page added to replace the old one with all those polls that didn't work. I did say it would eventually get replaced and here it is. Favourite Anchor character poll also added. These polls are now powered by Sparklit.
The T. Bag and the Pearls Of Wisdom VHS eBay UK Value now has it's own page (there were getting too much to keep on the main VHS page). This can be accessed from the VHS merchandise page.
20 Years Animated Banner added to banner page.

23/05/05: The High-T Website has had 6000 hits in 521 days since the counter started. Many thanks to all my visitors, hope you check back real soon.

07/05/05: Crew credits updated with credits added for Revenge of the T. Set, Christmas Carol, Pearls of Wisdom & Christmas Ding-Dong.

03/05/05: 'How Did You Discover The High-T Website?' voting poll on the main index page has been redone as the 'Votations' website where most my polls were hosted is now out of action (and has been for several weeks). All the polls will be (eventually) redone.

02/05/05: Nitpickers Guide updated with two new mistakes spotted by Paul from Rings Of Olympus Ep3 and Take Off With T. Bag Ep10.

APRIL 2005
04/04/05: It is the 20th anniversary since T-Bag first aired on UK television and to celebrate I've added these updates to The High-T Website:
The High-T Website now has frames, these can be accessed from the index page.
9 more video clips added (one from each series)
Wallpaper downloads added
More promotional Banners for the website have been added.
Crew Credits added (in Making Of Section)
Interview section added with interviews with Georgina Hale (Tabatha Bag) and Grant Cathro (Co-Writer)
A 20 Years of T-Bag trivia quiz, this time its interactive - how much have you remembered in the last 20 years?
Guestbook revamped with new look.
Nitpickers Guide updated with two more 'mistakes' from Pearls Of Wisdom Ep6 and Take Off With T. Bag Ep9.
Pearls Of Wisdom VHS eBay UK prices updated on the video merchandise page
Links updated

The T-Bag Forum has also been updated
and to top it all, The High-T Website has surpassed 5000 visitors since 19th December 2003 - under 16 months! Thanks for visiting everyone and please check back very soon, more updating is planned!

MARCH 2005

FEBRUARY 2005
08/02/05: 4000 Visitors reached, A big thank-you to all the visitors. Updates are now in the works, check back soon for A big T-Bag blow-out of updates ready for the 20th anniversary of T-Bag! A few surprises are in store!

JANUARY 2005
01/01/05: Happy New Year to all the visitors of The High-T Website over the past year, hope you come back very soon!