It's in the main library, here. Enjoy!

That article is beautifully written, it made me cry. Denise, he was dying, that is why he looked so bad. About him losing Joan, he told Helen he was going to stop acting, he was so depressed over her death. I read several of his letters to Helen, and while I can't go into the contents fully out of consideration for his family and friends, he discussed illness in one. However, neither Helen nor Paolo guessed how really ill he was until he passed away. I didn't buy what had been put out, and Paolo and I had exchanged letters during the time I ran EBF and after Ed died, so I pleaded with Paolo to find out from his widow and surviving daughters what had actually killed him. Paolo was so gracious, he was grieving himself but he still did that for me, and the family was grieving but they too allowed me to know the truth and to announce it. I learned he had lived with leukemia for 12 years. In those years he still had contact with his fans, lived his life normally, in the way he wanted. I miss him so much, he was almost like a family member to me while I was running Ed Bishop Fans. I find it really hard to look at the picture of his gravestone, but he's buried beside Daniel, and I'm sure that is what he wanted.
Thank you for that account, Claire. It was beautiful to me. I admit I am jealous of you and the other fans who he allowed to get to know him.  I have my pictures, theatre books, magazines, articles, signed photographs, dvds, audio tapes of his book narration and his live interviews and most of all I have his personal check which I won from a charity auction. It isn't possible for me to hear about the new UFO movie without sadness, knowing he would have loved to take part in it.
I miss you George.

Neesierie wrote on Apr 4^th, 2011 at 10:17pm:


Thank you for saying that.  I honestly thought it would be a doddle to put words on a page but i have been reminiscing about him so much, I didn't really grieve when he died for some reason and I guess I'm going through a small delayed type of grief for him.  There'll never be another one like him, he was truly special.  That's what I meant when I said he always had time forhis fans, he would never miss a convention even when he was so ill and stuggling, he still came along.  The bit where I saw Ed lean against the railiing at Clacton made me very aware there was something wrong but I didn't intrude I just asked him if he was ok and made him jump a little bit, which made me feel like a heel but then on a lighter note he did that to me in his garden all those years ago.  I miss him (and Joan) every day, he was one of a kind to be sure.

Although the character of Ed Straker was seem by most as a hard nose, Bishop developed his character beautifully, allowing his gentleness as a man to shine through, in those rare glipmses in the show. To quote from Denise's story Fallen Heroes, "He was a giant among men!"

We miss you Ed Bishop!

Yea, Claire!  Tell us more please!

Isn't that smiley adorable?  I found him at planetsmilies.net .  I'm thinking that I need to stockpile my favorites from there, so that I can find them easily when I want to use them.  It's not easy going through the whole bunch each time I want a fun smiley. 

It had to be him who inspired you, because I would never resort to violence.  It's the crutch of the foolish.    Glad to hear you're going to write more! 

The pen is mightier than the sword? Pen and sword? Sword and Pen? What if the sword is a pen? Or the pen is the sword? I submit this photograph to the court as evidence, my Lord: