The Brightonomicon Audio Series

Robert & Count Otto

Robert Rankin & his sculpture of Count Otto Black (& some bunny ears!)

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The Brightonomicon audio series is being released both as a worldwide digital download, and as a premium edition 7 CD BOXSET. This page gives you the full skinny on the boxset, what it looks like, why it is so special and just what you get inside it. Well worth £30 of anyone's money we reckon!

The Look Of The Thing

Tasty...very very tasty!

The boxset comprises 7 CDs within 3 CD jewel cases, all held safely within a beautifully designed box. The box was created by those clever boffins over at the BBC, with the images of Hugo Rune and Count Otto Black sculpted by Robert Rankin himself! Here's a 3D render of what the boxset looks like:

3D boxset The box is designed to resemble a 1950's bakelite TV set, which in turn is the inspiration for the design of the mysterious Chronovision device in the story. The 'screen' will be cut out, so that you can display an image of Hugo Rune or of Count Otto Black...these images being the slipcase designs for the CDs inside the box.
Hugo Rune Cover Count Otto Black cover
   
CD design This image is the design for the 'on-body printing'...the design that is printed directly onto the CDs themselves

 

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Tracklisting

You Gotta Know Where Your Tracks Are At!

Every episode of the series has been split into 10 tracks to make for easier access and, well, general fabulousness really.  In advance of you getting the inlay sleeves to look at, here are the full track listings, episode by episode:

 

EP 1 – The Incredible Encounter with Hugo Rune

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

1

1

1

Ep 1 – Opening Time

1

1

2

I wish to complain

1

1

3

Thank you for saving my life

1

1

4

Stylishly clad but never pay for anything

1

1

5

The tip of the iceberg

1

1

6

Shootee...scoree!

1

1

7

Ludicrous, but also incredible!

1

1

8

The inevitable occurs

1

1

9

Misguided in regards to cheese

1

1

10

Spaniel involvement!

 

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EP 2 – The Hound of the Hangletons

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

1

2

11

Ep 2 – Opening Time

1

2

12

The first gunshot

1

2

13

Mrs Janet Orion

1

2

14

A prize winning Spanikov

1

2

15

The Rack & Pinion

1

2

16

The broken pub sign

1

2

17

You are his Boswell

1

2

18

I’ve got this dog

1

2

19

Bestiality theme night

1

2

20

Yet another dream

 

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EP 3 – The Curious Case of the Centenary Centaur

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

2

3

1

Ep 3 – Opening Time

2

3

2

Rizla wakes up

2

3

3

Local author’s advert

2

3

4

Danbury Collins

2

3

5

Let’s have order, please!

2

3

6

Where am I?

2

3

7

This way Dr Proctor

2

3

8

How the NHS was born

2

3

9

Old-chap-cutting time

2

3

10

Always a riot

 

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EP 4 – The Monstrous Mystery of the Moulsecoomb Crab

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

2

4

11

Ep 4 – Opening Time

2

4

12

The history of Moulsecoomb

2

4

13

Setting up a colony

2

4

14

Behold the bog-troll

2

4

15

The costume of a crab

2

4

16

Inside the dead man’s house

2

4

17

Up on the Downs

2

4

18

The return of Dr Proctor

2

4

19

Still rather bruised

2

4

20

Ahab the space crab

 

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EP 5 – The Lark of the Lansdowne Lioness

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

3

5

1

Ep 5 – Opening Time

3

5

2

Let’s meet the Professor

3

5

3

The Book of Ultimate Truths

3

5

4

So many athletes

3

5

5

The crowd

3

5

6

The Golden Order of the Illuminated Sprout

3

5

7

Give us a clue

3

5

8

You are dealing with Rune!

3

5

9

Perambulating

3

5

10

Count Otto Black attacks!

 

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EP 6 – The Curious Case of the Woodingdean Chameleon

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

3

6

11

Ep 6 – Opening Time

3

6

12

You are a fool!

3

6

13

Lazlo Woodbine

3

6

14

The old crime detection

3

6

15

Croquet or cricket?

3

6

16

Deep...and dark!

3

6

17

Did you see that?

3

6

18

Colonel Mortimer takes aim

3

6

19

Case closed

3

6

20

Hugo Rune the cad

 

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EP 7 – The Scintillating Story of the Sackville Scavenger

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

4

7

1

Ep 7 – Opening Time

4

7

2

And what is this?

4

7

3

Off to Fangio’s

4

7

4

Dressing up for the occasion

4

7

5

Evening, sir!

4

7

6

Eat Your Food Nude

4

7

7

Robert Johnson

4

7

8

I think you offended him

4

7

9

President Jimi Hendrix

4

7

10

Not such a nice future!

 

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EP 8 – The Fantastic Adventure of the Foredown Man

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

4

8

11

Ep 8 – Opening Time

4

8

12

He walks!

4

8

13

Brighton swells ‘n’ toffs

4

8

14

Kelly-Anne Sirjan

4

8

15

Fangius Interuptus

4

8

16

Clearly not alright!

4

8

17

Locked in the library

4

8

18

What’s all this about?

4

8

19

Doughnuts for life

4

8

20

The case is closed

 

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EP 9  - The Baffling Business of the Bevendean Bat

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

5

9

1

Ep 9 – Opening Time

5

9

2

The Brighton Pavilion

5

9

3

Cats

5

9

4

He may be on to something

5

9

5

Isambard Kingdom-Come

5

9

6

Do you hear that?

5

9

7

Spontaneous human combustion

5

9

8

The Moulsecoomb pirates arrive

5

9

9

The man in black

5

9

10

You are outnumbered

 

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EP 10 – The Sensational Saga of the Saltdean Stallion

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

5

10

11

Ep 10 – Opening Time

5

10

12

The Hotel California

5

10

13

An urban myth

5

10

14

Bare naked lady

5

10

15

The waiting throng

5

10

16

You’ve killed him!

5

10

17

Norris Styver

5

10

18

Within the ethereal Morris Minor

5

10

19

I want out of this town!

5

10

20

The popular parlance of the day

 

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EP 11 – The Bizarre Brouhaha of the Birdman of Whitehawk

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

6

11

1

Ep 11 – Opening Time

6

11

2

The Devil-forsaken Whitehawk

6

11

3

Dealing with the fare

6

11

4

B.O.L.L.A.R.D.

6

11

5

The Forbidden Zone

6

11

6

The Chronovision is found!

6

11

7

Rizla comes round

6

11

8

Chief Whitehawk

6

11

9

That’s a mod!

6

11

10

A noteworthy gentleman

 

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EP 12 – The Wondrous One-Off Wiseman of Withdean

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

6

12

11

Ep 12 – Opening Time

6

12

12

St Aubyns, Hove

6

12

13

Mario makes a proposal

6

12

14

You invented heavy metal?!

6

12

15

Spaniels to Satan

6

12

16

The Albion

6

12

17

Hove heavy metal

6

12

18

Dry Rot

6

12

19

Any sign of HIM?

6

12

20

Wine into water

 

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EP 13 – The Chaotic Concluding Conundrum of the Coldean Cat

CD

Ep

Track #

Track Title

7

13

1

Ep 13 – Opening Time

7

13

2

A new 3-piece tweed suit

7

13

3

Take us below!

7

13

4

The missing animals

7

13

5

Captured by the Count

7

13

6

Nathaniel the homing spaniel

7

13

7

Count Otto’s “friends”

7

13

8

If Hugo Rune were in control

7

13

9

Post-Countal liquid refreshment

7

13

10

Back in Brentford

 

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