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Post by Cyggy on Mar 2, 2022 18:01:24 GMT
Was it unforgivable of the BBC to halt the show in it's tracks after only two thirds of a trilogy?
Or was the series just not working anyway?
And should there ever be a movie adaption- or would they mess it up?
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 6, 2022 11:48:55 GMT
I thought Season 2 was a vast improvement on the first one, with less padding and the whole infiltrating the city plot. I guess - given the BBC's track record - we can pretend that they made the 3rd series and then wiped it.
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Post by Cyggy on Apr 18, 2022 4:17:40 GMT
Episode 1's broadcast suffered an interruption.....
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Post by GC on Jul 4, 2022 15:42:14 GMT
Try as I might I could never really get into this series. Nothing ever seemed to happen when I watched lol. Anyhoo, recall Blue Peter making a big thing out of it at the time.
NotOnThisDay...
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Post by GC on Jul 5, 2022 0:29:08 GMT
Sadly it's only the first 10 minutes... Imagine watching the lot in one go, it'd save time...
The Tripods (All 25 episodes at the same time)
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 30, 2022 3:07:16 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Aug 1, 2022 14:54:15 GMT
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Post by starquake on Aug 2, 2022 8:53:57 GMT
I had read the books when I was ten or eleven and thought they were great; the show was a little lacking, however. I'm surprised it was not adapted by a big American network, though I guess that kind of sci-fi miniseries just didn't happen much back then in the States (V is the only one I remember). I suspect it will never get adapted now, what with the leads being all male (and I'm really struggling to remember any female character at all, to be honest), so the books are pretty much it... which I guess is not a bad thing at all.
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Post by GC on Oct 18, 2022 17:01:32 GMT
BBC TV presents: The End of the World. You think we have it bad...
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Post by GC on Jul 6, 2024 14:36:57 GMT
Seems there's a book coming out about the making of the series, set for release this September... x.com/tripodsbook
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Post by GC on Jul 20, 2024 15:51:24 GMT
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Post by GC on Sept 15, 2024 21:03:22 GMT
On this day, 40 years ago...
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Post by heccy on Sept 16, 2024 2:23:51 GMT
The whole Tripods thing past me by... I think I saw a trailer or something, and I thought, "Are they ripping orf War of The Worlds?"... This was during my Rock n Roll heyday and I was busy trying to be the next Sting.... As in the singer/bassist/songwriter... Not the wrestler.. Also I was in deep mourning the loss of Davo as The Doctor during this period...
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Post by GC on Sept 16, 2024 2:53:08 GMT
Tried to get into it but just couldn't. Found it slow going. Can't remember whether I bothered with the second series or not.
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Post by Servo on Sept 16, 2024 3:04:16 GMT
It was also probably shown here as part of the Afternoon Show and I was working full time by then and never got home in time to watch this stuff (it was the same as a lot of the McCoy era). I probably should check though.
And I didn’t have a VCR back then.
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