Bluesman 0 Posted August 27, 2003 Regarding Black Adder. I assume you know there's a boxed DVD set with all episodes on them? It's actually fairly cheap (around 30 euro/$). Technically there's more Black Adder if you count the special New Years version. Did I hear right when somoene said season 1 was awful? It's afaik the most popular of them all. I thought the WW1 was rather average. Anyway, the box is good value for money and a good way to spend a boring sunday afternoon . Noone knows about the Triffids series? It was really scary and I'd love to see it again but noone ever shows a re-run. BM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phleep 0 Posted August 27, 2003 Regarding Black Adder.I assume you know there's a boxed DVD set with all episodes on them? It's actually fairly cheap (around 30 euro/$). Technically there's more Black Adder if you count the special New Years version. Did I hear right when somoene said season 1 was awful? It's afaik the most popular of them all. I thought the WW1 was rather average. Anyway, the box is good value for money and a good way to spend a boring sunday afternoon . Noone knows about the Triffids series? It was really scary and I'd love to see it again but noone ever shows a re-run. BM Sure you didn't get it muddled with "The Tripods"? That was a trilogy (well the books anyhoo - haven't seen the series). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bluesman 0 Posted August 27, 2003 No; It's Day of the Triffids the TV version. http://www.imdb.com/Title?0081850 Good backgrounder for those wanting more http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gazhack/triffids.htm The reviews are very positive so it's as good as I remember it . Now i need the DVD . (or if BBC can put it up) This user comment was very good and sort of reminds me of how i felt when i watched it. "When I was seven years old, Day of the Triffids scared me so much that my parents sent me to bed early, and banned me from watching later episodes. With a lifetime of memories of a few images, I was stunned to find the show rerun on British satellite telly, and nervous about watching it again. As so many have commented here, the joy of DOTD is its concentration on the breakdown of society. With humanity rendered blind, there are some nasty images here: a starving woman struggling to open a box, unable to see that it's washing powder; another woman struggling to get into a tin of coffee; a crowd of blind people surrounding a car, desperate to grab hold of the sighted people inside it. Nasty, unsettling, realistic stuff. The Triffids are kept to a minimum, and wisely so, as their appearance is a bit early-80s-BBC. They look a bit plastic. Careful camerawork highlighting their roots, shadows, lethal stinging "tongues"; and the eerie Triffid soundeffect, are supremely effective in keeping the horror of death by walking vegetable on the edge of screen throughout. With horrendous disease sweeping the land, a dictatorial self-imposed government planning to seize control, the breakdown of modern society is uncomfortably close. The first meeting of the group Bill meets up with, explaining that "women will be expected to have babies, men will be expected to work", could be real. A few scary Triffid moments, and a lot of very believable "what if" issues ensure that DOTD is as special now as it was when I was sent to bed early, and woke with nightmares, all those years ago" BM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ralphwiggum 6 Posted August 27, 2003 maybe this can be the first available one? http://www.cnn.com/2003....ex.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Koolkid101 0 Posted August 27, 2003 KNIGHTS OF NI!!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Renagade 0 Posted August 27, 2003 There was also aremake of day of the triffods maybe thats what ur after bluesman. Did the tripods tv show ever make it past the first chapter and i almost forgot !!! ARGH THIS IS WHERE MY TV LICENSE MONEY IS GOING Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ran 0 Posted August 27, 2003 KNIGHTS OF NI!!!!!! well ... it's Eki Eki Eki Pa Tang in the end Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Major Fubar 0 Posted August 27, 2003 Dr Who! Blake's 7 Survivors Sapphire & Steel w00t! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Major Gripe 0 Posted August 28, 2003 Dr Who! You really are a very sad man Fubar!! Get back in your tardis! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Major Fubar 0 Posted August 28, 2003 Dr Who! You really are a very sad man Fubar!! Get back in your tardis! I wish I had a tardis to get back in! Â I grew up on Dr. Who, and despite it's ridiculously low SFX budget, IMHO still remains one of the best sci-fi series ever. At a recent trivia night one of the questions was to name all the actors who have played the Doctor...out of 200 people, I was the only to get all seven right. Man, I wish someone would bankroll a new series with a decent effects budget and a good actor to play the Doctor...and some hot Brit babe as his sidekick. Â Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 28, 2003 Mmmmm...Leela from when Tom Baker was the Doctor. Now that's a sidekick.....short leather skirt and a hunting knife That's what I grew up watching...and I'm a normal kinda guy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bluesman 0 Posted August 28, 2003 Renegade. Yeah it's a very faithful representation of the books. It has been run on UK Gold in fact but I can't get that channel over here (if it's even run anymore). BM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shashman 0 Posted August 28, 2003 SAS-Are you tough enough? The Airshow Fighting the war Guns 'n' Roses (a documentary about women in the British Army) The Fast Show Harry Enfield and Chums And loads more I'd like to be able to d/l Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
der bastler 0 Posted August 29, 2003 Did the tripods tv show ever make it past the first chapter BBC planned three seasons (one season for one book) with 12 or 13 episodes. They produced the first two seasons (representing the books "The White Mountains" and "The City of Gold and Lead") but ran out of money for season three ("The Pool of Fire"). I read(*) that Touchstone Pictures got the film rights now (A big screen movie trilogy? ) (*) http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/Tripods.html is a good site btw Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
