[PW] Re: "An Englishman's Castle" (fwd)
Michael Hart
hart at pglaf.org
Tue May 2 08:53:27 PDT 2006
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Dennis Lien wrote:
> At 09:54 AM 5/2/2006, you wrote:
>
>> This seems to be the one. . .but everywhere I seach for
>> a copy seems to be a dead end. . .any help?
>>
>> Many thanks!!!
>>
>> Michael
>
>
> On a blog site called "DVD Purgatory" about TV shows that
> should be available on video/DVD but are not I found this
> (via google cache only):
>
>
> "An Englishman's Castle" is a British 3-part mini-series, and is also a
> parallel-world story, but a more "conventional" one: it's the present
> (1970s), and Germany won WWII and has occupied Britain for the past 30 years.
> Sir Kenneth More plays a writer for a "contemporary" drama set back during
> that war. (It's clearly supposed to be the parallel-version of A Family At
> War, a popular British 1970s war-soap that also played in the US on
> Masterpiece Theater. Got that?) But, at long last, a Resistance is brewing.
> This series played on PBS in the late 1970s and is fondly remembered by many;
> it's not even available in the UK, let alone the US.
Hmmm, it would appear that perhaps we lost that revolution???
I can't even find a reference to it in most of my searches. . . .
Michael
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