Brilliantly faithful adaptation of the book

davros-10

This mini-series was shown here late at night about 20 years ago, but I can still remember the excitement that built up in me as I rushed home from university to make sure I didn't miss an episode.  I studied the book at high school and was a big fan of it, but after being disappointed by the rather poor movie adaptation starring Howard Keel I approached the mini-series with both anticipation and trepidation. Lucky for me it turned out to be a brilliant and faithful adaptation of the book, able to chill and thrill.  The social commentary was not overdone, but always there as subtext and worthy of the thinking person's attention. The casting was pretty much uniformly great, with John Duttine as Bill Masen and Emma Relph as Jo Pleyton particularly good. My only complaints about the series are that it was never repeated, (which probably had something to do with the time it was originally shown and its consequent ratings or lack thereof) and that it has never been released on video.

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davros-10 18 January 2002

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