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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Media"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Beste Heather,</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div>You wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><p>I
too remember the beautiful shadow plays on children's TV that came from
Czechoslovakia, I think - but then programmes like this are easily
dubbed. I am sure most British children were unaware that Magic
Roundabout was not an original UK production! ( who reads credits?)</p></blockquote><div>Just
read that "Magic Roundabout" has been turned into a movie a couple of
years ago. Got positive reviews in the UK, but even though a special
adaptation was made for the US, it was a huge flop there.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind greetings,</div><div><br></div><div>Luc Hellinckx</div></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Media" 2009.04.19 (06) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div>On 20/04/2009, at 7:08 AM, <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> <span><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>>wrote:</span></div>
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"I
cannot recall BBC having any such series  but in the 1970's they had a
detective series set in Amsterdam (can't recall the name but it had a
catchy tune)."</p><div class="im"><p>It was called "Van der Valk" .. t</p></div></span></blockquote>Aye that's the one, many thanks.<br><div class="im"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p>
<span style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174);">Â I am sure most British children were unaware that Magic Roundabout was not an original UK production! ( who reads credits?)</span></p></span></blockquote></div>Was
French was it not ? British children were not the only ones devoted to
it, one British military camp ended up having its workday altered so
troops started</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">half an hour earlier and finished similarly
just so soldiers could watch this programme. At Royal Army Medical
Corps Barracks at London's Millbank we could not</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">watch this
or any other programme. One evening while some lads were watching the
TV in the lounge a man walked in and unplugged it telling them as he
carried it out that</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">it had to be repaired. Neither man nor TV
was ever seen again. All we had was a radio and every lunch time we
would listen to "Listen With Mother".<br><div class="im"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p>
Did any one mention the number of Australian soaps and films we get?</p></span></blockquote></div>Soaps you can have. When I visit UK people are amazed that I cannot tell them about pending episodes of junk like "Neighbours".</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There
are some superb Aussie TV mini series on the go however. A new one
called "Dirt" about the mining industry started here last night.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">If
it carries on as it started it will be superb, watch out for it. Â First
episode ranged from an oil rig off the Scottish Coast to London,
Melbourne, Hong Kong,</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and the South Australian Desert.</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="">
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<div><div style=""><div style=""><div>Regards</div><div>Tom Mc Rae</div><div>Brisbane</div><div>AUSTRALIA</div><div>"Oh wad some power the Giftie gie us,</div><div>Tae see oorsels as ithers see us</div><div>Robert Burns</div>
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