h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Given that my video is broken, should I watch Life on Mars, Horizon or Fallen Angel? You decide!

Read a book?

I'm reading Armagedon: The musical at the moment. It's not the funniest of Robin Rankin's books.

If each programme was only shown once then Life On Mars, however I think it is repeated so you could watch Angel and still watch Mars later.

'I'm reading Armagedon: The musical at the moment. It's not the funniest of Robin Rankin's books.'

That's odd - I bought it again yesterday! I've been reading a recent one but it all seems a bit silly compared to Barry the Time Sprout...

So that is way we should choose a something for you...

Life on Mars, Horizon or Fallen Angel?

I don't now any of the series, but the first one has the most promesing name... so I would watch Life on Mars

Fallen Angel was shown over three nights. I never watch anything over three nights: it's a cheap ploy.

Horizon seems to be aimed at 10 year olds now.

LOM is very good so I'd recommend watching it!

So what did you watch Ayeka?

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*kea waves to kiwi*

Life on Mars plays on Tues, TV1 at 8.30pm

It's a bit late now, but if you've watched the first two Fallen Angels then it seems a bit odd not to watch the last one. You won't miss much by missing out on one of a series.

I don't watch things over three nights either. I record them all, then spend 4 1/2 hours all at once in front of the tv when I've nothing better to do.

For those that are interested I watched Fallen Angel. Life on Mars is going to be repeated next week and I've already had my weekly fill of dinosaurs but I did flip over during the ad breaks. That narrator who always does the voice overs for the less scientific horizon topics did it. The one who I think tries to mimic Terry Jones.

The thing about Fallen Angel is that it took a antichronistic approach with the character getting younger as the series progressed. You sort of knew what was going/had to happen.

The voiceover was Ian Holm, which surprised me when I saw the credits because he's a legend and I hadn't recognized him.
You didn't miss much: most of the material was covered in one or other of two books I've read. The first sprang to mind as son as I saw the subject: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Keep-Dinosaurs-Robert-Mash/dp/0297843982 It's called "How To Keep Dinosaurs" by Robert Mash.
The other is "The Dinosaur Heresies" by Robert Bakker ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dinosaur-Heresies-Robert-T-Bakker/dp/0821756087/ref=sr_1_3/026-2890075-4402019?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173920574&sr=1-3 ). It was published during the 80s, yet the theories about dinosaurs being warm-blooded (the main thrust of the book) were treated as revolutionary and new by the Horizon programme, which slightly irritated me.

*kiwi waves back to kea*


TV1? Can't get that station over here

I think I have to wait until a station over here bought the program, probably in 2100 or something like that

Or do you mean BBC1?
That I can get