>>In the end, this Farrell guy may go down in history as the title of the longest thread on UT ever :).
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>Oh no, surely that was "George Bush"! ?

Maybe not in number of messages, but possibly in days.

>As for the series, it must have had something going for it, as it ran for longer than the Korean War. I quite liked it and I think all hands in the UK watched it, just as in USA.

De gustibus... for me, what I saw was just so far below the movie. A series like any other.