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Hello and welcome.
I hope you will enjoy the discussions on this list, and of course continue
to enjoy watching the Onedin Line!
Bill.
—– Original Message —–
From: István Váradi
To: shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [shiponedingroup] New Members – New YearHi,
although I joined last year, I have not introduced myself yet.
I am from Hungary, and The Onedin Line was on TV in our country in the
80s (and perhaps late 70s). Born in 1975 I watched the series as a I
child, and I liked it mostly because of the ships and the adventures.
I also always liked stories taking place in the late 19th century,
perhaps because the world seemed much freer then (which was very much
in contrast to the oppressive communism I lived in, and probably I
felt the huge difference even as a child). Of course, there are many
stories about the late 19th century with ships and adventures, but The
Onedin Line was special because of its general quality.I was not alone liking this series, because when the show was
broadcast on Tuesday evenings (that was the "slot" for The Series – we
had only one main TV channel and at any one time it ran only one
series from a western country), the streets in the Hungarian cities
got practically empty. Even when the show was re-run in the 90s, I
found it to be still one of the best series (despite having seen a lot
of more recent, mainly American series by then), though perhaps it was
not liked so much by the general public then.István