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1961

TV: A for Andromeda. Author: Fred Hoyle

Recollections

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After I'd watched the BBC's rather good remake, I was very tempted to track down the original, which I got on DVD last year (2006).

Very influential and great fun

Must have been in my late teens

a fantastic achievement

I was eleven when it was broadcast. I lived in Cornwall. Perhaps I was lucky my Dad allowed me to watch it as it was very scary at the time.

Further than I could possibly imagine.

I was five years old, watching the title sequence of the first episode on a tiny black and white Sobell TV. I asked my mother what Andromeda was, and I remember her exact words -that it was a group of stars so far away that "the light takes millions of years to reach us."

Frustrating!

I was 14 and living in south London when this started. I was always sent to bed five minutes before it started as it was considered too scary for me. I used to lay in bed, entralled by the introductory music and with my imagination working overtime.

gripping.

1975, if the imprint date is to be believed.

Sexy and scary...

Was this 1962? So perhaps I'd be 12...

sinister,truely scary.

1961 eight

scary

I was 12, living in Surrey

sexy

To long ago to remember

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