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Good evening
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Searching on the internet one evening this week, I found you! I inherited a love of Winston Graham, Poldark and Cornwall from my dad, so as soon as I discovered this forum I joined up. I very much look forward to chatting with you about all of the above. Best wishes, Emma
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Better late than never
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Hello from Australia. I got engrossed in the recent TV series but - unlike many other viewers - I found Ross Poldark's character to be at some distance from the "romantic hero" sort of idea which many reviewers and fans were seeing, so I decided to read the books. I'll be finishing the 12th book in a coupl...
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Good day to you all!
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Another newcomer here, currently from Leicester in the UK.Thrilled to be joining this forum, and a bit nervous too - as it is the first discussion board I've ever been part of.
I think I have come across this forum even before I started reading the Poldark books, so it feels like I have known you for qui...
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Hello!
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Just a few lines to introduce myself. I have been a Poldark fan for many years, both book and tv (although not so much the more recent episodes ). I have read the books more times than I can remember and still enjoy browsing through them and occasionally treating myself to a complete re-read of the whole s...
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Hello from the PNW!
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Hello! I'm so glad to finally join this group. My name is Michele AKA poldarkmmmuses on Tumblr and @mmmusings on Twitter. I'm a MASSIVE fan of the books and the show, enjoy writing fan fiction, and am one of the hosts of a podcast about Poldark call, surprisingly, Poldark Podcast with two lovely ladies...
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hello and thankyou for accepting me
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Hello! I have been a fan of Poldark, for many years. I enjoy the series but my heart lies with the books. I look forward to joining in with some of the many discussions I see here.
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Greetings from Yorkshire
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I am looking forward to contributing to the lively discussions across the range of the Poldark novels with some input relating to the TV series. My main focus will be on the books, initially the seven describing the period from1783 to 1800. For those of you who don't know the Yorkshire coast, there are...
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Good Afternoon from Washington D.C.
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I am obviously new to the society and appreciate the opportunity to discuss Poldark with the group. Here is what I wrote when I signed on: I am 73 and been happily married to the same women for 51 years. I am a romantic and found Winston Grahams Poldark compelling. After seeing the two seasons on PBS, I bou...
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Hello from Los Angeles
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Hello, I'm Michelle. I live near Los Angeles on a farm. I joined this forum because I love the Poldark saga! In my opinion I like more the Poldark books than the BBC serie. Thanks for accepting me on the forum! -- Edited by ModernPoldark on Monday 31st of October 2016 09:34:31 PM
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Greetings from new member
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I've been visiting the site for a while so decided to join. I read the early Poldark books in my teens and loved the characters and setting. Meeting the new TV incarnations has spurred me to start reading the books again from the beginning. I've enjoyed becoming re-acquainted with the originals.
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Hello from Madison, Wisconsin
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Hello friends, I am from Madison, Wisconsin and have just located your site. There is a bond here that I recognize and am pleased to have found this society. I have read all but 3 of the Poldark novels, watch the new series and have found them engaging and enlightening from multiple perspectives. I es...
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Greetings from the US
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I love Poldark. WG was an excellent writer!
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Hello, as a fan of Poldark for many, many years I'm delighted to be accepted into your society. I have my husband watching and enjoying the series for the very first time and he laughs when I say characters lines before they do :D I'm watching with great interest the news of the 'remake' and think Richa...
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Immersed in the Poldark period
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Hello! When I started reading the series, I was very anxious to discuss with others, but it has taken me some time to find this forum. In the meantime, I joined (and now moderate) a group on Goodreads: Poldark Saga - Winston Graham(https://www.goodreads.com/group/173707-poldark-saga---winsto...
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Hello from NY
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Well I am hooked. I watched the Poldark Episodes on our local PBS and made my husband run out to get the books. Barnes and Noble only had three in store so he bought those and today I bought the 4th book ( I think ) in the series. Is it Warlaggen? I am getting conflicting information as to what books come after...
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Hello From The US Rocky Mountains
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Hello. Im so happy to have found this board! Im married father in my early fifties living here in Colorado in the States. I can only partially explain how this series of books and television productions has had such a profound impact on my life by becoming an unmitigated source of pleasure, so I wont try...
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Hello and Thank you from Canada!
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Hello from Canada! I am new to everything Poldark save for binge watching the entire 8 episodes of Season 1 in 2 days. I am an avid book reader and I write as well, but am glad I stumbled upon this series the way I did because adaptations never do the original material justice and I would have hated to NOT lik...
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Happy to Take Part
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Hello. I live in Winnipeg, Canada. A few months ago I became aware that a new Poldark TV series would soon be airing here on Masterpiece Theatre. This brought back memories of myself, as a young girl, being captivated by the 1975 series with Robin Ellis and Angharad Rees. I read all the books availa...
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Hi from New South Wales
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Hello to everyone here, I have been a long-time lurker of this forum, and now finally joined to follow and post on the discussion of the New Series which started here last Sunday. When the first TV series came out, I was a little too young to get interested but my Mum and sister were avid watchers. But we ha...
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Hello, I started reading Winston Graham after the original Poldark television production aired in the UK. I began with the Poldark series and then moved on to his other works. In 2000, after reading the Poldark series again, I wrote to Winston Graham asking him if he still thought about the character...
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Hello by Polzeath
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By Polzeath Hello so excited at last everyone will know why my son is called ROSS and daughter is VERITY lol
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...hello...😀
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I just wanted to say hello to everyone and thank you for letting me join up. It's quite an exciting prospect discovering this forum and other people who are Poldark fans!! I was born in 1985, so people are often very surprised that I've even heard of Poldark, let alone watched the BBC series probably ove...
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Hello All
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Hello All New member Evening Star here. I love the Poldark books. I hope I'm posting this in the right section. I think Andrew Buchan ( Garrow's Law ) would be my ideal choice to play Ross. And Rose Leslie would be good as Demelza. She has a lovely voice and I think the right measure of feistiness ( see 'Gam...
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Hello, I found this site by chance (or serendipity) last night whilst I was 'googling' something else - how lovely to find a whole site dedicated to WG and Poldark fans! Having had a quick look around the site, I am even more excited to discover that the ten Poldark books I have read are not the whole set, a...
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I think I became a member years ago and lost touch. So I'm back with a new sign in and password. I have been hooked on Poldark since it first aired on T.V. (the first time)...(and the second time). I have owned the videos, changed them to dvds and read all the books many times. I have visited some of the film l...
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Penelope
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Hello my names Penelope, I've read the first three books and just downloading them all now to reaquaint myself with them and read the stories I haven't yet read. I love Ross and Demelza they had the most fiery but beautiful persona and story... Adorable. I first found Poldark when I picked up Ross Pol...
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Just Hello
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Mel Kor
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Hi, Thank you very much for accepting me to this Group. I am very thrilled to find out more about Winston Graham and his great novels. I am a history Student with a great interest in british literature and have just started with the Poldark series. Looking Forward to join the discussions soon. Mel
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Hello all, I'm new and after a bit of advice!
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Hello all I wonder if anyone can help, I am trying to get hold of the audio versions of the Poldark books, I know they are hard to come by and wondered if anyone had any ideas how I could get hold of them? I have recently bought this fab bit of kit which means I can convert them to mp3 files so they can be listened...
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New girl to this site!
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I love Cornwall and Poldark I'm holidaying in St Agnes at the moment and have walked down Stippy Stappy Lane! So many familiar names here. Trying to identify where Winston Graham set all his locations. I know some are fictional, but like to feel I'm walking in the footsteps of Ross, Demelza, Dwigh...
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Hello!
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I learned about this site on a Poldark group on facebook,yesterday, and sighed up here.Ive read the first two books of the series,sadly B&N only stocks the first three from this publisher. I remember this series as it was very popular here. Ive recently retired from the au...
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Hello :)
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Hi everyone, I first became a fan of Poldark at 12 years old when seeing the re-runs on UK Gold in 2001/2002. My Mum had been an original fan in the 70's and persuaded me to watch them and I've loved it ever since. After that I read all the books including Making Poldark and learnt the entire script of the sho...
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I joined this forum this past weekend and want to say "hello!" and introduce myself. I'm a literary scholar and retired college teacher; one of my areas is the 18th century and I fell in love with Graham's Poldark novels about 4 or more years ago. Since then I've read the 12 Poldark novels and...
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Started reading novels
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Dear Friends, I saw the original broadcast of both series , here in the states.I was 13 at the time. About 10 years ago the series was available in vhs format, I bought both of them.More recent Acorn has offered the series in dvd format. There are differences between the two, the Acorn media dvd is more c...
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Yet another new member
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I have just finished reading the 12 Poldark novels. Whilst I was tracking down the 'Making Poldark' Book by Robin Ellis on the internet, I came across this site and was amazed there are so many people who also loved these books enough to form a society. I received my copy of Making Poldark today, so I inte...
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New member
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New member
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Hi, I'm new to this forum. The Loving Cup is the latest Poldark novel I have read in it's entirity, and have read all the preceeding ones, so I'd be happy to discuss any of these first ten novels with anybody. I have just started reading the 11th one, The Twisted Sword. I think it's easy to develop a "c...
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Hello from Keltic Kat
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I am brand new to the forum but have read every book and seen all the DVD's. Hello to the rest of the fans.
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Alistair Cooke and Poldark
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Hi, I am brand new to the forum. I've recently started rewatching the Poldark series on Netflix after having seen them when they originally aired on Masterpiece. Through the years I've heard that Mr. Cooke actually despised the Poldark series, but have never learned as to why he felt that way. Does...
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Youth & Middle Age.
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Good Day All, I'm new here, but thought that I might write a few lines to introduce myself. I was 15 years old when I first fell for Poldark, in 1975 when the TV show was aired. I missed the first episode, but caught the second one, and was hooked on the program never missing any of the first and second season...
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Hi From South Australia
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Hi All, My first time here - I'm Bronwyn (but most people call me Bron or Bronny) in Adelaide, South Australia. Poldark has always been my favourite book series and tv series. It was first aired here back in 1979 when I was quite young and I fell in love with it immediately and starting reading the books so...
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An older newbie
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I stumbled across this site when I was searching for a possible new series of Poldark. I had an evening job when the original Poldark series' were shown, so I missed all of those and it has only been within the last couple of years that I've read the books. I'm now watching the DVDs and wondering what's goi...
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Welcome Katrina Vantassel
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Hello there Katrina and a big, warm welcome to the forum. It's lovely to have new members join us in our Poldark world and please feel free to dip in as much as you like, we have a word game running at the moment which is for beginners so maybe you'd enjoy taking a turn there too. Looking forward to chattin...
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Enchanted Beginner
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I can't believe I missed Poldark for more than 30 years. When Installment 16 of the video ended I felt that I had lost these wonderful interesting people in my life that I had just discovered, but I am now looking forward to collecting and reading the books. I am delighted to find this website with all t...
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Morwenna says hello :)
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Hello everyone, This seems like a friendly site with friendly members so I've joined to share my love of Poldark and WG. I'm up to The Four Swans and have completely fallen in love with his novels as well as Ross slightly
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Longtime fan checking in
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I first met the Poldarks when the Series II aired on PBS here in the States. I think I read the first 7 books next, and then was able to see parts of Series I. Recently I noticed that Series I was available on Netflix and watched the whole thing in about a week. It truly has aged well (though I now have a new ap...
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Greetings from across the pond!
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Hello All, Thank you for this forum! I was initiated into the world of Poldark only this month--until then I'd never heard of it, despite having been an anglophile and BBC fan for most of my 46 years. An acquaintance suggested the BBC series, and Robin Ellis hadn't uttered more than three lines before...
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New member from the heart of Cornwall
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Hello All I belong to be a new member - living in the very area much trudged by Ross, Demelza and all the others. Have never seen the series on TV, but am an avid fan of all the books, read many many times. I cannot tell you how let down I am that Mrs Gimlett never appears in the series - after all I was there in...
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Another Newbie!
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This time from the far north (well, Stockton on Tees actually, but probably far north to Cornwall folks!) Poldark is my favourite fiction by far. I'm usually re-reading one or other of the novels - I'm just about to start 'The Black Moon' for the umpteenth time . . Just thought I'd drop in and say hello a...
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'nuther newbie
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Greetings, my first post here to introduce myself as yet another newbie who's recently discovered Winston Graham, Poldark and, now, this web site. When the Poldark series were being shown on BBC, I was too busy with serious illness in the family to sit down and watch TV. My parents loved it and so I hear...
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Newbie...doobee
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Hello. Introducing myself. I will be 74 next week and am ashamed to say that I had never heard of Poldark or Winston Graham and I always considered myself a well-read person! How did it happen that I was so clueless? Oh well, I am deep into Poldark now. I am watching the episodes on You Tube and can hardly...
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another newbie here ...
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Hi! I'm new!
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HI! I've been a Poldark fan from 1975 when the show was shown here in the U.S. on Masterpiece Theatre. I have always loved both series. I have read books 1-7 multiple times, and I am always find something new whether its a description or a clearer understanding. I have also read 8-12 and wish (...
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Jill Townsend
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Hello to all. I am a newbie and want to wish you all a good hello. I am an avid Jill Townsend fan. It is too bad that she did not do more. I admired her greatly when she was in Cimarron Strip. Years later, when watching the Poldark series, I became a fan of the actress who played Elizabeth. She looked fami...
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Hello Everyone.
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I'm a musician,writer/ film maker, presently working in Australia. I admire the work of Winston Graham very much and was very fond of him;in fact he was very kind to me earlier in my career. He was a lovely lovely man. I look forward to participating in the forum.
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Introducing myself
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Hello fellow Poldark fanatics. Both my wife and I love Poldark after falling in love with the TV series in '70's I bought the full set in Paperback for my wife and later the Video's. We have recently been watching Poldark re-runs on a Documentary Channel called 'Yesterday' Although we have been marri...
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I'm a new member
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Hi All, I'm new here, I'm a huge fan of the Poldark books. Ive read all 12 novels and I found them so involving and romantic. I was really swept away by them! I love classic books and historical novels. I'll look forward to chatting on here about the different characters in Poldark.
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Bella Poldark
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I would like to introduce myself to the Forum. My name is Bella. I first read Poldark in the early 70's and have read all the novels about four times. About 12 years ago I visited the Poldark Mine during a holiday to Cornwall, and simply being in that part of the world was a dream come true. I had no idea Win...
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Forgot to say Thanks
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Just wanted to say thank you to whoever got my account straightened out, the link that was sent to me both times I could never get to work, so thanks again!
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Old fan, newbie to board
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Hi everyone! I'm Bruce from Kentucky. I remember the original series from the first time it was shown on PBS in the 70's when I was living in Virginia, and have been a fan since. I've been looking for the complete series for a couple of years now, it's been a little difficult finding anything close in NTS...
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