Talk:Adam Adamant Lives!

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Of course this is a fantasy but surely an Edwardian man would know what the following items were

- an underground train station - an escalator - an electric light - a telephone

and yet he is baffled by all these in the opening episode. He's only been sent 60 years into the future, not 200!

From the main article; "Adam Adamant, named after the mineral adamantine, which is harder than diamond." There is no such mineral. This is factually incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.146.122.202 (talk) 22:17, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Exile 20:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Not necessarily, considering Adamant hails from 1902. In the case of the Underground Station (actually Leicester Square), escalators were not a feature until much later, so he may not have actually recognised it as an Underground station, especially since he would have been more familiar with the quite different sub-surface type. In the case of the electric light, what seems to confuse him more is that it is housed in an old-fashion oil lamp, and of course he was still disorientated at the time. As to the telephone, he would probably have been more familiar with the "candlestick" type, rather than the modern cradle handset in the flat. Nick Cooper 14:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Ridley Scott directed several episodes of the series - is this worth a mention in the article?

I think it should. I certainly didn't know such an influential director made three Adam Adamant episodes! Renquist 01:38, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Lost pilot

Was the lost pilot the episode where Adamant goes into a McDonald's and asks the waitress "May I see your wine list, please?"

Too bad if that's been lost: it was the best line in the whole series. Paul Magnussen (talk) 21:54, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Unlikely, as MacDonalds didn't arrive in the UK till 1974. Actually, that sounds like the bit in Time after Time where H.G. Wells goes into a MacDonalds in San Francisco. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.147.76.235 (talk) 14:36, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

That scene's about twenty minutes into the second episode, Death Has A Thousand Faces. Adam Sampson (talk) 04:28, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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==Assessment, August 13 2007== Though I've assessed this as 'B' class, I feel it could probably be better ('GA', or possibly even 'FA') - perhaps someone with knowledge of this programme could look into this. TheIslander 14:28, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

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