Talk:The Great War (TV series)

Untitled

Expansion needed: Two lists of episodes by DVD. Dmforcier 19:13, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Odds and sods

There seems to be at least 2 Torrent versions in the wild

• A317BFC05BF22B5BC83D2095388E6372698BC42B (trackers only, no DHT etc)
• AC60C8830E27DD3F0607AF5817B278E70040DCBA (one tracker but DHT)

Yes, it may be possible that the series may be transmitted by many English speaking nations in 2014 -- but with about 168 hours of WWI documentaries generally available -- even the best ones may not be shown. Eyreland (talk) 06:09, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

(At least part of) the series was also re-shown by the BBC Jan-Feb 2016. Grumpypierre (talk) 00:39, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Additions to the lead - copy and paste and citations needed

Some of the recent additions to the lead appear to have been copied from YouTube and would in any case need citing to a reliable source. I propose to remove them. --IxK85 (talk) 09:07, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Tidied references which had red on.Keith-264 (talk) 11:41, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Tidied a bit more and added issns etc.Keith-264 (talk) 15:10, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Episode list restructure

I like the intention of User:Internetnicknamehere in restructuring the episode list, but there is a side effect: The episode names are no longer lower case as in the original. Is this due to the template used?
Dmforcier (talk) 21:06, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out. I have now altered the episode list so that the titles are lower case again Internetnicknamehere (talk) 18:08, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Titles

If the titles are in lower case, shouldn't they be prefaced by an ellipsis? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 18:09, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

I'm not actually sure, but if you look at how the titles of each episode were displayed in the series, only the 12th and 26th episodes had an ellipsis prefacing their titles, so I think the current formatting may be correct. However, feel free to add an ellipsis to each title if you think that they are needed. Best wishes, Internetnicknamehere (talk) 22:32, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

I'd prefer that we stick to the titles as originally displayed. This is a matter of artistic choice, not a hard rule of grammar or syntax. Dmforcier (talk) 21:45, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Music

I have removed the following section, as it contradicts the previous paragraph about the Wilfred Josephs score, and then seems to be a question for a talk page. Bob talk 12:29, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

The opening music is the last refrain from Rachmaninov's Symphony No 1. Such musical references do not appear in the credits, therefore a full list of these extra musical elements would be welcome.

Ratings

"Each episode of The Great War was seen by an average audience of over eight million people, a 17 percent share of the estimated viewing population" sounds unlikely given there were only three TV stations in the UK in 1964. Does the 17 percent refer to the percent of adults with a TV, as opposed to the percent of people watching TV at the time of airing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.147.202.43 (talk) 03:42, 27 July 2020 (UTC)