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Micro Men BBC 4 tonight

  • 08-10-2009 7:42pm
    #1
    mike65
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    Just a heads up

    Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman star in this comedy drama telling the story of the race for home computer supremacy during the 1980s. Clive Sinclair and former colleague Chris Curry go head to head in a battle to achieve domination of a growing market, triggering the beginning of the UK computer revolution. Part of the Electric Revolution season

    Its at 9 pm


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  • #2
    polyfusion
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    Did anyone see this? Any good?

    It's on again on Saturday at 10pm. Might try to catch if it's any good.


  • #3
    Khannie
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    Haven't seen it yet. Think I'll watch it tonight. Man I wanted one of those sinclair car things so badly when I was a kid. :D


  • #4
    mike65
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    It was great. Loads of old computers and a funny script.


  • #5
    butts
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    Really enjoyed it - ZX Spectrum was my first computer.


  • #6
    Khannie
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    Just watched it. Very enjoyable stuff. I still want one of those electric cars. :D 25 years on and it still looks class!


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  • #7
    Ghost Train
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    Sounds good, must check it out


  • #8
    AlmightyCushion
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    Bugger. I missed this.


  • #9
    polyfusion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭polyfusion


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Bugger. I missed this.

    Me too. It's on again Monday night, 10pm, BBC4.

    As far as I can tell, it's not going to be on for at least the next 2 weeks, so it might be a while before it's on again.


  • #10
    Ghost Train
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    Thought it was pretty good.
    On again Wed night at 9pm on BBCHD


  • #11
    sceptre
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    Quite enjoyable, even if I kept on seeing visions of Armstrong presenting HIGNFY (he was particularly good as Sinclair incidentally)


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  • #12
    Deliverance
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    Great show. I had a sinclair spectrum and a zx81. Clive was my hero for a time. He was ahead of his time (every house will have a computer), (electric cars is the way of the future etc).

    The end to the show was v.good, Big trucks with microsoft signs overtaking Clive on his C5. The big joke at the time was the C5 as a personal transport being crushed by bigger vehicles. The metaphor was done really well.


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