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Originally Posted by samkydd
I've got the radio play of TTSS from the 1980s with Bernard Hepton playing Smiley, and it seemed better that the TV series because it was condensed to just a couple of hours, which would be about the same length as a film version.
My only criticism of the TV series is that watching it now, the quality of the picture and sound is a bit low budget almost like playing a 78rpm record on a state of the art hi-fi system.
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Whereas, with most of today's productions it is the acting that is low budget - in quality if not in cost!