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Originally Posted by bfisher
I can remember a 1950s vintage TV series that I watched in the early 60s as a pre-teen; I read the book much later. It was very action-orientated, which I think is also the strength of the book; the suspense is kept up nicely. If the novel was initially conceived as a play, that fits with how well it has been adapted to film and into pop culture.
I believe there was another TV series done in the late 1990s, but I haven't seen that.
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I hadn't realised there was a 1950s TV series - that was about the time TV arrived in Australia and my parents didn't get a set for quite some time. I think Richard E Grant was in the 1990s TV series, but I didn't see it. I can imagine he would do it well.
But it all goes to show that it's the story and its pace that is why it has survived so well.