Edward Woodward & Battleground

[Nightmoss]

I stumbled on this 1970's TV series last night while following up on a new war game covering the US Civil War. I never knew about this series and only a few of the episodes have found their way to YouTube. If you watch closely in the background of the Gettysburg series you'll see they did one for The Battle of the Nile, but unfortunately that is not on YouTube at this point. They did Waterloo, Gettysburg and Edgehill, which you can watch on YouTube. A little further digging and I found this blog which has a bit more information on the series, including information on The Battle of the Nile episode.

http://wargaming4grownups.blogspot.c...tleground.html

"Battle of the Nile (first shown 23/03/1978)
A Naval game fought out between two Halifax club members, Steve Birnie & John Harrison. (Steve Birnie had recently published a set of 18th Century Naval Rules at the time, although whether that was before or after the show I don't know)."

The videos have to be watched on YouTube. Inserting here is prohibited and some of you may well not even be able to watch them from this link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po1p...z3gImY388My00J

Cheers!

P.S. The video quality is poor, but considering the age these were done I'm happy with anything.

[Bligh]

Just dipped into Edgehill Jim. There was my old friend Duncan McFarlane playing the Royalists.
I will watch the whole series as soon as i get time.
Thanks for flagging this up.
Rob.

[Wentworth]

I remember seeing some of these back in the "olden days" on my local PBS channel (there was no BBC America in those days) -- they were hard to find back then as well. I was only a few years into war gaming when I saw these shows and it really impressed upon me the potential panoply of more large scale gaming than the small games I was playing in those days. I'm going to watch them all once again when there is time -- it will be like visiting with an old friend...

[Naharaht]

I remember that Edward Woodward's famous character Callan was a wargamer in his spare time, which is possibly why he was the compere of the programme.

[Bligh]

One episode of Callan actually featured Gettysburg in the plot.






Rob.

[Nightmoss]

One episode of Callan actually featured Gettysburg in the plot.

Rob.

Nice find, Rob. For obvious reasons I'd love to see anything that was done for the Nile, but that episode and other coverage seems to have completely disappeared?

[DeRuyter]

Just dipped into Edgehill Jim. There was my old friend Duncan McFarlane playing the Royalists.
I will watch the whole series as soon as i get time.
Thanks for flagging this up.
Rob.

When Duncan was doing the "Wargamer's Illustrated" bit he used to come across the pond to game with the Yanks at HMGS conventions. He was very gentlemanly whilst thrashing me in a tournament game of Warhammer Ancient Battles a number of years ago!

[Bligh]

Very nice of you to say so Eric. he is one of the world's gentlemen.
Rob.

[Bligh]

Nice find, Rob. For obvious reasons I'd love to see anything that was done for the Nile, but that episode and other coverage seems to have completely disappeared?

I could not find anything on the Nile either Jim, but I will keep searching for it.
Rob.