Talk:The Strange World of Gurney Slade

Transmission times

I edited the article to point out that the published TV schedules of the time listed episodes 1 and 2 as going out at 8.30pm, with episodes 3 through 6 at 11.10pm. A "citation needed" tag has been added. I got my information from the Times Digital Archive and the Guardian archive, both of which are subscription-only services that I can access from home using my local library card. How does one provide a cite when the information is factually correct, but taken from a private database? There are no publicly-available scans of the TV listings for those particular dates that could be linked to. 213.132.48.105 (talk) 07:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Publication and date would be fine with "television listings" or whatever heading is used on the page. Source material does not have to be available to all to be cited. I added the citation tag because of conflicting evidence online as to when the six programmes went out and an assumption that this may have been due to regional variations. Philip Cross (talk) 08:51, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Terminology

Having now seen the whole series, I have chosen to reject the term "post-modern". This seems to be based on a false assumption that the series was ahead of its time. While the series may have used methods then new to television, it has an obvious affinity with some of the absurdist dramatists of the day, and the work of Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936). Most particularly the last episode will give anyone familar with Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) a pleasing sense of déjà vu.

For the reason that "cult following" is a cliché, for which there is limited evidence, I have avoided using that term. In fact, I removed it from the passage discussing the series in the Anthony Newley article. Philip Cross (talk) 21:51, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Plot?

As I post this the article does not indicate what the series was about. 5Q5 (talk) 15:42, 20 September 2011 (UTC)