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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp;amp; Karma" data-source="post: 351778" data-attributes="member: 23">That&#039;s understandable. The cast dynamics worked fine in the first series so it&#039;s a bit like trying to reinvent the wheel or fix something that&#039;s not broken. It&#039;s true they&#039;re not absolutely necessary, but I can also see why the powers that be might feel the need to freshen it a little for the new series. I haven&#039;t found they&#039;ve changed my experience or been too intrusive. They fit into the team well and as I said I think Zoltan&#039;s filled a gap since the series needs an absolute beginner. Equally, the series would have remained as enjoyable without them so they&#039;re not bringing much to the table. Ah - I&#039;ve just looked up her name and it looks as though she appears in Series Four which was the mid-Eighties revival six years after the original run ended. If I&#039;ve read correctly, that series only had a handful of the original cast so I can imagine that would be very jarring. It&#039;s not included in my set (I don&#039;t think it&#039;s even been released on any home media) so I won&#039;t be watching that one. It was a really nice surprise. Very few of the cast were familiar faces to me so, like you, I don&#039;t know them from other things. Oh thank you. Round The Horne is one of the only radio series I&#039;ve heard in its entirety. I have the lot on CD and it&#039;s an interesting little slice of history.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 351778, member: 23"] That's understandable. The cast dynamics worked fine in the first series so it's a bit like trying to reinvent the wheel or fix something that's not broken. It's true they're not absolutely necessary, but I can also see why the powers that be might feel the need to freshen it a little for the new series. I haven't found they've changed my experience or been too intrusive. They fit into the team well and as I said I think Zoltan's filled a gap since the series needs an absolute beginner. Equally, the series would have remained as enjoyable without them so they're not bringing much to the table. Ah - I've just looked up her name and it looks as though she appears in Series Four which was the mid-Eighties revival six years after the original run ended. If I've read correctly, that series only had a handful of the original cast so I can imagine that would be very jarring. It's not included in my set (I don't think it's even been released on any home media) so I won't be watching that one. It was a really nice surprise. Very few of the cast were familiar faces to me so, like you, I don't know them from other things. Oh thank you. [I]Round The Horne[/I] is one of the only radio series I've heard in its entirety. I have the lot on CD and it's an interesting little slice of history. [/QUOTE]

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