{"id":4053,"date":"2016-05-09T07:15:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T07:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2016-05-09T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T07:26:09","slug":"big-screen-little-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2016\/05\/09\/big-screen-little-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen, Little Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sticker\"<\/a>I recently picked up a copy of the film tie-in edition of\u00a0‘The Dark of the Sun’<\/span> <\/a>by Wilbur Smith because it had on its cover a\u00a0sticker to promote the film. What I am left wondering about is why the title was changed for the UK ? The word ‘The’ was dropped from the US version but\u00a0changed completely to\u00a0‘The Mercenaries’ over here. The same artwork by Frank McCarthy was used for both versions of the poster.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was while I was sorting out my Leslie Thomas titles with covers by artist Paul Davies (are you out there Paul as\u00a0I’ve not tracked you down yet?) that I noticed one of the other editions mentioned that ‘Tropic of Ruislip’ <\/a><\/span>was quote “Now a hilarious ATV network series” which of course needed checking out. Apparently it was a complete flop and luckily the ATV network had a strike at the same time in 1979 and the series just slipped away into oblivion.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"ATV\"<\/a>
\n The Paul Davies series of Leslie Thomas covers will appear next week or as many as I’ve managed to find so far.<\/span><\/p>\n

Spent last Saturday at Waddesdon Manor<\/span><\/a>, a completely over the top\u00a0‘chateaux’ built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild as a weekend retreat but really disappointed as\u00a0not a PAN book in sight to add to my ‘As seen in National Trust properties’ page. Not even a second-hand book shop!<\/span><\/p>\n

To finish here is a photo of Leslie Thomas taken in Edinburgh in\u00a0February 1971 where he is shown with three of his titles in PAN editions namely ‘Some Lovely Islands’,<\/span> ‘The Love Beach’<\/a><\/span> and ‘The Virgin Soldiers’<\/a><\/span>\"Edinburgh<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently picked up a copy of the film tie-in edition of\u00a0‘The Dark of the Sun’ by Wilbur Smith because it had on its cover a\u00a0sticker to promote the film. What I am left wondering about is why the title was changed for the UK ? The word ‘The’ was dropped from the US version […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}