Talk:Sharpe (TV series)

message: According to the Bernard Cornwell website - http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index.cfm?page=12
The story behind the film version of Sharpe's Gold - when they were filming it the actor who was first cast as Sharpe broke his leg. Filming had to stop while an insurance claim was made. Sean Bean then replaced the original actor, but the producers decided that if they re-shot the original script the insurance company would claim they had suffered no real loss. So that script was abandoned. Jooler 07:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cornwell 

message: Would it be helpful to list the dates of the original book next to the film title?
Maybe turn the list of episodes into a table something like this:
Title             	Location, Year	First Broadcast    	Book written	Comments
Sharpe's Rifles   	Portugal, 1809	May 5, 1993        	1988        	
etc.              	              	                   	            	
etc.              	              	                   	            	
Sharpe's Challenge	India, 1817   	April 23 & 24, 2006	1998 & 1999 	Based on the novels Sharpe's Triumph and Sharpe's Fortress set in 1803
Can't get the borders to look right, but you get the idea.
Bryces 01:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice idea but you would need to ensure the research made the result verifiable. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 14:35, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, where does Sharpe: The Legend fit in as far as the listing goes?  Does it not count as part of the series?  EarthBoundX5 (talk) 21:53, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relation to books 

message: Hi gang.  It seems to me the Sharpe articles need a serious spring-clean.  Here's some thoughts about where I think we should go with this and related articles:
* Finer definition between the books and television series.  At the moment, the books don't even seem to have a main article (although they do have a category, oddly). The books main artivle is at Richard Sharpe (fictional character). 82.73.198.140 10:26, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've created Sharpe's Rifles (film) & Sharpe's Eagle (film) articles, and the Template:Sharpe Films template.  Any suggestions appreciated! - Palaeologus 05:52, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: There is a big debate going on Wikipedia-wide about the place of individual episode pages, with some editors arguing for a blanking and redirect for all existing pages not fully compliant with WP:EPISODE.  It might be worth keeping an eye on the debate at  Wikiproject television discussion and Village pump.  There are some constructive suggestions by a number of people (with sandbox examples) amidst the emotive mud-slinging.  Perhaps we can all contribute and reach a suitable consensus/policy.Gwinva 14:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Individual episode pages

message: The following link keeps getting inserted into this article:
* 95th (Rifle) Regiment of Foot - Battle Re-enactment and Living History
which is relevant to the 95th Rifles article, not this one.  Repeated attempts to add it in can be considered spamming.  --BrokenSphereMsg me 18:28, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  reenactment link which keeps getting added in 

message: In the table it lists Siege first, but Mission is actually first.  This is evident when watching (Col Calbert is healthy and happy in Mission and utterly destroyed in Siege.
IMDB also lists them in this order: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190206/  Skydive23 (talk) 04:54, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: IMDb shows Siege being aired before Mission in both the UK and US, regardless of the internal chronology. I'll note that in the article while this is being discussed. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Very interesting! Sounds like we have a mission.  I'll dig around and see what I can find.  Thanks for the comparison and noting it on the table. Skydive23 (talk) 04:53, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually according to the year shown in the start Mission (1810) should take place between Eagle (1809) and Company (1812). (217.211.251.148 (talk) 20:31, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mission is before Siege in Order 

message: Several times this rank is mentioned; shouldn't if be leftenant or however the Brits spell it? Wschart (talk) 17:51, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "Lieutenant" is the correct spelling in British English; "leftenant" is a mispelling, based on the phonetics, which actually has no place in the English language. -- Sabre (talk) 00:42, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lieutenant? 

message: Just wondering if it was appropriate to add some details about the Blu Ray release. Sharpe is an interesting case as it was produced in an age of Standard Definition 4:3 TV, but was shot on film allowing a retrospective conversion to High Definition 16:9. Unlike Firefly (which was in a similar position) it didn't have any visual effects to complicate the matter. 
Malak1000 (talk) 14:57, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blu Ray Release 

message: Paul Trussell as Rifleman Isaiah Tongue (1993) – disappears after Sharpe's Eagle and never returns, he may be dead or left the army to go back to England. /In Sharpe's Gold (the novel), he was killed off.
Isiah Tongue and Sharpe met again in "Sharpe's Enemy" there Tongue helps Sharpe's to defeat the bunch of the desertes under Hakesville and that French cook. He explained to fellow desertes, he left the army for being unreconised for all his deeds.
Sharpe later remembered him to have been with him at Talavera. --84.119.33.219 (talk) 11:36, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tongue 

message: Hi just reading this article, strange that it mostly seems concerned with how the TV series relates to the books, various discrepancies etc.
There is little or no reference to what people thought of it at the time, how it catapulted Sean beans career, how it has been viewed since. Thinking on it more there is no real discussion of the historical accuracy... and why playing playing a heavy electric guitar rift over your classical music intro is the height of culture!
The TV show was a big deal at the time and is probably due some 90s nostalgia revival, reading this you'd think it was a side show to the books.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.123.138.56 (talk) 08:38, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural Impact, reception, Sean Bean 

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message: What was the reason to exclude the "King's German Legion" and Captain Lossow? Was and is it still a problem to show how british and german soldiers fought together in the past? --Exodianecross (talk) 22:32, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You can't stuff everything from the novels into the TV shows. Can't recall if Lossow played a vital role in anything. Nothing springs to mind, so I'm guessing he and the KGL were easy to drop. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:58, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Lossow and the KGL appeared in "Sharpe's Gold" and "Sharpe's Sword". here is an article in the Sharpe wikia: https://sharpe.fandom.com/wiki/Lossow. My point is, the KGL was very important for Wellington, during the campaign on the peninsular and Waterloo! Therefore I attribute it to the "bias" of todays people (viewers) to exclude the character and the unit because the UK and Germany went to war on two occasions in the 20th century! --Exodianecross (talk) 03:24, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You can believe what you want, but he didn't play a major role in the novels and was thus expendable in the TV program. The KGL's importance to Wellington has absolutely no bearing on the matter. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:08, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe you are right. And I have to admit, I had just liked it to watch Lossow and the KGL adapted for the series. I'm in touch with several reenactment groups, the KGL is one of them. And I also believe that Lossow could have been expanded in the TV show, as a semi-regular character who comes to Sharpe's aid occasionally! --Exodianecross (talk) 12:19, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The exclusion of the "King's German Legion" and the character Captain Lossow 

message: I was looking for more sources and found an article from The Daily Mail. Unfortunately some editors have priorities other than making a better encyclopedia and WP:DAILYMAIL is not allowed, not even for reviews. 
Editors who are interested in improving this encyclopedia might be interested to look out for the book "From Crimea with Love: Misadventures in the Making of Sharpe’s Rifles" by Jason Salkey -- 109.76.192.175 (talk) 02:13, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I own a copy of that book, what would you like me to check? Offa29 (talk) 10:15, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  I would appreciate any improvements you could make to this article and any of the other Sharpe related articles. I would expect that book would allow you to add some useful Production and Background information to the articles. -- 109.79.163.14 (talk) 18:25, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources