I hope some of you have been buying Gareth Thomas's "How Green Was My Valley" from various sources in the UK. It is only available PAL, and it is two cassettes with five hours of drama. It is a wonderful show, and I highly recommend it for everyone who enjoys good storytelling and great acting. It's not expensive, either. It will be labeled as 1975 mini-series or 1975 BBC or Stanley Baker/Sian Phillips twinpack. Do not make the error of buying the American movie.

Unfortunately, some of the tapes have been defective. I know at least two of the four tapes I ordered from Choices Direct were bad. I'm just hoping that the tape that Gareth Thomas himself got is good. But I doubt he's had time to check it. I now know that my friend in Australia who ordered the tape from Benson's World got a defective tape.

So far the companies I know selling the tapes are Choices Direct, Benson's World, Blackstar, and Amazon.co.uk.

Does anyone know if you can directly buy them in UK video stores?? If that is possible, then that would be the best way to buy it because you could return the defective tape easier. Well, maybe not easier, but you wouldn't have to mail it. It cost me nine US dollars to return my tape.

Whenever you get your tape of HGWMV it is important to check it immediately for quality. And you have to check both tapes. For obvious defective quality you only have to watch the first 5-10 minutes of each tape. But it would be a good idea to plan on watching the entire show as soon as possible. I ordered two sets for me personally and had to take one tape from each set to get a good tape set. It's not perfect but it is watchable. The other two tapes were totally bad--and bad in different ways. I didn't even have to watch five minutes to see the tapes were unwatchable.

I would appreciate anyone who gets a GOOD copy of HGWMV through mail order or internet order sending me the information because I want to buy a good copy from somebody.

I did a review (with typos) of HGWMV and it is at http://amazon.co.uk. I would appreciate somebody writing a review for http://uk.imdb.com (or http://us.imdb.com) because that website will not not accept my browser.

Joyce JEB31538@cs.com