When if first aired in Japan, season one Pokemon episode, “Electric Soldier Porygon” was so flashy and bright that it actually sent 685 viewers to the hospital with complaints of headaches, nausea, and seizures. The event became known as “Pokemon Shock.” The show went on a four month hiatus afterward, and the episode in question has never been rebroadcast. (http://urbanlegendsonline.com/pokemon-caused-seizures/) Sources. Mood: Meh Music: None
The Forsyte SagaAuthor(s)John GalsworthyGenre(s)NovelPublisherDoverPublication date1906-1921 (serialised)The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novelsand two interludes (intervening episodes) published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of an upper-class British family, similar to Galsworthy's own.[1] Only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, the family members are keenly aware of their status as "new money". The main character, Soames Forsyte, sees himself as a "man of property" by virtue of his ability to accumulate material possessions—but this does not succeed in bringing him pleasure.Separate sections of the saga, as well as the lengthy story in its entirety, have been adapted for cinema and television. The first book, The Man of Property, was adapted in 1949 by Hollywood as That Forsyte Woman, starring Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and Robert Young. The BBCproduced a popular 26-part serial in 1967, that also dramatised a subsequent trilogy concerning the Forsytes, A Modern Comedy. In 2002, Granada Television produced two series for the ITV network called The Forsyte Saga and The Forsyte Saga: To Let. The 1967 version inspired the popular Masterpiece Theatre television program, and the two Granada series made their runs in the US as part of that program. In 2003, The Forsyte Saga was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".[2 Mood: Sad, Happy and gracious Music: Theme
