Talk:Sharpe's Challenge

How many programs are there in the series?
The metadata on the main article page says:

No. of episodes 	2 Preceded by 	Sharpe's Waterloo Followed by 	Sharpe's Peril

If there is one predecessor ("Sharpe's Waterloo") and one successor ("Sharpe's Peril" to the present article ("Sharpe's Challenge"), it seems to me that means there are 3 episodes, not 2. 173.52.0.127 (talk) 11:23, 18 January 2014 (UTC)Steph — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.52.0.127 (talk) 11:16, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Introduction -unhelpful statement
In the introduction it states "contrary to most parts of the TV series, Sharpe's Challenge, as well as the follow-up Sharpe's Peril, isn't based entirely on one of Cornwell's novels, but it uses and adapts some characters and story-lines from Sharpe's Tiger." This statement is unhelpful on two counts. Firstly, as is made clear several times elsewhere in this article, events in these episodes are adapted from all three of the Sharpe Novels that are set in India, albeit generally time shifted. However the opening segment of the story, set in 1803, is directly adapted from Sharpe's Triumph and is arguably as close to the relevant part of that book as any of the other ITV Sharpe adaptations are to the novels that they are based. It is also the case that as noted elsewhere in the article, the main villain here, Dodd, did not feature in Tiger, but was in Triumph and Sharpe's Fortress. As well as this not all of the earlier ITV Sharpe films had been "based entirely on one of Bernard Cornwell's novels". Two were not based on anything written by Cornwell (Sharpe's Mission and Sharpe's Justice, and while some are reasonably faithful to the novels that they are based on, several are significantly different (eg the TV version of Sharpe's Gold has almost no relation to the novel of the same name other than some early scenes). Thus, I think this statement should be altered, or possibly removed entirely. Dunarc (talk) 19:02, 18 June 2020 (UTC)