I too have been wishing for years that this excellent series were available on DVD or video. It featured vivid, memorable performances that, to this day, color my impressions of Burton, Speke, and Livingston, and I still remember the mounting suspense as the first two of these explorers prepare to debate their theories of the source of the Nile before (if memory serves) the Royal Geographical Society. Maybe we're all getting spoiled, because it sometimes seems as if virtually everything is accessible today via Netflix or the Net... but here's a series that, it seems, has a built-in audience, a superb reputation, and some genuine educational value, yet all of its fans are forced to rely on decades-old memories of it. Making it available would be a true public service!
Review of The Search for the Nile
