written AUG 17, 1998

In episode 1.6 when Peter Clifford Speaks to Assumpta, he mentions that it has been ten weeks since he first arrived in Ballykissangel.

Even though some of the episodes in series I cover more than one day none comprise more than a week.

Even if you were to count 1 episode a week that still leaves the 4 missing weeks that I write about. Leaving 4 weeks of untold stories out their in the mists of tv land.

A point, something coming real soon. So read on. What if after series IV the BBC wants to make a movie version of our beloved series. Money after all is a factor in all things. And if Ballykissangel is truly the worldwide phenomenom that it is, surely the BBC will realize a movie will need to be made.

Somewhere someone is saying , "But Brian Quigley already tried to make BALLYKISSANGEL - THE MOVIE. What I hope will happen, is that a big screen version will eventually be made of BALLYKISSANGEL.

I know, I know that Stephen Tompkinson and Dervla Kirwin have stated they wouldnt return to the series. And to that I say, "They killed off Spock in STAR TREK II, brought him back as a director and the rest if History. (Leonard Nimoy directed several successful movies and made even more money for himself)

So I'm sure that if the conditions were right, and that if the money and job oppurtunities tied to projects afterward they could be lured back to do a movie.

And if a big screen adaptation was made of Ballykissangel. And if it was set in this missing 4 week period. It wouldnt be the first movie that was a prequel to a pre-existing body of work.

All the Indiana Jones movies were prequels to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

And May 21, 1999 the first prequel to STAR WARS will be finally released.

So prequels can be viable projects. And remember since it is just TV that anything is possible.