I absolutely hate that forced subtitles seems to be inevitable on any releases from France. The Frenchies have lost several sales from me for that very reason. Don't understand why they wouldn't do like Germany and offer English-language shows in the original language with a subtitles-off...
or, from Madman in Australia, who gave us Darkroom...
I'm willling to wager that this series has (likely) never been converted to digital. Hec, it might never have been transferred to tape at all, as it was surely broadcast from film at the time, and probably had limited foreign distribution...
I'm sure you're aware that Kirk did come back in Generations, since you mention Scotty and Chekov's appearances. He was, in fact, a major part of that particular movie.
For those interested in the three original British productions (Man About the House, George & Mildred and Robin's Nest) I would recommend not waiting too long to purchase those. The video company that released those in the UK (Network Video) went out of business last year, so once stock sells...
That is the one with the messed-up picture quality (fake film-like appearance).
I see that I never revealed what happened with my defective disc back in 2015. I ended up contacting the US BBC/Warner office and they sent me an entire replacement boxset (not just the problem disc) for free. All I...
Okay, I'll bite (unless I did earlier in this thread and forgot about it):
Police Academy: City Under Siege. One of the absolute worst pieces of garbage I paid to see in a theatre (I had skipped the fifth installment, hadn't really wanted to see this one). I knew I was in trouble when I had the...
I get what you're saying, but in this instance, I think it was borne of necessity, as ABC Standards & Practices wouldn't have allowed them to use the word 'prostitute' for a regular character in early evening in 1978.
I think it would take some decent extras, such as the "Starbuck's shirt off in turbo-lift" scene (that was in the Canadian theatrical, as I recall) or some as-yet previously unreleased deleted scenes to get most folks to bite on this. I doubt Universal gave them that kind of access to the archive.
Are you sure it's sped-up, or just making an assumption since it's a UK release? PAL speedup only affects titles that were produced using a duplication master that came from a "24fps film-to-PAL" transfer. As we all know, most TV series since the 1990s were mastered/assembled on NTSC video or...