Honey West

Ben King · 10-10-2006, 03:40 PM

This 1960's series starring Anne Francis is being released on DVD *in the UK* on 13th November. I believe that the release will be of the complete series.

Jeff Willis · 10-10-2006, 06:12 PM

Interesting! I hope we get this one in R1.

Michael Alden · 10-10-2006, 06:39 PM

Really? I love that show. I have them all except for 3 from off 16mm prints that I got many years ago but this should be higher quality. This is very much a cult show that is perfect for the DVD format. Anne Francis never looked better than when she did this series. I wonder if they will include the pilot from Burke's Law as a bonus. It's funny but when Bob Costas had Aaron Spelling on Later he asked him about that and he didn't remember it being a spinoff. I spoke with Costas about that and we were laughing at how we as viewers remembered that and the producer himself didn't.

Here's the link to amazon uk:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Honey-West/d...?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

Mark Oates · 10-10-2006, 06:50 PM

Delta Music Group? They do a lot of PD releases. They do some quality work - they released Lovejoy in tolerable form and that cheesy German series Star Maidens. Much depends where they got their masters from, so it's not impossible these discs were mastered from 16mm prints. Hope not.

According to the illustration on Sendit, there are alll 30 episodes plus the pilot from the Burke's Law series. Woo-hoo.

Best price £15.99 at HMV currently. Four discs. Burke's Law Series 1 will be out the same day.

Tom.W · 10-10-2006, 08:33 PM

Honey West AND Burke's Law Season One released on the same day! Two good reasons to set your DVD-ROM to Region 2. Amazon.UK is showing Burke's Law 3 discs apparently 32 episodes. Hope Delta Music Group does these right.

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Charles Ellis · 10-10-2006, 08:34 PM

Fox owns the show here in the US, and you know how bad they are in releasing stuff from their back catalog- like once in a blue moon!

Michael Alden · 10-10-2006, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom.W

Honey West AND Burke's Law Season One released on the same day! Two good reasons to set your DVD-ROM to Region 2. Amazon.UK is showing Burke's Law 3 discs apparently 32 episodes. Hope Delta Music Group does these right.

HMV has the Burke's Law listed as 8 discs which seems right, 32 episodes. I don't know anything about Delta other than that I saw on the site they are selling the same 1st season of Big Valley that came out here. All 3 of these shows are former Four Star shows that are controlled by Fox so I would think they are legit. I would doubt that they would try to bootleg a show from a major company like that.

michael_ks · 10-11-2006, 07:36 AM

HMV lists "Honey West" as a October 16 release--I wonder if that's accurate. This is great news and I think I will be purchasing this because I doubt Fox will ever release this. But what to do about the R2 issue? Purchase a multi-region player? Someone once posted info on how any R1 DVD player could be converted to "0", i.e multi-region by using the manufacturer remote--is that accurate?

Jeff Willis · 10-11-2006, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by michael_ks

HMV lists "Honey West" as a October 16 release--I wonder if that's accurate. This is great news and I think I will be purchasing this because I doubt Fox ever will. But what to do about the R2 issue? Purchase a multi-region player? Someone once posted info on how any R1 DVD player could be converted to "0", i.e multi-region by using the manufacturer remote--is that accurate?

Mike, it's possible to convert a player to region-free but the player would also need to be equiped with a PAL/NTSC Converter. That's where it gets a little more of an issue. I have a region-free player with a 16Mb Converter. This way, I can view PAL widescreen anamorphic movies with no signal loss or stretching during the conversion process. I only have 2 TV/DVD sets that are PAL as I desire to purchase R1's whenever possible. Honey West may be the 3rd set

Doug^Ch · 10-11-2006, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by michael_ks

HMV lists "Honey West" as a October 16 release--I wonder if that's accurate. This is great news and I think I will be purchasing this because I doubt Fox ever will. But what to do about the R2 issue? Purchase a multi-region player? Someone once posted info on how any R1 DVD player could be converted to "0", i.e multi-region by using the manufacturer remote--is that accurate?

The Oppo model 970 & 971 have built in Pal / NTSC converters and are virtually region free out of the box with a very simple hack using the remote. This information is available anywhere on the web. As a side benefit it also upconverts to 1080i via DVI and comes with the all necessary cables in the box. I have ordered region 2 and region 4 television season sets, and they are indistinguishable from region 1 releases.