British titles coming to R1 format

Alfred_D · 12-20-2005, 08:42 PM

For those interested in R1 DVDs of British titles, a number of older, Classic BBC dramas from the 60’s and 70’s, along with other titles are being released in the coming months.

Currently scheduled for release:

Jan, 10, 2006
Rebus
Agatha Christie's "The Pale Horse"
Hands of a Murderer (a Sherlock Holmes' Mystery)

February 7, 2006
Wire in the Blood (Complete Season III)

March 7, 2006
Pornography: The Secret History of Civilisation

April 4, 2006
Take Me
BBC's David Copperfield (1974)
BBC's The Old Curiosity Shop (1979)

May 2, 2006
BBC’s The Fall of Eagles (1974)
Omega Factor
Dick Francis Mysteries
BBC's Nicholas Nickleby (1977)

Other titles will follow and will include the R1 version of The Three Musketeers (1966), an early mini with Brian Blessed and Jeremy Brett. Hopefully, even more older BBC shows currently in deep freeze will get to see the light of day!

Greg Krewet · 12-20-2005, 08:52 PM

Not to mention,The The Bucaneers and Mill on the Floss in April and the Anthony Hopkins version of War and Peace coming later in the year
Best
Greg.

Alfred_D · 12-20-2005, 09:00 PM

Hi Greg,

Do you know who is putting out the Anthony Hopkin's War and Peace later in the year? According to info obtained from their sales dept., Koch Vision, which is releasing the titles listed in my post had been unable to get the R1 license for this title from Strawberry Ent. Is someone else putting it out instead? That would be GREAT NEWS!

David Rain · 12-21-2005, 12:13 AM

I'm hoping other countries will follow suit with some of their own shows. Such as Australia's Kath & Kim, which I recently discovered on Sundance Channel.

Greg Krewet · 12-21-2005, 06:28 AM

Alfred
I am basing the War and Peace information on the response
from the BBCAmerica forum in which an individual stated that he was mastering it and it would be coming sometime next year.Since it is already available in England,I presumed it was being released by BBCAmerica for Region1 Incidentally we can now add the Irish R.M. season 3 (which was never shown in the states) and the final season of Alleyn both to come out in Feb from Acorn. House of Elliott 2, and Hetty Wainthrope 3are coming from Acorn in January . Bleak House (the new 8 hour version) from BBCAmerica in Feb. And finally the rest of the Seargeant Cribb series from BFS (after a 2 year delay) from BFS in late January. Hope this helps but I wish I could be more certain about the War and Peace.
Best
Greg

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Alfred_D · 12-21-2005, 11:38 AM

At least BBC America may be a possibility! Strawberry Entertainment has the distribution rights to 19 BBC Classics titles and is in the process of releasing them in R2 via DD Video. They also made a deal with Koch Vision to distribute them in R1 but the deal included only 17 of the 19 titles, the exceptions being War and Peace and the 1976 Our Mutual Friend. Perhaps the BBC kept the R1 rights to these two classics in order to distribute both themselves. At least we can hope!

Alfred_D · 01-08-2006, 10:29 AM

Region 1 now available for preorder at both Amazon.com and DeepDiscountDVD.com
(also available for preorder on the Koch site but at full retail price):

1979 Old Curiosity Shop (Natalie Ogle)

1974 David Copperfield (Anthony Andrews)

Looking for Region 1 Fall of Eagles and Nicholas Nickleby to be available for preorder sometime next month.

Alfred_D · 02-04-2006, 03:19 PM

The Koch Vision region 1 (US/Canada) DVDs of the BBC's 'Fall of Eagles' and 'Nicholas Nickleby' (Nigel Havers, 1977) are now available for pre-order at DeepDiscountDVD and at DVD Planet. I imagine they will be listed soon as well on Amazon.

Jon Martin · 02-04-2006, 05:23 PM

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Not to mention,The The Bucaneers and Mill on the Floss in April

For THE MILL ON THE FLOSS, it says it is the 1978 version. That would be the one that aired on PBS as part of the "Once Upon a Classic" series, isn't it?

I remember watching it back then (it was shown on Saturday afternoons) and never thought I would see it again. I've already pre-ordered it.

Alfred_D · 03-10-2006, 03:35 PM

For those in the USA interested in BBC Classic Dramas, the following titles in DVD region 1 are now available for pre-order:

The lost Boys (1978) – Ian Holmes (not to be confused with the 1987 movie which is an entirely different story!)
Orde Wingate (1976) – Barry Foster

These previous DVD releases are also in region 1 and available for preorder:

Fall of Eagles (1974) – Michael Aldridge. Frederick Alexander, Patrick Stuart
Nicholas Nickleby (1977) – Nigel Havers
David Copperfield (1974) – David Yelland
The Old Curiosity Shop (1978) – Natalie Ogle

They appear to be available at most of the larger U.S. DVD outlets on the internet.

DouglasBr · 03-10-2006, 04:10 PM

If only they would release "Count Dracula" with Louis Jourdan, I'd be a happy camper.

Got to get my hands on the new Cribb set. Is that all of the episodes now available in R1, or are there more to come?

AndyMcKinney · 03-10-2006, 05:33 PM

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If only they would release "Count Dracula" with Louis Jourdan, I'd be a happy camper.

If you have a DVD player capable of converting a PAL singnal into an NTSC one, this title was release by BBC Learning in the UK. SendIt.com were the only authorised online sellers (outside of the BBC) when it was released. Don't know if this is considered "out-of-print" now or not. If so, you might try eBay UK.

It was released alongside Peter Cushing's "Hound of the Baskervilles" and "Portrait of Dorian Grey."

DouglasBr · 03-12-2006, 03:11 PM

True Andy, but they dropped these not long after they were released a couple years ago. Don't know why they were marketed as they were (mainly for educational use, as I remember), but there are "copies" on ebay even now. Perhaps that'll have to do.