The Untouchables - Season 2, Volume 2

jdee28 · 05-12-2008, 08:45 AM

Great to hear this will be coming out August 26th:

The Untouchables DVD news: Announcement for The Untouchables - Season 2, Volume 2 | TVShowsOnDVD.com

The Untouchables will be half way done; hopefully CBS/Paramount will release the other half.

This is an excellent show, definitely on par with the Warner Brothers crime films of the 1930s. I love how it fully embraces the conventions of the genre, taking them to the nth degree. Done with such convinction, it works.

Hank Dearborn · 05-12-2008, 10:03 AM

Indeed it is good news. 4 sets down, 4 to go. I'm not overly worried about The Untouchables, The Fugitive and The Invaders coming out in their entirety. I'm more concerned with series that may not be as popular - Streets of San Francisco, Mod Squad, Love American Style. I'd love to see them all fully released but I'm not convinced that will happen.

jdee28 · 05-21-2008, 08:41 AM

A quibble with their Season 2, Volume 1 release - their elimation of the bumper at the end of each act. I wonder why they bothered to do this. All it does is make for some awkward dropped music cues. They should have just left well enough alone, like they did in their Season 1, Vol. 1 & 2 releases. It's probably a case of the people doing the transfers not knowing better.

Hank Dearborn · 05-21-2008, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by jdee28

A quibble with their Season 2, Volume 1 release - their elimation of the bumper at the end of each act. I wonder why they bothered to do this. All it does is make for some awkward dropped music cues. They should have just left well enough alone, like they did in their Season 1, Vol. 1 & 2 releases. It's probably a case of the people doing the transfers not knowing better.

I didn't understand that either and it felt kind of jarring to me to have them missing. Kind of like listening to a song you know and having a few bars of the song missing at the end. Made no sense and really surprising in light of how well Paramount usually does. I had heard years ago that they had done something similar on the VHS releases for this show.

Mark666 · 06-02-2008, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by jdee28

A quibble with their Season 2, Volume 1 release - their elimation of the bumper at the end of each act. I wonder why they bothered to do this. All it does is make for some awkward dropped music cues. They should have just left well enough alone, like they did in their Season 1, Vol. 1 & 2 releases. It's probably a case of the people doing the transfers not knowing better.

If they only left off the bumper I could live with it. In the reviews of this series no one mentions the atrocious transfer quality. The first series was very clean but this was caked with dirt and distracted from my enjoyment of this great series. Looks like a VHS to DVD straight transfer, which accounts for lack of bumper. Maybe the series insn't selling well enough to justifie the cost of cleaning the film. It's great to have it out but a pity it's such a poor quality transfer.

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jdee28 · 06-02-2008, 12:27 PM

I agree, the transfers don't look as stellar as Season 1, Volume 1; there's more grain; more contrast. But I don't think video masters were involved; if they were, it would look even worse.

Mark666 · 06-03-2008, 01:56 AM

The R2 S1 pt1 is out in the UK in August, so long wait to catch up with R1 releases. I wonder if the R2 S2 will be better remasters. I beleive I read in Desi's autobiography that The Untouchables was filmed and not NTSC video taped so Paramount would probably use the same tape source. Please correct me if I am wrong.

jdee28 · 06-03-2008, 02:54 PM

Yes, The Untouchables were filmed originally.

Back in the video tape era, CBS released some episodes of the Untouchables on VHS through Columbia House. I don't think they used any of these video masters for their Untouchables DVD releases.

They did use video masters for the Have Gun Will Travel DVD releases as well as their original release of The Twilight Zone; hence the subpar quality of those. I think they've learned a lot since then.

todd s · 06-06-2008, 10:58 PM

I really hope Paramount decides to release the 1990's version of the show. It was very well done. With great acting.