WHV Announce: Fawlty Towers and Black Adder Remastered - Page 2

I picked up the re-mastered Fawlty Towers at Walmart on the Weekend. I am a huge John Cleese fan and think he is up there as one of the best comedians. I watch him in episode of Cheers where he is the psychologist giving married advice to Sam and Dianne.

It is too bad this show did not make that many episodes, but the ones they made are classics. The spanish waitor is great! John Cleese can do anything and he is just soo funny!!!

I'm fine with the Fawlty Towers set I paid $57 for in 2005.  No need to remaster those -- the original scenes shot on videotape look fine.  Although the outdoor filmed inserts are what look out of place!

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Originally Posted by Executive 

 

I'm fine with the Fawlty Towers set I paid $57 for in 2005.  No need to remaster those -- the original scenes shot on videotape look fine.  Although the outdoor filmed inserts are what look out of place!
 

Most of the film inserts definitely look better because they were able to go back to the original elements for at least some of them. The bonus features are nice, too, and that brief edit in The Kipper and the Corpse (at least, it was edited on the original R2) has been reinstated.

I bought my remastered set (R2-PAL) for the equivalent of about $21-23 on AmazonUK. A nice upgrade from my VHS copies (I'd been holding out for a better edition, which is why I hadn't bought this or Blackadder until the remasters came).