The Avengers: Season 5 (UK - Blu-ray) Available for Preorder (1 Viewer)

To all,

The UK Blu-ray edition of The Avengers season 5 is now on pre-order at Amazon UK.
It is presented with seven discs: a good sign of quality.
Release date: June 22, 2015.
http://www.amazon.co.uk

Season 5 was the last season with actress Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
and the first one in full color.

Some unique episodes appeared that season:
"Epic"
"The Superlative Seven"
"Who's Who"
"The Fear Merchant"
"The Winged Avenger"
"The Living Dead"
"The Hidden Tiger"



Episode Guide:
http://www.dissolute.com.au/the-avengers-tv-series/series-5/index.html

Hey, John, thanks for posting this news. Your Amazon link isn't directed to the right page though.

Professor Echo said:

Hey, John, thanks for posting this news. Your Amazon link isn't directed to the right page though.

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Find the exact link to the Blu-Ray edition of The Avengers Season 5 (UK):


http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00UAJ6WQ2/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1FXCPDWFWYGRP&coliid=I3FLHPN97TLW19

Thanks for the link, John .

Has anyone heard if S4 is coming to Blu in the States? I have S5 from Lionsgate.

Although 7 discs should be better the Lionsgate 3 disc set is perfectly good quality albeit bereft of extras.


I can't recall where I read it but apparently Lionsgate only own the Bluray rights to series 5.

I'd be surprised if they go for series 4 after the complaints they got over series 5.

Does this have pitch problems, like the last Blu-Ray did?

Vahan_Nisanain said:

Does this have pitch problems, like the last Blu-Ray did?

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The UK Blu-Ray edition of The Avengers season 4 had no pitch problem: the audio was correct.

Great news in the avengers coming to blu Ray! I am looking at getting a region free player and the avengers will be at the top of my list to buy.

Amazon UK just revealed the magnificent artwork for the season 5 Blu-Ray set.
Mrs. Peel has a wonderful way to carry the bowler hat.

One of the reasons I finally picked up a region free blu-ray player was for these sets. I bought the UK release of season 4 and have season 5 on pre-order. The price fluctuates a bit but when found at the lower end and with the VAT removed it wasn't too bad shipped to the US.


I have the ultimate UK DVD set with the remastered picture. The blu-ray set shows some improvement over those, but I primarily did it for the audio with the corrected pitch (at least how we always heard it in the US). I'm not usually effected by audio speedup, but I guess in this case I've seen them enough over the years, plus all the discussion around it that I couldn't help but notice. The season 4 UK blu-ray release sounds exactly how I remembered it. I'm assuming season 5 will be the same.

I love how the billing is inverted, making the artwork look totally gender bending lol

smithbrad said:

One of the reasons I finally picked up a region free blu-ray player was for these sets. I bought the UK release of season 4 and have season 5 on pre-order. The price fluctuates a bit but when found at the lower end and with the VAT removed it wasn't too bad shipped to the US.


I have the ultimate UK DVD set with the remastered picture. The blu-ray set shows some improvement over those, but I primarily did it for the audio with the corrected pitch (at least how we always heard it in the US). I'm not usually effected by audio speedup, but I guess in this case I've seen them enough over the years, plus all the discussion around it that I couldn't help but notice. The season 4 UK blu-ray release sounds exactly how I remembered it. I'm assuming season 5 will be the same.

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It may be premature to assume Studio Canal will do the right thing so you may want to wait for a review.

As it stands the original restored masters for series 5 all include sound at 25p.


The UK dvd's come from those masters and even though the US Blu was adjusted to 24p the sound is still pitched incorrectly.

So nobody has yet seen an HD master for series 5 with the sound correct.


Its a brave man who risks lots of cash on an import that could still be wrong.

If I was a betting man I would think that SC have gone and corrected series 5 but I wouldn't be willing to bet too much on it

The artwork for the Blu-Ray edition of season 5 also keeps the season 4 logo.

Ah yes that's weird I thought it was a season 4 box set until you posted this.

As a reminder, let's dive into the overview of this particular season.




THE FIFTH SEASON (1967)

producers Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens

executive producer Julian Wintle

composer Laurie Johnson


PRODUCTION RUNDOWN

It’s the first season in full color and the last one with Mrs. Emma Peel who stays away from any black-leathered clothes, except briefly in You Have Just Been Murdered. Clemens and Fennell takeover so therefore the series reinforces fantasy and science-fiction—thanks to writer Philip Levene who blossoms and dominates the season with twelve scripts, i.e., half the season—and the leading characters undergo modifications in their lifestyle: new flats and updated wardrobe, including Mrs. Peel’s psychedelic jumpsuits and Pop dresses designed by Alun Hughes. The main titles is also renewed and is loosely inspired by the 1965 US chessboard intro promo. The main novelties are two short scenes: a comic tag line caption to the episode title and a call-to-duty ritual scene that open the first sixteen episodes that end up with a message that reads: “Mrs Peel… We’re needed!”, accompanied by a dreamlike playful tune—perhaps, a nod to the tape scene from Mission: Impossible. Robert Day is the leading director of the season. Does that season just a color and Pop Art update? The same year Patrick McGoohan supervises the way-out The Prisoner. It’s the first season I experienced and, above all, the most homogenous in terms of overall quality.

Rest in peace Patrick macnee!!!!

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/biography_patrick_macnee?t=&s=&id=03919

Read the review from Amazon UK:


high definition wonderland

By Richard Bevan on 10 July 2015


I have both the UK blu-ray release and recent blu-ray from the USA.

This UK release is much better, the audio especially since it's the original mono

and not synthetic surround that makes the music sound like you're at the bottom of a barrel.
There are plenty of extras also (totally missing from the USA release).
The picture quality seems similar (although the US release is on fewer disks but I don't notice much difference).
While the quality is much better than DVD, it's not quite in the league of The Prisoner or The Professionals for vintage TV transferred to blu-ray.

There are plenty of hairs in frame and softness from time to time (often in close ups of Diana Rigg but sometimes of the other actors also).
One unintentional effect of the higher definition is that you can immediately spot the use of stunt doubles and stand ins (when the lead actors could not make it to location shots) and also outside scenes shot in the studio.

However this is inevitable considering how the show was shot, I would have liked some of the hairs removed though.

Curious the review would compare The Avengers to The Professionals when the latter was shot on 16mm.

If it wasn't for the awful audio on the US set I'd be happy to stick with it as the UK set remains as over priced as Studio Canal product always is.

At the moment series 5 is £54 compared to the US set at £14. I know which is the better deal and I don't think there's any extras on the Blu that weren't on the UK dvd set

Still hoping for B&W Peel BD to arrive in the U.S. The Lionsgate S5 BD was very enjoyable to me.

Although not as high a priority I'd buy BD of the Tara and Purdey series as well.

The Professionals blu-ray looks amazing. You would never know it's 16mm