I absolutely hate that forced subtitles seems to be inevitable on any releases from France. The Frenchies have lost several sales from me for that very reason. Don't understand why they wouldn't do like Germany and offer English-language shows in the original language with a subtitles-off...
or, from Madman in Australia, who gave us Darkroom...
I'm willling to wager that this series has (likely) never been converted to digital. Hec, it might never have been transferred to tape at all, as it was surely broadcast from film at the time, and probably had limited foreign distribution...
I'm sure you're aware that Kirk did come back in Generations, since you mention Scotty and Chekov's appearances. He was, in fact, a major part of that particular movie.
For those interested in the three original British productions (Man About the House, George & Mildred and Robin's Nest) I would recommend not waiting too long to purchase those. The video company that released those in the UK (Network Video) went out of business last year, so once stock sells...
That is the one with the messed-up picture quality (fake film-like appearance).
I see that I never revealed what happened with my defective disc back in 2015. I ended up contacting the US BBC/Warner office and they sent me an entire replacement boxset (not just the problem disc) for free. All I...
Okay, I'll bite (unless I did earlier in this thread and forgot about it):
Police Academy: City Under Siege. One of the absolute worst pieces of garbage I paid to see in a theatre (I had skipped the fifth installment, hadn't really wanted to see this one). I knew I was in trouble when I had the...
I get what you're saying, but in this instance, I think it was borne of necessity, as ABC Standards & Practices wouldn't have allowed them to use the word 'prostitute' for a regular character in early evening in 1978.
I think it would take some decent extras, such as the "Starbuck's shirt off in turbo-lift" scene (that was in the Canadian theatrical, as I recall) or some as-yet previously unreleased deleted scenes to get most folks to bite on this. I doubt Universal gave them that kind of access to the archive.
Are you sure it's sped-up, or just making an assumption since it's a UK release? PAL speedup only affects titles that were produced using a duplication master that came from a "24fps film-to-PAL" transfer. As we all know, most TV series since the 1990s were mastered/assembled on NTSC video or...
Quite. That's the easiest, most logical explanation. That whole "women can't be captains" think didn't even ring true decades ago, even before Madge Sinclair's cameo in The Voyage Home. There's no point trying to go through acrobatics to make things "fit" into continuity (as fan production, Star...
Yep.
John himself once said that there would never be another Monty Python film ("Graham has seen to that" was more of less the comment, referring to Chapman's death). Chapman was one-sixth (or one-fifth, depending on how one counts Terry G) of the group.
In the case of Fawlty, one-half of the...
Yes, as was common for TV on video releases in the early-to-mid 1980s: one set of opening/closing credits. For Fawlty, they remade the closing credits to include all the guests for all 3 episodes. Instead of just text, they played a brief clip of each guest actor under their individual credit.
I don't understand your comment, if it was directed at me (rather than Keith). I love Fawlty Towers and I'm an American. I was just explaining to Kevin that when I was a teenager (around 1986), I didn't warm to it the first time around, but did come around to liking it just a few years later.
The very first time I watched it (when I was about 17), I didn't much like it, either. I bought one of the 3-episode VHS tapes, watched it once, and didn't give it another try until I was about 20. Then, I "got it", I guess, and had to see the rest of them!
Maybe it's just that it's (even...
I don't care if Cleese is involved, I just don't see this working very well. While it's good that he's involved, for once, some of his projects of late (Hold the Sunset, anyone?) have been, shall we say, less than good. I fear he's just cashing-in.
The fact that it's been about 45 years now...
I wish somebody would put Gauntlet Legends or Gauntlet: Dark Legacy on a modern platform... or, at least, finally the Xbox version compatible with the 360.
It's one of the reasons I keep my Dreamcast around.
I also wish somebody had brought CarnEvil to a home platform of some kind. And, while...
As some others have said, this show seems to be aimed at the teenage/CW demographic, but I still liked it in spite of all that.
I suspect that is also why there is some swearing (of the scatological variety), but they stop just short of dropping F-bombs. Wisely, it's the non-Addams characters...
I've only watched the pilot so far and found it a bit 'meh', but, as we all know, one shouldn't judge a show by the pilot alone.
There weren't as many anachronisms to 'take me out of the show' as there were on the parent series (mainly, the use of non-vintage food packages, etc), but I did find...
The pilot episode of Quark (which I mentioned earlier in thread) qualifies, though the syndicated reruns were, admittedly few (just on the HA! TV comedy network around 1990).
As per Paul Vanezis, a pro in the industry (who's also a part of the Doctor Who Restoration Team):
The ending of "Zeus, By Jove" was indeed deleted from the transmission tape after the first transmission and before the repeat and has effectively been lost forever. I remain hopeful though that...
It was cut not long after its original BBC airing. Audiences were so shocked, that the BBC wiped the master tape themselves, and since it was cut so soon after broadcast (so, before it was sold to other countries), the chances of this missing scene ever turning up are slim to none, unless one of...
The pilot episode of NBC's Quark had a brief scene cut by the network before air. There was some (IMO) mild innuendo there that might have been the reason. It must've been cut by the network, though, because when the episode was re-run on the short-lived HA! TV comedy network, the missing/extra...
By "suitable masters", the whole "edited on film vs. edited on tape" thing doesn't really matter as much when there's no budget for restoration. Yes, Bring 'Em Back was edited on film, but it wasn't exactly a rerun staple (it might have had a run on basic cable), so any copies used for 1980s...
Most of my "go-tos" are from British shows, especially comedies:
Are You Being Served? "Christmas Crackers" and "The Father Christmas Affair." I often also spin "The Punch and Judy Affair" and "Roots?", both of which were those Christmas specials that weren't Christmas-themed (unless you count...