secret agent / danger man dvds or blurrays
Stephen
I enjoy the Prisoner but haven't seen any of secret agent / danger
man. I'm lucky that I have a multiregion player, so I wondered is one
release better than any other or are they all the same? I know that
sometimes a web site might say that the R1 disc of a title has extras
such as interviews with the cast that the R2 doesn't, or that the R1
audio is not as good as the R2, or that only one region has subtitles,
etc. Are there any differences between regions of secret agent /
danger man to make me look at a particular set?
Or are there any plans for a blu-ray or anniversary remastering? I
don't want to buy a set if there is an improved version due
imminently?
Thanks.
Ignis Fatuus
The Network (R2) version of the 60minute series (2-4) includes the
surviving scripts and production notes as PDFs. It's currently
available from Amazon UK for £27.00. I also have the R1 A&E set
(£67.00) which features the American theme song (Secret Agent Man) on
every menu. It's on the Network set as an extra. Network also released
season 1 as a separate set. It's available for £39.00 from Amazon UK
or Network direct. I'm not aware of an American release of these
episodes. In series 1, Drake is an American working for NATO
intelligence. In series 2-4 he's a British officer of the secret
intelligence services.
http://www.networkdvd.net/index.php
Network issued The Prisoner on Blu-Ray, but they have not announced
plans for DM. The DVD quality is excellent.
Moor Larkin
best - from Australia. It even includes a recorded interview with
Ralph Smart, which no other collection ever has done. This is only the
hour-long series of episodes of course.
There's a comprehensive breakdown of the Madman set here:
http://www.mausoleumclubforum.org.uk/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=17676&page=1#pid201914
and the brilliant Danger man website rightly features it at the bottom
of the welcome page:
http://www.danger-man.co.uk/
Stephen
<Ig...@fatuusisland.com> wrote:
>The Network (R2) version of the 60minute series (2-4) includes the
>surviving scripts and production notes as PDFs. It's currently
>available from Amazon UK for £27.00. I also have the R1 A&E set
>(£67.00) which features the American theme song (Secret Agent Man) on
>every menu. It's on the Network set as an extra.
Thank you. It sounds as though the network r2 is better than the A&E
r1 because it has the pdf extras. Does the A&E version have anything
that the r2 does not?
Did you buy the A&E version because it was released first and then
later buy the r2 for the extras?
I was about to rush to Amazon but then read the other post telling me
to get the Australian dvd, so I'll have to compare the network and
madman versions, unless anyone else already has?
Thanks again.
Stephen
<moorl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>There's a comprehensive breakdown of the Madman set here:
>http://www.mausoleumclubforum.org.uk/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=17676&page=1#pid201914
Thank you. The review was very comprehensive. It mentions that there
are notes and scripts as pdfs on the madman discs, so I wonder whether
the madman set contains all the pdfs that the network set does? It
sounds as though the madman has everything that network had but in
addition has the extra commentaries/interviews that you mentioned. The
only bad thing is that it seems to be 80GBP, which is a lot compared
to 27GBP for the network version, and no doubt the 80 pounds will be
inflated by import duties ;(
Ignis Fatuus
<ste...@nowhere.com.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:46:02 +0000, Ignis Fatuus
><Ig...@fatuusisland.com> wrote:
>
>>The Network (R2) version of the 60minute series (2-4) includes the
>>surviving scripts and production notes as PDFs. It's currently
>>available from Amazon UK for £27.00. I also have the R1 A&E set
>>(£67.00) which features the American theme song (Secret Agent Man) on
>>every menu. It's on the Network set as an extra.
>
>Thank you. It sounds as though the network r2 is better than the A&E
>r1 because it has the pdf extras. Does the A&E version have anything
>that the r2 does not?
>
>Did you buy the A&E version because it was released first and then
>later buy the r2 for the extras?
>
For several years the A&E set was the only available set of 60 minute
episodes. I bought the Network set because A&E used the American theme
song as a background for the menus (the episodes use the original
theme), and I never want to hear it again. The scripts were the most
interesting extra. Many have handwritten annotations, dated
alterations, and production notes.
I'm not a great one for extras and commentaries, but I don't think
there's anything on the A&E set that's not on the Network set. It's in
storage right now, so I can't easily verify that.
Stephen
<Ig...@fatuusisland.com> wrote:
>I'm not a great one for extras and commentaries, but I don't think
>there's anything on the A&E set that's not on the Network set.
I'm not a big fan of extras but if they are there on one set but not
the other and there's not a big price difference, then I think it's
worth getting the set with them on. For me, I might find some of the
extras interesting but not bother with others. I would probably only
watch the extras once, whereas I would watch the episodes again.
Some other discs have had problems where the audio or video on one set
is inferior to the other set, and this is more important than the
extras, so that was another reason to ask whether one set was better
than another.
From what I can see, the r1 doesn't have extras and the UK r2 and
Australian r4 have very similar extras. The r4 probably has more but
the huge price before import duties makes it unattractive to me. So I
will buy the UK set. If I fall in love with the series, perhaps I will
pay the extra for the r4 set.
Sadly someone at Amazon must have been reading this because the one
set has jumped from 27 to 37 gbp.
