Dangermouse Vol.2

• Cert:
• Cat.no: PTDVD 8106
• Running time: 109 minutes
• Year: 1980
• Pressing: 2001
• Region(s): 0, PAL
• Chapters: 6 plus extras
• Sound: Mono
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: None
• Fullscreen: 4:3
• 16:9-Enhanced: No
• Macrovision: Yes
• Disc Format: DVD 9
• Price: £9.99
• Extras: Cast Biographies, Hidden Clip

Director:

Brian Cosgrove

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Music:

Voices:

He’s the greatest. He’s fantastic. He’s Dangermouse!

The cult of kids TV arriving on DVD continues with a series I regularly watchedand enjoyed before I hit double figures and which, as featured on one of theI Love the 80s programmes, was admitted it was easy on the animatorsbecause many of the scenes that featured in every episode, such as DM drivingfrom his secret hideout, were copied across each time.

For this second volume, another six episodes are included, each lasting around20 minutes and for the original broadcasts, each one was aired in four parts(oh, how the continuing storyline would get me through yet another unbelievablyshitty week at school from Monday to Thursday; and who cared about Fridayafternoons because the weekend was here!)

Composing myself, the six episodes are: The Invasion of Colonel K, inwhich he is invaded by Greenback and DM is sacked from the Secret Service – howwill the world cope?; Dangermouse Saves the World…Again!, the titletrack, which finds DM conquering the Brain Drain; The Oddball Run-a-Round,where the pair have paradox problems getting to the Secret Rugby Ball in London;the Baron gets out his homing device in The Wild, Wild Goose Chase;then he teams up with DM’s feathered-freak foe for The Return of CountDuckula and, finally, are our heroes doomed in Demons Aren’t Dull ?

Baron Silas Greenback realised it doesn’t pay to advertise.

Like the first disc, it’s in 4:3 fullscreen and the print has some printscratches but nothing you don’t expect and it certainly doesn’t put you off forthose who were big fans. The sound is in mono which comes across clearly enough.

In the extras dept. there’s Cast Biographies for the cartoon charactersand not the voices behind them, plus a hidden clip of DM doing his Tarzancall when trapped in an unfortunate position.

The disc has no subtitles but a neat animated menu with the classic theme tune.If I had one complaint with the DVD it’s that there’s just one chapter perepisode rather than breaking them down into individual parts.

Don’t worry about the overall score. With a disc like this, the price andcontent score are all you should concern yourself with.

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