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Dom Robinson reviews
Happy and Healthy
Columbia TriStar
- Cert:
- Cat.no: CDRP 961
- Running time: 72 minutes
- Year: 1998
- Pressing: 2001
- Region(s): 2, PAL
- Chapters: 3 plus extras
- Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
- Languages: English
- Subtitles: None
- Fullscreen: 4:3
- 16:9-Enhanced: Yes
- Macrovision: Yes
- Disc Format: DVD 5
- Price: £19.99
- Extras: 2 Sing-a-long songs, Trailers
Bear in the Big Blue Houseis a programme for children that teaches children the general things in lifewhile appearing colourful and throwing in songs and dialogue between charactersthat wouldn’t necessarily get together in real life.
The theme for this DVD is “Happy and Healthy” and contains three episodesfrom the series: “Picture of Health”, “That Healing Feeling” and“The Big Blue House Call”, in which Doc Hog comes round to give thebear and his friends a check-up. I can’t remember the last time a real doctormade housecalls for such things…
But I digress. Children will no doubt enjoy this DVD, but with just threeepisodes, scant extras and a £19.99 price tag, it’s not the greatestvalue package around.
Doc Hog (centre) pays a visit to check everyone out.The picture is of reasonable quality, having though been an obvious conversionfrom NTSC to PAL. Shot in 4:3 fullscreen, the print is free of artifacts, butthen so it should be as it’s a very recent programme.
As for the sound, it’s plain Dolby Surround and is fine with the songs takingcentre stage most of the time. But then you didn’t expect a DD5.1 remix fora kids DVD.
The plain extras are 2 Sing-a-long songs, both with words on the bottomof the screen to follow allong and Trailers for The Hoobs, Elmo inGrouchland andStuart Little.
There are no chapters as such, or rather effectively one per episode.Subtitles are noticeable by their absence and the menus are static and silentwith animated and scored parts between them.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.