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To add insult to injury, it turns out that this series, while shown in regular
Dolby Surround on TV, was filmed in Dolby Digital 5.1 which is included here
and has its moments, but if I was going to watch this again I'd go back and
view the 16:9 anamorphic version I recorded from SkyDigital, however low the
BBC bitrate is, rather than the hacked-in-half piece here. Oh dear.
While disc one contains episodes 1-4, the second has the last two plus all
the extras starting with a mini-featurette, On Set With Randall & Hopkirk -
a 46-minute tour of the set and featuring interviews with Vic, Bob, Emilia,
Tom plus several of the guest stars and one of the stars from the original
series, Kenneth Cope (Marty Hopkirk), who now plays dim-witted pensioner
Ray in Brookside. This featurette made in 4:3, programme clips from the series are in 14:9.
Randall & Hopkirk (deleted) is 4½ minutes of out-takes from the
series where things did not quite go to plan. These clips are in an even more
bizarre halfway house ratio of 15:9 (1.66:1). Who was in charge here?
Finally we have the Music Video for the theme tune, composed by
David Arnold and sung by Nina Persson from The Cardigans. To add
insult, to insult, to injury, this 4-minute video is the only thing actually
presented in 16:9, albeit non-anamorphic.
There are 11 chapters per episode, so 66 in all, no subtitles, but the main
menus are animated with clips from the show and scored with the theme tune.
Overall, I could have recommended this to fans of the series, given the DD5.1
soundtrack, but not at all since the picture has been so badly butchered. Avoid.
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