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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This review is going to be short and sweet because with the amount of inventivness and creativity in the show it is impossible to choose the some of the best reasons to buy it. To Summarise the show i would say that it is a darkly humoured Postman Pat for people of all ages.
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This is a bargain product, given how so many kids show's between the 70's and 90's appeared and disappeared from the radar - the majority having very short lifespans. Charlie Chalk at just 13 episodes is one such example, but it was regularly aired on BBC throughout the late 80's and early 90's, mostly Saturday mornings. As such, the family has fond memories of this original cartoon series.
In retrospective, the whole concept is utterly crackers, but I guess that is where the charm goes from. A lot of kids programs these days don't think 'out of the box' per-se, whereas it was more than often the standard way of making animations back in the day.
Contrary to what a previous reviewer stated, the series is not shown in the original 4:3, but rather full screen Pan and Scan. Not a big deal - would have been nice to have seen them in their original square ratio, but you don't lose much information from the top and bottom of the picture. They also appear to be direct transfers in their grainy/spotty glory!
Definitely worth a purchase at this price.
In retrospective, the whole concept is utterly crackers, but I guess that is where the charm goes from. A lot of kids programs these days don't think 'out of the box' per-se, whereas it was more than often the standard way of making animations back in the day.
Contrary to what a previous reviewer stated, the series is not shown in the original 4:3, but rather full screen Pan and Scan. Not a big deal - would have been nice to have seen them in their original square ratio, but you don't lose much information from the top and bottom of the picture. They also appear to be direct transfers in their grainy/spotty glory!
Definitely worth a purchase at this price.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The full series on DVD for such a low price ? perfect for a bit of nostalgia.
Being a child of the 80's I grew up on a lot of Ivor Wood's progams such as Postman Pat, Bertha and Charlie Chalk. Charlie Chalk is by far the most imaginative of the series they produced (Ivor also had a hand in the Magic Roundabout !) Charlie and the rest of the inhabitants of Merrytwit are all pleasant natured and the series has a humour all it's own. It's also unusal in that Charlie breaks the fourth wall and chats to us in the audience. As the Captain would say, a) buy this dvd and b) watch an episode everytime you have a bad day.
Being a child of the 80's I grew up on a lot of Ivor Wood's progams such as Postman Pat, Bertha and Charlie Chalk. Charlie Chalk is by far the most imaginative of the series they produced (Ivor also had a hand in the Magic Roundabout !) Charlie and the rest of the inhabitants of Merrytwit are all pleasant natured and the series has a humour all it's own. It's also unusal in that Charlie breaks the fourth wall and chats to us in the audience. As the Captain would say, a) buy this dvd and b) watch an episode everytime you have a bad day.
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