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A tongue-in-cheek stop-animation series starring mild-mannered private investigator Dick Spanner, the creation of Terry Adlam and Gerry Anderson. Originally screened on television as part of the series Network Seven, this DVD features Dick Spanner in two investigations, complete with lots of sight gags, wisecracks and satire throughout. Dick Spanner is voiced by Shane Rimmer, who was previously the voice of Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds. As a bonus there are interviews with Gerry Anderson at the end of each serial and a new video to go with the theme song.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Dick Spanner = Awesome
This DVD = Abysmal
Dick Spanner has always been a favourite of mine; the show is brilliant in every aspect. However this DVD release is just a mess. Like another reviewer mentioned the audio has been re-done, so half the sound effects are completely changed from what they originally were, and in some case are taken out completely and in the process completely ruining some jokes in the feature. The music is poor too because one of the things that stuck in my head most about Dick Spanner for all these years was the catchy, addictive theme music used throughout, now its totally gone and replaced by jazz music.
The transfer quality from whatever master tapes they used to make this DVD is really bad too, you can see the scan lines from the VHS it came from and at times they slow the animation right down so the audio can catch up with it. It looks horrible.
The extras are a joke too, a music video from a nobody band featuring Dick Spanner in a song that has no relevance to Dick Spanner whatsoever. It's so pointless. And the Gerry Anderson interview is plagued by a strange blue border because the quality of the video it was filmed on was so bad they made the screen smaller so the resolution didn't look so bad. So we're left with 40% of the screen a blue box. It's very poor.
All in all this DVD is god awful, I would give Dick Spanner (the actual show) 5 stars because it really is that good, but this DVD would get 0 stars. I'm only giving it 3 stars because of what's left of this butchered edit of the show.
I would recommend any fans of Dick Spanner to avoid this like the plague and get yourself one of the versions floating around eBay instead; it's a perfect representation of the original. I'm so disappointed in this.
This DVD = Abysmal
Dick Spanner has always been a favourite of mine; the show is brilliant in every aspect. However this DVD release is just a mess. Like another reviewer mentioned the audio has been re-done, so half the sound effects are completely changed from what they originally were, and in some case are taken out completely and in the process completely ruining some jokes in the feature. The music is poor too because one of the things that stuck in my head most about Dick Spanner for all these years was the catchy, addictive theme music used throughout, now its totally gone and replaced by jazz music.
The transfer quality from whatever master tapes they used to make this DVD is really bad too, you can see the scan lines from the VHS it came from and at times they slow the animation right down so the audio can catch up with it. It looks horrible.
The extras are a joke too, a music video from a nobody band featuring Dick Spanner in a song that has no relevance to Dick Spanner whatsoever. It's so pointless. And the Gerry Anderson interview is plagued by a strange blue border because the quality of the video it was filmed on was so bad they made the screen smaller so the resolution didn't look so bad. So we're left with 40% of the screen a blue box. It's very poor.
All in all this DVD is god awful, I would give Dick Spanner (the actual show) 5 stars because it really is that good, but this DVD would get 0 stars. I'm only giving it 3 stars because of what's left of this butchered edit of the show.
I would recommend any fans of Dick Spanner to avoid this like the plague and get yourself one of the versions floating around eBay instead; it's a perfect representation of the original. I'm so disappointed in this.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
I still have this on VHS from years ago and the quality is superior to this DVD version, large portions of the audio track are missing to the extent where characters are having a conversation or replying to another character but you don't hear both parts of the conversation.
It has been presented on this DVD in episodic format which I believe is similar to how it was when originally aired but sadly I never saw them first time around. The VHS version was presented in a full length movie type format and it flowed much better.
Gone is the original theme tune to be replaced by some awful Jazz track
To sum up, by a VHS player if you don't have one and buy the VHS version of this classic
Had this just been a DVD format of the old VHS version the video quality would have been better, the audio would have been better, more of the jokes would have remained, and this would be a 5 star review
It has been presented on this DVD in episodic format which I believe is similar to how it was when originally aired but sadly I never saw them first time around. The VHS version was presented in a full length movie type format and it flowed much better.
Gone is the original theme tune to be replaced by some awful Jazz track
To sum up, by a VHS player if you don't have one and buy the VHS version of this classic
Had this just been a DVD format of the old VHS version the video quality would have been better, the audio would have been better, more of the jokes would have remained, and this would be a 5 star review
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Hangmaniac's review is absolutely spot-on. This was also one of my absolute favourite shows & the new soundtrack is utterly dreadful, production ill thought-out & extremely shoddy.
Five stars for the original content, zero stars for this release. I can't give it zero, so it gets one star. Just.
Get hold of one of the original VHS, or perhaps the original's on DVD somewhere, but avoid this version.
Five stars for the original content, zero stars for this release. I can't give it zero, so it gets one star. Just.
Get hold of one of the original VHS, or perhaps the original's on DVD somewhere, but avoid this version.
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