Series 5 Blu-ray UK/German release (June 2015)

peabody · Post by **peabody** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:23 pm

MikeR wrote:
peabody wrote:Hello, it's me again. Just watched "Who's Who???". What a terrific episode that one is! Thanks to the higher resolution I was able to see the label of the record Lola and Basil are dancing to in Steed's apartment. It says Mantovani and the date "7-11-57". Mantovani is hardly the kind of stuff you put on if you want to dance!

There's also "BRITISH" and "CORP Ltd.", plus stuff that seems to have been crossed out with a black felt pen. I couldn't figure out the rest of the text, but the record itself seems to be one of those 16 inch transcription discs, often used by radio back in those days.

Back to the viewing!
This could be a disc of library music belonging to the Associated British Picture Corporation, who owned both Elstree Studios where the filmed episodes of The Avengers were made and ABC Television.

Thanks for the info, Michael. I tried to google this but couldn't find a matching label design. Or any label at all actually.

Post by **dissolute** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:26 am

Hmm, I can see it's a Mantovani collection with a hand-filled label, so almost certainly a studio special.

The other LPs on view in the episode are:

Africa Speaks, America Answers - Guy Warren with the Red Saunders Orchestra (1956)
http://www.discogs.com/Guy-Warren-with- ... se/4250621

Ballads for Night People - June Christy (1959)
http://www.discogs.com/June-Christy-Bal ... se/3819124

Hardly the most recent swinging Sixties hits!

peabody · Post by **peabody** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:57 pm

That Guy Warren LP is actually a real party album.

Check out this song from it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_rzjzaIfM

I can imagine Basil and Lola (or Steed and Mrs Peel) dance to it!

Post by **dissolute** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:41 am

peabody wrote:That Guy Warren LP is actually a real party album.

Check out this song from it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_rzjzaIfM

I can imagine Basil and Lola (or Steed and Mrs Peel) dance to it!

"Ah, you'll not trick me into an opinion"

I only said they weren't the most recent swinging Sixties hits, not that they weren't a cool groove.

ikbtops · Post by **ikbtops** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:07 pm

I have been having problems getting the discs to play consistently. Has anyone else experienced problems with loading or skipping? My other region B blu rays are fine on my player. I'm just trying to figure if the problem is my player or the discs.

peabody · Post by **peabody** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 11:41 am

No problems on my Oppo player. Is your player updated with the latest software?

ikbtops · Post by **ikbtops** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:22 pm

It's a crappy Orei bdp M-2. It hasn't had an update since 3/14. I figured it was probably the player as I hadn't heard of any problems. I'll see if I can update it, or more than likely buy a new multi region player.

mariocki · Post by **mariocki** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:57 am

This is currently £51:44 at Amazon UK but for today only entering the code BIGTHANKS at the checkout gets you £10 off, making it £41:44 delivered in the UK.

norw27 · Post by **norw27** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 8:31 am

mariocki
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:57 am Post subject:
This is currently £51:44 at Amazon UK but for today only entering the code BIGTHANKS at the checkout gets you £10 off, making it £41:44 delivered in the UK.

I managed to pick this up at that price earlier in the week, received the set yesterday and my is it worth it! Have never seen them looking so good!

avenger54 · Post by **avenger54** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:06 pm

Anyone noticed slight synchronisation problems on the episode Mission: Highly Improbable on the UK BD release? Or is it just me? Picture quality was rather disappointing for a BD too, I think.