Hancocks Half Hour DVD Volume 4

[Noele Gordon]

Would you believe it? The episodes included on this release appear to be direct from the existing masters rather than having tacky 1986 opening and closing sequences tacked on. Admittedly they don't appear to have been at all cleaned up but it's one hell of a lot better than volumes two and three. Maybe 2Entertain are listening??? (Hmmmmm...)

No sign of the Face to Face which would have been a splendid extra nor the only episode of "Hancock"- "Son and Heir" which means this is the only episode not released. What's the betting a £50 box set is on the cards!

[Greg H]

Oh grief........... I wish I had thought of that old scam before I shelled out this weekend. Bugger!

[Ted Rogers]

"Admittedly they don't appear to have been at all cleaned up"

They certainly have - and they've probably never looked better... Shame about them all having been zoomed in, though - which is a shame... But I'm happy with this volume... Also nice, to see the small edits made to the original VHS releases, now intact...

[Mike S]

Zoomed in?

[Ted Rogers]

Mike said:

Zoomed in?

Indeed! As some of these (if not all, of this particular volume) where telerecorded, and some had the edge of the TV screen showing (only viewable though, on certain monitor/TVs), they've been zoomed in... I.e., they have a certain amount of picture missing, now, from all peripheries of the screen... I have other various other copies of these show, and they’re not zoomed... This seems fairly common practise, now, as far as I can tell...