Can anyone tell me if the newly released set was released in America? I haven't
been able to find it anywhere. If not is scheduled for release in America Region
1? I hope someone can help me with this!!
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Check out amazon.com - there are some new and used. I didn't even know it was released! I loved this show. Good luck.
shareA&E produced an American release of some of the episodes. The set includes only 15 of the 30 episodes, with very few extras. They never released all the episodes, though the set intimates that they were going to do more.
Amazon.co.uk has the British releases. There are several different ones. One has all the episodes, but no extras, and another has extras as well as a reunion show. Read the descriptions carefully before you go and purchase one.
Warning: British DVDs are Region 2, whereas the US and Canada are region 1. You will need to have a multi-region or region-free DVD player in order to view them. There are some PC programs that will read them, though, and you can alter the region on your PC up to a total of 5 times. After that, you are stuck with whatever the last setting is permanently.
I purchased the A&E version originally, and it was like $60. I purchased the full British version for about $80 American. Just to give you an idea of cost.
I bought the American half series set for 50 bucks in 2004. When they showed no sign of releasing the other half after 2 years, I bought a region free player and then new 2007 British release of the complete set and gave away the American set. Got it for the same 50 roughly, It has been reissued again, but only change is the cover art. Get the British copy, you'll enjoy it. Just make sure you get a region free or multi region player.
A region-free DVD player with good conversion from PAL to NTSC/ATSC broadcast formats opens up whole other worlds of movies and tv shows. Anyone interested in more than plain vanilla American entertainment should own one of these. I have owned such players since 2002, and would not want to own anything else.
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