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DVD - when?

posted 18 years ago by Modelspiceuk
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Does anyone know when this 1985 adaptation will be out on DVD?

It can be got as part of a set including Martin Chuzzlewit, Hard Times, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations.

Obviously this is a far later reply, and I have in front of me the DVDs of both the 2005 and 1985 BBC versions of Bleak House. The 1985 version seems to have been put on the market to satisfy people like me who wish to compare the two, as it was unavailable by any means when the 2005 version was first shown. Now you can get it from all the usual suspects such as Amazon and Play, etc, for a good price. I make no comment comparing the two yet, as I have not finished the 1985 version and missed it when it was first shown.

[–] phwbooth 16 years ago

There were copyright problems that prevented either a video or DVD version being released in the UK until fairly recently. I tried to find out from BBC Worldwide why this should have been the case, but could get no sense out of them. I guess it was an office blunder.