Monday, August 27, 2007

DANGERMOUSE-THE COMPLETE SERIES TV DVD REVIEW


A blurb from A & E Home Video about “Dangermouse: The Complete Series” Dangermouse is the smallest secret agent in the world, not to mention the funniest. Now, from the famed animation studios of Cosgrove Hall Productions (Count Duckula, The Wind and the Willows) all ten seasons of his groundbreaking, sidesplitting, globetrotting cartoon adventures are available in a single box set.

Cor! Crickey! The complete Dangermouse collection has finally arrived! Dangermouse is a delightful romp into the life of the smallest Secret Agent, Dangermouse and his animated assistant, Penfold. Together, they fight villains such as Baron Silas Greenback, who he fights in most episodes and a slew of other villains. Dangermouse actually started out as a comic strip that ran in Look-In magazine in England and was syndicated in other magazines. The animated show started in 1981. The show ran for a total of 10 seasons until 1992. Dangermouse was also the first British cartoon to break into the American TV market. It started her in the States in 1984 on Nick at Nite and still has a following to this day. Even the Simpsons pay homage to Dangermouse in an episode calling him DangerDog! Cosgrove-Hall Animation went on to produce Count Duckula, Bananaman, and 2 episodes for the Doctor Who classic story “The Invasion” for DVD. This set also includes The Unaired Pilot to Dangermouse, Sing along Karaoke to the theme song, character biographies and 2 episodes of “Count Duckula”.

VIDEO

The video quality is quite good! Some episodes are somewhat grainy but overall, very good.


Audio

Was originally recorded in Mono. It is also Mono on this set.

Disc 1- 1. “Rogue Robots”
2. “Who Stole the Bagpipes?”
3. “Trouble with Ghosts”
4. “Chicken Run”
5. “The Martian Misfit”
6. “The Dream Machine”
7. “Lord of the Bungle”
8. “Die Laughing”
9. “The World Of Machines”
10. “Ice Station Camel”
11. “A Plague of Pyramids”

Disc 2- 12. “Custard”
13. “Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind”
14. “The Duel”
15. “The Day Of The Suds”
16. “The Bad Luck Eye of the Little Yellow God”
17. “The Four Tasks Of Dangermouse”

Disc 3- 18. “The Invasion Of Colonel K”
19. “Dangermouse Saves the World…Again”
20. “The Odd Ball Runaround”
21. “The Strange Case of the Ghost Bus”
22. “The Trip To America”
23. “The Wild, Wild Goose Chase”
24. “The Return Of Count Duckula”
25. “Demons Aren’t Dull”

Disc 4-26. “150 Million Years Lost”
27. “Planet Of The Cats”
28. “Four Heads Are Better Than Two”
29. “Tower Of Terror”
30. “The Great Bone Idol”
31. “Public Enemy No. 1”


Disc 5- 32. “The Long Lost Crown Affair”
33. “By George, It’s a Dragon”
34. “Tiptoe Through the Penfolds”
35. “Project Moon”
36. “The Next Ice Age Begins At Midnight”
37. “The Aliens Are Coming”
38. “Remote Control Chaos”
39. “The Man From Gadget”
40. “Tampering With Time Tickles”
41. “Nero Power”
42. “Once Upon A Timeslip”
43. “Viva Dangermouse”
44. “Play It Again, Wolfgang”
45. “Hear, Hear”
46. “Multiplication Fable”
47. “The Spy Who Stayed In With A Cold”
48. “Its All White, White Wonder”
49. “The Hickory, Dickory Dock Dilemma”
50. “What A 3 Point Turn up for the Book”
51. “Quark, Quark”

Disc 6- 52. “Alping Is Snow Easy Matter”
53. “AAAGGHG!! Spiders!”
54. “One of Our Stately Homes Is Missing”
55. “Afternoon Off With the Fangboner!”
56. “Beware Of Mexicans Delivering Milk”
57. “Catastrophe”
58. “The Good, The Bad and the Motionless”
59. “Statues”
60. “The Clock Strikes Back”
61. “EE-Tea!”
62. “Bandits, Beans and Ballyhoo!”
63. “Have You Fled From And Good Books Lately?”
64. “Tut, Tut, Its Not Pharaoh”
65. “Lost, Found and Spellbound”
66. “Penfold BF”
67. “Mechanized Mayhem”
68. “Journey To The Earth’s Cor!”

Disc 7- 69. “Dangermouse on the Orient Express”
70. “The Ultra Secret Secret”
71. “Duckula Meets Frankenstoat”
72. “Where There’s a Well, There’s Away”
73. “All Fall Down”
74. “Turn Of The Tide”
75. “Gremlin Alert”
76. “Cor! What A Picture”

Disc 8- 77. “I Spy With My Little Eye…”
78. “Bigfoot Falls”
79. “The Statue Of Liberty Caper”
80. “Penfold Transformed”
81. “A Dune With A View”
82. “Don Coyote & Sancha Penfold”

Disc 9- 83. “Crumhorn Strikes Back”
84. “Ants, Trees And…Whoops A Daisy!”
85. “There’s A Penfold In My Suit”
86. “Rhyme And Punishment”
87. “Pillow Fright”
88. “Heavy Duty”
89. “The Intergalactic 147”

Extras

Disc 1- Unaired Pilot-“Mystery Of The Lost Chord” (15:04)
Character Biographies-Text Only

Disc 2- None


Disc 3- Theme Song From Dangermouse Karaoke (0:19)
Character Biographies-Text Only

Disc 4- None

Disc 5- None

Disc 6- Count Duckula Episode-One Stormy Night” (23:25)
Theme Song from Dangermouse Karaoke (0:19)
Character Biographies-Text Only

Disc 7- None

Disc 8- None

Disc 9- Count Duckula Episode-Town Hall Terrors (23:12)
Theme Song From Dangermouse Karaoke (0:19)
Character Biographies-Text Only


Verdict

A fantastic set! If you have not gotten this set, get it!


Rating; *****!

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