Gabrielle Drake, Au Pair Girls

Knowing what a state people have got into at the mere thought of Gabrielle
Drake, and knowing that people have got into more than a state at the
thought of Au Pair Girls, I thought I'd let people know that the
aforementioned film is released on DVD shortly. See www.play247.com for
details - http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=96381

Enjoy

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I had heard that Au Pair Girls was coming out on DVD. I have a tape of it
made from when it was shown here in the State on cable but it is a couple of
minutes short of the full 86 minutes of the original running time as relessed
in England.

I also have gotten from a friend in Canada a tape of it as shown on their
BRAVO cable channel. This only has one commerical interuption in it about
halfway through the film. It seems to be a bit long that the other tape
containing for of Richard O' Sullivan's daydream of giving Gabrielle's
character Randi a massage than the other tape but not the whole scene saddly.
Perhaps it will be on the DVD version and perhaps they will put out a VHS
version in NTSC as well as PAL.

Since we are talking about Gabrielle, I would like to mention I just got a
letter from here sent from France two weeks ago. She and her husband are
well and safe which is a relief to me as I was afraid they may have been in
New York when everything happen.

Best wishes to all,
James Killian

[hidden email] wrote:
>
> I had heard that Au Pair Girls was coming out on DVD.

Guess I need to get a multi-regional DVD player...


> Since we are talking about Gabrielle, I would like to mention I just got a
> letter from here sent from France two weeks ago. She and her husband are
> well and safe which is a relief to me as I was afraid they may have been in
> New York when everything happen.
>
That's good to know. My fiance's brother in law's parents and brother
live in NY, only about 2 miles from the disaster site. Thankfully, they
called within an hour of the tragedy and said they were OK, and were
moving in with some friends in New Jersey for a while.

Gene

Modelers on this group, take note:
IMAI has re-issued what I assume to be the BIG UFO Moonbase kit! It is
available from Hobby Link Japan at:
http://www.hlj.com/cgi-local/hljpage.cgi?IMA83221
I have ordered from HLJ numerous times and their service and prices are
the best available.
Enjoy!
Anthony Taylor

At 09:36 AM 9/20/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Modelers on this group, take note:
>IMAI has re-issued what I assume to be the BIG UFO Moonbase kit! It is
>available from Hobby Link Japan at:
>http://www.hlj.com/cgi-local/hljpage.cgi?IMA83221
>I have ordered from HLJ numerous times and their service and prices are
>the best available.
>Enjoy!
>Anthony Taylor


Wow! Thanks for letting us know this, I was thrilled to see that kit for
sale and immediately sent an order out plus an order for the new released
Mobile and Skydiver kits. I'll let you know how long it takes to
arrive. I may have to order another moonbase kit, one to build and one to
stash away!




>
>
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>Knowing what a state people have got into at the mere thought of Gabrielle
>Drake, and knowing that people have got into more than a state at the
>thought of Au Pair Girls, I thought I'd let people know that the
>aforementioned film is released on DVD shortly. See www.play247.com for
>details - http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=96381
>
>Enjoy

They won't let me order it! Because I'm from the USA! How depressing.

--- Phil Merkel wrote:
>
> They won't let me order it! Because I'm from the USA!
> How depressing.

Phil,

try to order it from www.amazon.co.uk . They are a little bit more
expensive but they will sent it to the US also.

Good luck
CU Christian

>--- Phil Merkel wrote:
> >
> > They won't let me order it! Because I'm from the USA!
> > How depressing.
>
> Phil,
>
>try to order it from www.amazon.co.uk . They are a little bit more
>expensive but they will sent it to the US also.

Also Blackstar works -- I get all my UK DVDs from them.

Marc

I went ahead and ordered from Amazon UK as i have ordered a bunch of stuff
from them before, including Babylon 5 books originally only available in
the UK. (The Jane Killick and Andy Lane books btw, I loved them!) So they
have me on file.

I'll have to start ordering from Blackstar though, as I want to start
building up a collection of R2 DVD's since UFO will be released there and
I'm hearing raves about the Captain Scarlet set. If A&E releases UFO as
well I'll probably buy it, especially if it's priced like the Space 1999
disks. Under $20 per six episode set from DeepDiscountDVD.com is
incredable for those and the Thunderbirds disks even if the quality is
below the UK release. I think (And I don't want to start a thread here on
this) that there is something different to like and dislike about each of
these releases but for the consumer (With a region free player) the UK
disks seem to pack more bang for the buck. Still the A&E disks are priced
so well it makes me dizzy thinking about those $100 Laserdisks on EBAY just
a few short years ago!

I also have the feeling that's it's time to jump on these releases. Will
these go out of print like the laserdisks did? Will people be paying
hundred's of dollars for them 10 years down the road? Maybe when my
children start college??? Or is the market and marketing for these
different than the laserdisks were?

Also, I've noticed my mail is starting to return to normal here in New York
so if you ordered or want Spacecon or other Space 1999 convention video
from me I can probably mail them out with confidence now. If interested
follow the directions on the link and don't send any payment until I tell
you your tapes are ready.

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/images/cons/phil/videophil.html

At 09:35 AM 9/23/01 -0700, you wrote:

Speaking of the Anderson DVD releases, as Phil was just now -
anyone got the Captain Scarlet DVDs yet? I notice that they
are "introduced by Captain Blue" - did Ed Bishop record a
special introduction for the DVD release?

James

I took a peek at Phil's Spacecom/Space 1999 and
question popped into my mind which has been bugging
me...I bought the A&E DVDs of Space:1999 and I noticed
that in the title sequence, the scene in which Barry
Morse receives his credit, he bends down and peers
into some clear globe. But on the DVDs, that shot is
completely gone and the credit appears on a planetary
space shot. Why was this changed? Does anyone know?

=====
"I'll give you a dollar if you eat this collie." -- Martin Sheen

At 03:22 PM 9/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I took a peek at Phil's Spacecom/Space 1999 and
>question popped into my mind which has been bugging
>me...I bought the A&E DVDs of Space:1999 and I noticed
>that in the title sequence, the scene in which Barry
>Morse receives his credit, he bends down and peers
>into some clear globe. But on the DVDs, that shot is
>completely gone and the credit appears on a planetary
>space shot. Why was this changed? Does anyone know?


Barry didn't get a picture credit until later in the season of Space
1999. I think it started with the 5th epsiode??? Here is the info from
the brilliant Catacombs of the Moon website
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/pguide/up10.html

"First is the caption "also starring Barry Morse". For the first four
episodes ("Breakaway", "Matter Of Life And Death", "Black Sun" and "Ring
Around The Moon"), this appears over a space scene. The large thin crescent
of the Moon moves into the picture from left, with a smaller world
appearing as a thin crescent beyond. The credit appears top right, and to
the bottom right is a bright red star or nebula. For the remaining episodes
of the series, we see Victor moving into view from left, looking at the out
of focus crystal ball-like transparent instrument sphere in the foreground."

And to pull it a little more OT, was the title sequence of UFO ever changed
over the course of the 26 episodes?

>And to pull it a little more OT, was the title sequence of UFO ever changed
>over the course of the 26 episodes?

No, but they didn't include it in 2 episodes -- CONFETTI CHECK A-OK
and PSYCHOBOMBS... presumably this was done because the episodes ran
long, and they didn't want to cut another minute out of the episode?

--
Marc Martin, [hidden email]

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Gibbon" <[hidden email]>

>
> Speaking of the Anderson DVD releases, as Phil was just now -
> anyone got the Captain Scarlet DVDs yet? I notice that they
> are "introduced by Captain Blue" - did Ed Bishop record a
> special introduction for the DVD release?

On the Japanese issued laser discs, Ed Bishop's voice is used in the
introduction of some of the Captain Scarlet episodes. I don't have the DVDs
yet, but I assume the beginning narrative with Ed's voice is the same as the
DVDs and when the series originally aired.



Ron

"Ron DeMedeiros" wrote:

> On the Japanese issued laser discs, Ed Bishop's voice is used
> in the introduction of some of the Captain Scarlet episodes. I
> don't have the DVDs yet, but I assume the beginning narrative
> with Ed's voice is the same as the DVDs and when the series
> originally aired.
>

Hi Ron,

I remember (now you mention it) that some of the episodes
were introduced by Captain Blue. However the 'introduced by
Captain Blue' text is quite prominent so I wonder if this is
something else?

Well, I should be able to find out tomorrow. I'll let you
know!

James

--- James Gibbon wrote:
>
> Speaking of the Anderson DVD releases, as Phil was just now -
> anyone got the Captain Scarlet DVDs yet? I notice that they
> are "introduced by Captain Blue" - did Ed Bishop record a
> special introduction for the DVD release?

Hi All!

Well, I just received the Scarlet-DVDs (which are very well done IMO)
and on the bonus DVD is not only a 56 minute documentary, there are
also alternative opening credits. Here is some of the writing before
the different credits were shown:

------->
There are four different opening credit sequences. The first (used
only on the episode "The Mysterons") acts as a quick introduction to
events.
The second describes the Mysterons and their unique powers. The third
describes how Captain Scarlet is different from a normal man. The
final introduction has no narration apart from a warning at the end
from Colonel White that Captain Scarlet is indestructible. Ed Bishop,
the voice of Captain Blue, supplied the voice over for the first
three introductions, while the 'warning' introduction was voiced by
Donald Gray.
In Japan, the opening titles were reworked to show action sequences
from the series and this was backed by a group of Japanese children
singing an upbeat song.
<-------

And you have to see that horrible japanese opening title to
believe it :-)

I took a look in the Chris Drake book of Captain Scarlet
and found this about the opening sequences:

-------->
Early versions of this sequence were mainly silent, whilst the
majority featured an introductory voice-over by Ed Bishop.
<--------

Hm. I checked the DVD and my video versions but although I thought
to remember that some of the episodes were without a voice-over I
couldn't find any of these (at least in the first ones). But maybe it
was only the end title which were recorded in two versions, with and
without singing.

Have to check all DVD and video titles but for this is no easy
task I will do it only if someone is really interested :-)

But one's for sure: Ed Bishop didn't the narration just for the
DVD release (except for the documentary).

And sorry, Marc, for being a little bit off topic :-)

CU Christian