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[TheSaint]

Welcome to CBn Mr.Heitland.

[Napoleon Solo]

I would like to reply to this post:
(snip)

I was the one who sent that post. I was wrong to do so. I have sent Mr. H. a more detailed private email to apologize. But I also apologize to him publicly here.

For the past three years UNCLE fandom has been affected by an outside influence, who has managed to pit fans against one another. The details are too complicated (and dreary) to go into here. This era of ill will is only now begining to subside.

I'm not defending what I posted. I wrote an extreme interpretation of events. So, again, I apologize to Mr. Heitland and all those who frequent this forum.

[Turn]

Moving on to more positive notes, any further revelations or thoughts on the DVD set from those who own it?

I ask this as somebody whose sad to say he hasn't delved much into them recently and been more focused on Mission: Impossible, which I hadn't seen any episodes of previously. I look at that expensive boxed set next to the DVD player and think "I need to watch one of those soon."

Then again, when you own the whole thing, you can pick and choose anytime, an option that's nice to have.

[K1Bond007]

Moving on to more positive notes, any further revelations or thoughts on the DVD set from those who own it?

I ask this as somebody whose sad to say he hasn't delved much into them recently and been more focused on Mission: Impossible, which I hadn't seen any episodes of previously. I look at that expensive boxed set next to the DVD player and think "I need to watch one of those soon."

Then again, when you own the whole thing, you can pick and choose anytime, an option that's nice to have.

That and Mission: Impossible > The Man From UNCLE. Just saying. He's making the right choice.

[delfloria]

Warner Bros. has just announced that the UNCLE series boxed set (including extras) will hit retail stores some time in October 2008. Channel D out.

[TheSaint]

Warner Bros. has just announced that the UNCLE series boxed set (including extras) will hit retail stores some time in October 2008. Channel D out.

And at $199 as opposed to $249.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Warner Bros. has just announced that the UNCLE series boxed set (including extras) will hit retail stores some time in October 2008. Channel D out.

And at $199 as opposed to $249.

How does that make those who bought from Time Life feel?

The price of being the first on the block to own the set, I guess.

[delfloria]

I feel just fine! I'm just glad this will open up the series to even more potential fans of this classic.

[Turn]

Warner Bros. has just announced that the UNCLE series boxed set (including extras) will hit retail stores some time in October 2008. Channel D out.

And at $199 as opposed to $249.

How does that make those who bought from Time Life feel?

The price of being the first on the block to own the set, I guess.

I was one of the first to buy it last Christmas and I have no regrets.

With my discount, thanks to fellow CBN UNCLE fan Napoleon Solo offered at his site, my set didn't come to much more than the $199 price when you figure in tax and all that.

I've never had a problem with that aspect of DVDs. I will find the best price if it's something I really want when it comes out and there should be no reason to complain when it later goes down or you find it in a sale bin at a Wal Mart. Same when it comes to updated editions of some films. I often wait until there's a sale someplace and pick them up then. I've gotten several films like that lately.

[TheSaint]

Here's some good news...
Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.

[delfloria]

http://www.veryshortlist.com/home/

Check out this current pop culture site recommending UNCLE to Bond fans who were frustrated with QoS.

Hey, were else are you going to find a spy series that Ian Fleming worked on.

[Jace]

deepdiscount.com has the UNCLE set for $141.44 right now (with their usual free shipping).

[Jace]

I decided to finally take the plunge and pick the set up for even less at Borders with a coupon. I remember this show being less engaging than my UK faves, but it will be fun to re-visit- especially the extra features

[Blofeld's Cat]

Here's some good news...
Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.

And now the box art!

But no "The 15 Years Later Affair" subtitle.

[Blofeld's Cat]

The rear box art reveals a massive amount of extras!

[Napoleon Solo]

http://hmssweblog.wo...d-donner-actor/

[doublenoughtspy]

The rear box art reveals a massive amount of extras!

Wow, a trailer.

That reminds me of how much dept Vaughn goes into about the Uncle reunion movie in his biography: a single sentence.

[delfloria]

"Return of the Man from UNCLE" is NOW available!

[TheSaint]

Any of the UNCLE experts here know why the fight scene in the photo store in the opening of "The Waverly Ring Affair" looks so bad, footage-wise? Just watched the episode on dvd and that sequence looks like crap. Did it always look like that?

[Napoleon Solo]

Any of the UNCLE experts here know why the fight scene in the photo store in the opening of "The Waverly Ring Affair" looks so bad, footage-wise? Just watched the episode on dvd and that sequence looks like crap. Did it always look like that?

I don't know why, but from what I can tell it always looked like crap. All I can think of is something happened to the camera and they didn't have time to reshoot.

Something similar happens in The Four Steps Affair (and the start to the movie The Spy With My Face) where there is clearly a hair in the camera as Solo and the UNCLE agents make their assault on a Thrush outpost.

The director of photography was Fred Koenekamp who was very good (he'd shortly get hired as DOP on movies because of his UNCLE work). But sometimes, when fighting tight TV deadlines (at least at that time), things happen.