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  • Graeme Edgeler,

    It took a while, but how great is it that we're getting a whole lot of NZ television on DVD?

    Maybe it started to pick up with bro'Town (I suspect Back of the Y - the Two DVDs was first), but just about everything seems to be coming out on dvd now - both Insiders' Guide__s, __Outrageous Fortune, family TV like Maddigan's Quest (with special features!), and The Lost Children (I wonder if the Maaori spoken now has a subtitle option?), even Let's Get Inventin'.

    Doco's like Simon Dallow's schedule-challenged What Lies Beneath?, Jim Hickey's A Flying Visit, The New Zealand Wars (should watch that at some stage) and a whole bunch of other rather random stuff too, even a fledgling TV3's The Billy T. James Show!

    If only they could clean up stuff from the archive ... maybe they will to ready some for digital TV?

    Wellington, New Zealand • Since Nov 2006 • 3215 posts Report

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  • Rob Stowell,

    The New Zealand Wars is a great series- if only for Belich's shear arm-waving David-Bellamy-style enthusiasm for the subject- and you've been able to pick it up in bargain-bins at the Warehouse for a couple of years. Certainly worth buying- but not if it means people stop reading the book!

    Whakaraupo • Since Nov 2006 • 2120 posts Report

  • Mike C,

    I'd love to see Pulp Sport on DVD

    Christchurch NZ • Since Nov 2006 • 2 posts Report

  • Paul Capewell,

    The more the better. Good shout on Pulp Sport, and I definitely need some Back of the Y action.

    God knows what else...

    Manchester • Since Nov 2006 • 62 posts Report

  • Jeremy Andrew,

    I have the first season of The Billy T James Show (the sitcom, not the variety show) on DVD (it was a gift). Its an interesting slice of history - Tom Scott & AK Grant on the scripts, slipping in some topical stuff & people who I now barely remember (Russell Rooster?).
    Of course its no Melody Rules, but there's a definite cringe factor there - I know Illona Rogers has a big theatre background, but couldn't the director rein in her vocal projection just a bit?

    Hamiltron - City of the F… • Since Nov 2006 • 900 posts Report

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