From the VHS era: the first of what turned out to be a long run (including a few rather stylish boxsets and store exclusives) of THE AVENGERS tapes. Lumiere went the extra mile with these releases by pairing strong episodes (initially from the Rigg era... one b&w and one colour), adding sleave notes and making the prints look as good as possible.
I'd seen - and enjoyed - the show back in the 1980s when CHANNEL FOUR had rerun it on a Sunday night but these tapes were the first chance I'd have to see it as an 'adult'. And I really enjoyed it. It soon became part of my (super expensive) tape-buying routine along with the other current or 'classic' releases of the era. The economics of it all seem madness now... I wish i had found a cheaper hobby.
you could probably get an entire season on dvd now for what ONE of those tapes cost.
ReplyDeleteIt was mainly the ITC shows I bought back then such as UFO, SPACE:1999 and even THE ZOO GANG (!)
although many of those tapes have long since been disposed of, I've still kept the packaging.