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Rating:  - Not Close Captioned?!?!?
Gave this to my mother for Christmas as we really enjoyed the series when it aired on PBS in 1980. Seems I remember the series was Close Captioned for the hearing impaired. This DVD set is NOT.
What a sad waste.
Rating:  - Beautiful engaging series, but DVD quality is poor
I was very disappointed in the quality of this series on DVD. The picture was very grainy and the sound was uneven. When you are used to top-quality DVDs with a sharp picture and rich colors, this is quite a letdown, and very distracting.
Rating:  - Beautiful story and cinema
I'm glad to have this copy of Flambards, with all episodes. I've loved the series since I was in my teens. I'm fairly musically sensitive, and the first thing that grabbed my attention back in 1981 was the oddly beautiful score. (Contrary to another review, there's no 1970's disco -- that reviewer must never have heard a real disco record.) The story got me later, and heck if I'm still not crushing on Christina!
The film grain from the original material is visible in the video, which ... Read More
Rating:  - Flambards DVD
Loved it.It's in wonderful condition & was able to enjoy it without any
problems.
Rating: - COULD HAVE BEEN INSPIRATION FOR "COLD COMFORT FARM"
If they had not been written at a later date, to me, the K.M. Peyton novels "The Flambards" could have been a part of what inspired Stella Gibbon in 1932 to write her brilliant and very humorous spoof, "Cold Comfort Farm" which is also about an orphaned girl going to live with some very strange (skuzzy) relatives on a decrepit farm. The heroine of that story eventually restores the farm through her own aggressiveness and resilience. This DVD of the BBC's 1978 adaptation of "The Flambards" is no spoof; ... Read More
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