Product: Brideshead Revisited [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 5.0
Worth the purchase
If you think this is the best miniseries ever made, don't hesitate - buy this collector's edition now! I bought mine on Amazon and think it is worth the discounted price. There are 4 DVD's each with their own cover and fitted inside a glossy box. There is a glossy little booklet (not many pages) with some throwaway commentary. There is 1 "making of" documentary in the first DVD which is moderately interesting with TV clips of Evelyn Waugh being interviewed and the cast making the show, fooling around, etc. (I have yet to see any DVD actually have a good "making of" documentary worth watching more than once or having actually any substance). Although the extra features tell you that they meticulously restored the film/tape of the original to make this DVD, resulting in a picture quality that exceeded what the 1981 viewers saw on the telly, I find this hard to believe as the picture quality is not sharp. They probably did clean it up quite a bit, but poor storage over the years must have resulted in pretty grainy quality even after all this restoration work. Too bad. This series really should be on a big cinema screen - a 13 hour screen-a-thon, anybody? (with champagne in the intermissions!)