Days That Shook The World – The Complete Series (BBC DVD Set)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Episodes: B-
When we
first looked at Days That Shook The
World when its Complete First Season/Pilot
set arrived on DVD, I wondered how long the show could last and would it get
better or worse. Turns out the show ran
only three seasons and stayed about the same.
Here is what I said about the first set:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7381/Days+That+Shook+The+World+%E2%
Now comes
The Complete Series set and here is
the expanded list of shows including such diverse subjects as:
P) First In Flight: The Wright
Brothers/The Moon Landing
1) Coronation of Queen Elizabeth
II/Death of Diana
2) Assassination of Archduke
Ferdinand/Death of Hitler
3) Assassination of Martin Luther
King Jr./Release of Nelson Mandela
4) Hiroshima
5) Murder of the Romanovs/Fall of Berlin Wall
6) Kristallnacht/Birth of Israel
7) Tutankhamun’s Tomb/Rosetta
Stone
8) First Nuclear Reactor/Chernobyl
9) Black September/Lockerbie
10) Assassination of
JFK/Resignation of Nixon
11) Marconi’s First Radio
Transmission/Concorde’s First Transatlantic Flight
12) Chuck Yeager & Bluebird
13) Disaster In The Sky: The
Hindenburg & The Challenger
14) The Christmas Truce
15) Attack On Pearl
Harbor
16) Grand Heist: Colonel Blood’s
Theft Of The British Crown/Great Train Robbery
17) Conspiracy Theory: The Real
Day Of The Jackal/Wolf’s Lair
18) Reach For The Stars: Galileo’s
Trial/Yuri Gagarin’s Flight
19) Dinosaurs & Duplicity:
Discovery Of The First Dinosaur/Piltdown Man
20) Terror – Made In America:
Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln/Oklahoma City Bombing
21) Cold War Spies: Gary Powers U2
Spy Plane/Colonel Rudolf Abel
22) Affairs Of The Crown:
Execution Of Anne Boleyn/Abdication Of Edward VIII
23) The Cast Of Betrayal
24) Role Of The Gun
25) Fact or Fiction?
26) The War To End All Wars
27) Let Freedom Ring!
28) Battle
For The Holy City
29) The Battle Of Midway
30) Road To Revolution
Despite
some refinements over each season, the show stayed the same, but I give them
credit for trying to add events that are not discussed as much. A little of the style can go a long way and
this can inadvertently make exciting history dull at times, but you could do
worse and now, you can see for yourself.
Like the
first set, the anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is good and clean, if not
spectacular and has detail limits in what looks like an early HD shoot. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is without
surrounds, but is a more recent recording and fine for such a simple show. There are no extras.
- Nicholas Sheffo
