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Message: <blockquote data-quote="J. R.&#039;s Piece" data-source="post: 218011" data-attributes="member: 12">Well, with the filmed episodes of The Avengers (Diana Rigg onwards) and with most ITC filmed series, they were shot entirely on 35mm film, so they have rarely been seen at their full technical potential.  They were shot at feature film standard by people who worked on films. Feature film versions were released  of some ITC shows.  With the releases, they are going back to their original film elements, using the original camera negatives.  Shot-by-shot grading, removal of film defects, colour correction, correction of damage, flicker and instability.  So they make available the image’s full exposure contrast range for a far better end result.  I don’t really think that the last 83 episodes of The Avengers should look gritty.  It isn’t that sort of show. And it is from the sixties.In the case of Department S, which was filming at Elstree at the same time as most Tara King episodes, they even found scenes missing from an episode because a car company had objected to a similar name being used and reinstated them.  And the two grittiest ITC shows, unsuitable for under-12s, Man in a Suitcase (starring Richard Bradford) and Gideon’s Way (starring John Gregson and the recently deceased Alexander Davion) look stunning in HD. As do Shirley’s World (starring Shirley MacLaine and John Gregson).  And The Zoo Gang starring John Mills, Brian Keith, Lilli Palmer and Barry Morse. Danger Man, The Saint, The Champions, Strange Report, The Adventures of Robin Hood, H. G. Wells’ Invisible Man, The Baron, Return of The Saint, The Prisoner, The Persuaders!, UFO (also unsuitable for those under 12, like Danger Man and The New Avengers), Space:1999, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (lovely violent and explosive show too...it would be unsuitable for under twelves, had it not been a puppet show) all look fantastic. And even more visually involving.  Adding to the nostalgia, not detracting from it.  Okay, there are moments when you are watching Tony Curtis in A Chain of Events, when you can see that in some sequences, the prop suitcase  he is chained to looks different from scene to scene.  And Randall and Hopkirk Deceased, which stars a dead detective has been given a new lease of his afterlife. Admittedly, Thunderbirds is a bit iffy, because they changed it from. 4:3 to 16:9 and chopped off bits of the picture, which is a hanging offence.  Dastards. Oh, I didn’t mention Space:1999 on blu-ray.  But then I never do.</blockquote>

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