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Got the pink panther box set for christmas,can anyone tell me why The return of the pink panther is not included.....

MGM does not own the rights to "Return", Universal does.

J Mark Oates

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Over This Festive Season Consider The Selfless Service
Of The Fairy Atop Your Christmas Tree -
Spending The Festive Season Uncomplainingly
With A Norwegian Spruce Shoved Up Her Khyber.

Universal released "Return" a few years ago(although it was so poor quality,I feel it maybe licensed to a cheapo label-anyone confirm that?).It was actually an ITC production,so it should actually belong to Carlton.As the disc is deleted maybe Carlton have one planned.
The R2 version was a dreadful 4:3 P&S monstrosity,certainly not worth the rip off prices its going for on ebay.You can get a R1 version,in widescreen for about £10.99

The Universal R2 was released by Universal UK, formerly Polygram, apparently a completely different outfit to the boys and girls who do the big releases. The RPP disc was a pan and scan port-across from a knackered VHS master. There`s terrible print fading top and bottom of the frame and IIRC, a ghastly green tinge like the film had been processed by one of those street corner one-hour-photo outfits (the ones who change their chemicals every other year).

The R1 print by Artisan is in its original aspect ratio, but non-anamorphic widescreen. The image is better than the R2, but of course at much lower definition.

It`s high time somebody did a proper restoration job, and included the extensive outtakes.

J Mark Oates

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Over This Festive Season Consider The Selfless Service
Of The Fairy Atop Your Christmas Tree -
Spending The Festive Season Uncomplainingly
With A Norwegian Spruce Shoved Up Her Khyber.

I bought this at DVD Pacific a couple of weeks ago for about £3.25 plus postage. The quality is not great but it`s perfectly watchable.
I mean the Return of, not the Boxset!

This item was edited on Saturday, 27th December 2003, 11:43

That explains it.Polygram owned the ITC library until Carlton bought it quite a while ago.Judging from the description above I would say the R2 version is not worth even £3.25,especially as the new set has the others in tip top quality.Get the R1.If you have R2 only player-I have known Artisan to release the odd title with no region coding

Just to confirm, the one I bought from DVD Pacific is the Artisan release in widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio. It says it is "digitally mastered"!

Ive got the boxset but not watched it yet, which one has the "minkey" in it ?

Unfortunetly, I`m pretty sure it`s RETURN.

Wow-£3.25 for the Artisan release IS a bargain.Surely it was a used a copy at that price?