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On the news the other day they had the blokes who did some of the voiceovers, on the back of the news that they'd dug up 13 missing episodes. There was even a Teletext report on it the same day.
But I went into HMV yesterday and there were already DVDs of the old series, but with an extra episode claiming to be one of the missing 13 episodes on each disc.
So what's the deal? How long have these DVDs been out - it seems strange that it was on the news one day, and in the shops the next? Could they have been dubbed, mixed, produced, manufactured and supplied in under a week? They were in the cheap DVd section too, which suggests they'd been out for a while. Weird.
But I went into HMV yesterday and there were already DVDs of the old series, but with an extra episode claiming to be one of the missing 13 episodes on each disc.
So what's the deal? How long have these DVDs been out - it seems strange that it was on the news one day, and in the shops the next? Could they have been dubbed, mixed, produced, manufactured and supplied in under a week? They were in the cheap DVd section too, which suggests they'd been out for a while. Weird.
The 13 'missing' episodes where never 'lost' as such they were just never redubbed (though they were translated) when the program was originally shown back in the late seventies/early eighties...
When they released the Monkey DVD's they would stick one of the non-dubbed (translated with sub-titles) onto the DVD. Due to the sucess of the recent TV repeats, Channel 4 have paid the originaly cast (at least those still alive) to redub the episodes
While your waiting for the episodes to be translated, why not read 'Monkey', excerpts from Wu Ch'ang-en's original translated by Arthur Waley?
When they released the Monkey DVD's they would stick one of the non-dubbed (translated with sub-titles) onto the DVD. Due to the sucess of the recent TV repeats, Channel 4 have paid the originaly cast (at least those still alive) to redub the episodes
While your waiting for the episodes to be translated, why not read 'Monkey', excerpts from Wu Ch'ang-en's original translated by Arthur Waley?
On the news the other day they had the blokes who did some of the voiceovers, on the back of the news that they'd dug up 13 missing episodes. There was even a Teletext report on it the same day.
But I went into HMV yesterday and there were already DVDs of the old series, but with an extra episode claiming to be one of the missing 13 episodes on each disc.
So what's the deal? How long have these DVDs been out - it seems strange that it was on the news one day, and in the shops the next? Could they have been dubbed, mixed, produced, manufactured and supplied in under a week? They were in the cheap DVd section too, which suggests they'd been out for a while. Weird.
But I went into HMV yesterday and there were already DVDs of the old series, but with an extra episode claiming to be one of the missing 13 episodes on each disc.
So what's the deal? How long have these DVDs been out - it seems strange that it was on the news one day, and in the shops the next? Could they have been dubbed, mixed, produced, manufactured and supplied in under a week? They were in the cheap DVd section too, which suggests they'd been out for a while. Weird.