I vividly recall watching (and taping) this when it played in the early 80's. While it displays many of the trappings of "made for TV" movies, it packs quite a punch. There are moments in the film that still give me chills 20 years later. Unfortunately one of those moments has been destroyed on this DVD. When a fellow doctor asks the Jason Robards character what he saw, he replies: "...it was high in the air. Like the sun exploding...TWO suns." His colleague appears crushed by the revelation. It's an emotional moment. On the DVD it appears to be just before the layer change. Robards gets half the sentence out when there is a pause in the picture, then another scene… Read more
Being one of the original "Monster Kids", I have been eager for this set. So eager in fact that I bought it @ a "brick and mortar" establishment so I wouldn't have to wait. Here's the bad news. I bought the set, opened it and found one of the discs unattached to its spindle and scratched. I returned it to the store and swapped it out. More bad news. The second set had TWO loose discs (also scratched). I opened the third set in the store and found that it was MISSING one of the discs! I decided to give it one last shot, so customer service allowed me to open a fourth set. You guessed it: two more loose and scratched discs! Universal apparently has some serious quality… Read more
If you are even mildly considering buying this set...BUY IT! The transfers are amazing. I wish everything this old could look this good (including me!). I was a big fan of the Secret Agent series when I was a kid. In the early 80's I was teaching in London, and to my delight they began airing these original Danger Man episodes as a late night filler. Having the set in such pristine form is a real joy. And this just about rounds out my McGoohan collection (all I need now is The Scarecrow!).
