Prisoner - Cell Block H: The Complete Collection (179 Disc Box Set)
Coming Soon! Pre-Order Now - Available Monday, 23 July 2007
$AU1599.83
Prisoner Cell Block H ran for 8 years from 1979 - 1986 across 692 episodes. "The Complete Collection" brings together all 692 episodes on 179 DVDs with a special commemorative book, commissioned for the project all packaged together in a collectible and unique box that every Prisoner fan will want to own.
Crazy size for one set. But considering the number of discs the price isn't bad at all, and those who "need" to have this will have enough to watch and can probably cut down on DVD purchases for the next year or so.
Wow, if something like this can be released, it stands to reason that Disney could very well do a Mickey Mouse Club: Complete Series or a Disneyland/Walt Disney Presents/Wonderful World of Color/Wonderful World of Disney mammoth set. Of course, they won't. And I'm sure there are more cost-effective ways of releasing those other properties. Still, it's impressive to see a soap opera like this get released in such a fashion. Though the person who can go through that entire set multiple times is superhuman!
Are/have the seasons being/been made available individually too? Edit: Wikipedia answered my question. I guess there are 16-episode sets being released as well.
Luke wrote: Still, it's impressive to see a soap opera like this get released in such a fashion.
I just wish my soaps would get released like that. I mean, I'm forever grateful that Dark Shadows is on DVD (40-episode compilations, 26 volumes starting with when Barnabas arrives), but I still want some vintage All My Children and General Hospital!
Still, I know a fellow soap watcher on another board who'd kill for this set!
Escapay
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My word, I knew Prisoner Cell Block H went on for a while, but never realised there were 692 episodes! With each one being and hour long, you'd need to watch about 2 episodes a day for a year to get through that beast!
Imagine watching the whole thing only to get to the last disc and find it was faulty and either the store would not replace it since it had been a year since you bought it, or that you had to replace the entire set!
Escapay I wouldn't mind seeing some vintage Soap Operas make their way to DVD either, but I would rather it be The Young and the Restless. Can you imagine how big those box sets would be? Roughly 250 hour-long episodes per year multiplied by 33 years (for Y&R)... that's a LOT of DVDs!!
Prisoner was a long-running Aussie TV series which was alternatively controversial, the butt of a joke (women's prisons...) and endlessly re-run.
I can't imagine any Australians forking out that much, let alone anybody else! However, I do understand it had a big following overseas, especially the UK.
Wow...as much as I hate the show, I'm glad Australia has something to add to it's tourism advertisements. "Come to Australia, we now have DVD's"
So now we have one more thing to add to our 'largest' list.
Largest DVD Box Set
Largest Rock
Largest Pineapple
Largest Banana...I know what you're thinking, so stop smirking
Largest Guitar
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Josh wrote:Largest DVD Box Set
Largest Rock
Largest Pineapple
Largest Banana...I know what you're thinking, so stop smirking
Largest Guitar
Largest Surfboard
He's not joking. Queensland is littered with giant highway monuments.
The Big Banana and the Big Pineapple are fond memories from my childhood...
Wow, weren't they releasing them by season? I really think that this is going to blow up in their faces, there is absolutely no Australian that I know of that would pay thousands of dollars for a soap that hasn't been on the air in decades, and wasn't terribly good either, from what I've heard. Not to mention how large the set wood be, you'd need a whole shelf for it. They won't sell much with this. They should just put out a best of, with that chick burning the prisoner or something. This just won't sell.
-James
"Hip hop frightens you, doesn't it....Hmmm...Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate. Hate leads to endlessly posting threads about stupid white people. Hmmmmm....."
Josh wrote:Largest DVD Box Set
Largest Rock
Largest Pineapple
Largest Banana...I know what you're thinking, so stop smirking
Largest Guitar
Largest Surfboard
He's not joking. Queensland is littered with giant highway monuments.
The Big Banana and the Big Pineapple are fond memories from my childhood...
