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UFO on Blu-ray Disc in the UK

last updated November 12, 2016

In the UK, Network Distributing will release UFO on Blu-ray disc on November 14, 2016.

Release details:

• Manufacturer: Network Distributing
• Release date: November 14, 2016 (first batch sold out during pre-orders, next batch expected mid December)
• Blu-ray Zone B
• All 26 episodes of UFO on 6 Blu-ray discs
• High-definition 1080p video (frames per second unknown)
• Original 4:3 aspect ratio (with black bars on the sides)
• Older (~2006) film scan, mostly from the original 35mm film negatives
• New video restoration work exclusive to this release
• Audio tracks: English mono and English 5.1
• English subtitles
• Initial release comes with a 620 page book, written by Andrew Pixley
• Initial release comes with a poster when purchased directly from Network. This is a 2-sided poster based on the 1970 Anglo UFO trading cards.
• Special features:
  • Film material, including textless episode title backgrounds, textless end titles, stock footage, TV spots, extra footage for Identified and Exposed, unused footage from Timelash and The Long Sleep, Italian trailers
  • "From Earth to the Moon": brand new feature-length documentary with interviews, archive video, audio and stills - many of which have never been seen or heard before.
  • "The Women of UFO": new documentary discussing the improving sexual equality depicted in the series and the role of science fiction in striving for that change
  • "Identified: SHADO New Recruits Briefing": a newly created SHADO briefing film narrated by Matt Zimmerman
  • Audio commentaries: Identified with Gerry Anderson and Sub-Smash with Ed Bishop
  • S.I.D. Computer Voice Session and audio outtakes for these sessions and Kill Straker!
  • Archive Ed Bishop audio interview from 1986
  • "Tomorrow Today": Future Fashions with Sylvia Anderson
  • Extensive image galleries including previously unseen images
    

External Links

Network has posted some screenshots from this release here. My first impression of these is that these are brighter and less grainy than the previous Japanese and German Blu-ray releases.

Network has posted a few promotional videos on YouTube:

• Lt. Ellis in IDENTIFIED
• Computers in SHADO HQ (animated)
• Humorous clip based on the episode CLOSE UP
• USA television commercial for UFO from 1972
  

This set can be purchased online from several sources:

• Amazon.co.uk (£69.99 at time of release, pre-orders were as low as £62.99)
• HMV (£69.99 at time of release, pre-orders were as low as £62.99)
• Network (initial orders include exclusive poster) (£75 at time of release, high international shipping costs)
• Offical Gerry Anderson (includes 6 exclusive postcards) (£89.99 at time of release)

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