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Tomorrow People Series 2 Boxset aka Tomorrow People The Series 2 - The Blue And
The Green/A Rift In Time/The Doomsday Men pub: DVD:
Fremantle/Revelation PAR 61167. 345 minutes. Price: £34.99 (UK). stars:
Elizabeth Adare, Nicholas Young, Peter Vaughn-Clarke and Philip Gilbert with Chris
Chittel, Richard Speight, Brian Stanion, Stanley Lebor, William Relton and Lee
Wan check out website: www.revfilms.com
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I commented a couple months back, as with Series 1, on these stories when they
were first released on video and now the nice people at Revelation have given
me an opportunity to look at the DVD version.
You should be able to link
into the story reviews elsewhere on the website, which will allow me to spend
time here on the extras, the most important being that of the audio commentaries
given by Nick Young, Peter Vaughn-Clark and for one episode, Philip Gilbert and
the rest with Elizabeth Adare (a surname I've now learnt to pronounce as 'A-Dairy'
rather than the phonetic 'A-Dare') even if the box credits say otherwise. 
Again,
it would have been nice to have had a few photographs of them together as they
are today taken at these sessions for posterity but that's something we'll have
to live without. Liz Adare's voice is still as lilting as it was nearly 30 years
ago and added to the boys, she has been insightful as them as to what it was like
to have been filmed and has an equally wicked sense of humour. Nick
Young shows some insight into the technical aspects of the show even if he can't
tell Skylab from Mir when it comes to space stations. Peter Vaughn-Clarke is still
very much the clown although Young has the drier wit. Saying that, Liz
Adare's quips shows she can be as bad them on occasion. Having heard the commentaries
of the later seasons, I did wonder if she might take offence at some of the innuendo
but based on this, it's pretty obvious that they treat each other as very much
old friends even if they haven't seen each other in years. Other extras
are the usual biographies and photo-files. With the transition from video to DVD
likely to really stick in the next couple years, you're more likely to pick up
this set rather than the video version. If you're a fan of 'The Tomorrow People'
and want to re-live your youth or show your children what you used to enjoy, then
you should be picking this up and adding it to your collection.
GF
Willmetts
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