Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10906 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-04-24
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 8
• Running time: 1300 minutes

Synopsis
The complete collection of all four series of adventures from the Twist family who live in an old haunted lighthouse. Includes fifty two episodes.

Customer Reviews

Excellent series, poor packaging
Round the Twist is arguably the best ever supernatural comedy drama series (especially series 1&2) being in turns funny, moving, and intriguing. A show with a heart about children who care for the environment, for the many lost souls they encounter (ghosts or people and animals) and for their fellow humans (excluding the Gribbles!) As for the UK DVD box set. The good news for those who suffered the indignities of the BBC cutting off the out-take sequences at the end of each episode is that the episodes are complete and uncut, each has its own unique and interesting end sequence. The bad news is that some scenes suffer some compression artefacts due to some scenes having noticable film grain which is hard to compress digitally. Bitrate is about 6Mb/s, but the dual-layer DVDs had room for 7-8Mb/s: they should have used it). Having said that, not many scenes are affected and you probably won't notice them unless you have a TV set with very good definition. The packaging is cheapskate. The "box" set is not a box, more a stiff plastic wrapper which you will have to throw away as it is not usable as a storage box. The 8 DVDs themeselves are packed into 4 poorly designed DVD cases which force you to remove one DVD to access the other. The cover designs are boring, not a patch on the original Australian packaging (I can't understand why they changed it). In summary, this is a brilliant series; the DVDs do the job of bringing it to you at an economical price, but if you want nice packaging etc buy the Australian DVDs instead.