Poldark - Series 1 - Part 1 [1975]

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An enjoyable watch but...........2007-08-21

An enjoyable watch but not entirely true to the book. I thought it had aged quite well and Robin Ellis was well cast as Ross Poldark. If you enjoyed the DVD, try the book as well and spot the differences which are quite significant.

Perfect Family Viewing!!!.......2007-03-27

I was really surprised to see that there was only one review for Poldark, so I thought that I had better write one to let everybody know that this is a fantastic series.

My family remember watching this the first time round in the 1970s. And they loved watching it again. I'm not old enough to remember this first time round but it has become a firm favourite with me too.

It's all about a man called Poldark who returns to 18th century Cornwall to discover the love of his life has married someone else and his house and tin mines are gone to ruin. People are against him, they try and betray him, and then he meets another woman who ... but look, I don't want to spoil this for you. Treat yourself - it's so good!

More than a TV Classic.......2005-11-19

The "Poldark" TV series truly brings the wonderful novels of Winston Graham alive. The evocation of Cornwall in the late eighteenth century is outstanding, a sense of place, time and social interraction woven into a fine plot, set against a stunning coastal background, and made real by magnificent casting. One could not imagine how the immortal characters from the books could have been better cast. Highly recommended to anyone who loves good yarns, Cornwall, or better yet, both.

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Poldark - Series 1 - Part 2 [1975]
Starring: Nicholas Selby , David Garfield (II) , John Blythe , Tilly Tremayne , and Eric Dodson
Director: Roger Jenkins , Christopher Barry (III) , Kenneth Ives , and Philip Dudley
Manufacturer: Playback
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ASIN: B00009P9M7
Release Date: 2003-07-07

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Poldark 2 Playback DVDS Drastically Edited

Poldark - Series 2 - Part 1 [1975]
Starring: Nicholas Selby , David Garfield (II) , John Blythe , Tilly Tremayne , and Eric Dodson
Director: Roger Jenkins , Christopher Barry (III) , Kenneth Ives , and Philip Dudley
Manufacturer: Playback
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0000CERRJ
Release Date: 2003-09-15

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Poldark 2 Playback DVDS Drastically Edited.......2007-08-10

This description page doesn't state how many minutes Series 2 - Part 1 is; well, it's 340 minutes long. Part 2 is, as stated on its page, 325. That is 665 minutes for Poldark 2. My (US ntsc) videos of Series 2 runs 720 minutes long. On the back of these Playback sets it's stated that "for contractual reasons certain edits have been made." In the case of Series 2 they mean they've edited out 55 minutes. I haven't figured out how many minutes are missing (and I'm just talking about the US videos which for all I know are edited from the original broadcast on the bbc) from the Playback Series 1 sets but I think we can expect the same treatment -- basically that about an hour of the series will be missing. I am so sorry I didn't know about the edits when I bought these and that I didn't do any research on length. I made an assumption that getting PAL dvds (we don't have the Poldark series' on dvd on Region 1), made in the UK, I'd be getting at least as much footage as I had on my old videos. I regret I made this purchase and am writing this to warn anyone who has these on video to count minutes and compare and maybe to wait before you move to dvds. I've read that the Australian dvd editions are the most complete but compared to what I'm not sure; even so, it's something to look into. For those who don't have the series' at all it's really sad, scandalous actually, that we would be better off buying the very expensive oop video sets if we don't want to be cheated of a whole hour (it might be more if the comparison were made with the original UK videos for I don't know how many minutes they boasted) than to buy these condensed dvd versions from Playback. It should go without saying my one-star rating is for the subject dvd editions, not the miniseries' themselves, both of which I would rate all the stars in existence.

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