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To all Universal vintage series addicts,
I finally received my season 1 set of "Banacek" which fortunately contained Closed Captions and featured a Photo Gallery and a TV Guide Crossword Puzzle (don't laugh!). The pilot "Detour to Nowhere" is not part of this set. The director of marketing from Hart Sharp Video told me that the pilot will be included in the fourthcoming season 2 set: what a relief, folks!
Read his feedback:
"Yes we are definitely releasing the Pilot of this show in our Season Two release later this year. It took a while for us to clear the rights to release it but we have finally done so.
Marylou Bono
Director of Marketing"
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When are we going to get The Paper Chase from Fox (especially the first season, which is the only one that really matters)?
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To all Universal vintage series addicts,
I finally received my season 1 set of "Banacek" which fortunately contained Closed Captions and..
I must correct the Closed Captions statement: only the jacket mention them. The DVDs have no CC.
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It’s really a damn shame that Hart Sharp Video has released cropped copies of BANACEK – too many cuts (quick fades to black) that remove the density of an episode and turn it into a simplified story. When Universal released KOLCHAK, THE NIGHT STALKER, they included a cut version of “The Vampire” in the set (sic!). Score-wise, “Project Phoenix” (BANACEK episode #2) had decent music by Jack Elliott and Allyn Ferguson. From its third episode, Banacek has a renewed version of the main theme with wah-wah guitar.
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The fifth episode (“To Steal a King”) has another renewed theme with an electronic leaning. The sixth episode (“Ten Thousand Dollars a Page”) contains an additional main theme with a low key classical music oriention.
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Find here the artwork for BANACEK's season 2 on DVD:
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One week ago, I received my season 2 set of "Banacek".
Unlike what it is stated in the cover, the DVDs don't feature any closed captions.
Hopefully, the pilot ("Detour to Nowhere") is intact and uncut and Billy Goldenberg's score is marvelous and as good as any "Columbo" ones.
Find the list of scores by composer:
1. Billy Goldenberg ("No Stone Unturned")
2. Luchi De Jesus ("If Max is so smart, Why doesn't He tell us Where he is?")
3. Dick de Benedictis ("The Three Million Dollar Piracy")
4. Dick de Benedictis ("The Vanishing Chalice")
5. Elliot Kaplan ("Horse of a Slightly Different Color")
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The pilot seemed intact to me.
I liked how in S2 they went to the better credit graphics of the kind you saw on other Universal shows like "Columbo", "Night Gallery" etc.
Now if only Universal would license out some of their *abandoned* titles from the same era to these labels!
What is strange is that the female ensurance investigator is part of the pilot then return from season 2.
"Detour to Nowhere" is a good pilot with good film-making.
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I'd like to report flaws in the second season of "Banacek" DVD set: the case indicates closed-captions" but there are not included and the episode entitled "Rocket to Oblivion" features an extra chapter 2 located at chapter 6.
Besides, the prints are cropped by twenty minutes so the official 92 minutes episode lasts 72 minutes.
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