Man From Atlantis: The Complete Television Series

Bought this four disc set of the complete tv series of Man From Atlantis, fully expecting the very first episode the PILOT of the show to be on the first disc. It's NOT. Why on earth wouldn't the introductory episode of this show not be an essential one to have on the supposed full tv series set. I'm really annoyed and don't feel inclined to bother watching the episodes as I can't remember the pilot story line from so long ago, when this show first aired on television. You need to know the story of this undersea character and how he ends up on land to enjoy the full series. Not happy with this purchase.

The Man from Atlantis first premiered back in 1977 Wether you remember the series on its initial run or just viewing it for the very first time As a curiosity to the latest TV offering Atlantis you will on these four movies find something of real interest .The pilot episode introduces us to The Man from Atlantis played by Patrick Duffy found washed up on a beach and rescued by Dr Elizabeth Merril played by Belinda J Montgomery we soon learn this is no normal human being He his found to have gills given the name Mark Harris and sent to work for the government He is soon sent on a mission to locate missing scientists This is were we get to see Mark swim underwater And were the movie really hits it stride you can still view these scenes today And wonder just how they did that. The underwater scenes with Duffy swimming are really that good The villain of the piece is played by Victor Buno King Tut in Batman. In his underwater lair Buno almost steals the movie in his over the top performance And would return in episodes of The TV series playing the same character. The pilot movie spawned Three other made for TV movies and this is what you get on this collection And for the time these were made They hold up really well Excellent Science fiction plots The chemistry between Duffy & Montgomery just gets better with each movie The Discs themselves Though no extras show real vibrant colours even some of the night underwater scenes really show up clear you can tell they have done some remastering for this DVD release. Man From Atlantis would go on to spawn a 13 episode series before its cancellation But that's another story. Patrick Duffy would go on to star in another little known TV series of the time Dallas The rest as they say is history But just what did happen to Belinda J Montgomery. If you are looking for a bit of TV nostalgia or just another look at what might have been These four movies are just another reminder of TV Science Fictions Golden Age.

I've been waiting a while for this show to be released on DVD, and now it's finally arrived, I'm not disappointed.I expected the quality to be seriously dodgy - poor picture and/or sound - but that's not the case. There are a couple of scenes in the pilot where the colour looks a little off (or maybe Pat's tan really did look like that?), but other than this, I was really surprised by how good the show looks. The colours are all bright and vibrant and there's no noise to speak of. I've seen shows from the 90's that don't look this good. I have no complaints regarding the sound quality either, it's not muffled or dull. All in all, it's a very well produced DVD & I have absolutely no complaints.There are no extras at all on the DVD, not even English language subtitles, but I didn't expect them and certainly don't require them.The show itself is complete mindless, fun for the sake of fun, Saturday afternoon entertainment. Some of the plots don't make sense, and the ones that do are rediculous. But it's awesome: non-taxing, good-natured fun. A *very* welcome addition to my DVD collection.

I really enjoy the original TV series from the 1970s, and I will purchase other TV originals again in future.

This set of the four TV movies commencing the Man from Atlantis series are of very good quality and well worth a watch.Fans of Patrick Duffy will be happy to see their man in a role he filmed just prior to his long stint in Dallas.Enjoy!

Loved it bought back a lot of great childhood memories.

Only half viewed; however, realy good viewing for all the family.

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