Cracker - The Complete 1st Season

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Summary: not all there
Review: if this is the one i bought here in the states and it sounds like it is, then it is edited and missing most of the shows. For example "Someday a Lemming Will Fly" ends with the teacher being brought in to the police station. It implies his guilt. If you want the whole, complete 10 disc season UK amazon has it but you need a DVD player or a computer that can play region 2.

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Summary: One of the best
Review: If you go in for police procedurals and the psychological mysteries, this is about as good as it gets. The writing and acting are superb. Also, for those complaning about a missing Episode III in "One Day A Lemming Will Fly", I checked. There is no Episode III. Not in the UK, and not in the US. That was the the way it was meant to end. In this show, like in life, you don't always tie up all the loose ends.

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Summary: 3-DVD Set Misleading to 7-VHS Set Owners?
Review: The 3-DVD set contains three full episodes, however, they are split into 7 "Parts" (two episodes at two parts each, one episode at three parts) which may be confused with the original 7-tape set. Or are there indeed seven full episodes in the first season? (I would rate this 5-stars, but first seasons generally are not as good as later seasons, and being a fan of CRACKER starting later in the series, I was a little underwhelmed by the first three episodes.)

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Summary: Deffective: disc 3 missing an episode
Review: There's no doubt that Cracker is an outstanding series, whatever the medium. However, this transfer to DVD is disappointing. The packaging is nice, but a series like this deserves all the best, rather than mere eye-candy. I can't recall if Cracker was originally televised in the States with something other than 4:3 aspct ratio, but at least one of these discs reveals that the original aspect ratio was something other than the 4:3 this package delivers. In "One Day a Lemming Will Fly" the edges of the opening credits are actually clipped and, presumeably, so is the rest of the disc, and all the others: none of the episodes in this set are anything other than 4:3. It's a crying shame that one of the best mystery series in the history of the genre is given second rate treatment. Thank the Good Lord for inspired comapnies, like Criterion, that give fine films all of the loving care they deserve.

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Summary: Excellent Entertainment, Average Transfer
Review: There's no doubt that Cracker is an outstanding series, whatever the medium. However, this transfer to DVD is disappointing. The packaging is nice, but a series like this deserves all the best, rather than mere eye-candy. I can't recall if Cracker was originally televised in the States with something other than 4:3 aspct ratio, but at least one of these discs reveals that the original aspect ratio was something other than the 4:3 this package delivers. In "One Day a Lemming Will Fly" the edges of the opening credits are actually clipped and, presumeably, so is the rest of the disc, and all the others: none of the episodes in this set are anything other than 4:3. It's a crying shame that one of the best mystery series in the history of the genre is given second rate treatment. Thank the Good Lord for inspired comapnies, like Criterion, that give fine films all of the loving care they deserve.