Little Red Tractor-Glorious Mud (2004)

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General		Extras
Category	Childrens	Main Menu Introduction Menu Animation & Audio Game-Farmyard Dominoes Game-Can You Tell Who Lives Where?
Rating
Year Of Production	2004
Running Time	59:48 (Case: 68)
RSDL / Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region Coding	4	Directed By	None Given
Studio Distributor	Nine Network Roadshow Home Entertainment	Starring	None Given
Case	Handle
RPI	$19.95	Music	None Given

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	English Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.75:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio	1.75:1	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	No
Subtitles	None	Smoking	No
		Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	No

    Title of Show : Little Red Tractor

    Title of Disc : Glorious Mud

    Year of Production : 2004

    Country of origin : UK

    What's included? : 6 episodes

    Episode Length : 10 minutes each

    Details of episodes : 

1. Glorious Mud - Due to heavy rain, the area is having lots of trouble with muds including escaping pigs.
2. Water Water - The area is having a bit of a drought and the twins try to help by divining for water.
3. Beast of Babblebrook - Various sightings of something strange lead people to believe that the legendary Beast of Babblebrook is on the loose.
4. Town Boy - Mr Jones' nephew, Thomas from the city comes to stay but he doesn't like it in the country.
5. Circles in the Corn - Mr Jones accidentally causes corn circles starting a rush of interest in aliens.
6. Spuds - Both Mr Jones & Stan are planting potatoes, however things get out of hand when they start flying through the air.

    Style of Production : Stop motion puppet animation

    Premise of show : The series follows the adventures of a group of people who live in and around Babblebrook Farm in the English countryside. The main characters are:

• Little Red Tractor - He is well named and is a older style tractor who works around the area.
• Stan - Stan owns Little Red Tractor and is a local farmer who helps out his various neighbours. Stephen Tompkinson from Ballykissangel does his voice.
• Mr Jones - A local landowner who has moved to the country from the city. He is a bit of a prat but is a good guy at heart.
• Big Blue - He is Mr Jones' tractor, a larger newer one than Little Red.
• Stumpy - The local eccentric who owns the local mill (of the old fashioned wind variety) and rides around on a four wheel bike trying not to kill himself. His wife is Elsie.
• Walter - He and his daughter Nicola run the local garage. Walter is the mechanic.
• Amy & Ryan - Local twins who are friends of Stan..

    Age Group : 2-8

    Related to any other children's shows? : Not really

    Adult's view : I really like this show. It is not threatening, tells amusing and interesting stories and avoids overbearing political correctness. In other words, just the right balance for children's television.

    Child's view : This is a favourite with my three year old and he enjoys watching it. Goes over the head of my eighteen month old, but he doesn't seem to mind. The characters are fun, especially Stumpy.

    Other Releases of this show available? : There are five volumes of this show now available locally.

    Overall : Heartily recommended.

Video

    The video quality is very good.

    The feature is presented in a 1.75:1 aspect ratio 16x9 enhanced which is probably the original aspect ratio.

    The picture was clear and sharp throughout, with no evidence of low level noise. There is some light grain throughout.

    The colour was wonderful, rich and solid throughout.

    The only noticeable artefact was some very mild aliasing.

    There are no subtitles, despite what the case says.

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Audio

    The audio quality is very good.

    This DVD contains an English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo soundtrack encoded at 224 Kb/s.

    Dialogue was clear and easy to understand and there was no problem with audio sync.

    The music is a lot of fun and the theme tune is very jovial.

    The surround speakers and subwoofer were not used.

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Menu

    The menu included music, action and the ability to select episodes.

Games

    Two games are included:

• Who Lives Here? - A simple matching game to match a character to their domicile.
• Farmyard Dominoes - A slightly more complex game requiring the player to choose which domino fits next into the pattern.

    This disc is available in the same format in Region 2 but not in Region 1.

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