Bananas in Pyjamas-Party Pack (Dancing Daze/Beat Box/It's Music Time) (1996)

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General		Extras
Category	Childrens	Main Menu Audio
Rating
Year Of Production	1996
Running Time	149:46 (Case: 147)
RSDL / Flipper	Dual Layered	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Ads Then Menu
Region Coding	1,2,3,4,5,6	Directed By	Michael Ailwood Ian Munro
Studio Distributor	Roadshow Home Entertainment	Starring	Duncan Wass Ken Radley Nicholas Opolski Sandie Lillingston Mary-Ann Henshaw Taylor Owyns Jeremy Scrivener Shane McNamara Emma de Vries Mal Heap David Collings
Case	Amaray-Transparent-Secure Clip
RPI	$19.95	Music	None Given

    Title of Show : Bananas in Pyjamas

    Title of Disc : Party Pack

    Year of Production : 1996 & 2002

    Country of origin : Australia

    What's included? :  30 episodes all of which were previously released on three separate videos.

    Episode Length : Most are about 5 minutes, a couple are a little shorter.

    Details of episodes : 

This DVD is a combination of three previously released videos (each containing ten episodes) as follows

1. Dancing Daze (2002)
2. Beat Box (2002)
3. It's Music Time (1996)

    Style of Production : Live action plus puppets

    Premise of show : Bananas in Pyjamas is a long running children's show on the ABC. The show itself has been running since 1992, and before that it was a feature of Play School. The show's origins are actually from a song published in 1967 by Carey Blyton. This is the same song still used as the theme tune on the show, sung by Monica Trapaga. The show is now seen in many countries around the world and is very popular with the pre-school set. The characters on the show are B1 & B2, the Bananas of the title who, fairly obviously, wear pyjamas. They live in Cuddles Avenue and their next door neighbours are the Teddies, Morgan, Lulu & Amy. The later episodes include extra characters such as Rat in the Hat & Maggie the Magpie. All of the characters with the exception of Maggie are played by adult actors in costumes..

    Age Group : 2-5

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

    Adult's view : A kids classic which works well for kids but I think is pretty hard to watch for adults.

    Child's view : My boys love the bananas and love the songs and dancing.

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

    Overall : This is a very full DVD containing over two hours of entertainment for the kids. A good buy.

Video

    The video quality is good.

    The feature is presented in a 1.29:1 aspect ratio non 16x9 enhanced which is probably the original aspect ratio.

    The picture was quite clear and sharp throughout sporting a quite healthy bitrate, with no evidence of low level noise. There was some light grain especially in the much older opening credits.

    The colour was quite good with a little bleeding showing in the older episodes.

    From an artefacts perspective there were a few jumps probably related to tape tracking errors, but generally it was pretty good.

    There are no subtitles.

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Audio

    The audio quality is 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 surround speakers and subwoofer were not used.

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Overall

    None, but considering the long run time you really can't complain.

Menu

    The menu allowed for selecting each old video separately and the episodes within them.

     This disc is not available in other regions .

    The video quality is good.

    The audio quality is good.

    No Extras.

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