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Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks-The Case of Big Sty (2003)

Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks-The Case of Big Sty (2003)

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Released 4-May-2006
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Details At A Glance

General		Extras
Category	Childrens	Main Menu Audio
Rating
Year Of Production	2003
Running Time	92:09
RSDL / Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Ads Then Menu	Cast & Crew
Region Coding	1,2,3,4,5,6	Directed By	None Given
Studio Distributor	Roadshow Home Entertainment	Starring	Peadar Lamb Maile Flanagan Russi Taylor Tara Strong Charles Adler Nikka Futterman Melissa Disney Pamela Segall Mel Brooks Susan Silo
Case	Handle	Starring
RPI	$19.95	Music	Geoff Levin Harriet Schock Paul Fisher

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	English Dolby Digital 2.0 (256Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.78:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio	1.78:1	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	No	Miscellaneous
Subtitles	None	Smoking	No
		Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	No

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Plot Synopsis

Title of Show : Jakers!

Title of Disc : The Case of Big Sty

Year of Production : 2003

Country of origin : United States

What's included? : 4 episodes.

Episode Length : About 23 minutes each.

Details of episodes :

There are four episodes included here

Pie Filling
Ferny is a Bug
The Case of Big Sty
All Night Long

Style of Production : Computer Animation

Premise of show : Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks is an animated children's television series made for the Public Broadcasting (PBS) network in the United States. So far, two series of this show have aired in the US, the first one starting in 2003, totally about 26 episodes. The series is aimed at the 3 to 8 age group, I would guess and the main characters are 8 year old animals who live on Raloo Farm in Ireland. The stories are told in flashback, by Piggley Winks who is now a grandfather, telling them to his grandsons, Sean & Seamus.Each episode quickly gets into a flashback story which always feature Piggley Winks, an 8 year old pig and his best friends, Ferny (short for Fernando) the Bull and Dannan the Duck. Other recurring characters are Molly, Piggley's little sister and Wiley the Sheep, a Ram who is trying to educate the rest of the flock. Wiley is voiced by Mel Brooks and is quite funny...

Age Group : 2-5

Related to any other childrens shows? : No

Adult's view : One of the better US children's shows which is quite watchable even for adults. There are 'messages' but they are done subtly rather than with a brick attached. The stories are fun and the characters show the positives and negatives of their personalities.

Child's view : A definite hit with my two young boys (4 and 2) especially the younger one. They both love Wiley the Sheep.

Other Releases of this show available? : There are a number of other volumes of this show available.

Overall : This is a quality show and the disc includes over 90 minutes which is better than quite a few children's discs.

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Transfer Quality

Video

The video quality is excellent.

The feature is presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio 16x9 enhanced which would be the original aspect ratio.

The picture was clear and sharp throughout, with no evidence of low level noise, as you would expect from modern computer animation.

The colour was excellent throughout and extremely well saturated.

The only artefact I noticed was some minor aliasing.

There are no subtitles or layer change.

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Audio

The audio quality is good.

This DVD contains an English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo soundtrack encoded at 256 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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Extras

None.

R4 vs R1

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This disc is not available in other regions as far as I can tell.

Summary

One of the better US children's television shows.