Noddy-Noddy Saves Christmas (1998)

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General		Extras
Category	Childrens	Main Menu Introduction Main Menu Audio & Animation Song Lyrics-Sing-a-long
Rating
Year Of Production	1998
Running Time	59
RSDL / Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region Coding	4	Directed By	None Given
Studio Distributor	Roadshow Home Entertainment	Starring	Sean McCann Katie Boland Kyle Kassardjian Max Morrow Teryl Rothery
Case	?
RPI	$19.95	Music	Stacey Hersh Gail Harvey John Medland

    This disk is a collection of 4 episode of the more recent CGI version of the classic Noddy TV series. All your favourite characters are in these episodes, Noddy, Big Ears, Dina Doll, Master Tubby, Mr Plod and the Goblins. This particular collection features the title show which is almost a 'feature-length' episode, given that it runs for 25 minutes compared to the usual 10!

    The episodes on this disk are:

    - Noddy Saves Christmas- Santa's magic time-stopping clock is broken and he won't be able to deliver toys to all the girls and boys...unless Noddy and Big Ears help him

    - Noddy's House of Cards - Noddy builds a house of cards and faces a few problems after that

    - A Surprise for Tessie Bear - Tessie Bear is rather sad and all the toys in Toyland try to cheer her up...

    - Noddy's Special Treat - Noddy wins a trip to the seaside but needs to choose someone to go along with him

Video

    The video is presented in 4:3 fullscreen.

    The picture is sharp at all times and exhibits very good shadow details and no visible trace of grain or low level noise.

    Colour is rich and vibrant. There is no trace of colour bleed or oversaturation.

    There is some slight aliasing on diagonal lines and closely spaced lines, but nothing major.

    Perhaps surprisingly there are no subtitles, not even for hard-of-hearing.

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Audio

    Audio is provided in Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.

    Dialogue is clear at all times and in sync with the onscreen characters as much as you could expect in an animated show.

    The music is bright and cheery and includes a song in just about every episode, with an extra long song in the title feature.

    The sound was reasonably well spread across the front speakers but the rear surround channels weren't used at all.

    The subwoofer chimed in on low notes in the music, though of course it wasn't fed by its own 0.1 LFE channel.

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    Menu Audio and Animation

    Some scenes and music from the show were shown in the menu background.

    There was just the one extra included on this disk:

    Sing-a-Long - This is just the song from the title feature presented with on-screen lyrics so you can sing along.

    This disk doesn't appear to have been released in R1.

    I like this series, compared to many of the TV shows for kids at present. It has reasonably interesting stories, without ever having to resort to violence, gadgets, monsters or suchlike. It preserves a childlike innocence and is just good clean fun and looks somehow fresh and appealing. This particular release only has 4 episodes, whilst some of the other releases have featured 6 episodes. However, the title episode on this disk is 25 minutes long.

    The video and audio quality on this release were good. The extras were limited to just the sing-a-long.

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