Simon & Simon (private detective series discussion thread)

[Alfred E. Neumann]

Germany (Region 2) is getting a remastered Blu-ray release in October (Fernsehjuwelen).
All 8 Seasons in HD, on 40 Discs.
https://shop.alive-ag.de/Simon-Simon...u-rays/6425096

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by Alfred E. Neumann

Germany (Region 2) is getting a remastered Blu-ray release in October (Fernsehjuwelen).
All 8 Seasons in HD, on 40 Discs.
https://shop.alive-ag.de/Simon-Simon...u-rays/6425096

Is the forty discs part correct? On the linked listing page above it states thirty discs. That aside, I also wonder if the episodes are from HD masters or are upscales. I'm cautious about this German Blu-ray release of Simon & Simon, but interested.

[OceanBlue]

Didn't know Whiz Kids had had a DVD release until later on last year. Had checked the Amazon.fr listing as well as Elephant Films' website, and based on what I read (after translating it into English):

- of the total number of 18 episodes, CBS can't find five of them (they're apparently lost (I had for a long time thought Universal owned the show and had the masters (like with the series Whiz Kids is related to (Simon & Simon), and of the remaining 13 episodes, three of them in Elephant Films' DVD boxset only have French audio. So that leaves 10 of the 13 episodes in the set having English audio.

Also, the transfers apparently don't look very good (could it be that CBS only have tape masters for Whiz Kids?). A bit torn over whether to get Elephant Films' release. With German boutique label Fernsehjuwelen having a Blu-ray release in the works of Simon & Simon, I'm hoping a German DVD release of Whiz Kids happens.

The listing page in the database here for Elephant Films' DVD release of the surviving episodes of Whiz Kids: