The Vise, Mark Saber and Saber of London (from the Danziger Archives)

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Originally Posted by cutback73

Dr Damon's Experiment and Death Pays No Dividends are the first 2 episodes on the Blu Ray set - this is based on a listing of the 21 episodes which is included on the Renownfilms.co.uk page for the blu ray. The listing also shows the main actors in that episode (Laurence Naismith is in "Dr...".). Judging by the number of familiar names listed, I suspect Network picked episodes with familiar faces for this first set.

There were 65 episodes in total, so presumably the hope of Network was to release 3 sets.

So far, I have only bought the 4 blu ray set of Mark Saber (as all the DVDs and blu rays are £30, I went for the biggest set first). I may get the 2 blu ray set of The Vise next if the first episodes are good enough).

Regularly check/visit Talking Pictures' website but haven't been on Renown's website much of late. The last time I visited I discovered they no longer had copies of their DVD boxset release of western series Stagecoach West.

Thanks for the helpful information about those episodes of The Vise, what is in the Volume 1 set and what Talking Pictures are showing to begin with.

There must be some logical reason why they're charging the same price for the DVD sets.

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A couple of plot holes aside, I very much enjoyed the first episode (from the mid-fifties) of anthology series The Vise, "One Just Man". Alexander Knox I recognised from Bond film You Only Live Twice and the surviving episodes of a series Talking Pictures have shown, The Hidden Truth.

The first episode reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock Presents with the developments and twists in the plot.

When the channel went to the ad break, it seemed to abruptly cut to it.

Ron Randell was a very suitable host (bookending the episode).

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Hadn't checked the full cast list before watching the Vise episode "Set a Murderer" last night, but expecting to see Ron Randall bookend it again, was surprised to see actor John Bentley bookending it instead. Transfer/picture quality wasn't as good compared to last week's episode. The story in the episode got better as it went on.