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  • in reply to: Please post when you get your Season 4 DVD's………….. #726
    Received mine today from BOL (NL). I live in Surrey, England.
    in reply to: Please post when you get your Season 4 DVD's………….. #718
    BOL Netherlands confirmed they shipped mine yesterday.
    in reply to: Onedin DVDs #103
    Only for Seasons One and Two. The Dutch DVD release of Season Three
    has all episodes complete with start and end
    titles.

    — In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, "Reini" <allofme@u…> wrote:

    > Yep, the dutch region 2 DVD's are exactly like this, 3 or 4

    episodes,

    > one after each other, without a break or the title music. The good

    thing

    > is, that you have a whole season with one of these sets.
    >
    > Reinhard from Austria
    >
    > Megan wrote:
    > > Hi Barbara,
    > >
    > > I've got this DVD set, and it is four disks and coded region 4.

    Each

    > > DVD is presented as one episode, ie. as a compilation of 3 or 4
    > > episodes. I believe that region 2 DVD was also presented like

    this.

    > >
    > > Cheers,
    > >
    > > Megan.
    > > — In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, "bafibo"
    > > <Barbara.Fischer-Bossert@w…> wrote:
    > >>
    > >> Has anyone seen the new Australian DVD edition of season one
    > >> (http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=2666)? It is coded

    region 4,

    > >> but with a multi-region player it should not be a problem to

    see it

    > >> elsewhere than Australia.
    > >> The given overall running time of 750 minutes would account for

    15

    > >> episodes of 50 minutes but I cannot find an episode list. The

    short

    > >> contents descriptions of the four DVDs could be written for the

    BBC

    > >> or dutch edition as well.
    > >> At another address
    > >> (http://www.dvdorchard.com.au/Product.asp?PND=111856) the same
    > >> edition is to include five DVDs instead of four but with only

    632

    > >> minutes contents. That does not make sense at all.
    > >> I would much like to know if this edition is cut like the

    others or

    > >> not.
    > >>
    > >> — In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, "Diana" <moonroll@n…>
    > >> wrote:

    in reply to: Captain Baines – Did the Scripwriter give him a Raw Deal? #528
    — In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, Ronald Pritchard
    <australian4you@y…> wrote:

    > Hi Stuart,
    > Not really (though possibly puzzling). JO was
    > basically an aristocrat from the beginning (?) and
    > married Anne to gain the shipping line. WB was just a
    > common sailor who worked his way up. Though it does
    > seem confusing at times why JO would not consider WB
    > his equal (when it was Capt. WB) it is sort of the
    > caste system of the victorian era.
    > Searching for WB in Labrador would have been the
    > code of the sea (going to another's distress) and
    > would
    > not necessarily mean they were buddy-buddy.
    > I have not seen all the eps but what happen to Anne
    > Onedin? Did she die or get a divorce from James?
    > Ron
    > — stuart_fanning <stuart.fanning@n…>
    > wrote:
    >
    > >
    > > Does anyone else think it strange that, in the main,
    > > the
    > > Baines/James Onedin relationship didn't develop all
    > > that much. If
    > > you look at their relationship during the first
    > > couple of seasons
    > > and the last two seasons, it hadn't changed that
    > > much. Surely over
    > > the 20 or 30 years they were together Baines would
    > > have grown in
    > > self confidence so that there relationship would
    > > have become more of
    > > one of equals. Obviously it couldn't completely as
    > > Baines was a
    > > senior employee, but Onedin's growing reliance on
    > > Baines over the
    > > years should have pushed things in that direction. I
    > > think Onedin
    > > would have accepted a more equal relationship, but
    > > the series
    > > scriptwriters really didn't develop the Baines
    > > character very much.
    > > Onedin obviously cared for Baines as the long search
    > > in icy Labrador
    > > proved and the naming of Onedin's son William at the
    > > endof the
    > > series.

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    Anne died in Childbirth having
    Charlotte.****************************

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