Review(s): DVD Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Season 5
Disapointing Quality & Scenes Cuts
I was excited to buy the DVD box sets especially since the box covers brag at what lengths had gone into making the episodes at such highest quality. Truthfully, you will be getting better quality recording them off TV.
The TV episodes are probably an approximate 42 to 43 minutes to where the DVD episodes are an approximate 45 minutes. However, there are still some scenes cut out in the DVD episodes.
Some cuts I found are:
In the episode "Fagin", an important scene where Charles tells Albert that since he is having a hard time with kids at school making fun of him for not having a father, why not start calling him "Pa". Instead, they cut to the scene where Laura overhears Albert call Charles "Pa" and she mentions it to the boy, who tells her that Charles told him to call him that. The scene between Charles telling Albert to do so is in the TV episodes but not on the DVD. How on earth could the DVD company consider that a scene to throw away out of all the other scenes in the episode?
Also, a few episodes back, when the Ingalls leave their Little House to move to Winoka, the wagon takes off from their house then quickly cuts to black (doesn't even fade to black, just cuts instead) and then cuts to the Ingalls wagon train driving in the city of Winoka, completely cutting out the wagon train traveling on the trail to get there.
In the city, when Albert yells to the town that the Winoka school is burning down, then starts going around stealing everything he can get his hands on and tells Mrs Olesen that he is working for the church and that gambling is a sin then takes off running, in the original episode it freeze frames on Albert while he is running in the streets saying, "To Be Continued". Instead the DVD, fades out of Albert's running scene before the freeze frame arrives.
In the episode where Mrs. Olesen overhears Caroline talking on the phone to Charles about bringing James and Cassandra to live with them, the DVD cuts out Mrs Olesen's comments about how are they all going to fit in that little bitty house of theirs. Instead the scene also cuts directly to black cutting out the scene.
There are several more cuts throughout the episodes but what is worse is the quality of the episodes. Some are heavily pixeled like the quality was extremely compressed. I have never seen a TV series quality this badly compressed before, ever. Some episodes are to the point of being very blurry.
Also, audio is not consistent. One episode is of loud volume with the next episode being extremely low.
So if you want complete uncut episodes you will have to rely on both the DVD and the TV versions.
Wonderful interviews!
The show is great, and the extras are a great addition to the DVD. It's moving to see that dear old Dabbs Greer (Reverend Alden). And Allison Arngrim is so funny! The interviewer, Patrick Loubatiere, did a great job.
We love Little House!
Our family is watching the whole series together. Each of us look forward to our "Little House" nights.
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