User blog:LordTBT/News: Presenting Redwall TV Featurettes



If you viewed an episode of the Redwall TV Series any time from 1999 until 2002, as it was actually airing on television, you probably noticed something that's since been missing from the DVD releases of the show:

Every episode was introduced by Brian Jacques himself, and closed with additional featurettes that again included Mr. Jacques, as well as character information and medieval history.

When the seasons were released on DVD, these episodic "bookends" of sorts mysteriously vanished, and were possibly lost forever. It seemed you had to have actually watched the show live to have seen them.

For years, we've put out the call - did anyone record Redwall while it was airing and capture these moments? And, since this was the era of VHS, if someone recorded the show, did they actually still have those old VHS tapes?

Redwallers, I am happy to announce that call has finally been answered in the affirmative!

A legendary Redwall fan (who I would like to credit by name, but for some reason our message exchange got deleted, so please get in touch so I can credit you!) sent her VHS tapes to Redwall Wiki HQ, where we've been completing digitization of the episode features.

At this time, season one is done (with the exception of episode 13, which is missing), and available for viewing on our YouTube channel!

In due time, seasons two and three will also be digitized.

The first few episodes featured unique introductions by Mr. Jacques, however as the show settled into its groove, the same one - "Hello, I'm Brian Jacques, and welcome to Redwall. Sit back, and enjoy the excitement on today's episode of Redwall." - was continually used.

When this became apparent, we opted to only include the ending featurettes.

As this has been edited from VHS cassettes, the quality of some of the videos can be considered 'iffy' - sometimes colors fade in and out, occasionally the video skips around and the audio becomes out of sync.

However, one thing that was 100% consistent is the audio quality - there are absolutely no issues with that!

All that being said, each clip is about 5 minutes, and we've added them all to a YouTube playlist.

Be sure to follow our channel to know when we upload the other seasons! Enjoy this look into the past.