THE Adventures of Sinbad Season 1

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A fun series that I begrudgingly give that fifth star. The premier episode is fabulous. But as the series wore on the scope of the stories shrank quickly. this was sad because the cast was great and the writing was consistent. Obviously the powers that were did not relegate the flow of the limited bucks in a way that maintained the level of the magic through out the first season. I very much liked the cast and the interplay between the inexplicable mix of nationalities ( and maybe even time periods). There was a part Ray Harryhausen, part Terry Gilliam feel to production and that may have been part of the problem. The first episode set a bench mark they never quite hit again. And that may have been their fatal mistake.
But that doesn’t mean that Sinbad Season One isn’t fun. It stands on its own merits quite nicely. But I think if one pays attention, one can see why the show didn’t last. For what ever reasons,the producers did not support their young Sinbad properly. Ultimately the production visually starved to death. Sinbad is traditionally about spectacle. And they ran out of funds long before they ran out of episodes. It was a shame.
BUT!!! That only explains why there are not ten seasons. The first season listed here is over all well conceived, impressively produced, and populated with a cast of interesting characters, creatures, and situations. It is a shame they could not maintain it with a life span like Hercules. We could have used eight or nine more seasons. Season One is a lot of fun.

– JP Fish

yea a great little epic-type story. although i feel that all of that could of been avoided and they could escaped episode 5. i mean, an obviously evil looking witch uses dark magic to summon a creature to hunt down sinbad. sinbad makes it out alive of course but they let the damn witch go………..wtf. this witch who uses evil magic that tracked you down. the witch that you told sinbad’s curse to….. honestly know? come on. also when will then ever learn to not trust anybody or anything supernatural or out of the ordinary. and why doesn’t anybody actually listen to cook. as i said, i like the story but the ignorance in choices is unbelievably bad to a point to where you find yourself thinking this is getting ridiculous to a point to where the story loses credibility. i like the story of sinbad but the way they told it was frustratingly elementary with way too many holes and ‘you could of easily of done this to avoid almost being killed.’ and speaking of killed, everybody should of died a long time ago but i guess the ‘gods’ in the story favor stupidity because stupidity sure as hell does favor god.

-Matt

This was a new twist on an old, old story! All of the actors were new to me as well. The why and where Sinbad began his adventuresome life is presented by a very imaginative writer. I enjoyed each and every episode and the way it ends makes this feel like a true “prequel” to the rest of the Sinbad stories. Good job! Oh! It is called Season 1 and 2, but is only packaged as Season 1, so what is up with that I do not know.

-D. Garnett

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Actors: Various
Directors: Various
Format: Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: English (Stereo)
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 3
Studio: BBC Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: September 3, 2013
Run Time: 45 minutes