The Catacombs The Merchandise Guide
DVD
Compiled by Martin Willey

Menus

The US menus are comparatively static, but okay if you can forgive the fluorescent colours. Others have invested much imagination and effort in transitions and submenus. Carlton in the UK set the pace with CGI recreations of Moonbase corridors, episode clips and series music. Most have followed the same lead. TF1 in France also has some nice effects with episode clips. The Italian discs feature superb and very accurate transitions through Alpha corridors and travel tubes.

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A&E DVDs (USA): Opening sequence, with partially animated menus.

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Carlton DVDs (UK) and Magna Pacific DVDs (Australia): Short opening sequence; menu animated with CGI Eagle and episode clips.

 Menu

Pulp Video DVDs (Italy): CGI animated opening sequence; menu animated with episode clips; CGI animated transitions.
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Pioneer DVDs (Japan): No opening sequence. Static.

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TF1 DVDs (France): Opening sequence; menu animated with Eagles and other effects (varies by disc).

 Main menu

Producciones JRB (Spain): menu is animated with episode clips. Crude animated transitions.
Title menu (Cosmic Princess)

PVB DVDs (France): Opening sequences; simple animation for menus

 episode menu

EMS DVDs (Germany): Opening sequence and animated menus included music and episode clip. The CGI Eagle is relatively crude.

Text copyright Martin Willey