A huge fan of arse 👀😆

I absolutely love Rik & Ade, have you seen them in the danger brothers it’s on here. Sorry bit late lol you might not even see this comment 😊

I know man, me too 😥Literally the only celebrity death that I genuinely was upset about, he was like a tv dad to me as a kid

Never knew about this either. Just awesome

Mayall.

Bruh

That’s what I said 😑

Don't you mean _IDOL_ ?

He could be either your ideal or your idol. Or both!!! Either way i love it too!! Reminds me of Shelly Longs fairytale theater. And Rik is great with character acting so its just so fun!!

Ikr? He was so funny you forget how attractive he was

Check out Bottom and The Young Ones. Both very popular in the U.K. in the 80s, he also played Flasheart in two episodes of Blackadder. Rik sadly died after a quad bike accident a few years ago.

Rik Mayall died in 2014 of a massive heart attack after a jog. Rik survived the quad accident and was placed in a medically induced coma due to swelling of the brain. It was rumored he experienced seizures until his death due to his head injury. Either way Mayall was a comedic genius and had the ability to be an even better dramatic actor given the chance. He has always facinated me being a victim of hcm cardiomyopathy. Always wondered if he had ever shown signs of the disease. His death was always odd to me. Not to mention his level of energy during his life. Well anywho r.i.p rik

Rik Mayall was a force of nature

@@kristypaul7427 2014, I can't believe it was that long ago.

Let's not forget he was also Drop Dead Fred!! ❤

So, the whole show has been released on VHS in the UK and Australia, and I happened to have imported a release from Australia for its cool looking cover sleeve. I captured playback from a Panasonic VHS/Blu-ray combo player with a 'convenient HDMI splitter that removed copy protection', and the player used internal upscaling for 1080p output. I captured the video using a Elgato Game Capture HD, trimmed silence at the start and end of the vid, then uploaded it. The 'muddiness' you're probably talking about is how KZfaq compression works with VHS quality footage. You're never going to get anything sharper than the method I used, which itself was quite a intensive way to get a modern HD capture of a 25+ year old VHS tape. I've done research as for who currently owns the show, and I believe Endemol has it through one of its acquired subsidiaries Initial Film/TV and either doesn't know about it or just doesn't care enough to dig the original tapes out of their archive to make available for licensing. I even messaged one of the show's producers a few years ago and he doesn't know anything more than what I could find. I still have the original file, but I removed it from Google Drive as it got a fishy user request or something. If I get some time, I'll reply to your message again with a download link.

@@RetroDLC that make some sense. I'm imagining the player had a TBC built in too- it's pretty stable! I would love to see the un-KZfaq'd version though, you're right in that it is probably destroying it. I often upscale my 1080 videos in premiere to 4K before uploading because you get better 1080 videos on the other end bizarrely. Thank you for the reply! I had no idea there were vhs/blu-ray combos- what a trip!

@@Palooka37 I didn't know there were VHS blu ray combos ..not sure there's much that's worth the converting..what's interesting to Me tho is the redundancy these regulation bodies cause when adding that terrible copy protection that company invented all those years ago..the bast.....s..lol...I remember buying a amstrad 2 VHS combo and thinking lovely, I should be able to do some good copies with it...turned out it was absolute shite quality and u could get better with two generics connected via red white yellow leads (forgot what called) but the amstrad had copy protection on it so it.cost me near on 500 quid for a hunk of shit. Me and my brother figured out how to get round the early copy protection but the caveat was that when u were recording the playback was just snow and sound..yet when played back the copy it was perfect..not sure what we did.but later the copy protection that ran along sound recording of the actual video tape made it really hard to do anything easy. I'm talking 35yrs ago to 25yrs...another annoyance for me was I moved on to dvd recorders and had same bloody issue as that protection followed..I got a dvd player that had been all region chipped and also removed copy protection..but here's the problem now ...most of time I would record stuff and then the disc would have room left so I never finalised the disc as I'd wait until something fit on disc and then finalise it so subsequently I'd have bunch of dvds and the machine would die and because unfinalised I couldnt play them on over machines. I still have hundreds of disc full of obscure TV stuff that I can't play. I also kept the machines and they are in pile.in spare room around 15 of them..then I moved on to.hdd recorders and now I was in heaven. Again got.years of TV stuff only for machines to.die and again the HDD won't play on pc. I've now bought a HDD dock and hope they will work thru that but I have 3 machines they died and some awesome old TV from channels that no longer exist like paranormal TV etc..some real rarities ok them.

@@RetroDLC didn't know there were VHS blu ray combos ..not sure there's much that's worth the converting..what's interesting to Me tho is the redundancy these regulation bodies cause when adding that terrible copy protection that company invented all those years ago..the bast.....s..lol...I remember buying a amstrad 2 VHS combo and thinking lovely, I should be able to do some good copies with it...turned out it was absolute shite quality and u could get better with two generics connected via red white yellow leads (forgot what called) but the amstrad had copy protection on it so it.cost me near on 500 quid for a hunk of shit. Me and my brother figured out how to get round the early copy protection but the caveat was that when u were recording the playback was just snow and sound..yet when played back the copy it was perfect..not sure what we did.but later the copy protection that ran along sound recording of the actual video tape made it really hard to do anything easy. I'm talking 35yrs ago to 25yrs...another annoyance for me was I moved on to dvd recorders and had same bloody issue as that protection followed..I got a dvd player that had been all region chipped and also removed copy protection..but here's the problem now ...most of time I would record stuff and then the disc would have room left so I never finalised the disc as I'd wait until something fit on disc and then finalise it so subsequently I'd have bunch of dvds and the machine would die and because unfinalised I couldnt play them on over machines. I still have hundreds of disc full of obscure TV stuff that I can't play. I also kept the machines and they are in pile.in spare room around 15 of them..then I moved on to.hdd recorders and now I was in heaven. Again got.years of TV stuff only for machines to.die and again the HDD won't play on pc. I've now bought a HDD dock and hope they will work thru that but I have 3 machines they died and some awesome old TV from channels that no longer exist like paranormal TV etc..some real rarities ok them.

@@Sol-Cutta Try downloading a PC program called InfraRecorder to create 'ISO image' copies of your old unfinished DVDs. Theoretically, you should be able to drop those files into VLC Player for playback, but I have no idea if that would work in your specific case.

I've not had a setup to capture VHS tapes in high quality for a while. I do plan on buying the remaining episodes on VHS soon, then will look into capturing those and uploading those too - I just can't say its a priority for the moment.

@@RetroDLC Understandable. Keep me posted. And thank you for what you have done so far. It is criminal that I cannot buy this show in a modern format.

The space frog fell on it, linking to the previous joke of something falling on the frog

He says "Ta ta", which is a old Engish phrase for goodbye.

You are hearing things mate. He says ta ta.

Miss Rik, he could bring any story to life

ha ha

😆 Fab quote and may I take the opportunity to say what a SMASHING blouse you have on!

It still is.

I've kept an eye on eBay for the first volume from Australia for ages, but it's not appeared yet. The UK also had all the episodes released on VHS, but I've not bought them yet and I lack a VHS player at the moment to capture from. It's possible to buy a bootleg collection on DVD with a thorough enough Google search.

@@RetroDLC What VHS/DVD combo are you using? I think I have the same one. I already make DVD backups of my collection. I could probably try upscaling those myself.

@@WhiteJarrah I used a Panasonic DMR-EZ48 connected to a HDMI digital capture device (along with a HDMI splitter in between that conveniently stripped copy protection).

@@RetroDLC Mine's a DMR-EZ48V, looks like we have the same model. I always recommend it for VHS upscaling.

A glorious British comedian who tells children about Rumpelstils & other Grims tales!😋❤️