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Five Mile Creek: Season One DVD Fact Sheet & Discussion

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:15 pm
by Luke
<center><b><u>FIVE MILE CREEK Season One
DVD FACT SHEET</b></u></center>

<b><u>Studio:</b></u>
Buena Vista Home Entertainment

<b><u>Story:</b></u>
For the first time on DVD, fans can collect the entire first season of Disney’s <b>FIVE MILE
CREEK</b>. Adapted from famed Western writer Louis L’Amour’s novel, this television series tells
the exciting story of settlers who attempt to tame the Australian wilderness and get a stagecoach
line working. This family-friendly Disney series was filmed on location in Australia. <b>FIVE MILE
CREEK</b> is available in a four-disc DVD set.

<b><u>Cast:</b></u>
Louise Caire Clark, Rod Mullinar, Liz Burch, Michael Caton, Priscilla Weems, Martin Lewis, Gus
Mercurio, Jay Kerr.

<b><u>STREET DATE: November 8, 2005</b></u>
<u>Direct prebook</u>: September 13
<u>Distributor prebook</u>: September 27
<u>Suggested retail price</u>: $39.99 (4 disc DVD)
<u>Rated</u>: Not rated.
<u>DVD aspect ratio</u>: 1.33:1 formatted 4x3
<u>DVD Sound</u>: Dolby® Digital 2.0 Stereo Sound
<u>DVD Language</u>: English audio. French audio.

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... osim"><img src="http://www.ultimatedisney.com/images/d- ... reeks1.jpg" border="0">
Buy <b>Five Mile Creek: The Complete First Season</b> on DVD from Amazon.com</a>

<a href="http://www.ultimatedisney.com/fivemilec ... html">Read our <b>Five Mile Creek: The Complete First Season</b> DVD Review</a>

<a href="http://www.ultimatedisney.com/fivemilec ... html">Read our <b>Interview with Priscilla Weems</b>, Hannah Scott on "Five Mile Creek"</a>
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:27 pm
by MickeyMousePal
Tell you the truth I never heard of this show and it's on DVD.
Maybe I'll rent and not buy it. :lol:
Has anyone seen this show? :?:

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:31 am
by SofaKing381222
I've never even heard about it until today...... I'd rather have a That's So Raven Season Set.

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:08 pm
by SofaKing381222
Why would Disney release these relatively unheard of TV sets, instead of the immensly popular shows like Even Stevens!

P.S. I love the new design Disney is using for packaging!

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:02 pm
by AwallaceUNC
I somehow missed out on hearing about this show, even though I had Disney Channel at the time. Go figure. It looks interesting, though, and if it's anything like the oh-so-wonderful <strike>Road To</strike> Tales From Avonlea, then it's likely to be great. (Oh, and just in case you were including <i>Avonlea</i> in your post, which I'm not sure if you were, it was a very popular Disney series at the time and it remains one of Canada's most popular series of all time ;)).

-Aaron

Hi

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:28 am
by Disney Guru
Ok,

I see that it tis time that the Disney Guru shared some of his wisdom.

Five Mile Creek,

Is a beautiful 80's Australian tv show.

About a stagecoach place.

Great tv series. One of "Nicole Kidmans" first roles, in some of the later episodes.

20 VHS Set Released in: 1985

15 VHS Set ReReleased in: 1992

Apparently Miss Kidman, purchased the right to the final 5 volumes.

I am lucky enough to have all 20 volumes on VHS.

I will deffinately be buying this dvd set.

Great Classic TV Show.

Cast:

Louise Caire Clark as Maggie Scott

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Liz Burch as Kate Wallace

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Rod Mullinar as Jack Taylor

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Jay Kerr as Con Madigan

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Michael Caton as Paddy Malone

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Peter Carroll as Charles Withers

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Gus Mercurio as Ben Jones

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Martin Lewis as Sam

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Priscilla Weems as Hannah Scott

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Nicole Kidman as Annie

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Shannon Presby as Matt Buckland

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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:35 pm
by Luke
Beautiful poem, Guru. And nice pictures!

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:52 pm
by Disney Guru
Luke wrote:Beautiful poem, Guru. And nice pictures!
Poem? Poem?

I stated what I had heard.

I stated the facts.

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:53 am
by purkitty
I had hoped that Disney would have released this title like they did for VHS. However this is more cost wise way of release (by the season).

I can't believe hardly anybody's ever heard of this......

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:05 am
by ClassicDisneyFan
This is by far one of the best series Disney ever made!! If your looking for romance, comedy, action and adventure for the whole family, this is the set to get. I just recently purchased all 20 volumes off of eBay, that set me back over 300 dollars.

If you like the classic Disney's of yesteryear, when they still put some wholesome values in their shows, then you'll love these! :)

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:40 pm
by dvdjunkie
I can now replace my poor worn and used VHS tapes of this wonderful series. I never thought that it would see the light of day on DVD, but yes, thank you Disney. This is one of the best series ever on television, bar none. I thought I was the only one who knew that it was one of the earliest Nicole Kidman sightings.

This is one series a person can do no wrong by blind buying it. It is family entertainment at its best.

:roll:

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:51 pm
by Escapay
How many seasons were there? I couldn't tell from DG's poem...

Escapay

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:57 pm
by Alan
dvdjunkie wrote: :roll:
Why do you use the :roll: symbol to end each of your posts? It doesn't even make sense to put that emotion on most of your posts! Its overrated.

Back on topic: Is that really nicole kidman, that frizzball? Wow, shes become a lot more beautiful as the years have progressed

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:13 pm
by Escapay
Alan wrote:
dvdjunkie wrote: :roll:
Why do you use the :roll: symbol to end each of your posts? It doesn't even make sense to put that emotion on most of your posts! Its overrated.
It's just his way of ending a post.
Alan wrote:Back on topic: Is that really nicole kidman, that frizzball? Wow, shes become a lot more beautiful as the years have progressed
I think the frizzy hair is sorta sexy, but that's just me. And it was set in a time period when they didn't have special shampoos or conditioners to straighten frizzy hair...

Escapay

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:35 am
by disneyguy
Escapay wrote:How many seasons were there? I couldn't tell from DG's poem...

Escapay
Not sure how many season but it was a 20 vol VHS set with 2 eposides on
each if I recall correctly..
DG

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:26 am
by dvdjunkie
"Five Mile Creek" was on from 1983-1985 and was a total of 39 episodes. So they will probably give us three thirteen episode volumes. This was the last TV series exposure for Nicole and then she made her motion picture debut in "BMX Bandits" in 1985 and the rest we know is history.

One of my favorite Nicole Kidman movies is "Far and Away". Reminds me a whole lot of the "Five Mile Creek" series.

:roll:

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:56 pm
by Escapay
dvdjunkie wrote:One of my favorite Nicole Kidman movies is "Far and Away".
I love that movie. Wonder if Universal will ever release a 2-disc special edition (the theatrical version, with branching features to show the extended tv version as well, along with a bonus disc with extras). F&A was one of Universal's early DVDs (early as in from 1998), wasn't it?

Did the movie do well at the Box Office? It was directed by Ron Howard, so I can't imagine it not doing well....

Escapay

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:02 pm
by Robin Hood
I have never heard or seen this series before. I hope Blockbuster has it, I'd like to watch before I buy. :P

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:43 pm
by AwallaceUNC
My review of Season One is here: http://www.ultimatedisney.com/fivemilec ... ason1.html :)

-Aaron

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:28 pm
by I am the Doctor
I picked this up last week, and I have to agree with the reviewer-not much thought was given to this release. While having Five Mile Creek on DVD is just plain wonderful, the fact that there are no extras or restoration shows not much thought was given to this release. Still, I've been a fan of this show for years, even since the first release back in 1983, so I can't really complain too much. But it would have been nice to have had some thought put into this release.