Bad Influence S1-4 Blu-Ray Set
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October 30, 2025
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Home Recorded PAL VHS Tapes
Pre-existing DVD MPEG-2 files
Pre-existing AVI/FLV/MP4 files
Home Recorded PAL VHS Tapes
Pre-existing DVD MPEG-2 files
Pre-existing AVI/FLV/MP4 files
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Please Note: this project is in-progress. The page below is presented as a sneak preview, and various elements may change before completion.
Double sided Blu-ray cover artwork - 14mm spine (click to enlarge)
While James' series 2-4 transfers were excellent, series 1 is an overall step down, and quite rough in places. Ideally I wanted to replace that with my own transfers if original source tapes are ever made available to me. Back in November 2024, I bought eight VHS tapes and two BetaMax tapes on Facebook. Seven of the VHS tapes ran at 240mins in Long-Play (7-8hrs each), with the eighth at 300min in LP (10hrs), totalling around 60 hours of footage. Each tape had one episode of Bad Influence, along with an assortment of other shows; One Foot In The Grave, A Touch Of Frost, Quantum Leap, Allo Allo, Spitting Image, The Detectives, plus a few films; Splash, Abyss, Karate Kid 2/3, etc... I set each tape recording, then fast-forwarded through stopping to catch and ad breaks or promos which might be useful, and the episodes themselves. That gave me around 7hrs of usable material. That's eight Bad Influence episodes from Series 1 (of the 15 broadcast), and one from S4, plus there were five Gamesmaster S2 episodes, and a Head To Head episode on computer games, an episode of Cyber Zone presented by Andi Peters played during BBC2's DEFII, a few SNES, MegaDrive & Game Gear adverts, plus a couple of other little bits & pieces. It's all Long-Play, but the quality is quite decent. Those extra bits & pieces are included on Disc 1 of my Gamesmaster S1-7 Blu-Ray Set .
A gallery; the original source tapes, and a screenshots from each of the VHS transfers
Of Series 1, episodes 1, 2, 4, 5, & 9 are James' original rougher transfers. Episodes 7, 8, 10, 11, & 12 are new transfers complete from the source tapes. Episodes 3 & 13 were incomplete from my source tapes, so were edited together with James' footage to give complete episodes. Lastly the one S4 episode; James' transfer is better than my new transfer (which was also incomplete), so that has been left off.
To add to the nostalgia factor, each episode preceded with a two toys/games related 80s/90s TV adverts, plus a handful of ITV & CITV junctions, continuity announcements, and other bits & pieces. I assembled 125 adverts to use from various sources, and will hopefully be able to expand this with any future upgrades. The set is supplied in a blue 4-way Blu-Ray case, with a laser-printed cover, and printed disc artwork. The inside cover has a detailed listing of the contents of each episode; courtesy of James from Bad-Influence.co.uk
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A gallery; the finished Blu-Ray four-disc set
This set need not be the final version. If anyone out there has either more complete, or better quality source material, I would be happy to re-visit the project. All the artwork & menus are all saved so I can easily re-visit any of the discs in the project if I get new source footage, and people can get upgraded discs in the future.
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