Thanks Zaxo, I actually tried the $data[1][0] before the OP and was getting errors. So,I dropped in your code as is, but I still get the "is not an array reference" error. Data Dumper shows:
$VAR1 = [ { 'title' => 'DRAGONFLY', 'scene' => 'DF' }, { 'title' => 'HUMMINGBIRD', 'scene' => 'HB' } ];
Any other ideas? And yes, I meant uc, but have been reading up on MySQL functions :-)