A week or so ago I received The Richie Rich/ Scooby-Doo Show Volume 1 from Warner Home Entertainment. A Saturday spent by yours truly watching cartoons, eating cereal and staying in my pajamas ‘till noon. The memories came rushing back over the seven different episodes and with each break I had the tiniest hope to see an old toy commercial. The show was still eye rolling fun and its seven minutes per segment made the simple plots all the more enjoyable.
I recently spent another Saturday morning with the The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show - The Complete Series. Both DVDs are a part of the Hanna-Barbera Collection. They have been restored by the good people at Warner Home Entertainment in conjunction with Turner Home Entertainment. I came to a realization after finishing my last episode of Richie Rich. Where are The Herculoids? Give me my Fantastic 4 circa 1967, damn it. Yet, the one cartoon title that I have been unable to live without is Thundarr the Barbarian.
Thundarr the Barbarian was the best post apocalyptic series on television that set a precedent for my imagination. The Earth was torn apart by a rogue comet that came between it and the moon. A new world emerged from the ashes of old. The Earth became a world of science and sorcery. Thundarr was the lone hero, a man who fought for justice. It was a great mixture of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV show and Conan the Barbarian. Thundarr got in his adventures with a kick ass Chewbacca-like cat of a wing man named Ookla. However, what truly made the show was his honey of a princess/ sorceress named Ariel. It was the best part of my Saturday morning and it is sorely missed.
Now Thundarr was not a Hanna-Barbera production. It was an off shoot from that company by two artists named Joseph Ruby and Kenneth Spears who formed Ruby-Spears Productions. So the plausibility of a DVD is next to none. Are Ted Turner and his Boomerang channel my saving grace? Should I turn to pirated DVDs? I don’t have Boomerang and Toonami isn’t playing them so recording them is out of the question. Sign one of those internet petitions? A lot of good those do. I guess I’ll just have to sit and wait.
All right, off the subject of Thundarr the Barbarian. Check out the whole Shopping Bag this week with its 30+ Blu-ray DVDs. I hardly mentioned the dramas and comedies but there are plenty of those as well. Blu-ray has arrived and the tiles we want are finally showing up.
ACTION / ADVENTURE / KUNG FU/ THRILLERS / WESTERNS
An Eye for an Eye
Black Rain (Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]
A Bridge Too Far [Blu-Ray] [Blu-ray]
Magnum Force (Deluxe Edition)
Dirty Harry [Blu-ray]
Dirty Harry (Two-Disc Special Edition) Check out Tim Janson’s review.
Disturbia [Blu-ray]
Diva - Meridian Collection (1981 - Remastered WS)
The Enforcer (Deluxe Edition)
Face/Off [Blu-ray]
Flawless
Four Brothers [Blu-ray]
Houdini
The Italian Job [Blu-ray]
Lara Croft - Tomb Raider [Blu-ray]
Magnum Force (Deluxe Edition)
The Manchurian Candidate [Blu-ray]
Mission Impossible (Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]
Mission - Impossible II [Blu-ray]
Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]
Patton [Blu-ray]
Payback - Straight Up - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray]
The Poseidon Adventure [Blu-ray]
Prairie Fever
The Recruit [Blu-ray]
The Sand Pebbles [Blu-ray]
Shark Swarm
Shooter [Blu-ray]
Sudden Impact (Deluxe Edition)
Time for Murder
The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]
Villa Rides
The Warriors (The Ultimate Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
We Were Soldiers [Blu-ray]
World Trade Center (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Anime Legends, Vol. 2
Silent Mobius: Complete Collection
Zegapain, Vol. 5
The Animation Show, Vol. 3
Bee Movie [Blu-ray]
The Machine Girl
City Slickers (Collector's Edition)
-Back in the Saddle: City Slickers Revisited featurette
-Bringing in the Script: Writing City Slickers featurette
Meet The Spartans - Pit Of Death Edition [Blu-ray]
Meet The Spartans - Pit Of Death Edition (Unrated)
Semi-Pro (Single-Disc R-Rated Edition)
Semi-Pro (Two-Disc Unrated "Let's Get Sweaty" Edition)
-Contains "Let's Get Sweaty" unrated version
-Fifteen minutes of deleted, alternate, and improv scenes.
The Three Stooges: Classic Shorts & Swing Parade
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
Alucard
The Beast - Special Extended Edition
Clean (Ws Col)
The Cry
Devil Girl
The Evil Woods
The Innocent
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Rape Is a Circle (Full Col)
Red Room 2
The Skull
Sleepy Hollow [Blu-ray]
Aeon Flux [Blu-ray]
-Commentary: Commentary by Director Matt Reeves
-Featurette: Special Investigation Mode
-Featurette: Document 01.18.08: The Making of Cloverfield
-Featurette: Cloverfield Visual Effects
-Featurette: I Saw It! It's Alive! It's Huge!
-Featurette: Clover Fun
-Additional Scenes: Congrats Rob
-Additional Scenes: When You're in Japan
-Additional Scenes: I Call That a Date
-Additional Scenes: It's Going to Hurt
-Additional Scenes: Alternate Endings with Optional Commentary - Alt Ending 1
-Additional Scenes: Alternate Endings with Optional Commentary - Alt Ending 2
Encrypt
The Eye
The Eye (Two-Disc Special Edition)
-“Shadow World: The Paranormal Past” featurette
-“Birth of the Shadowman” featurette
-“Dissecting a Disaster” featurette
-Deleted scenes
-Theatrical trailer
-Digital Copy of the feature film
Signs [Blu-ray]
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow [Blu-ray]
ZPG: Zero Population Growth
The Andromeda Strain Miniseries
CHiPs - The Complete Second Season
Dante's Cove - Season 3
Dead Zone: The Final Season
Doctor Who - Beneath The Surface (Doctor Who And The Silurians / The Sea Devils / Warriors Of The Deep)
Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep (Story # 131)
Doctor Who and the Silurians (Episode 52)
Doctor Who - The Sea Devils (Episode 62)
Get Smart (1995): The Complete Series
The Incredible Hulk - The Complete Third Season Check out my review.
-Remembering the Incredible Hulk: An American Classic
-The Incredible Hulk Sneak Peek featuring interviews with Edward Norton and Louis Leterrier.
The Incredible Hulk - The Complete Fourth Season
-Audio Commentary on two-part season premiere by Kenneth Johnson
-Creating an Iconic Character Featurette
-Photo Gallery
-The Incredible Hulk Sneak Peek featuring interviews with Edward Norton and Louis Leterrier
Ironside: Season 1 - Vol. 1
Mannix - The First Season
Mchale's Navy: Season One, Vol. 1
Rescue Me - The Complete Fourth Season
Weeds - Seasons 1-3 [Blu-ray] (Amazon.com Exclusive)
Weeds - Season Three [Blu-ray]
-Eight Commentaries with cast and crew including creator Jenji Kohan and actors Justin Kirk, Hunter Parrish and Alexander Gould among others
-“Uncle AWOL” featurette – with Justin Kirk
-“G.M.A. – Good Morning Agrestic!” featurette
-“Little Boxes” Randy Newman featurette
-Mary-Kate Olsen Biography
-Seven Trivia Tracks
-Weeds soundtrack sampler
-“Little Boxes” musical montage
Flags of Our Fathers [Blu-ray]
Reds (25th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]
-Additional Scenes: 15 Minutes
-Trailers: Teaser
-Trailers: Trailer
-Additional Scenes: Fishing
-Additional Scenes: Haircut/Interrupted Hymn
-Additional Scenes: Dailies Gone Wild
-Featurette: The Story of Petroleum
Dirty Harry Box Set(2008).
© Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector's Edition
-Includes all five Dirty Harry films
-Bonus Feature-Length documentary "Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows"
-40+ page hardcover book
-Wallet w/metal badge and removable laminated I.D. card
-Five 5" x 7" Reproduction Lobby Poster Cards plus an exclusive UCE card
-Scorpio Portrait of a Killer Poster-Sized (19" x 27") map of San Francisco
-Never-Before-Seen Production Correspondence
Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector's Edition [Blu-ray]
Doctor Who Megaset, Vol. 1
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