Mill Creek Entertainment announced a double-wave of new DVD
and Blu-ray product offerings that will be ready at retail beginning on Oct. 6,
with the second group streeting on Oct. 20.
Stand back, make room, you are going to need some extra
shelf space on Oct. 6 for the massive 22-disc DVD collection featuring the two
Darrins — Dick York and Dick Sargent — and the magical Samantha (Elizabeth
Montgomery).
Of course this would be Bewitched:
The Complete Series and Mill Creek Entertainment has all 254 episodes
for this multi-Emmy Award winner in their original broadcast form in this
priced-to-own sitcom classic (SRP is $69.98 and that’s before discounts at
retail).
Another “magical” show on the Oct. 6 on the Mill Creek
Entertainment’s release calendar is the 12-disc set of Barbara Eden and Larry
Hagman’s nose-twitching sitcom, I Dream of Jennie: The Complete Series. All 139 episodes — also presented in their
original broadcast versions — are on view here.
There are four kidvid selections on the Oct. 6 release
calendar as well. Included here are the
double-disc release of Care Bears: The Complete Series (all
22 adventures), Maxie's World: The Complete Series (also two discs showcasing
32 stories from Surfside USA), the four-disc/40-episode adventures of Izzy the
Owl, Benita the Beaver and Sammy the Skunk in Wild Animal Baby Explorers: The
Complete Series and have 52 episodes worth of fun with Shelldon, Herman
and Connie in the four-disc collection of Shelldon: Under the Sea Adventures!
Also making a DVD debut on Oct. 6 is the writing/directing
team of Luke Dye and Curt Willis’ Dove Family-Approved release of The
Little Ponderosa Zoo.
Charlie (Kena Holmes — Bandit and the Saints of Dogwood)
and her parents Jack (Damon Boggess) and Judy (Leigh Ann Jernigan) operate a
“rescue” zoo in Tennessee (filmed on location in Clinton, Tennessee). It’s a razor’s edge operation, with an annual
charity festival, that the locals support, the only thing that keeps them going
— and keep the animals in a safe environment (which include everything from a
tiger to llamas, wallabies, an emu and a camel).
But when the local banker, Bob Defain (James D. Owens),
discovers that the zoo is perched on an old gold mine he teams with the town’s
mayor (Mike Stanley) and his idiot nephew to undermine the annual festival and
drive Charlie and her parents into foreclosure.
It looks grim, but Charlie gets wind of their plan and teams
with her pup Duggar and the rest of the zoo animals to concoct a plan that will
thwart their money-grubbing scheme!!!
Rounding out the Oct. 6 DVD release selections is the double
disc/seven-part documentary series, Monsters Among Us, which focuses on
the “real-world” experiences that have fueled the legends of vampires,
werewolves and zombies.
Shifting to Oct. 20 is the Blu-ray debut of the Western
event mini-series Lonesome Dove (also available as a double-disc DVD
edition).
It will be joined by DVD
releases of these television mini-series as well: Gulliver's Travels (Ted
Danson is the Jonathan Swift's Gulliver), Moby Dick (Patrick Stewart stars as
Captain Ahab) and The Odyssey (with Armand Assante as Odysseus and Greta Scacchi
as Penelope).
And lastly, on Nov. 3, Mill Creek Entertainment has — drum
roll please — the 18-disc Blu-ray collection of That ‘70s Show as its
prime release for the month. Your eyes
did not deceive you — 18 Blu-ray discs!!!
All 200 episodes in HD!!!
Plus, there are six-hours worth of bonus nuggets — an
interactive trivia game, bloopers, behind-the-scenes webisodes, “Cast
Flashbacks” and selected episode commentaries from director David Trainer … and
more!!!
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