Paramount Home Media Joins Forces With Nickelodeon On May 23 For The DVD Debut Of The Loud House: Season One, Volume One

Paramount Home Media will be teaming up with Nickelodeon on May 23 for the double-disc DVD debut of the animated hit series, The Loud House: Season One, Volume One.

Lincoln Loud, who is 11-years old, comes from a large family.   Large indeed, as he has ten siblings … ALL GIRLS!!!    Oh yes, and one other little ditty about his ten sisters, their names all begin, like his, with the letter L — Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa and Lily (the baby of the family).   There are family pets too, but they have regular names — Charles (the dog), Cliff (the cat), Geo (a hamster), Walt (canary) and Izzy (a lizard that belongs Lana, Lola’s twin sister).

With five older sisters and five younger sisters it is always a challenge for Lincoln, but somehow he always manages to hold his own.   There are 13 double-adventures (each pair running 22 minutes), so there are plenty of examples of Lincoln coping with the challenges that ten sisters can throw his way!

Also on the way from Paramount Home Media are five complete television series collections.   Leading the parade on May 30 is the 20-disc, four-season presentation of Beauty and the Beast: The Complete Series, starring Kristen Kreuk as NYPD detective Catherine Chandler and Jay Ryan as Vincent, a mysterious ex-soldier with a very sketchy past and an even darker secret.

All 70 episodes are featured in this collection, which also includes numerous featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel.

There are four — count’em, four — complete series collections that will be available on DVD on D-Day, the sixth of June.  

In descending collection size, we start with the 31-disc, 117-episode (case files) collection of Numb3rs: The Complete Series, starring Rob Morrow as FBI agent Don Eppes and David Krumholtz as his math-whiz brother, Professor Charlie Eppes, with Judd Hirsch as their always-wise father, Alan.

Next up is the 17-disc presentation of Becker: The Complete Series, starring Ted Danson as the easily-annoyed Dr. John Becker, who runs a family practice in the Bronx.   All 129 episodes from the series six seasons (1998 through early 2004) are included here. 

Next up on June 6 is the 12-disc set of the Emmy-nominated Joan of Arcadia: The Complete Series, toplining Amber Tamblyn as Joan, who has a personal relationship with God — who appears to her in many forms.

All 45 episodes from the series two seasons (2003-2005) are included here.

And last, but certainly not least, Paramount Home Media rounds out the June 6 onslaught with the ten-disc collection of Father Dowling Mysteries: The Complete Series, teaming Tom Bosley as Catholic Priest and detective, Father Dowling, with Tracy Nelson as the “streetwise” Sister Oskowski.

Included here are all 43 episodes from the series three seasons, plus the feature-length MOW, Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery.

Comedy, Kid-Vid & TV From Paramount In Q1'13

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!   Sort of goes with Kid-Vid and TV and Comedy, oh my!   Perhaps a stretch, but there is a certain alliteration to it … Kid-Vid and TV and Comedy, oh my!

At any rate, that’s what Paramount Home Media Distribution has planned for Q1’13 with a series of announcements this week featuring new DVD product offerings from Comedy Central and Nickelodeon … plus vintage TV collections.

Let’s get right to it.  First up on Jan. 15 is the Comedy Central special title Anthony Jeselnik: Caligula, which features the former writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in his 60-minute stand-up special.  

Also streeting on the same Jan. 15 date are two Let’s Learn DVDs from Nickelodeon and featuring Dora and the rest of her Nick, Jr. friends in two learning adventures targeted for the little ones — Let’s Learn: 1,2,3s and Let’s Learn: A,B,Cs.

Other Nickelodeon productions added to the schedule this past week include Bubble Guppies: When We Grow Up, which is slated for release on Feb. 5 and Dora the Explorer returns in three new adventures on Feb. 12 in Dora’s Butterfly Ball (featuring: “Loop-de-Loop,” “Butterfly Ball” and “Father’s Day!”).

On the TV-on-DVD front, Feb. 5 marks the arrival of the five-disc collection of Gunsmoke: The Seventh Season, Volume Two. 

The following week, Feb. 12, look for Bonanza: The Official Fifth Season, Volume One (a five-disc set), Bonanza: The Official Fifth Season, Volume Two (four discs in this one) and Matlock: The Eighth Season (a six-disc collection).

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Bowery Boys And More From Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video was busy this past week adding to its selection of new DVD and Blu-ray product offerings.

For example, added to next week’s release calendar (Nov. 20) is a 12-film collection featuring the comedy antics of Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall (who started out in 1937 with Humphrey Bogart as the Dead End Kids in the film, Dead End), along with pals Bobby Jordan and Billy Benedict as the Bowery Boys.  

The collection is titled Bowery Boys, Volume One, which gives one hope that all 48 films in the series will see the light of day from Warner Home Video on DVD.

Also added to the release calendar on Nov. 20 is the double-disc collection of Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: The Complete Series.

Streeting on Nov. 27 are a trio of rare Robert Mitchum films (one theatrical and two MOWs)  — My Forbidden Past (1951, with Ava Gardner), One Shoe Makes it Murder (co-starring Angie Dickinson) and Promises to Keep (with son Christopher Mitchum and co-starring Tess Harper and Claire Bloom) — plus there will also be the five-disc set of Without a Trace: The Complete Fifth Season available to own on that date.

Added to Dec. 4 release calendar are TV Westerns, Dollar for the Dead (a 1998 MOW starring Emilio Estevez, along with Ed Lauter, Howie Long and William Forsythe) and Two For Texas (also 1998, teaming Kris Kristofferson with the likes of Tom Skerritt and Peter Coyote).

Shifting to Dec. 11, look for a trio of Hitler/Gestapo themed theatrical releases that have been pulled from the film vaults and dusted off for their respective debuts on DVD.   Genre-collectors and film buffs will be keen for these selections.

I Escaped From The Gestapo is a 1943 film directed by Harold Young (The Mummy’s Tomb, The Scarlet Pimpernel, etc.) and starring Dean Jagger and John Carradine … and noted for footage featuring Frances Farmer, who logged one day of shooting before having her legendary breakdown (and chronicled in 1982 film, Frances, starring Jessica Lange).

The other two films arriving on Dec. 11 are Operation Eichmann, the script was literally plucked from the headlines of the day — 1961, with Werner Klemperer as the notorious Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by Mossad in Argentina the year before — and the 1962 Richard Basehart interpretation of Adolf Hitler in director Stuart Heisler’s Hitler.

And the last new addition to the release schedule from Warner Home Video this week takes the form of separate DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack (complete with UltraViolet) editions of the made for home entertainment animated feature film, Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon.

Street date for this latest installment in the popular adventure series featuring Shaggy and Scooby-Doo is Feb. 26.

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