DVDs this Week (05/04/10): Doctor Who!

Updated on May 4, 2010 By Ken Begg 16 Comments

Yay, it’s Doctor Who week, with three classic adventures hitting DVD!

The Curse of Peladon (Pertwee)
The Monster of Pelacon (Pertwee)
The Masque of Mandragora (T. Baker)

Honeymooners: Valentine Special, and Honeymooners: The Second Honeymoon  are two specials reuniting the (then rather older) cast of The Honeymooners.  Each available separately.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: The ‘80s continues this fine series with eleven episodes of various shows, including Thundarr the Barbarian (Yay!), the Mister T cartoon, The Flintstone Kids, The Kwicky Koala Show, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, Galtar and the Golden Lance, and The Biskitts.

Speaking of, Amazon is selling the superior Saturday Morning Cartoons The 1960s Vol 1 for a good price of $14, 48% off the list price.  That one features THE HERCULOIDS (YAY!), Space Ghost, Frankenstein Jr., Top Cat,  The Flintstones: The Happy Household. The Porky Pig Show, Marine Boy, Quick Draw McGraw, The Jetsons, The Impossibles, McGilla Gorilla,Atom Ant, Secret Squirrel, Winsome Witch, Precious Pup, The Peter Potamus Show, Hillbilly Bears, and Squiddly Diddly.  There are also some mini-doc features.

According to Jim S2; Dirt S2; Dragonball S4; Facts of Life S4; Iron Man The Complete Animated Series; Iron Man Armored Adventures S1; Man vs. Wild S4; Marcus Welby M.D. S1, Murdoch Mysteries S2; Penn & Teller’s Bullshit S7.

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Hey, I know you’ve been waiting for this:  It’s the Director’s Cut of Elekra on Blu-Ray!

It’s been out of print for a long time, but finally Joe Dante’s incredibly fun homage to William Castle (not to mention then kids like us), Matinee, is out back out!  I can’t tell if there are any features, so probably not.  Man, this needs a special edition, with Mant! separated out as an extra.

Evil Toons It’s not Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers by any stretch, but it does has its moments.  Stars David Carradine.

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  Promisingly bad looking DTV action flick apparently featuring an aged William “Big Bill” Smith and Wings Hauser.

Girls Girls Girls of the 1970s  Looks like 5 vintage grindhouse sexploitation films:  The Sexpert, The Picture Book of Love, Ski Party, Leid in Hawaii, and School of Love.

Hellbinders:  Ray “Darth Maul” Parks is a martial arts dude fighting demons.

Andy Griffith hit the scene in the service comedy No Time for Sergeants, which also featured a similarly pre-Mayberry Don Knotts.

Rock ‘N Roll High School gets a loaded for bear special edition: New Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer (1.85:1),   Special Introduction From Director Allan Arkush, Audio Commentary With Director Allan Arkush, Producer Mike Finnell And Screenwriter Richard Whitley, Audio Commentary With Roger Corman And Dey Young, New Audio Commentary With Director Allan Arkush, P.J. Soles And Clint Howard, Back To School: A Retrospective Including All-New Interviews With Allan Arkush, Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Dey Young And Marky Ramone, Staying After Class: A New Interview With P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten And Dey Young and an Interview With Roger Corman Conducted By Leonard Maltin.  Also on Blu-Ray.

Also on the billet, it’s Roger Corman the Best of B’s 2: Naughty Nurses & Tawdry Teachers, featuring seven features:  The Student Nurses, Private Duty Nurses, Night Call Nurses, The Young Nurses, The Student Teachers, Candy Stripe Nurses and Summer School Teachers

Space Girls in Beverly Hills sounds like a gender-reversed version of Earth Girls are Easy.

Direct to Video Horror:
Bloodmyth
Cold Storage
The Gatekeeper
One Night Only Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard

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  • Direct to Video Horror:
    One Night Only Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard

    Har!

  • Ah, the eagle-eyed Jabootuite!

  • TongoRad

    I have nothing new to add about Rock and Roll High School that probably hasn’t already been said. Oh how I love that movie; it seems to capture a part of my adolescence though I still can’t exactly put my finger on just how. I will say this, though- one of the interviews with Arkush included in a previous release points out how thay couldn’t derail Joey Ramone from saying ‘Mr. McGloop’ instead of ‘Mr. McGree’ no matter how many takes they did, so they just left it in. Knowing that makes that scene all the better whenever I see it now.

    Oh, and Dey Young is as simultaneously cute and hot as a girl could be.

    I’m also not familiar with this Andy Griffin of which you speak ;)

  • Er, he was a good friend of Andy Griffith, who was also in this. [eyes shifting rapidly left to right and back again]

  • BeckoningChasm

    I want the whole series of “The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley.”

    Also, supposedly the final volume of the 90’s X-Men cartoons is out today. Those cartoons were way, way better than the live-action stuff.

  • Rock Baker

    Ski Party? That was one of the AIP teen song-and-comedy Frankie Avalon flicks of the 60s! They really need to pass a law that says you can’t use the same title twice, it leads to real confusion for the collector!

    The full, uncut version of Mant! was included as a featurette on the laserdisc release of Matinee (along with the full Mant! trailer). I’ve watched it more times than I’ve watched Matinee itself, and I know you’re just shocked to know that! Anyway, if they did it for the laserdisc there’s no reason why they can’t do it for the DVD. If they don’t include it, that’s just wrong! But at least there’s still the laserdisc, I assume I’m not the only one using multiple formats here.

    Don’t forget, No Time For Sergeants also has Nick ‘The Rebel’ Adams!

  • And yet it doesn’t look like they bothered to port Mant! over. The release looks entirely bare-boned, as far as I can tell. Not even a trailer. Dumb, sure, but it looks like they just dumped it out there for people desperate for a copy.

  • Rock Baker

    I’m desperate for a copy of The Green Slime. Don’t need any extras, just really, really, really want a version that’s scope! I assume Matinee is at least letterboxed. (Too bad they went bare bones on this one, that’d be a film I’d really like to hear a director’s commentary on! But again, at least there’s the laserdisc)

  • I have no friggin’ idea why Green Slime never came out. Warners owns the rights, which is presumably part of the problem. They’ve never cared much about genre stuff. I remember the YEARS they sat on some of the major Hammer titles like Horror of Dracula because apparently somebody there was convinced that stuff like that would never sell. Even worse, they had a corporate policy against renting rights out to companies like Anchor Bay. My suspicion has always been that this was butt-covering, that people in the decision chain there didn’t want to release such stuff themselves but didn’t want to risk having somebody make a ton of money off of it and being asked awkward questions by higher-ups.

    Probably the best chance for Slime, which would be imperfect but better than nothing, is that Warners will add it to their DVDr line, as with From Hell It Came and Bermuda Depths. As non-pressed DVDs, they aren’t perfect, but they’re pretty good, and I’d take anything at this point.

    Hey, check this out: “In Australia, the film was triple-billed with The Blob and Beware! The Blob (aka Son Of Blob).” Go on, tell me movies are better today.

  • fish eye no miko

    Thundarr the Barbarian (Yay!)

    DUDE!
    Though I have to wonder if this is one of those that won’t be nearly as awesome to my adult self as it was when I was a kid… [sigh]

  • BeckoningChasm

    Ken–agree on Warners’ treatment of DVDs. Don’t get me started on their really shoddy triple-dippings on the excellent DC animation produced in the Timm-verse.

  • Rock Baker

    Warner Brothers? That explains a lot. I thought it still rested with MGM and Toei. Man, Warners is ticking off a lot of people! They have the rights to The New Adventures of Gilligan but are letting the dust bury that one. When they do let something out of the vaults, however, I’ve noticed some nice transfers. (I have season 2 of Gilligan’s Island and its the sharpest picture I’ve ever seen on a color film!)

  • The Rev. D.D.

    fish eye–I’ve caught a couple episodes on Boomerang; it’s still pretty cool, although obviously I enjoyed it more earnestly when I was a kid.

    The couple of episodes I’ve recently caught of “Herculoids” are actually more amazing than I remember. That has to be the most overpowered superhero team ever. If they’d had a couple of spaceship, they could’ve conquered the galaxy/universe even faster than the Legion of Doom did.

  • Joe11

    Also, supposedly the final volume of the 90’s X-Men cartoons is out today. Those cartoons were way, way better than the live-action stuff.

    I agree as I’m big 90’s X-Men cartoon geek myself. However, even I won’t buy this set or even touch it with a fifty-foot pole. Be warned BeckoningChasm, this last set includes the infamous last episodes with reworked simplified drawings & even cheaper animation because Marvel was in bankruptcy at that time.

  • Yes, I had thought MGM still had the rights to Green Slime, and always wondered why it hadn’t made their (apparently tragicially dormant) Midnite Movie line by now. However, sources indicate Warners ended up with it, which explains much.

  • BeckoningChasm

    I remember on the B-Movie message board I made some remark about “Warners must hate DVDs” and one of the Stomp Tokyo boys came down on me with, no, they really love them, so there.

    Maybe they do love them. Perhaps they just hate the movies that should go on them.