TVShowsOnDVD.com has the news (broken on Adult Swim during a show bumper this last weekend) that Sealab 2021, The Brak Show, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law and the Venture Bros. will all have DVD box sets released over the next year.
One nice thing about these box sets, relatively speaking, is that these shows are only about 12 minutes each episode, thus a box set is about the same as a regular movie and sells for only about $20. Given that box sets of Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy are about twice that (granted, it’s twice as much entertainment, too, but it’s a hit in the pocket book), it’s nice to have a package small enough that you can put it on your birthday list and your family can afford it. I’ve tried asking for the Babylon 5 box sets, but no one in my family can afford $55-75 for a single gift. And some full length box sets go for $100-125. Can you believe there are X-Files fans that have paid $1000, all totaled, to get all 9 seasons on DVD?
Let me tell you, I’d rather have Season 1 of Sealab 2021 than Season 9 of X-Files, and it’s 1/5th the price!
Anyway, all these box sets are great…but why aren’t there any box sets of Home Movies, which is now in its fourth great season? On top of that, Comedy Central’s Dr. Katz ran for something like 6 seasons! Where are those two shows?
Almost forgot: If you’d like to know what’s on the Sealab 2021 box set, here are the details:
1- I, Robot
2- Happycake
3- Radio Free Sealab
4- Chickmate
5- Lost In Time
6- Predator
7- Little Orphan Angry
8- Waking Quinn
9- All That Jazz
10- Murphy Murph And the Feng Shui Bunch
11- In the Closet
12- Stimutacs
13- Swimming In Oblivion
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Pitch Pilot
I, Robot- Alternate Ending
Radio Free Sealab Uncensored
Little Orphan Angry (Deleted Scenes)
Radio Free Sealab had a foul-mouthed FCC Search and Destroy Vessel captain who was constantly bleeped, so this uncensored version will allow you to hear what is said. Personally, I think bleeping is funny…especially when some shows use the bleep in such a way that you cannot think of what the bleeped word could possibly be.