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kingfish
April 12th, 2007, 01:48 PM
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Land of the Giants - Retailer provides us with Complete Series Set Information!


Posted by Gord Lacey

4/10/2007


Back in October http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=6476 we told you that Fox was working on bringing Land of the Giants "Season 1, Volume 1" to DVD, but those plans were http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=6728 scrapped in December in favor of releasing a complete series set.

A friendly retailer has sent us details on the complete series set, which looks pretty darn good:

After their sub-orbital space craft is drawn into a space warp, the passengers and crew of the Spindrift, crash into a planet where everything is 12 times its normal size!

The 9 disc set will include all 51 episodes of the series (2658 mins), an unaired pilot, and a lot of bonus material:


Disc 1 Side A:
The Crash
Ghost Town
Framed
Underground

Disc 1 Side B:
Terror-Go-Round
The Flight Plan

Disc 2 Side A:
Manhunt
The Trap
The Creed
Double-Cross

Disc 2 Side B:
The Weird World
The Golden Cage

Disc 3 Side A:
The Lost Ones
Brainwash
The Bounty Hunter
On A Clear Night You Can See Earth

Disc 3 Side B:
Deadly Lodestone
Night of Thrombeldinbar

Disc 4 Side A:
Seven Little Indians
Target: Earth
Genius At Work
Return of Inidu

Disc 4 Side B:
Rescue
Sabotage

Disc 5 Side A:
Shell Game
The Chase
The Mechanical Man
Six Hours To Live

Disc 5 Side B:
The Inside Rail
Deadly Pawn

Disc 6 Side A:
The Unsuspected
Giants and All That Jazz
Collector's Item
Every Dog Needs A Boy

Disc 6 Side B:
Chamber Of Fear
Comeback

Disc 7 Side A:
The Clones
A Place Called Earth
Land of The Lost
Home Sweet Home

Disc 7 Side B:
Our Man O'Reilly
Nightmare

Disc 8 Side A:
Pay The Piper
The Secret City Of Limbo
Panic
The Deadly Dart

Disc 8 Side B:
Doomsday
A Small War

Disc 9 Side A:
The Marionettes
Wild Journey
Graveyard of Fools
Unaired Pilot


Bonus material includes:


Gary Conway Interviews:
The Series' Lasting Effects
The Influence of Gulliver's Travels on the Show
Fight Scene in the Cage
Humerous Moments
A Couple Memorable Episodes
Memories of Irwin

Don Marshall Interviews:
Acting and the Actors on the Show
Memories of Kurt Kasznar
Memories of Cast Members and the Director
Popularity of the Show in England
Presentation Reel
Special Effects Shots (no audio)

Irwin Allen Home Videos (no audio):
Meeting
Irwing Directing Actors in Interior Sets
Irwing Directing Actors in Exterior Sets
Rope Climbing
Escape Through the Tunnel
Glass Prison
Escape from the Giant Hand
Irwin Directing Forest Scene

Stefan Arngrim Interviews:
Irwin's Direction
Dogs
The Mechanical Hand
Directors Harry Harris and Sobey Martin
The Popularity of the Show
The Tone of the Show
The Concept of the Show
The Second Season
The Stunts and Effects
The Ship's Name

Don Matheson Interviews:
Perparation for Irwin's Shows
What Attracted Him to the Show
Imagination
Climbing the Rope
The Dog
Saying the Dialogue

Deanna Lund Interviews:
Her Appreciation of the Show
Acting on the Show
How She Got on the Show
Ballet in a Bird Cage
Her Friendship with Don Matheson
The High Cost of the Show
Where Did the Story Take Place?

Still Galleries:
Merchandise
Mad Magazine Parody
Publicity Photos
Episodic Photos
Deanna Lund Gallery


Episodes will be Full Frame (1.33:1), with English and Spanish mono audio tracks. List price is $199.98, which means you'll probably pay $130-$145 in stores. Please keep in mind the studio hasn't officially announced this set yet, and some of the information above may change.

Gord's Editorial
This is a significant release for Fox; it's the first time they've released multiple seasons in a deluxe "Complete Series" set (before releasing seasons or volumes first), and many people will be watching to see how well it sells. Hopefully it does well, and shows Fox, and the other studios, that fans are willing to plunk down money to buy the complete run of a show, and prefer this treatment over season sets (or in this case, season 1, volume 1, season 1, volume 2) that are collected over a few years.

Eric Paddon
April 12th, 2007, 02:40 PM
Two things about this I don't like. #1, the price is outrageous as it comes to $100 per season, and even if one finds it discounted down to $140 at some outlets it's still ridiculously overpricd.

#2, Fox's stubborn insistence on using double-sided discs when EVERY studio has had the common sense to abandon them at long last beacuse of their unreliability and frequent bad pressings. I have had many instances of one bad episode in sets of other Fox titles like "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea", "The Big Valley" and "Remington Steele" and sometimes it's meant buying another set. I would have to blitz my way through all 51 episodes in record time just to put my mind at ease about having a good set with no defects. That alone may be enough to scare me off from getting it for awhile.

Galactifan
April 14th, 2007, 03:00 AM
I'll be buying this DVD set for sure!

Galactifan
July 29th, 2007, 11:44 PM
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Galactifan
July 29th, 2007, 11:44 PM
Well, I picked up the Land of the Giants DVD box set. Pretty cool packaging. Now all I have to do is find the time to watch it!