starvenger 0 Report post Posted February 24, 2005 Credit to TV Shows on DVD Batman: The Animated Series - More Batman:TAS swings into action just before Batman Begins Posted by Gord Lacey 2/23/2005 Gotham City crime czars Scarface and Rupert Thorne battle evil masterminds like the Joker and the Penguin for money, power and respect. Kidnappings rise as foe-versus-foe attacks become more vindictive. And just when you thought you knew the good guys from the bad, the craziest villains try to go straight, triggering one dangerous blowout after another. Amidst all the terror one man walks the fine line between vengeance and justice as often as he balances his crimefighting persona and his billionaire playboy public life. This is the Batman series that introduced a new kind of super hero - cool, composed, uncompromising. Your Batman collection won't be complete without this compilation! Batman will be performing double-duty on May 24 when he appears in SuperFriends Season 2 and Batman: The Animated Series Volume 3! This release is timed to coincide with the 6/17 theatrical release of Batman Begins starring Christian Bale in the title role, and a wonderful list of supporting actors including Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Katie Holmes, Rutger Hauer and Ken Watanabe. Fans of the previous releases know what to expect with Volume 3; Full Frame (1:33:1) video, English, French and Spanish Dolby Stereo Surround audio tracks, and matching subtitles. The 4 disc set has a running time of 609 mins, though we expect that to be an error since there are 29 episodes left, and previous sets ran 624 and 625 mins long, and contained 28 episodes. We've compiled a list of the missing episodes and guessed at the order in which they may appear, based on the previous 2 releases: 557 Shadow of the Bat 561 Shadow of the Bat, Part II 558 Blind as a Bat 559 The Demon's Quest 563 The Demon's Quest, Part II 560 His Silicon Soul 562 Fire From Olympus 564 Read My Lips 565 The Worry Men 566 Sideshow 567 A Bullet for Bullock 568 Trial 569 Avatar 570 House And Garden 571 The Terrible Trio 572 Harlequinade 573 Time Out of Joint 574 Catwalk 575 Bane 576 Baby-Doll 577 The Lion & the Unicorn 578 Showdown 579 Riddler's Reform 580 Second Chance 581 Harley's Holiday 582 Lock-Up 583 Make 'Em Laugh 584 Deep Freeze 585 Batgirl Returns The previous sets have been placed in production order (the 5xx number), except where 2-part episodes occur. The set also sports some bonus features: Commentary on "Read my Lips" by Producer, Bruce Timm; Writer, Paul Dini; Director, Boyd Kirkland; Writer, Michael Reaves; and Composer, Shirley Walker Video Commentary on "House and Garden" by Producer, Bruce Timm; Writer, Paul Dini; Director, Boyd Kirkland; and Moderator, Jason Hillhouse Commentary on "Harlequinade" by Producer Bruce Timm; Writer, Paul Dini; and Composer, Shirley Walker Gotham's New Knight - Featurette on Batgirl as Batman's Newest Ally The TV Shows on DVD guys again All-New Super Friends Hour, The - Wonder Twin Powers, Activate! More Superfriends Episodes Head Home! Posted by Gord Lacey 2/23/2005 Only the combined superpowers of Earth's greatest heroes can stop the unthinkable dangers that jeopardize humanity in these 16 episodes from the beloved animated TV series! Superman, Batman and Robin, Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Zan and Jayna battle villains from the darkest regions of outer space to the depths of the ocean in their fight for truth and justice. They face extraordinary perils at the core of the Earth and defy the laws of nature to shrink to microscopic size to defeat a radioactive monster. Even Dracula returns from the grave to challenge the Super Friends to a showdown! And with this exciting compilation that boasts cool extras, you can join the Super Friends for the ultimate victory celebration! Warner Bros announced the release of SuperFriends - The 2nd Season for May 24. These are all 16 episodes from the 1978 run of the show featuring Zan & Jayna: The Wonder Twins! This 2 disc set (365 mins) carries a suggested retail price of $26.99, so expect to pay around $20 when Amazon and other e-tailers start taking orders. Running time is 365 minutes. The release will sport a full frame (1.33:1) transfer, and English mono audio, with English, French and Spanish subtitles. Two bonus features were announced: Pajama-Rama: Super Friends Retrospective - A group of pop culture enthusiasts and fun celebrities share their memories of the world's greatest team of '70's super-heroes, The Super Friends! The Ballad of Zan & Jayna - A wild and wacky music video celebrating the Wonder Twins, and of course, their pet primate Gleek! We'll post the cover art when it's available. Warner Bros will also lower the price of Challenge of the Super Friends - The 1st Season from $29.98 to $26.99 on the same day, and you can purchase both sets together for a $53.92 SRP. UPDATE:: For the confused among us - and we include ourselves in that number! - we have compiled a brief history of the various Superfriends shows, mostly based on the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB.com) and TVTome.com. We think this is pretty accurate, but if you know of an major errors, point us toward info that can back you up. SHOW HISTORY: 1973 saw the original Superfriends show, featuring the heros followed by non-powered kids Wendy & Marvin, and their pet Wonderdog. There are not too many cartoons in that series, and they were repeated quite a bit on and off until 1977's All-New Superfirends Hour came along. That is the show where the tag-along teens were first replaced by the Wonder Twins, Zan & Jayna, and their space-monkey Gleek. In 1978, the show continued, retitled as simply Superfriends. That season is the one which aired the episodes announced today for DVD release. At the same time, Challenge of the Superfriends was running adjacent to this, featuring the episodes of the Justice League of America vs. The Legion of Doom. All 16 of *those* episodes are already on DVD in Challenge of the Superfriends - The 1st Season. Since they call that "the first season" and the new title "the second season", we honestly can't tell if Warner means to ignore the 1973 Wendy/Marvin/Wonderdog installments totally. Zan, Jayna, & Gleek continued in 1979's World's Greatest Superfriends, with a few new episodes mixed with repeats of the older ones. 1980 saw more than 60 new shorts (under 10 minutes each in length) made featuring just the heroes, with no teenage sidekicks, and those were combined with old episodes into a new Superfriends Hour show. But then that show was shortened to a half-hour for 1981-83 and the show went under various names, accompanied by maybe about two dozen more new shorts...some of which were never aired in the original rotation, but which aired later in syndication. Then, in 1984, ABC wanted to revitalize the series, and that's when they did Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, using the new DC Comics name from the action figure lineup that was being marketed at the time. The cartoons mainly featured the heroes from the toy line, so now Cyborg (from the "Teen Titans" comics) and Firestorm (from "Firestorm: The Nuclear Man") were on the team. There were only 15 episodes produced under that name, and then they finished up the SuperFriends' TV run with The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians. That 1985 show had more of the heroes who hadn't been seen the previous year, especially fan favorites who had mostly been missing since Challenge, like Flash, Green Lantern, and Hawkman. There were approximately 10 episodes of that show. Batman - awesome!! Superfriends - cheesey awesome!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Boner Kawanger 0 Report post Posted February 24, 2005 Looking forward to the Ra's al Guhl episodes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toshiaki Koala 0 Report post Posted February 24, 2005 Baby Doll~! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dubq 0 Report post Posted February 25, 2005 Question: anyone know if the episodes from "The New Batman/Superman Adventures" [aka Batman: Gotham Knights] with Nightwing et al will be released as Volume 4? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
starvenger 0 Report post Posted February 25, 2005 I'd say that it's almost a given... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dubq 0 Report post Posted February 25, 2005 Hope so. Here's hoping we also get a season treatment for Batman Beyond in the future. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
