by O.Supreme » Fri Apr 14, 2017 12:05 pm
Greetings All,
ok so I'm all kids of crazy about stats and numbers, so I decided researching what has been released on DVD thus far between classic Rhino releases & S!F. I am also aware that S!F has been pretty good about going back and releasing some of the OOP Rhino sets, there were 12, and they are about to release #5, still its a bit disconcerting that with the release of Volume 38, that content for a 39th DVD set was not revealed (as is customary)...hopefully when the Vol5 re-release comes out in May we may get some news...
So basically of the 38 volumes released to date there have been 153 episodes released. Now I know there are quite a few individual releases as well, and in addition there is the infamous Vol 10 (Godzilla vs Megalon) which was pulled almost immediately due to rights issues, but still it was released. So when you consider the classic season 1-10 (not counting KTMA "season 0" shows since they will most likely never be released) you take 176 episodes. 176-153=23. So...we have 23 classic episodes not released on any box set thus far...and they are:
106 The Crawling Hand
201 Rocketship X-M
209 The Hellcats
213 Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster
309 The Mazing Colossal Man
311 It Conquered The World
321 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
416 Fire Maidens From Outer Space
418 Attack of The The Eye Creatures
424 Manos: The Hands of Fate
506 Eegah
507 I Accuse My Parents
515 The Wild World of Batwoman
517 Beginning of the End
601 Girls Town
619 Red Zone Cuba
623 The Amazing Transparent Man
807 Terror from the Year 5000
809 I was a Teenage Werewolf
905 The Deadly Bees
906 The Space Children
913 Quest of the Delta Knights
1013 Diabolik
Now of these 23, -nine have been previously released on DVD as singles by eiher Rhino S!F or both. and one (#309 The Amazing Colossal Man) was released only as a Rhino VHS. So there are 13 shows total that have never been released in any home video format:
201 Rocketship X-M
213 Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster
311 It Conquered The World
416 Fire Maidens From Outer Space
418 Attack of The The Eye Creatures
601 Girls Town
623 The Amazing Transparent Man
807 Terror from the Year 5000
809 I was a Teenage Werewolf
905 The Deadly Bees
906 The Space Children
913 Quest of the Delta Knights
1013 Diabolik
Now we all know S!F has been working tirelessly to obtain rights to certain films in order to get them approved for release on DVD. however it appears that currently, they have enough based on previous DVD releases to release at least 2 more box set volumes. Perhaps they could release one set of collected previously released films, while trying to secure rights to others , and just alternate-thus the releases keep coming, and they get more time to try to negotiate with film studios etc...
Also, what does anyone think of the unlikely, but interesting prospect of future dvd releases being *sprinkled* with some of the new Netflix episodes? You could have a Joel Ep, a Mike Ep, and 2 Joneh Eps all on one DVD set...?
Sorry for all the rambling, but I just like to see projects finished, and I'd love one way or another to see all of MST3K released on home media. they've come way further than I thought they ever would, and now the show is back, so I don't see why it cant happen, eventually.
There are no more good TV Shows, only ones that haven't disappointed me yet.