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The Invaders
Season One -
4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
Season Two -
6 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23
The Invaders is a 60's science fiction series
which originally ran for two seasons. The first episode was aired January
10th 1967 and the last, March 26th 1968 - 17 episodes in Season I, followed
by 26 episodes in Season II Very much a period piece, reflecting the
public concerns of the time, it draws influence both from America's first
missions into space which made ordinary people think about the possibility of
contact with life from other planets, and also from the paranoia of "Reds under the Beds"
brought on at the height of the Cold War. David Vincent, an architect returning home
after a hard, hard day parks his car in an old ghost town in order to rest
for a while before continue driving. Suddenly, in the middle of the night,
something awakes him, a strange object, non human, that is landing in front
of his eyes. From this moment he will be trying to persuade a skeptic world
that the invasion of our planet is going on; that the nightmare has begun. Note that all episodes from both Seasons are included on the 10 discs below (Season I
had only 17 episodes) - Excellent Color Picture & Sound Season
One - 4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35
or US$35 or £18 The Invaders (Season I) Disc No. 1 Beachhead The
Experiment - costarring Roddy McDowell The
Mutation The
Leeches The Invaders (Season I) Disc No. 2 Genesis Vikor -
costarring Jack Lord Nightmare Doomsday
Minus One The Invaders (Season I) Disc No. 3 Quantity:
Unknown - costarring James Whitmore The
Innocent - costarring Michael Rennie The Ivy
Curtain - costarring Jack Warden The
Betrayed The Invaders (Season I) Disc No. 4 Storm Panic Moonshot Wall of
Crystal The
Condemned - costarring Ralph Bellamy Season Two - 6 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$45
or US$45 or £23
The
Invaders (Season II) Disc No. 1 Condition:
Red The
Saucer - costarring Anne Francis The
Watchers - costarring Kevin McCarthy Valley of
the Shadow The
Invaders (Season II) Disc No. 2 The Enemy The Trial The
Spores - costarring Gene Hackman !! Dark
Outpost The
Invaders (Season II) Disc No. 3 Summit
Meeting - Part I - costarring Michael Rennie Summit
Meeting - Part II - costarring Michael Rennie The Prophet Labyrinth
- costarring Sally Kellerman The
Captive - costarring Dana Wynter & Fritz Weaver The
Invaders (Season II) Disc No. 4 The
Believers The
Ransom Task
Force The
Possessed Counter-Attack The
Invaders (Season II) Disc No. 5 The Pit The
Organization The
Peacemaker The Vise The
Invaders (Season II) Disc No. 6 The
Miracle The Life
Seekers The
Pursued Inquisition |
Jet Jackson - see Captain Midnight in the TV Series A - H Section
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Johnny Midnight
1 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$20
or US$20 or £10
A
Broadway star decides to change careers and become a private detective and
use his stage name of Johnny Midnight. His cases frequently bring him to the
vicinity of Times Square and Broadway's theatre district, the same area where
he had enjoyed many of the thespain triumphs of his former career. Johnny
lives in a plush Manhattan penthouse with a stunning view of the city and has
a wise-cracking young Japanese man for a "houseboy". The moody,
haunting version off "The Lullabye of Broadway" from the 1935 film
"Gold Diggers of Broadway" serves as a quite effective theme song.
Such is the set up for the 1959-60 thirty minute TV series Johnny
Midnight. Skilled
character actor Edmond O'Brien plays Johnny Midnight in true noir style
narrating his adventures in the classic Bogart voice-over style. Edmond O'Brien was famous for his tough noir roles on the big
screen, notably his starring roles in The Web (1947), Fighter
Squadron (1948), Backfire (1950), D.O.A. (1950), 711 Ocean Drive (1950),
Between Midnight and Dawn (1950), Two of a Kind (1951), The Turning Point
(1952), Denver & Rio Grande (1952), The Hitch-Hiker (1953), China Venture
(1953), The Bigamist (1953), The Shanghai Story (1954), Shield for Murder
(1954), 1984 (1956) & A Cry in the Night (1956). Then there are his earlier "breakout"
roles in A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941), Parachute Battalion
(1941), Obliging Young Lady (1942), Powder Town (1942) & The Amazing Mrs.
Holliday (1943) É.. All of which are available from
the INDIVIDUAL MOVIE TITLES section
of this website. Nice
set of prints Johnny
Midnight Disc X Equals
Murder (Pilot Episode - taken from a very nice 16 mm print) The
Villain of the Piece Award for
Murder The 9th
Doll The
Emerald Star A Token
of Love Schatzi Ding-a-Ling An
Old-Fashioned Frame The
Whammy Note that this DVD is also
part of "The 50's TV Detectives" 4 DVD set - see
below (under "F" for 50's) |
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NEW SET OF PRINTS - PERFECT & GREAT! Previously customers of this title are
entitled to gratis upgrades Johnny Staccato
3 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$30
or US$30 or £15
"A smooth man on the ivories, hot on the
trigger, and cool in a jam," so the paperback tie-in for the 1959-60
television series Johnny Staccato describes its protagonist. "He's the
toughest private eye to hit America in a decade." Johnny Staccato was a pianist who played at
Waldo's, a Greenwich Village jazz hangout in a stylish, moody, TV show that
still remains a cult favourite. Staccato who was played by the then young but
headed-for-greatness John Cassavetes, supplemented his income as a musician
by taking on detective work. Jazz played a big part in the show's charm.
There were numerous performances by the Pete Candoli combo, which featured
musicians Ray Brown, Barney Kessel and Red Norvo at the time. The theme was
composed by Elmer Bernstein Gone, but not forgotten, particularly by the
Europeans, who found something in the show's jazz-tinged moodiness that
Americans seem to have missed. It only lasted one season on NBC, despite ABC
picking it up for repeats, and all the glowing reviews in Europe counted
little Cassavetes received some artistic control over the
show, relatively unheard of at the time for an actor. He participated in
story development and directed a number of the episodes. But when a
controversial episode on drug addiction was pulled, Cassavetes had enough and
proceeded to criticise the sponsors and the production company in the press
in order to get out of his contract. As such only one season of 27 episodes was
produced Johnny
Staccato Disc No. 1 The Naked
Truth Murder
for Credit - costarrring Charles McGraw & Martin Landau The
Parents The Shop
of the Four Winds Nature of
the Night Viva,
Paco! Evil Murder in
Hi-fi Fly Baby,
Fly Johnny
Staccato Disc No. 2 Tempted -
costarrring Elizabeth Montgomery The
Poet's Touch A Piece
of Paradise The
Return The
Unwise Men Collector's
Item The Man
in the Pit The Only
Witness Night of
Jeopardy Johnny
Staccato Disc No. 3 Double
Feature The List
of Death Solomon An Act of
Terror An Angry
Young Man The Mask
of Jason - costarrring Mary Tyler Moore A Nice
Little Town Swinging
Long Hair The Wild
Reed - costarrring Harry Guardino |
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Jungle Jim
4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35
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Following a series of 16 successful Jungle Jim
movies over 7 years, a syndicated Jungle Jim TV series debuted in 1955.
Johnny Weissmuller recreated his role as Jim and two new characters were
added: Jim's son Skipper and a Hindu assistant named Kaseem. Lots of action and adventure with Jim "doin'
his thing". Trev well remembers his first viewing of this
series and the after-school excitement that it engendered (Skipper
parachuting down to render First Aid while Jim lands his seaplane in a nearby
river!) The entire series of 26 episodes is presented here
in its original telecast order (from Sept. 1955 to March 1956) Special Note about Print Quality: Trev's
original 2003 mastery of this series (to 3 DVDs) was not in telecast order
(and I used slightly different names for some of the eps). That set has since become "heavily
bootlegged". In an effort to stay ahead of these
"thoughtless opportunists", Trev has returned to his original
collection of episodes and has this time remastered the set onto 4 DVDs and
at the same time used digital enhancement technology to improve the picture
and all-round presentation of this wonderful adventure series (Trev's second
favourite after Jet Jackson). Nevertheless some of the episodes are still not
the greatest of prints (but still nicely viewable) and so I'd say that the
quality of these episodes is still in the 7 to 8 range (out of 10). Jungle
Jim TV Series (starring Johnny Weissmuller) Disc No. 1 Man
Killer Land of
Terror Treasure
of the Amazon Lagoon of
Death A Fortune
in Ivory Jungle
Justice Jungle
Jim TV Series (starring Johnny Weissmuller) Disc No. 2 The Eyes
of Manobo The
King's Ghost White
Magic The
Deadly Idol Leopard's
Paw Man from
Zanzibar Jungle
Jim TV Series (starring Johnny Weissmuller) Disc No. 3 Precious
Cargo The
Golden Parasol Code of
the Jungle Wild Man
of the Jungle Safari
into Danger Blood
Money Striped
Fury Jungle
Jim TV Series (starring Johnny Weissmuller) Disc No. 4 The Sacred Scarab Voodoo Drums The Avenger Return of the Tauregs The Silver Locket Gift of Evil Power of Darkness |
NEWLY REMASTERED
Beautifully transcoded (PAL to NTSC) -
looks good on big TVs! Kidnapped (starring David McCallum)
2 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$25
or US$25 or £13
"Culloden
was the HighlanderÕs holocaust. Here, on a lonely moor outside Inverness on
April 16, 1746, Bonnie Prince CharlieÕs exhausted, hungry force of 5,000 men
was finally crushed, outnumbered two to one by a well-equipped army commanded
by 'Butcher' Cumberland, son of EnglandÕs George II. The days that followed,
immortalized by Robert Louis StevensonÕs epic drama Kidnapped, were
dangerous, uncertain times. Highlanders were outlawed, their colourful
costume forbidden by law" An
ambitious serialization of StevensonÕs epic story, produced by HTV West in
association with Tele-munchen of West German was made in 1978. Consisting of
13 twenty-five minute episodes, it starred David " Illya
Kuryakin" McCallum as Alan Breck, now on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at
Culloden. He meets up with young David Balfour (German actor Ekkehardt Belle)
who has been shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Their journey
to Edinburgh whilst dodging Redcoats along the way becomes the gist of this
excellent mini-series. The
impressive cast also features French teenage actress Aude Landry as Catriona,
the daughter a Highland rebel, torn between her love for David and loyalty to
her father. An
all-star support cast includes Patrick Magee, Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen,
Andrew Keir & Jack Watson For
David McCallum
now standing heroic in the tartan of Alan Breck, the fearless, fighting
veteran of Culloden, itÕs a return to his roots. McCallum was born in Glasgow
and for a time lived in various parts of Scotland including Loch Lomond. And
yes, he has relatives still living in Scotland and there is actually a
McCallum clan! This
well-produced series from Harlech Television is must for fans for David McCallum - he excels in this action packed
adventure which seems to have been almost tailor-made for him. Harlech
Television (HTV) was also responsible for two other excellent TV series: Arthur
of the Britons
starring Oliver Tobias in 1972/1973 and Smuggler starring (again) Oliver Tobias in
1981 - both of which are available from this website Kidnapped
Disc No. 1 Episode
No. 1: Uncle Ebenezer Episode
No. 2: Captain Hoseason Episode
No. 3: The Voyage Episode
No. 4: The Stranger Episode
No. 5: Murder Episode
No. 6: Escape Episode
No. 7: Over the Highlands Kidnapped
Disc No. 2 Episode
No. 8: Prestongrange Episode
No. 9: Suspicion Episode
No. 10: Prisoner Episode
No. 11: The Trial Episode
No. 12: A Far Cry Episode
No. 13: The Choice |
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - see The Night Stalker below
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The Lone Ranger (Season 1)
6 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$45
or US$45 or £23
"A fiery horse with
the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty "Hi Yo Silver!"
The Lone Ranger. "Hi Yo Silver, away!" With his faithful Indian
companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains, led
the fight for law and order in the early west. Return with us now to those
thrilling days of yesteryear. The Lone Ranger rides again!" Perhaps the most famous Western
of all is The Lone Ranger. It was the tale of the mysterious masked man and
his faithful Indian companion and their efforts to maintain law and order
throughout the West. It came to TV in 1949 in a series of half-hour films
epitomizing the good guys vs. the bad guys Western theme. In the beginning, six Texas
Rangers led by Captain Dan Reid in search of a bunch of outlaws known as the
Cavendish gang are ambushed at Bryant's Gap. All of the Rangers are shot and
left for dead. A Mohawk Indian, Tonto, comes upon the massacre and discovers
one Lone Ranger still alive. Tonto carries the seriously wounded man to a
cave and nurses him back to health. John Reid, the surviving ranger, tells
his story to Tonto, and later tears a piece of black material from his dead
brother Dan Reid's vest and makes a mask which enabled him to hide his
identity and to pose as an outlaw to get near the gang. Later, Reid and Tonto
learn most of the outlaws had been hanged or imprisoned. To symbolize the
massacre at Bryant's Gap, The Lone Ranger never removed his mask and
continued to pursue outlaws and defend justice every week with his faithful
Indian companion Tonto, his equally faithful steed Silver, and his legendary
silver bullets, never fired in anger. After a long and successful radio and comic
book career, The Lone Ranger came to TV in 1949. In an ambitious project, 52 initial episodes
were filmed for the 1949 / '50 Season. Well shot on a good budget and with
deft scripting developed from the successful radio series (as penned by the
legendary Fran Striker), The Lone Ranger was off to a good start. Not the least of which was
a three part story arc recounting the origins of The Lone Ranger, Tonto &
(horse) Silver and as told the first three episodes: (Enter The Lone Ranger,
The Lone Ranger Fights On, The Lone Ranger's Triumph). A record 221 episodes were filmed between
1949 and 1955 (182 in B&W and 39 in color) This set consists of the first (and best)
Season. Picture (B&W) & Sound are
both perfect (Also worth a look: at the
conclusion of the TV Series, The Lone Ranger moved to the big screen with two
Technicolor outings: The Lone Ranger (1956), The Lone Ranger and the Lost
City of Gold (1958) - both of these
films are available from within the INDIVIDUAL MOVIE TITLES section of this website) The
Lone Ranger TV Series (Season 1) Disc No. 1 Enter
the Lone Ranger The
Lone Ranger Fights On The
Lone Ranger's Triumph Legion
of Old Timers Rustlers'
Hideout War
Horse Pete
and Pedro The Renegades The
Lone Ranger TV Series (Season 1) Disc No. 2 The
Tenderfeet High
Heels Six
Gun's Legacy The
Return of the Convict Finders
Keepers The
Masked Rider Old
Joe's Sister Cannonball
McKay The Man
Who Came Back The
Lone Ranger TV Series (Season 1) Disc No. 3 Outlaw
Town Greed
for Gold Man of
the House Barnaby
Boggs, Esquire Sheep
Thieves Jim
Tyler's Past The Man
With Two Faces Buried
Treasure Troubled
Waters The
Lone Ranger TV Series (Season 1) Disc No. 4 Gold
Train Pay
Dirt Billie
the Great Never
Say Die Gold
Fever Death
Trap Matter
of Courage Rifles
and Renegades The
Lone Ranger TV Series (Season 1) Disc No. 5 Bullets
for Ballots The
Black Hat Devil's
Pass Spanish
Gold Damsels
in Distress Man
Without a Gun Pardon
for Curley Eye for
an Eye Outlaw of
the Plains The
Lone Ranger TV Series (Season 1) Disc No. 6 White
Man's Magic Trouble
for Tonto Sheriff
of Gunstock The
Wrong Man The
Beeler Gang The
Star Witness The
Black Widow The
Whimsical Bandit Double
Jeopardy |
The Lone Wolf
4 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
Based
on the stories by Louis Joseph Vance, this US detective series consisted of
39 (B&W) episodes each of 25 minutes duration. Produced in 1955 it
starred the former top-line film star Louis Hayward as Michael Lanyard, a
globe-trotting gentleman rogue who fights crime. The Lone Wolf used a coin as
a calling card - on it was the image of a wolf with the words "The Lone
Wolf" inscribed on the circumference. Louis Hayward has a powerful
presence in this series, sometimes not unlike his standout starring role in
The Saint in New York (1939). ItÕs
a well budgeted TV series with interesting outdoor locales throughout. This
4 DVD set contains all 39 episodes of the series Great
Print Quality throughout The
Movie Series of The Lone Wolf is also available from this website (Movie Series
A-M section) The
Lone Wolf TV Series (starring Louis Hayward) Disc No. 1 The Long
Beach Story The
Avalanche Story - costarring Ernest Borgnine The
Chinese Story The
Carnival Story The Blue
Lantern Story The Ski
Story The
Plantation Story Pursuit The Malibu
Story The
Murder Story - costarring DeForest Kelley The
Lone Wolf TV Series (starring Louis Hayward) Disc No. 2 The
Honolulu Story Skid Row The Arena The
Karachi Story The Las
Vegas Story - costarring Nancy Malone The
Italian Story The Hunt The Oil Story The Boy
Story The
Emerald Ring The
Lone Wolf TV Series (starring Louis Hayward) Disc No. 3 The
Department Store Story The
Mexico Story The Art
Story The
Carlsbad Big Lie Story The Last
Ballet Story The
Beverly Hills Story The Jet
Story The San
Francisco Story - costarring Ted DeCorsia The
Savage Deep Sea
Diving The
Lone Wolf TV Series (starring Louis Hayward) Disc No. 4 The Werewolf Story The Stamp Story The Minister Story The Robbery Story The Wife Story The Planetarium Story The San Pedro Story The Runaway Story The Newhall Story |
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The Man Called X
3 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$30
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Before anyone had ever heard of James Bond, audiences
thrilled to the daring adventures of The Man Called X, radio's greatest
espionage series. Created by Jay Richard Kennedy, it featured Hollywood great
Herbert Marshall as agent Ken Thurston, "the man who crosses the ocean
as readily as you and I cross town". It ran on CBS and then NBC radio
networks from 1944 until 1952. In 1956 ZIV brought the character to TV screens
with movie veteran Barry Sullivan taking the role of Ken Thurston in 39
exciting and well written episodes. The series benefited from ZIV's polish
and production values with extensive outdoor scenes being a feature of a show
that would take the viewer to a different corner of the globe each week "Wherever there is mystery, adventure,
intrigue, in all the strange and dangerous places in the world, there you
will find -- The Man Called X" This set consists of the only 28 episodes still
known to be in existence. Each is uncut and of good quality. Also worth a look : The Man Called X Radio Shows - check out the Old
Time Radio section of this website.
These shows have been digitally restored & come on MP3 CDs which work in
your DVD player. The shows are free - with conditions. Check out the Old
Time Radio section for further details The
Man Called X Disc No. 1 Assassination Truth
Serum Afghanistan Embassy Dangerous Provocateur Local
Hero Maps U.S.
Planes Acoustics The
Man Called X Disc No. 2 The
General Enemy
Agent Operation
Janus Staff
Headquarters Underground Spare
Parts Fallout Speech Ship
Sabotage The
Man Called X Disc No. 3 Rendezvous Switzerland Code
"W" Gas Masks Murder Train
Blow Up Powder
Keg Passport Voice on
Tape |
The Man From
U.N.C.L.E. (Season 1)
6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23
For four seasons (1964 - 68), Napoleon Solo (Robert
Vaughn) and Illya
Kuryakin (David McCallum), agents for U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law-Enforcement)
were locked in a weekly derring-do battle with the nefarious schemes of T.H.R.U.S.H. (Technological Hierarchy for the
Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity). The series was a
hit and has since become a cult favorite. The first season was shot in beautiful
B&W with the remaining seasons in color. This listing is for Season 1 only - the
best season - all 29 B&W episodes from Season 1 are presented here in
their original telecast order. All 29 episodes are of exceptional quality. Disc No. 1 The Vulcan Affair The Iowa-Scuba Affair The Quadripartite Affair The Shark Affair Disc No. 2 The Deadly Games Affair The Green Opal Affair The Giuoco Piano Affair The Double Affair The Project Strigas Affair Disc No. 3 The Finny Foot Affair The Neptune Affair The Dove Affair The King of Knaves Affair The Terbuf Affair Disc No. 4 The Deadly Decoy Affair The Fiddlesticks Affair The Yellow Scarf Affair The Mad, Mad Tea Party Affair The Secret Sceptre Affair Disc No. 5 The Bow-Wow Affair The Four-Steps Affair See-Paris-and-Die Affair The Brain-Killer Affair The Hong Kong Shilling Affair Disc No. 6 The Never-Never Affair The Love Affair The Gazebo in the Maze Affair The Girls of Nazarone Affair The Odd Man Affair |
Manhunt
6 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$45
or US$45 or £23
Manhunt was a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes,
produced by London Weekend Television in 1969. This tense drama captures the
ever-present fear and the complex personal dilemmas experienced by those
caught up in the tragedy of occupation. British pilot Jimmy Porter
(Alfred Lynch) crashes his aeroplane in occupied France and immediately finds
himself on the run from the Nazis. He meets a young girl, Nina (Cyd Hayman),
a part-Jewish agent with important information, and vows to get her back to
Britain. He is helped by another agent, code-named Vincent, (Peter Barkworth)
and pursued across France by S.S. Officer Lutzig (Philip Madoc), and the ambivalent
Abwehr Sgt. Gratz (Robert Hardy), a complex psychological character who has
fallen in love with Nina. The musical theme was taken from
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which features the famous rhythm used to
introduce radio broadcasts to Nazi occupied territories, and also signifies
the letter "V", for Victory, in Morse Code. The series constructed along the lines of a
serial consisted of 26 fifty minute color episodes This 6 DVD set contains the entire series
of 50 minute episodes of Manhunt in their original broadcast order - very
nice color prints throughout Manhunt
Disc No. 1 Fare
Forward Voyagers Break-Up Only
the Dead Survive What
Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Manhunt
Disc No. 2 One
More River Open
House Better
Doubt Than Die A
Different Kind of War Manhunt
Disc No. 3 Betrayal With a
Sort of Love The
Price of Resistance The
Enemy You Know A Way
to Die Manhunt
Disc No. 4 One Way
Home Little
Man, Big Gun - Part One Little
Man, Big Gun - Part Two The
Ugly Side of War Manhunt
Disc No. 5 Confessional The
Death-Wish Machine Degrade
and Rule Manhunt
Disc No. 6 Intent
to Steal The
Train May Be Late Little
Man, What Next? - Part One Little
Man, What Next? - Part Two The
Losers |
Man in a
Suitcase
6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23
A fully certified "cult" series is Man
in a Suitcase, an
ITC series from 1967 that has withstood the test of time and to this day
retains its gritty freshness. From the same stable that brought forth
reliable hits such as The Baron, Department S, The Champions, Return of
The Saint & Strange Report, Man in a Suitcase starred US actor Richard Bradford as ex CIA agent
McGill or "Mac" (his first name is never revealed). Straight
forward and almost "in-your-face" in style, Man in a Suitcase
relies on good stories in an action/adventure format. McGill had been forced to resign from the
service six years prior to the opening episode, practically accused of
treason. Unable to clear his name or return to the USA, McGill makes ends
meet by working as a traveling private detective and bounty hunter, based in
Britain, living out of his suitcase (hence the title). His cases generally
took him to different parts of Europe and on a couple of occasions to Africa. In the first episode, "Man from the
Dead", we discover the reason for McGill's disgrace. During an
assignment six years previously, he learned that a top Western scientist
called LeFarbe was preparing to defect to the USSR. Though he planned to
intercept the defector, he was ordered to stand down by his superior Harry Thyssen.
Shortly afterwards, LeFarbe went over to the Russians. Accused of complicity
in the defection, McGill was unable to call on Thyssen to clear his name, as
his superior had been drowned in a sailing accident, and he was forced to
resign from the service amid much negative publicity. Now, six years on,
McGill discovers that Thyssen may still be alive! (no spoilers here) Building on this foundation, Man in a
Suitcase was a series very much about betrayal, mistrust and deceit. Because
of his unofficial, semi-legal status, McGill often found himself being hired
by unscrupulous clients and unwittingly used for criminal ends, or set up as
a fall guy. On several occasions, characters from his past with US
Intelligence drew him into dangerous situations; and he could also be
blackmailed or tricked into participating in espionage missions, as he was
the perfect deniable operative. A number of the series writers were new to
ITC, and this resulted in a show that was markedly different to the usual
light-hearted adventure and espionage fantasy of such series. It highlighted
character-based drama grounded in a cynical view of the real world, making it
more akin to the spy novels of John le CarrŽ and Len Deighton. As developed by Bradford, the
characterization of McGill was complex. As a man who felt betrayed by life
and his country, he could appear outwardly as surly, moody and
uncommunicative. But this masked a sensitive interior. McGill felt compassion
for those who were the victims in his cases, and would try to help them,
often to his own cost. The level of violence portrayed in the show
was unprecedented for an ITC series. This was partly because of Bradford's
concerns that the stories and characters should remain real. Unlike most TV
action heroes of the time, McGill would get "knocked around" quite
a bit in most episodes - Bradford took great pains to depict the character as
wounded and concussed (just like with today's Bruce Willis character, John
McClane). In addition to beatings, McGill is several times shot and stabbed,
and ends more than one episode recovering in hospital. The series was unusual in its use of
night-time filming (as opposed to the "day for night with filters"
approach common at the time). Actual locations included London's South Bank
(Man from the Dead) and Kingston-upon-Thames (Day of Execution), the latter a
setting for a remarkable (for its time) night-time car chase. A number of episodes were helmed by the
legendary Charles Crichton (he of The
Lavender Hill Mob and A Fish Called Wanda). Second unit direction
mostly came from eventual James Bond director, John Glen - but Man in a
Suitcase managed to stay well away from the James Bond elements which were
sometimes seen in The Saint and Danger Man. Bradford himself gives an
excellent and underrated performance as McGill. A distinctive feature of the
show was the theme tune composed by Ron Grainer, a catchy, jazzy number. Note
that the complete series of The Baron, Department S, The Champions, Return of
The Saint & Strange Report is also available from this website This 6 DVD set contains the entire series
of thirty 50 minute episodes of Man in a Suitcase in their original broadcast
order - superb color prints throughout Disc No. 1 Man from the Dead All That Glitters Sweet Sue The Bridge Find the Lady Disc No. 2 Brainwash The Girl Who Never Was Variation on a Million Bucks (Part 1) - costarring Ron
Randell Variation on a Million Bucks (Part 2) - costarring Ron
Randell Day of Execution - costarring Donald Sutherland Disc No. 3 Web with Four Spiders Blind Spot The Boston Square Jigsaw Man The Sitting Pigeon Disc No. 4 The Man Who Stood Still Somebody Loses, Somebody ... Wins? Dead Man's Shoes The Whisper Essay in Evil Disc No. 5 Why They Killed Nolan Burden of Proof Who's Mad Now? Property of a Gentleman No Friend of Mine Disc No. 6 Which Way Did He Go, McGill? - costarring Donald
Sutherland The Revolutionaries Three Blinks of the Eye Castle in the Clouds - costarring Edward Fox Night Flight to Andorra |
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Michael Shayne
1 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$20
or US$20 or £10
Brett Halliday's contemporary private eye
character, Michael Shayne was the basis for 7 well received movies in the
early 40's - see Movie Series section. He became Story Consultant for the
Michael Shayne TV series (1960 - 61). This popular series of 1 hour episodes
starred Richard Denning in the title role, ably supported by strong
supporting cast (including Jerry Paris). Interesting guest stars included
Burt Reynolds, Mona Freeman, Warren Oates and Adam "Batman" West as
a florist! It was set in Miami and benefited from Four Star's strong
production values. Note
that this DVD is also part of a 4 DVD set which includes the Michael Shayne
films -
it can be found in the Movie Series section of this website Michael
Shayne TV Series (starring Richard Denning) The Boat
Caper - guest stars : Burt
Reynolds, Stephen McNally Murder
'Round My Wrist - guest star : Warren Oates Date With
Death - guest star : Jack
Kruschen Blood on
Biscayne Bay - guest star : Mona Freeman Murder in
Wonderland - guest star : Anthony Caruso |
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Mickey Mouse
Club Serials: Spin and Marty & The Hardy Boys
Volume One
(Disc Nos. 1 to 4) 4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
Volume Two
(Disc Nos. 1 & 2) 2 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$25 or US$25 or £13
Volume Three
(Disc Nos. 3 & 4) 2 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$25 or US$25 or £13
The Mickey Mouse Club was a 1950s Walt Disney hour long TV series that ran each afternoon,
Monday to Friday. It was a variety show for children, with regular features:
a newsreel, a cartoon, and a serial, as well as music, talent and comedy
segments. Best remembered were the
serials. In each quarter-hour episode, teens faced challenges in everyday
situations, often overcome by their common sense or through recourse to the
advice of respected elders. Most importantly these serials were full of
action and adventure - and are well remembered by babyboomers for being both
exciting É and fun! Far and away the most popular
of the serials were the first two: á The
Adventures of Spin and Marty á The
Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure The 1942 novel ÔMarty MarkhamÕ
by Lawrence Edward Watkin became the
basis for the first serial in the Mickey Mouse Club: The Adventures
of Spin and Marty. Set at the Triple R
Ranch, a boys' western-style summer camp, the series starred David
Stollery as the rich, orphaned Martin
"Marty" Markham and Tim Considine as the poorer Spin Evans, the most athletic and
popular boy at the Triple R Ranch. When the pampered Marty first arrives at
the ranch in a chauffeur-driven limousine, his contemptuous dismissal of the
dude ranch as a "dirty old farm" and evident fear of horses result
in his ostracism by the other boys, led by Spin. By the end of the series,
however, Marty overcomes his fears and wins acceptance, becoming close
friends with his erstwhile foe, Spin. The serial rewarded Western
fans by the involvement of two Òlegends of the Big Screen RangeÓ: Roy
Barcroft (as Triple R owner Col. Logan)
& Harry Carey, Jr. (as
popular counselor Bill Burnett) The Adventures of Spin and
Marty began with an ÒA IntroductionÓ
episode on Friday 4th November 1955. Martin "Marty"
Markham and Tim Considine talked about the program and showed clips from the
upcoming episodes. The serial formally began the following Monday 7th
November and consisted of 25 twelve-minute episodes. The second serial within the
Mickey Mouse Club was called ÔThe Mystery of the Applegate TreasureÕ and it starred Tim Considine and Tommy Kirk as Frank and Joe Hardy, a believable pair of
adolescent sleuths who want to follow in the footsteps of their father, PI
Fenton Hardy. Summer vacation in the little town of Bayport seems boring
until Frank and Joe run into Perry Robinson, a new kid in their neighborhood,
who them leads into the search for the long-lost pirate treasure of local
eccentric Silas Applegate. There's plenty of daring-do, suitably sinister
villains, clues, and comedy. Better known as The Hardy Boys, the characters were created by Edward
Stratemeyer and the books were written
by many different ghostwriters over the years, but published under the
collective pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon. The initial series of The Hardy
Boys Mystery Stories where published by Grosset & Dunlap and ran from 1927 to 1979, comprising 58
hard-cover publications. Whilst the books were immensely popular, the newly
emerging media of Television gave the boys their biggest audience when in
1956, Walt Disney contracted with the Stratemeyer Syndicate to produce a
Hardy Boys TV serial, ÔThe Mystery of the Applegate TreasureÕ. The script,
written by Jackson Gillis (who
also penned The Adventures of Spin and Marty) was based on the first Hardy
Boys book, The Tower Treasure. Just as with the early serial,
it began with an ÒAn IntroductionÓ episode on Monday 1st October 1956. Tim
Considine and Tommy Kirk talked about the program and showed clips from the
upcoming episodes. The serial formally commenced the following day, Tuesday 2nd
October and consisted of 19 episodes of 12 minutes each. There are three Volume options here: Volume One: A 4 DVD set comprising both
serials (Spin and Marty & The Hardy Boys) Volume Two: A 2 DVD set comprising The
Adventures of Spin and Marty Volume Three: A 2 DVD set comprising The
Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure Excellent B&W prints throughout! Disc No. 1 - The Adventures of Spin and Marty An Introduction The "Triple R" The Misfit The White Stallion A Froggy Day The Battle A Surprise Decision Homesick Logan's Lesson The Chase Ride-'Em-Cowboy The Snipe Hunt The Secret Ride Disc No. 2 - The Adventures of Spin and Marty Tragedy! Perkins' Decision Tossing the Calf Rope Artist Nothing Happens on Sunday Perkins and the Bear Runaway! Haunted Valley The Live Ghost The Big Rodeo Off on the Wrong Foot Skyrocket's Trick The Last Campfire Disc No. 3 - The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the
Applegate Treasure An Introduction The Stranger A Real Case The First Clue The Fugitive Applegate's Gold Dig for Treasure A Pirate's Chest Boys in Trouble The Female Detective Disc No. 4 - The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the
Applegate Treasure Iola's Bravery Footsteps in the Tower The Prisoner Speaks A Strange Confession A Golden Clue The Final Search The Tower's Secret Never Say Die Boys in Danger The Tower Treasure |
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ALL 78 episodes of this classic late 1950's series
All new prints - fabulous!
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (The Complete Series) - starring Darren McGavin
Season One: 5
DVD Boxed Set price : AU$40 or US$40 or £20
Season Two: 5
DVD Boxed Set price : AU$40 or US$40 or £20
Private-eye Mike Hammer is based on Mickey Spillane's famous novels. This 1958-59 half hour series was
every bit as violent as the books described by TV Variety as a "mixture
of blood, violence and sex." Hammer had a knack for wise-cracking and
smart-aleck responses to anyone and everyone. The setting was New York City,
the city that never sleeps and Hammer was played by Darren McGavin who would later star in Kolchak: The
Night Stalker (also available from this
website) The (Mickey SpillaneÕs) Mike
Hammer TV Series starring Darren McGavin
consisted of two Seasons, each comprising 39 episodes for a total of 78 half
hour entries. Well written and produced on a good budget, the program has
been rightly positioned in TV Land as a Òcult seriesÓ: so much a creature of
his times, Mike Hammer as played by McGavin, was almost tongue-in-cheek in
the way he "inhabited" a New York of the 50s - hard-boiled &
laconic É nice one, Darren! The
entire series (both Seasons) are available here, comprising of 78 episodes in
total presented in their original telecast order É Season One (5 DVD set)
consists of 39 half hour episodes, whilst Seasons Two (5 DVD set) also
consists of 39 half hour episodes. Perfect
B&W uncut prints throughout Season One: 5
DVD Boxed Set price : AU$40 or US$40 or £20
Mike Hammer (Season 1) Disc - No. 1 The High Cost of Dying Just Around the Coroner Hot Hands, Cold Dice Death Gets a Diploma So That's Who It Was Dead Men Don't Dream Letter Edged in Blackmail Death Takes an Encore Mike
Hammer (Season 1) Disc - No. 2 Lead Ache Overdose of Lead A Grave Undertaking A Shot in the Arm Stay Out of Town Beautiful, Blue and Deadly Skinned Deep Peace Bond Mike
Hammer (Season 1) Disc - No. 3 Play Belles' Toll For Sale: Deathbed--Used Music to Die By My Fair Deadly The New Look The Broken Frame Look at the Old Man Go The Paper Shroud Mike
Hammer (Season 1) Disc - No. 4 My Son and Heir Final Curtain A Detective Tail It's an Art Four Blind Mice Scar and Garter No Pockets in a Shroud The Living Dead Mike
Hammer (Season 1) Disc - No. 5 Old Folks at Home Blues No Business Like---- Crepe for Suzette Letter of the Weak That School Girl Complex To Bury a Friend Mere Maid Season Two 5 DVD Boxed Set price :
AU$40 or US$40 or £20
Mike
Hammer (Season 2) Disc - No. 1 Accentuate the Negative Requiem for a Sucker I Ain't Talkin' The Big Drop Aces and Eights Baubles, Bangles and Blood Husbands are Bad Luck Jury of One Mike
Hammer (Season 2) Disc - No. 2 Park the Body Tattoo BrutŽ? Coney Island Baby According to Luke Save Me in San Salvador The Last Aloha Swing Low, Sweet Harriet Another Man's Poison Mike
Hammer (Season 2) Disc - No. 3 A Haze on the Lake When I Am Dead, My DarlingÉ Stocks and Blondes Evidence on the Record Shoot Before You Look The Commodore See No Evil Curtains for an Angel Mike
Hammer (Season 2) Disc - No. 4 Dixie is Dead M is for Mother Pen Pals Now Die in It Slay Upon Delivery Groomed to Kill Doll Trouble I Remember Sally Mike
Hammer (Season 2) Disc - No. 5 Wedding Mourning Merchant of Menace Bride and Doom Slab-Happy A Mugging Evening Siamese Twinge Goodbye, Al |
M Squad (starring Lee Marvin)
4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35
or US$35 or £18
Captain
Grey (Paul Newlan) heads an elite detective division in the Chicago Police
Department known
simply as "M Squad". Its dedicated to fighting organized crime
and battling corrupt city officials - and has Lieutenant Frank Ballinger
(Lee Marvin) as
one of its officers. Mostly Frank works alone to arrest the villains - he's
tough, reliable and doggedly determined in solving each week's case. Although
Lee Marvin had been appearing in feature films since 1951, often to great
effect (see Seven Men From Now in the Randolph Scott section of this website), it was
this 1957/59 series that made him a star in his own right. We
all now know how he went on to become a fabulous leading man on the big
screen. And one can see that "screen presence" (even
"menace") when watching his portrayal here in this his only TV
series foray: "M Squad" Dad
and I used to watch & enjoy this show together - he often commented on
its realism. At the time Lee Marvin seemed a powerful lead but we never
realized that in a few years he would be making wonderful films like The
Dirty Dozen &
The Professionals - not the mention the excellent Emperor of the North which is available from the INDIVIDUAL
MOVIE TITLES section
of this website This
DVD set consists of the first season episodes only - in its entirety - all 38
half hour entries. Quality is mostly good with a few being a little faded M
Squad Disc No. 1 The
Golden Look The
Watchdog Neighborhood
Killer Pete
Loves Mary Face of
Evil Street of
Fear The
Matinee Trade The Hard
Case Killer in
Town M
Squad Disc No. 2 Diamond
Hard The Alibi
Witness The
Specialists Family
Portrait The
Palace Guard The Slow
Trap The Cover
Up Blue
Indigo The Long
Ride M
Squad Disc No. 3 The
Shakedown Dolly's
Bar Lover's
Lane Killing The
Frightened Wife The Black
Mermaid The Man
in Hiding Chicago
Bluebeard Girl Lost Hideout Shot in
the Dark M
Squad Disc No. 4 The
Twenty-Six Girl The Fight Guilty
Alibi The
Healer Day of
Terror The $20
Plates The Case
of the Double Face The
System Woman
from Paris Accusation |
My Three Sons (Season 1)
4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35 or
US$35 or £18 Yep,
itÕs a sit-com and yep it has one of those annoying canned laughter
soundtracks bubbling along in the background É but it was an excellent TV
series which ran for 12 seasons and 380 episodes! My
Three Sons tells
of a Scotch-Irish-American family: the Douglas/O'Casey and chronicles the
life of an aeronautical engineer and widower Steve Douglas, played by
well-credentialed movie star Fred MacMurray, and his three sons Mike (Tim Considine), Robbie (Don Grady) & Chip (Stanley
Livingston).
Steve's father-in-law, Bub O'Casey (William Frawley) lived in the home as well and
did the cooking - and there was a dog, too - a big "Shaggy" one: Tramp
The
show began on ABC in black-and-white. The first season, consisting of
thirty-six episodes, is particularly remarkable for having been directed in
its entirety by Peter Tewksbury, who also produced and occasionally scripted
the programs. These early episodes varied considerably from one week to the
next - they might be comedic or dramatic but were surprisingly innovative. Each
of this first season of episodes was unusual for its fearless use of
cross-talk (a way of having the voices of off screen characters heard in the
background of the soundtrack, just under the voices of the main characters),
in depicting the chaotic Douglas household. Chip
Off the Old Block
is the first episode and itÕs a great intro of what was to follow É a
door-to-door cosmetics salesman asks to see the woman of the house, to wit
Bub laughs and replies with "Boy, do you have the wrong
house"!
In Brotherly Love (which also features a young Beau Bridges as Mike's friend, Russ) sibling
rivalry erupts over a girl who is fancied by both Robbie & Mike and it
results in a "cold war" between them. Their dinner table sniping as
Steve tries to broker peace is punctuated by the sounds of guns firing and
bombs exploding. The
situations are grounded in reality, and the writing often surprises with
twists that subvert sitcom convention and stereotypes. Countdown cleverly unfolds in real time as
the family's Monday morning routine plays out against a televised satellite
launch. Some episodes simply bring home the laughs, as in The Little
Ragpicker, in
which a realistic looking dummy causes a new neighbor to think the worst
about the Douglases. In Bub in the Ointment we get to see Bub's "Irish temper"
and lack of tact - it embarrasses the kids, until Steve reminds Mike of the
sacrifices Bub made to move in with the family after his daughter died. Another
excellent episode (and Trev's favorite) is the second last episode The
Sunday Drive in
which the Douglas family inadvertantly disrupt a neighbor's Sunday drive.
Steve needs for his day to be quiet so that he can complete some technical
drawings, Mike is trying to memories some poetry for school, Robbie wants to
hide from a persistent girl-friend, Chip & pal are playing space
adventures with ray guns, Tramp doesn't want to be left out and Bub
"would like a drive in the country". The neighbor borrows Steve's
station-wagon and all 9 with dog pile in É the noise and disorganization run
to great heights - fabulous The
boys talk, act, and fight like brothers, and Steve, while a pipe-puffing
fount of sage fatherly advice, is sometimes at a loss, and is allowed to be
testy and impatient with his "wild bunch." This
listing is for Season 1 only - the best season - all 36 B&W half hour
episodes from Season 1 are presented here in their original telecast order.
All 36 episodes are of exceptional (digitally restored) quality and are
completely uncut. My
Three Sons (Season 1) Disc No. 1 Chip Off
the Old Block The
Little Ragpicker Bub in
the Ointment Countdown Brotherly
Love Adjust or
Bust Lady
Engineer Chip's
Harvest Raft on
the River My
Three Sons (Season 1) Disc No. 2 Lonesome
George Spring
Will Be a Little Late This Year My Three
Strikers The
Elopement Mike's
Brother Domestic
Trouble Bub
Leaves Home Mike in a
Rush The Bully My
Three Sons (Season 1) Disc No. 3 Organization
Woman Other
People's Houses The
Delinquent Man in a
Trench Coat Deadline The
Lostling Off Key Small
Adventure Soap Box
Derby My
Three Sons (Season 1) Disc No. 4 Unite or
Sink The Wiley
Method The
National Pastime The
Croaker The Musician The
Horseless Saddle Trial by
Separation The
Sunday Drive Fire
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The New Avengers
6 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or
£23
The New Avengers was a late 1970's sequel to the
1960s series, The Avengers (also available from this website) The new version was developed by original
series producers Brian Clemens and Albert Fennell and was a joint
UK-France-Canada production seen in more than 20 countries. The series picks up the adventures of John
Steed (again
played by Patrick Macnee) as he and his team of "Avengers" fight evil plots and
world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been
partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt), a top agent, crack marksman and
trained martial artist, and Purdey (Joanna Lumley), a former trainee with The Royal
Ballet (which she claimed was where she learned the high-kicking skills she
frequently used in the series) who was an amalgam of many of the best talents
from Steed's female partners in The Avengers (especially Mrs Peel). As he did for most of the original series,
Steed is once again acting without a direct superior and is seen as the
mentor to Gambit and Purdey, taking on a paternal role towards them
(especially in the episode "Hostage"). Gambit is the athletic
action hero, while Purdey, incorporates the wit and fighting skills of her
predecessors. The verbal interplay between Gambit and Purdey, with her
humorously keeping his romantic advances at bay, hearkens back to the original
Avengers. There were two series, each of 13 fifty
minutes episodes and filmed in 1976 & 1977 - the result was an
impressively mounted collection of 26 adventures, each bearing the undeniable
traits of its much lauded predecessor. The first series featured several episodes
using science fiction themes similar to those of the classic "Emma
Peel" Avengers era. The new trio had to deal with suspended animation
("The Eagle's Nest"), biological warfare ("The Midas
Touch"), robotics ("The Last of The CybernautsÉ?"), mind
transfer ("Three-Handed Game") and even a giant rat
("Gnaws"). Second series episodes tended to deal with more
realistic plots although there were still some "traditional
Avengers" stand-outs: the artificially-intelligent super-computer of
"Complex"; the Russian soldiers revived from suspended animation in
the two part epidose "K is for Kill"; the submersible Russian
community in "Forward Base" and the Super humans of "The
Gladiators". An attempt to get Diana Rigg to appear as Emma Peel in the new series was
unsuccessful, although old footage of her on the phone from two 1960s
episodes of The Avengers, 'The Winged Avenger' and 'The Hidden Tiger', were
used to allow the character to make a cameo appearance in the episode "K
Is For Kill Part One: The Tiger Awakes" Laurie Johnson, who had composed the theme for the original
Avengers series (starting with the Emma Peel era in 1965, at least), returned
to compose a new, updated theme for the revival, although it begins with the
same fanfare as the original. Although the series proved popular on both
sides of The Atlantic, funding for the series was never secure with matters
deteriorating to the point that required additional moneys just to enable
completion of the second series. A Canadian Production company came on board
and were keen to promote the home country, so the final four stories were
titled The New Avengers in Canada, with action taking place in Toronto,
Ontario (with scenes for the episode "Forward Base" shot at
Toronto's well known Ward's Island) This 6 DVD set contains both seasons and
all 26 episodes (in release order) of The New Avengers series (color, 50
minutes each) - Perfect color
prints throughout See also The Avengers with Mrs Peel - the
original series comprising two seasons and a total of 51 episodes. This
series is also available from this website. The New Avengers Disc No. 1 (Season 1) The Eagle's Nest House of Cards The Last of the CybernautsÉ? The Midas Touch The New Avengers Disc No. 2 (Season 1) Cat Amongst the Pigeons Target! To Catch a Rat The Tale of the Big Why The New Avengers Disc No. 3 (Season 1) Faces Sleeper Three Handed Game Dirtier by the Dozen Gnaws The New Avengers Disc No. 4 (Season 2) Dead Men are Dangerous Angels of Death Medium Rare The Lion and the Unicorn The New Avengers Disc No. 5 (Season 2) Obsession Trap Hostage K is for Kill (1): The Tiger Awakes The New Avengers Disc No. 6 (Season 2) K is for Kill (2): Tiger by the Tail Complex The Gladiators Emily Forward Base |
The Night
Stalker - TV Movies & TV Series + The Norliss Tapes
7 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23
Richard Matheson has scripted some of the finest fantasy to ever
grace the screen (big and small) and this one, based on the then-unpublished
novel by Jeff Rice, took
everyone by surprise in 1972: The Night Stalker. It told the story of now
legendary character: Carl Kolchak (as
played by Darren McGavin) - a
newspaper reporter with an abrasive personality that has gotten him fired ten
times from various big-city papers. Now he's reduced to reporting for a
relatively small-time paper in Las Vegas. It's here he gets the story of his
life: someone is biting the necks of young girls and draining their blood -
can this killer with supernormal powers really be a 70-year-old Rumanian millionaire?
- a vampire? But will the local sheriff, or the D.A., or even his own boss,
let him print it? And can an aging reporter do
anything to stop him? This TV movie was enormously
successful - the public wanted more of Kolchak and so a second spooky adventure
seemed a natural: The Night Strangler (1973). After being run out of Las Vegas, Kolchak heads for Seattle and
another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he is on the
trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for
the past century, a killer kills a certain number of people, drains them of
their blood and then disappears into the night, that is until the next 21
years passes. Kolchak is on his trail, but the question is, can he stop him
before he disappears again? This second TV movie was
another success and so established Darren McGavin's enduring character:
wisecracking Carl Kolchak - a rumpled
news hound plucked from the fast-talking newspaper flicks of the 1940s and
dropped into the swinging '70s - eccentric and unique is his nose for the
supernatural, a trait that leaves his editor (Simon Oakland) exasperated and the police less than amused. A short-lived TV series titled Kolchak:
The Night Stalker followed - it lasted
only 20 episodes but is credited with being a major inspiration for The
X-Files since series creator Chris
Carter was a huge fan. The Kolchak: The Night
Stalker TV series was plagued by low
ratings but the show has cultivated a huge cult following over the past three
decades. Though none of the episodic stories matches the suspense and writing
strength of the Night Stalker or Night Strangler movies, TV horror fans will
appreciate the parade of interesting and inventive monsters encountered by
Kolchak including a witches' coven in "The Trevi Collection"; an
Aztec cult in "Legacy of Terror"; a Hindu Demon in "Horror in
the Heights," and a headless biker in "Chopper," (an episode
written by Robert Zemeckis, Bob
Gale, and Sopranos creator David Chase). McGavin's Kolchak continues to
amuse and enthral but he's well-matched again by Simon Oakland as his
hot-tempered boss and guest stars which include Phil Silvers, Tom
Skerritt, Keenan Wynn, John Marley, Nina Foch and Richard Kiel as the monster in two back-to-back episodes. Bonus DVD: The Norliss Tapes Legendary thriller TV producer
Dan Curtis was responsible for 1972's
The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler (1973) - the latter also being
directed by Dan Curtis. Following these two successes and before Kolcak:
The Night Stalker TV series was
commissioned (in 1975). Curtis combined with Logan's Run writer William F. Nolan to produce and direct The Norliss Tapes
(1973). Starring Roy ÒThe
InvadersÓ Thinness & Angie Dickinson
it tells of an investigative reporter who is writing a book which seeks to
expose supernatural hoaxes and paranormal phenomena. Norliss disappears, but
not before making a frightened phone call to his publisher, and leaving
behind only a stack of cassettes on which he s dictated his strange findings. This 7 DVD set comprises
both the TV movies and all 20 of the TV series presented in their original
telecast order plus The Norliss Tapes as a bonus - excellent color prints
throughout Note that The Night Stalker
(1972), The Night Strangler (1973) &
The Norliss Tapes (1973) are also
available separately from within the INDIVIDUAL MOVIE TITLES section Disc No. 1 (TV Movies Disc) The Night Stalker (1972) The Night Strangler (1973) Disc No. 2 (Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series) The Ripper The Zombie They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be.. The Vampire Disc No. 3 (Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series) The Werewolf Firefall The Devil's Platform Bad Medicine Disc No. 4 (Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series) The Spanish Moss Murders The Energy Eater Horror in the Heights Mr. R.I.N.G. Disc No. 5 (Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series) Primal Scream The Trevi Collection Chopper Demon in Lace Disc No. 6 (Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series) Legacy of Terror The Knightly Murders The Youth Killer The Sentry Bonus DVD The Norliss Tapes (1973) |
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The Pathfinders Serials
3 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$30
or US$30 or £15
Pathfinders in Space was a classic (& cult) UK TV science fiction
based drama serial designed for family viewing at the end of the 1950s. More
an adventure series with science fiction overtones, it very successfully
tapped into the popular public interest in space exploration. The serial tells of Professor
Wedgwood (Peter Williams), who has
assembled a group of explorers for a journey to The Moon aboard his
rocketship The M1. This first ever manned mission begins well with a
successful launch but the automatic take-off of the unmanned supply rocket,
M2, fails to eventuate due to a mechanical problem. The ProfessorÕs three
children, Valerie, Geoffrey and Jimmy volunteer to save the expedition. After
their spaceship is in space they find a stowaway: scientific journalist Conway
Henderson (Gerald Flood). The two
rockets continue their journey into deep space and, as they near the moon, a
third rocket appears ... a spaceship from nowhere. Professor Wedgewood's
rocket lands on the moon and the supply rocket, brought by his children,
lands some 150 miles away. Wedgewood set out to find it and both parties
discover that someone has already landed on the moon before them. The three
children find a cave containing relics from a previous civilization then make
another startling discovery...Professor Wedgewood also finds proof of a
landing in the distant past and now wonders if the alien spaceship will
reveal its secrets. In 7 parts - each of
approximately 26 minutes duration So successful was this serial
that two others were immediately commissioned: Pathfinders to Mars & Pathfinders to Venus. Pathfinders to Mars
(1960/61) finds Conway Henderson (Gerald
Flood) consenting to pilot a new interstellar rocket. Young Geoffrey
Wedgewood will be one of the crew and Henderson's niece, Margaret - on
holiday with her uncle - persuades him to take her, too. The crew will be
joined by a Professor Dyson - however unbeknownst to group, his place has
been taken by an imposter, Harcourt Brown (Hollywood actor, George
Coulouris) - who promptly sabotages the
rocket's radio receiver so that Henderson cannot discover his real identity.
Working for the mysterious "Sector Ten" Brown manages to take
control of the rocket É In 6 parts - each of
approximately 26 minutes duration Pathfinder to Venus (1961) picks up where the previous serial left off. On
their return from Mars, the crew of the spaceship, MR4, intercepts a distress
signal from a rocket in orbit around Venus. Manned by American astronaut
Captain Wilson (Graydon Gould), it has been struck by a meteor and is fast
running out of oxygen. Harcourt Brown fakes a message so that Conway
Henderson believes that the American has been forced to crash-land on the
planet's surface. Landing on Venus in a thick forest, out intrepid heroes
soon realised they have been duped when the US space craft lands. But by the
time Geoffrey and Margaret reach it, the pilot has vanished and his cabin has
been torn apart by a creature of enormous strength É In 8 parts - each of
approximately 26 minutes duration All three serials were written
by Malcolm Hulke & Eric Paice and
their decision to use the moniker ÒPathfindersÓ was certainly prescient in
that this trio of much-loved TV sci-fi blazed a trail which eventually led to
Dr Who a few years later. Gerald
Flood as Conway Henderson was the
nominal star of all three serials, leading the rescue mission in the first
and then taking over captaincy of the spaceship for the following two
adventures to Mars & Venus. He is joined by teenaged Stewart
Guidotti who plays Geoffrey Wedgewood in
all three adventures. This 3 DVD set contains all three serials (one
each per DVD) - B&W print quality is excellent Pathfinders in Space (1960) Disc Convoy to the Moon Spaceship From Nowhere Luna Bridgehead The Man in the Moon The World of Lost Toys Disaster on the Moon Rescue in Space Pathfinders to Mars (1960/61) Disc The Impostor Sabotage in Space The Hostage Lichens! Zero Hour on the Red Planet Falling into the Sun Pathfinders to Venus (1961) Disc SOS From Venus Into the Poison Cloud The Living Planet The Creature The Venus People The City The Valley of the Monsters Planet on Fire |
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Paul Temple É on TV
3 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$30
or US$30 or £15
Paul
Temple was one of
the most popular private detectives of all time, beginning life in a 1938 BBC
radio serial before appearing in novels, film and even a daily comic strip.
The radio show lasted for three decades before Paul Temple and wife
"Steve" ended their 30 year radio career with the broadcast of the
Paul Temple and the Alex Affair serial in 1968. However, the BBC hadn't
finished with Paul Temple, and in 1969 he was to debut on British television
- in colour. There
were to be several differences to the radio days. Radio series creator, Francis
Durbridge was not
going to write the stories, and it was to be a series of self contained
episodes, rather than a serial (as on radio). Also, the series was to be updated
to the swinging 60s. Sir Graham Forbes & Charlie didn't make the
transition, but new characters were introduced. The
Paul Temple TV series starred Francis Matthews as the exemplary crime writer turned crime
solver - he was stylish, cool, incisive and ever-protective of his loving
wife (and fellow investigator)
ÒSteveÓ played by Ros Drinkwater. The
series, consisting of 4 seasons totalling 52 episodes of 50 minutes each, was
notable for featuring a large amount of location filming, much of it in Europe.
For example Games People Play was 100% location-filmed on Malta! Unfortunately
a large number of the episodes no longer exist as they were not preserved by
the BBC. Of the 52 episodes produced, only 16 are know to exist today, &
5 of those only exist in black and white. This
3 DVD set consists of the surviving 11 color episodes - each of 50 minutes
duration An
wonderful collection of mysteries that must be solved - and thereÕs only one
crime writer who can do it: Paul Temple (and Steve, of course) Perfect
color prints throughout. Please
note that the complete collection of Paul Temple Radio Mysteries are available from within the Radio
Shows on MP3 CD
section of this website - all beautifully restored! (free - with conditions) Please
Note further that the Paul Temple Movie Series is available from within the Movies
Series section of
this website Paul
Temple É on TV - Disc No. 1 Games
People Play Corrida The
Specialists Has
Anybody Seen Kelly? Paul
Temple É on TV - Disc No. 2 Motel Cue
Murder! Death Of
Fasching Catch
Your Death Paul
Temple É on TV - Disc No. 3 Ricochet With
Friends Like You, Who Needs Enemies? The Quick
and the Dead |
NEWLY REMASTERED & EXPANDED É
NOW INCLUDES SEASON TWO! Beautifully transcoded (PAL to NTSC) -
looks good on big TVs! Peter Gunn
Season One: 5 DVD Boxed Set price :
AU$40 or US$40 or £20
Season
Two: 5 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$40 or US$40 or £20
Peter Gunn was a 30 half-hour private eye TV
series which aired on the NBC and later ABC television networks from 1958 to
1961. Unlike the standard hard-boiled detectives, such as Sam Spade or Philip
Marlowe, Gunn was a sophisticated "hipster", a dapper dresser who
loved cool jazz; where other gumshoes were often coarse, Peter Gunn as played
by Craig Stevens, was the epitome of
"cool". He operated in a nameless waterfront city, and was a
regular patron of Mother's, a wharfside club; his girlfriend, Edie Hart (Lola
Albright), was a
sultry singer employed there. Herschel Bernardi played Lieutenant Jacoby, a
police detective. The show's creator (and also writer and director on
occasion) was Blake "Pink Panther" Edwards. Edwards developed the character
from an earlier fictional detective he created. Richard Diamond, Private
Detective starred
Dick Powell
and aired as a radio series from 1949 to 1953 (and available from the OTR
section of this website). David Janssen later starred in the television adaptation
from 1957 to 1960 (also available from this section of the website). It was
this character's success that prompted his creator to revisit the concept as Peter
Gunn. The show's use of modern jazz music, at a
time when most television shows used a generic, uninspired orchestra for the
background, was another distinctive touch that set the standard for many
years to come. Innovative jazz themes seemed to accompany every move Gunn
made, ably rendered by Henry Mancini and his orchestra (which at that time
included John Williams), lending the character even more of an air of suave sophistication.
Most memorable of all was the show's opening (and closing) theme, composed
and performed by Mancini. A hip, bluesy, brassy number with an insistent
piano-and-bass line, the song became an instant hit for Mancini, earning him
an Emmy Award and two Grammys. This listing is for Seasons 1 & 2 only
- each consists of 38 B&W episodes presented here in their original
telecast order. Each is of exceptional (digitally restored) quality and is
completely uncut running the full 26 minutes (except for one episode only,
"Keep Smiling" - see below) Season One: 5 DVD Boxed Set price :
AU$40 or US$40 or £20
Disc No. 1 The Kill Streetcar Jones The Vicious Dog The Blind Pianist The Frog The Chinese Hangman Lynn's Blues Rough Buck Disc No. 2 Image of Sally The Man with the Scar Death House Testament The Torch The Jockey Sisters Of The Friendless The Leaper The Fuse Disc No. 3 Let's Kill Timothy Missing Night Watchman Murder On The Midway Pecos Pete Scuba Edie Finds a Corpse The Dirty Word The Ugly Frame Disc No. 4 The Lederer Story Keep Smiling (note: runs 23 mins) Breakout Pay Now, Kill Later Skin Deep February Girl Love Me to Death The Family Affair Disc No. 5 Lady Windbell's Fan Bullet for a Badge Kill from Nowhere Vendetta The Coffin The Portrait Season Two: 5 DVD Boxed Set price :
AU$40 or US$40 or £20
Disc No. 1 Protection Crisscross Edge of the Knife The Comic Death Is a Red Rose The Young Assassins The Feathered Doll Kidnap Disc No. 2 The Rifle The Game The Price Is Murder The Briefcase Terror on the Campus The Wolfe Case Hot Money Spell of Murder Disc No. 3 The Grudge Fill the Cup See No Evil Sentenced The Hunt Hollywood Calling Sing a Song of Murder The Long, Long Ride Disc No. 4 The Deadly Proposition The Murder Clause The Dummy Slight Touch of Homicide Wings of an Angel Death Watch Witness in the Window The Best Laid Plans Disc No. 5 Send a Thief The Semi-Private Eye Letter of the Law The Crossbow The Heiress Baby Shoes |
Planet of the Apes TV Series
4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35
or US$35 or £18
Planet of the Apes was a short-lived US sci-fi TV series television
that aired in 1974. The series starred Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper, James
Naughton, Mark Lenard and
Booth Colman. It was based on the 1968
Planet of the Apes film and its sequels in which McDowall also starred. The series begins with the
crash of an Earth spaceship, that encountered a time warp while approaching
Alpha Centauri on August 19, 1980. The spaceship is manned by three NASA
astronauts, one of whom dies in the crash. The survivors, Colonel Alan Virdon (Ron Harper) and Major
Peter J. Burke (James Naughton) check the ship's chronometer and ascertain
that they are more than 1000 years in the future from when they left Earth
(actually 3085). Meanwhile the Ape, Galen (Roddy
McDowall) is beginning to doubt the history that he has been told: namely
that apes have always been dominant, and humans have always been inferior and
subservient. He happens upon the astronauts and rescues them from murderous
Apes. Virdon & Burke return the favour by helping Galen to escape a death
penalty (for heresy). All three are
then declared enemies of the state and become fugitives. Such is the
plot of Episode No. 1 (ÒEscape From TomorrowÓ) of the series. The remainder
of this well budgeted but unfortunately short-lived TV series is the story of
these three fugitives as they wander around through a territory that used to
be the western United States having various encounters with apes, humans, and
old human civilization ruins. The series was critically
acclaimed but didn't garner enough viewers to warrant proceeding beyond an
initial 14 episode run This
4 DVD set contains all 14 hour episodes in their original production order Perfect
Color Prints throughout! Note that the original 5
Planet of the Apes movies are available in a 5 DVD set from within the
Classic Movie Combinations section of this website. Also each of the individual
Planet of the Apes movies are also available separately from within the Sci-Fi and INDIVIDUAL MOVIE TITLES
sections of this website. Planet
of the Apes TV Series - Disc No. 1 Escape From Tomorrow The Gladiators The Trap Planet
of the Apes TV Series - Disc No. 2 The Good Seeds The Legacy Tomorrow's Tide Planet
of the Apes TV Series - Disc No. 3 The Surgeon The Deception The Horse Race The Interrogation Planet
of the Apes TV Series - Disc No. 4 The Tyrant The Cure The Liberator Up Above The World So High |
Quatermass É Complete É (Movie Series & TV Series)
Special 7 DVD Boxed Set price :
AU$45 or US$45 or £23
During the 1950Õs Nigel Kneale wrote three highly successful science fiction
serials for BBC TV featuring a character of his own creation Professor
Bernard Quatermass: á
The Quatermass Experiment (1953) starring Reginald
Tate as Quatermass á
Quatermass II (1955) starring John Robinson as
Quatermass á
Quatermass and the Pit (1959) starring AndrŽ
Morell as Quatermass Each serial consisted of 6
episodes of 30 minutes duration The common theme of the series
was encounters with alien beings threatening to destroy humanity. While the
trilogy reflected the anxiety and paranoia of the times arising from the Cold
War and possible use of nuclear weapons, Kneale also raised much wider issues
such as the ethics of scientists in a nuclear-age, technological change,
latent totalitarianism in the British establishment, environmental pollution
and the destructive nature of racism. Hammer Films made all of the serials into feature films,
respectively: á
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) starring Brian
Donlevy as Quatermass á
Quatermass 2 (1957) starring Brian Donlevy as
Quatermass á
Quatermass and the Pit (1967) starring Andrew Keir
as Quatermass Each of these films did well in
the US market. The noted US actor Brian Donlevy scored well with his home audiences in the initial, prompting his
return to England to film the second entry two years on. Both were also
scripted and directed the legendary Òjack of all tradesÓ Val Guest. The third film was a big budget Technicolor
affair which, although having a relatively unknown Quatermass (as far as US
audiences were concerned), did have well known ÒinternationalÓ actor James
Donald in support (although listed first
and above Andrew Keir) Note that each of the Hammer
films had different titles of their US release, correspondingly: The Creeping Unknown (1955),
Enemy from Space (1957) & Five Million Years to Earth (1967) Following the success of the
third theatrical feature, the BBC announced plans to produce a fourth
Quatermass TV serial in the early 70s. But unforeseen delays saw Kneale take
his script to Thames Television. The result was an expensive and
high-profile production: á
Quatermass (1979) starring (Oscar winner) John
Mills as Quatermass The serial consisted of 4
episodes of 60 minute duration Unlike the earlier TV serials,
there was no corresponding movie version of this 4th production, however
Euston Films did released a 100 minute film, which was edited down from the 4
hour TV serial and renamed: á
The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) starring John
Mills as Quatermass Whilst great prints of all of
the movies and the last 3 TV serials exist (and are included here), the same
cannot be said for the first serial. Unlike those that followed, the initial
serial (The Quatermass Experiment) was telecast ÒliveÓ (rather than filmed).
Kinescopes (wherein whats shown on the TV is filmed with a special camera)
were made of all 6 episodes but only the first two have survived the years. So The Quatermass Experiment is
not a viable viewing option given that the last 4 episode are lost É. But hold the phone! All is not
lost! Fast forward to 2005 and the
BBC produced a new version of this first serial, using the original scripts
(all of which had survived) and even transmitted it ÒliveÓ - just
like the original telecast. This re-creation, whilst
telecast ÒliveÓ, was also filmed (and not via kinescope) – and itÕs a
perfect (now color) print. As
such this 2005 serial now adequately replaces the first TV serial and as such
its listed in this boxed DVD set first rather than (chronologically)
last. á
The Quatermass Experiment (2005) starring Jason
Flemyng as Quatermass Note that this re-creation is
not a multi-part serial, rather a one-off 98 minute production. Perfect
B&W and Color Prints throughout! Note that each of the Quatermass movies are also
available separately from within the Sci-Fi
and INDIVIDUAL MOVIE TITLES sections Quatermass
É Complete É (Movie Series & TV Series) Disc
No. 1 The Quatermass Experiment (2005) - 1 x 98 mins TV
(replacing the original serial, most of which has been lost) Quatermass
É Complete É (Movie Series & TV Series) Disc
No. 2 Quatermass II (1955) - 6 x 30 mins TV serial Quatermass
É Complete É (Movie Series & TV Series) Disc
No. 3 Quatermass and the Pit (1959) - 6 x 30 mins TV serial Quatermass
É Complete É (Movie Series & TV Series) Disc
No. 4 The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) - movie (aka The Creeping
Unknown) - starring Brian Donlevy Quatermass 2 (1957) - movie (aka Enemy from Space) -
starring Brian Donlevy Quatermass
É Complete É (Movie Series & TV Series) Disc
No. 5 Quatermass and the Pit (1967) - movie (aka Five Million
Years to Earth) Quatermass
É Complete É (Movie Series & TV Series) Disc
No. 6 Quatermass (1979) - 4 x 60 mins TV serial Quatermass
É Complete É (Movie Series & TV Series) Disc
No. 7 The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) - movie |
|
The Restless Gun 3 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$30 or US$30 or
£15
The Six Shooter was a 1953-54 radio series created by Frank Burt in which legendary actor James Stewart played the role of the cowboy traveller Britt
Ponset. James Stewart's Britt Ponset
was a man with a reputation for having a fast gun but nonetheless a thinking
man who didn't reach for his gun first and ask questions later. (This excellent radio series - perfectly restored -
is available from the Old Time Radio section of this website) The Six Shooter was to become The Restless Gun on television in 1957-58. Action film star, John
Payne took over from James Stewart,
taking the name Britt Ponset with him into three appearances on TV's Schlitz
Playhouse of Stars before moving
onto a regular TV series, entitled The Restless Gun and with a name changed to Vint Bonner. Just like Stewart, Payne "narrated"
proceedings in a series of stories which were often adapted from episodes
aired on radio. John Payne
also produced the TV series (along with David Dortort, who would go on to produce Bonanza) which ran for two seasons and 77 episodes - these
were very polished, well budgeted 30 minute B&W western adventures which
also featured an interesting array of guest stars: Ben Johnson, James Coburn,
J. Carrol Naish, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam, William Hopper, Andrew Duggan
plus eventual regulars on Bonanza: Dan Blocker & Michael Landon. This 3 DVD set begins with the original pilot
episode for the TV series - simply titled The Restless Gun, it is an entry in the Schlitz Playhouse of
Stars anthology series. The following 23 episodes are from the regular
series and are presented here in their original telecast order and are of
very nice quality throughout Also worth a look : The Six Shooter Radio Shows - check
out the Old Time Radio section
of this website. These shows have been digitally restored & come on MP3
CDs which work in your DVD player. The shows are free - with conditions.
Check out the Old Time Radio
section for further details The Restless Gun Disc No. 1 The
Restless Gun (Pilot - Schlitz Playhouse of Stars) Man and
Boy Cheyenne
Express Thicker
Than Water The Child
Hornitas
Town Woman
From Sacramento The Hand
Is Quicker The Restless Gun Disc No. 2 The
Outlander The Gold
Star Jebediah
Bonner Bonner's
Squaw Remember
the Dead No Way To
Kill Multiply
One Day Paligroso The Restless Gun Disc No. 3 The Way
Back The
Painted Beauty The Lady
and the Gun Blood of
Courage Melany Incident
at Bluefield The Pawn Code for
a Killer |
NEWLY REMASTERED
Return of The Saint
6 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$45
or US$45 or £23
Return of The Saint was a British action-adventure television series
that aired for one season in 1978 and 1979 in Britain. It was produced by
Lord Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and ran for 24 episodes. Like its
predecessors at ITC (The Saint, The Baron, Department S, Man in a
Suitcase, The Champions & Strange Report - all of which are available from this website), Return of
The Saint was shot as a series of
feature films, rather than being videotaped in studio with film inserts like
so many other TV series. In terms of production values, the series is, even
by television standards today, almost without parallel. Whereas the Elstree
Film Studios back lot was often utilised as an exotic local in the original
Saint TV series, Return of the Saint actually filmed in the countries /
locations where the stories were set, locations such as Venice, Nice, The
Camargue, Cortina, Rome, Florence etc - unheard of for a TV series back then
and very possibly now. Return
of The Saint was
a huge success and sold to in excess of 70 countries worldwide but
unfortunately Lord Lew Grade retired from the TV side of ITC to concentrate on the film arm - and
with the financial disaster of Raise the Titanic (1980), funding for a further series of Return
of The Saint never
eventuated. (Said Lord Lew: "Why make Raise the Titanic when it would
have been cheaper to lower The Atlantic") The
series starred Ian Ogilvy as Simon Templar, an independently wealthy, somewhat mysterious "do-gooder"
known as "The Saint" who was created in 1928 by Leslie Charteris and featured in a long-running
series of novels and novellas. The series itself is a revival of The Saint, a long-running 1960s TV series
that starred Roger Moore as Templar. The music was written by John Scott and incorporated Leslie Charteris
own theme which had previously been used in films and on radio. The
premise of the series is identical to that of the 1960s TV series, in that
Templar is shown traveling around Britain and Europe, helping out the people
he encounters, though he is also often summoned by past acquaintances. A roaring
adventurer who loves a fight É a dashing daredevil É unperturbable É debonair
É preposterously handsome É a pirate or philanthropist as the occasion
demands. He lives for
the pursuit of excitement É for the one triumphant moment that is his alone É The
series borrowed a few storytelling elements from its predecessor. Once again,
each episode began with Simon narrating an introduction to set the scene for
viewers, and each pre-credit sequence ended with an animated halo appearing
above Templar's head as he was identified. Robert S. Baker, who developed and produced the
earlier The Saint series for Roger Moore, performed the same duties with
Return of the Saint. Of
particular significance to Trev is that the series also made a recurring reference to the 1930s-40s
film series, as well as the 1940s radio series that starred Vincent Price as Templar: as the halo appears
over Simon's head and just before the opening credits begin, a short phrase
of music is heard; this is not actually part of the specially composed theme
music for the Return of the Saint series, but is in fact the signature theme
of the Saint from film and radio. (Not that both The Saint Movie Series and The Saint Radio Series are both available from the
relevant parts of this website) Ogilvy
(who looks and even sounds like Roger Moore) became very popular in Britain
and Europe because of the series and along the way won a 'Most Compulsive TV
Character Award' in 1978 at the then prostiguous 'TV Times Awards' - in the
early 1980s he was considered a major contender for replacing Moore as James
Bond! Unlike
the earlier series, Return of The Saint did not adapt any Leslie Charteris stories,
however several episodes (such as The Imprudent Professor and Collision Course) were adapted as novels that were
credited to Charteris but written by others. A number of Saint books were
reprinted with covers depicting Ogilvy as Templar as a tie-in with the
series; these collectable volumes carried the Return of the Saint title. The
adaptation of the series only two-parter, Collision Course, retitled Salvage for The
Saint, was
published in 1983 (several years after the series ended) and was the 50th and
final Saint book to be published in a series of publications dating back to
the 1920s. The
series also boasted a fine cast of actors, with the likes of Joss Ackland,
Stratford Johns, Ian Hendry, Judy Geeson, Anton Rogers, Britt Ekland, Maurice
Denham, George Cole, Susan Penhaligon and Stuart Wilson. A fine company of
directors was also assembled, including movie stalwarts such as Charles
Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda) and Roy Ward Baker (A Night to Remember). This
6 DVD set contains the entire series of twenty four 50 minute episodes of
Return of The Saint in their original broadcast order - superb color prints
throughout Note that the complete series of
The Baron, Department S, Man in a Suitcase, The Champions, Strange Report as well as all B&W seasons of Roger MooreÕs
original The Saint TV Series
are also available from this website Note further that The Saint
Movie Series is available from the Movie
Series section of this website. And a further note É.
significant The Saint films are also available separately from the INDIVIDUAL
MOVIE TITLES section: The Saint in New York (1938), The Saint Strikes Back
(1939, The SaintÕs Vacation (1941) as
well as the two theatrical released Saint films adapted from the Roger Moore
TV Series: The Fiction-Makers (1968) & Vendetta For The Saint
(1969). Also worth a look : The
Saint on Radio - Vincent Price played The Saint in a very successful US Radio
series in the late 40's / early 50's. In the mid 90's the BBC dramatized
three Saint stories to resounding acclaim. Both are available from the Radio
Shows on MP3 CD section of this website. These shows have been digitally
restored & come on MP3 CDs which work in your DVD player. The shows are
free - with conditions. Check out the Radio Shows on MP3 CD section for further
details Return
of The Saint Disc No. 1 The Judas
Game The
Nightmare Man Duel in
Venice One Black
September Return
of The Saint Disc No. 2 The
Village That Sold its Soul Assault
Force Yesterday's
Hero The Poppy
Chain Return
of The Saint No. 3 The
Arrangement The
Armageddon Alternative The
Imprudent Professor Signal
Stop Return
of The Saint No. 4 The Roman
Touch Tower
Bridge is Falling Down The Debt
Collectors Collision
Course - Part 1 The Brave Goose Return
of The Saint No. 5 Collision
Course - Part 2 The Sixth Man Hot Run Murder
Cartel The Obono
Affair Return
of The Saint No. 6 Vicious Circle Dragonseed Appointment in Florence The Diplomat's Daughter |
Originally mastered here in 2004, this title has now been
RECENTLY REMASTERED & DIGITALLY RESTORED!
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$20
or US$20 or £10
Private Detective, Richard Diamond had its genesis
in the mind of Blake "The Pink Panther" Edwards. He fashioned the
very successful Richard Diamond radio show in the late 40's and cast popular
film star Dick Powell in the title role. Powell played Richard Diamond,
"radio's singing gumshoe", an ex- New York City now private
detective who was tough when he needed to be, but tried to have a little fun
while on the job. The radio show had a legion of fans who just loved Dick's
"end-of-show" song to girlfriend Helen (often at the bemusement of
her butler Francis). Ed Begley played the long suffering Lieutenant Levinson,
having his hands full dealing with Diamond and his inept subordinate Otis. When television beckoned, deciding at this point
he was too busy to star, Powell became a producer, formed Four Star
Productions, and unleashed Richard Diamond, Private Detective on the world
("Calling Mr D" in syndication), with newcomer David "The
Fugitive" Janssen as Diamond. He remained in New York for two seasons,
but the third season began with Diamond moving to Los Angles where he gets a
girlfriend, Karen (Barbara Bain), a spiffy car with a phone in it, and an answering
service, run by Sam (played by Mary Tyler Moore's legs). The gimmick of
viewers never seeing Sam's face is what the show is chiefly remembered for
these days. Fortunately, Janssen didn't give us a song at the end of each
episode - he doesn't look (or sound) like a singer. Also worth a look : The Richard Diamond Radio Shows (starring Dick Powell) - check out the Old Time Radio section of this website. These shows have been
digitally restored & come on MP3 CDs which work in your DVD player. The
shows are free - with conditions. Check out the Old Time Radio section for further details Richard
Diamond, Private Detective TV Series Disc Picture of Fear Double Jeopardy Pension Plan Rough Cut Family Affair The Messenger The Counselor One Dead Cat Dead to the World Fallen Star
Note that this DVD is also
part of "The 50's TV Detectives" 4 DVD set - see
below (under "F" for 50's) |
Rin Tin Tin - see Adventures of Rin Tin Tin in the TV Series A - H Section
|
Originally mastered here in 2006, this title has now been
RECENTLY REMASTERED & DIGITALLY RESTORED!
(Disc No. 2 & the unlisted Bonus Disc from the 2006
mastery have been dropped: "they just didn't cut it") Ripcord
1 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$20 or
US$20 or £10
Ripcord was a 30 minute US
adventure TV series that ran for 2 seasons and 76 episodes from 1961 to 1963.
The youthful heroes of this series literally jumped into a new adventure
every week. It starred Larry Pennell
as Ted McKeever and Ken Curtis
(who later became famous as Festus on Gunsmoke) as Jim Buckley. Ted and Jim
ran Ripcord Inc., which taught skydiving and also hired out for rescues,
recovery work, and other situations where parachutists were needed. This series also helped to
inspire the first widespread interest in skydiving as a sport and Ripcord is
an informative look back into the infancy of the sport. The show guest starred such
actors as Denver Pyle & Harry Carey Jr., whilst Roy ("The
Invaders") Thinness had a small role in one of the episodes. Shug Fisher
and Paul Comi held down regular roles as the pilot who gets the guys "up
there" The show also sponsored a
Ripcord toy consisting of a large plastic parachute with a skydiver figure
attached to it which kids would throw up in the air and watch it open and
float to the ground. It was a big seller. Note: The first episode (The Sky Diver) was an enlarged
episode of 39 mins featuring a 10 minute introduction by series producer Ivan
Tors. Part message to sponsor and part examination of the new sport of
Skydiving and its emergence from its paratrooper origin, this mini-doco is
full of information and interviews Nicely restored set of
episodes Ripcord Disc
The
Sky Diver: Pilot Episode + Ivan Tors Intro
Radar
Rescue (Trev's favorite episode from all those years ago)
Mile
High Triangle
The
Final Jump
The
Inventor
Semper
Paratus Any Time
Where
Do Elephants Go To Die?
Willie
|
Originally mastered here in 2004, this title has now been
RECENTLY REMASTERED & DIGITALLY RESTORED!
Rocky Jones,
Space Ranger
4 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger was a low-budget
but imaginative filmed (rather than live) 30 minute TV show produced from
1953 to 1955. In all, 39 episodes were made, three of which (Kip's
Private War, Escape Into Space, Vena and the Darnamo) were single episode stories,
while the remainder (36) were grouped into three episode continuing
adventures. These latter episodes were later recut & reissued as feature
length adventures but the excitement and anticipation of the continuing story
(and recap) from week to week was lost. Synopsis : A thousand years into the future, Rocky
Jones (Richard Crane) commands the Space Rangers. Piloting his "orbit
jet"' the Silver Moon, accompanied by his comical sidekick Winky (Scotty
Beckett from Our Gang), his girlfriend Vena Ray (Sally Mansfield), scientific
advisor Professor Newton (Maurice Cass), and kid sidekick Bobby (Robert
Lyden). When Scotty Beckett was sent to prison, Jones' sidekick became Biff
(James Lydon aka Henry Aldrich). The "Aliens" were Juliandra (Ann
Robinson from War of the Worlds), Pinto Vortando (Ted Hecht), Darganto
(Frank Pulaski) and Ed Wood's
bulky pal Tor Johnson played a villain in the series. Like many of his 1950s era space-piloting
contemporaries, Rocky Jones was pretty popular with the kiddies. And why not?
Despite its low budget and standard Space Ranger plots, every kid watching
the 39 original episodes believed in the heroism and deep space adventures of
the dashing star. Quality
Note : Significant restoration work has
gone into this prized set of episodes and they are now of quite OK quality - although a small number are still down a bit! Rocky Jones, Space Ranger Disc No. 1 Beyond
the Curtain of Space - Chapter 1 Beyond
the Curtain of Space - Chapter 2 Beyond
the Curtain of Space - Chapter 3 Blast-Off
- Chapter 1 Blast-Off
- Chapter 2 Blast-Off
- Chapter 3 Bobby's
Comet - Chapter 1 Bobby's
Comet - Chapter 2 Bobby's Comet - Chapter 3 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger Disc No. 2 The Cold
Sun - Chapter 1 The Cold
Sun - Chapter 2 The Cold
Sun - Chapter 3 Crash of
Moons - Chapter 1 Crash of
Moons - Chapter 2 Crash of
Moons - Chapter 3 Escape
Into Space The
Forbidden Moon - Chapter 1 The
Forbidden Moon - Chapter 2 The
Forbidden Moon - Chapter 3 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger Disc No. 3 Inferno
in Space - Chapter 1 Inferno
in Space - Chapter 2 Inferno
in Space - Chapter 3 Kip's
Private War Out of
this World - Chapter 1 Out of
this World - Chapter 2 Out of
this World - Chapter 3 Pirates
of Prah - Chapter 1 Pirates
of Prah - Chapter 2 Pirates
of Prah - Chapter 3 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger Disc No. 4 Rocky's
Odyssey - Chapter 1 Rocky's
Odyssey - Chapter 2 Rocky's
Odyssey - Chapter 3 Silver
Needle in the Sky - Chapter 1 Silver
Needle in the Sky - Chapter 2 Silver
Needle in the Sky - Chapter 3 The Trial
of Rocky Jones - Chapter 1 The Trial
of Rocky Jones - Chapter 2 The Trial
of Rocky Jones - Chapter 3 Vena and
the Darnano |
Rin Tin Tin - see The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin in the TV Series A - H Section
|
Route 66
(Season 1)
6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23
Route 66 was one of the most unique American
television dramas of the 1960s, an ostensible adventure series that
functioned, in practice, as an anthology of interesting character studies and
psychological dramas. Its 1960 premiere launched two young drifters (Martin
Milner as Tod Stiles and George Maharis as Buz Murdock) in a Corvette on an existential
odyssey in which they encountered a myriad of loners, dreamers and outcasts
in the small towns and big cities along U.S. Highway 66 and beyond. Creator Stirling Silliphant (future Academy Award winning
writer of In the Heat of the Night) utilized a concept in which the drama
centered on the guest stars more so than the regular cast. Whilst the series
is probably best remembered for its iconic Corvette convertible and the instrumental
theme song (composed and performed by Nelson Riddle), it was the literate scripts and
rich characterizations which brought the viewing public back each week. The
open-ended format, featuring two roaming observers/facilitators, gave
Silliphant and the other writers an almost unlimited landscape for presenting
a wide variety of dramatic storylines. Virtually any tale could be adapted to
the series. From toiling in a California vineyard to manning a Maine lobster
boat, the two men took odd jobs along their journey which brought them into
contact with dysfunctional families or troubled individuals in need of their
help. Route 66 is well remembered for its
cinematography and location filming. Silliphant traveled the country with a
location manager (Sam Manners), scouting a wide range of locales and writing
scripts to match the settings. The actors and film crew would arrive a few
months later. Memorable locations include a logging camp, shrimp boats, an
offshore oil rig, and Glen Canyon Dam, the latter while still under
construction. It is one of very few series in the history of television to be
filmed entirely on the road. This was done at a time when the United States
was much less homogeneous than it is now. People, their accents, livelihoods,
ethnic backgrounds and attitudes varied widely from one location to the next.
Scripted characters reflected a far less mobile society, in which people were
more apt to spend their entire lives in one small part of the country.
Similarly, the places themselves were very different from one another
visually, environmentally, architecturally and in terms of their relative
isolation. Remarkably, by the end of its four-season
run, the Route 66 production caravan had traveled to twenty-five states. The show's
stark black and white photography and spectacular locations provided a
powerful backdrop to its always compelling stories, and yielded a
photographic and geographical realism that has never been duplicated on
American television. As such, Route 66 has become, in retrospect,
a dramatic and photographic portrait of early-1960s America: a far less
crowded and less complicated era, in which altruism and optimism still had a
place. That place was filled by two young men who seemed to represent the
best in us, the willingness to stand up for the weak and who espoused
old-fashioned values like honesty and physical courage. This 6 DVD set consists of the complete
Season One of the series - all 30 episodes - excellent B&W prints
throughout (in its original 4:3 aspect). Whilst later series saw cast changes
(and even just Tod on his own at times), this first Season has the original
cast backed up by an astounding array of guest stars. Future Academy Award
winners in Lee Marvin, Robert Duvall & Walter Matthau make for excellent
episodes whilst Dan Duryea, Darren McGavin, Michael Rennie & Jack Warden
round out a roster of talented support. Interestingly, series producer
Herbert B. Leonard - well remembered for the Rin Tin Tin TV series (also
available from this website) - was able to include both Rin Tin Tin and James
"Lt. Rip Masters" Brown as guests in Season One episodes of Route
66! Disc No. 1 Black November A Lance of Straw The Swan Bed The Man on the Monkey Board The Strengthening Angels Disc No. 2 Ten Drops of Water Three Sides Legacy for Lucia Layout at Glen Canyon The Beryllium Eater Disc No. 3 A Fury Slinging Flame - guest starring Leslie Nielsen Sheba The Quick and the Dead Play It Glissando - guest starring Anne Francis The Clover Throne - guest starring Jack Warden Disc No. 4 Fly Away Home (Part 1) - guest starring Michael Rennie Fly Away Home (Part 2) Sleep on Four Pillows An Absence of Tears - guest starring Rin Tin Tin Like a Motherless Child Disc No. 5 Effigy in Snow Eleven, the Hard Way - guest starring Walter Matthau Most Vanquished, Most Victorious Don't Count Stars - guest starring Dan Duryea The Newborn - guest starring Robert Duvall Disc No. 6 A Skill for Hunting Trap at Cordova - guest starring James "Lt. Rip
Masters" Brown The Opponent - guest starring Darren McGavin Welcome to Amity Incident on a Bridge |
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The Saint
Volume One (Season One) 3 DVD
set: AU$30 or US$30 or £15
Volume Two (Season Two) 6 DVD
set: AU$45 or US$45 or £23
Volume Three (Season Three) 5
DVD set: AU$40 or US$40 or £20
Volume Four (Season Four) 2 DVD
set: AU$25 or US$25 or £13
In late 1961, Leslie
Charteris sold the television rights to The
Saint to producer Robert S. Baker, who
teamed up with Lew Grade of ITC to film The Saint for the small screen. Each
mystery spy-thriller episode ran for 50 minutes (sans commercial breaks) and
was based on the books and short stories written by Leslie Charteris, with
additional material added by the screenwriters. It centred on Simon
Templar, a Robin Hood-like adventurer
with a penchant for disguise. The character may be nicknamed The Saint
because the initial letters of his name (ST) are also an abbreviation for the
word Saint. When taking on an American persona he would often use the moniker:
Sebastian Tombs. The Saint starred Roger
Moore as Simon Templar and he drove a
(much-publicised) white Volvo P1800 on the show. Moore's portrayal of Templar
was considered a training ground for his later work as James Bond. He was
reportedly offered the role of 007 at least twice during the run of the
series, but had to turn it down both times due to his television commitments.
In one early episode of the series, a character actually mistakes Templar for
James Bond. The show was well received by
British audiences, but no US network seemed interested in placing it in their
schedules, so instead it was put into syndication by ITC - becoming a huge
hit in the US, making it one of the most successful syndicated shows in
history. This initial syndication run consisted of the first two UK series -
which were filmed in B&W and consisted of 12 episodes (Season One) and 27
episodes (Season Two). With US success (and Network
acceptance) came further series - Season Three (23 episodes) and Season Four
(9 episodes) were again filmed in B&W for a total of 71 monochrome
entries - each of which is distinguished by Roger Moore Òbreaking the fourth
wallÓ and speaking to the audience in character at the start of every
episode. With the much publicised move
to color, Moore took part ownership of the series and the stories exhibited
more secret agent and fantasy-style plots, helped along by The SaintÕs simple
narration (rather than addressing the viewer in person). Although a further 2
seasons (totalling 47 color episodes) were produced, it was seen as quite
different type of program to that espoused by B&W entries that preceded
it É.. As such, the B&W episodes
are often opined as the best of The Saint on TV - being played out as a
straightforward mystery series, and much closer to the spirit (& text) of
the books. The four Volumes that
comprise the episodes offered here correspond to the first four seasons of
The Saint - all 71 B&W episodes are contained here across the four
Volumes in broadcast order - uncut, perfect prints Note that Return of The
Saint - the superb (& big budget)
late 1970s TV series starring Ian Oligvy is available from the TV Series section of this website Note further that The Saint
Movies Series is available from the
Movie Series section of this website. And a further note É.
significant The Saint films are also available separately from the INDIVIDUAL
MOVIE TITLES section: The Saint in New York (1938), The Saint Strikes Back
(1939, The SaintÕs Vacation (1941) as
well as the two theatrical released Saint films adapted from the Roger Moore
TV Series (Color episodes): The Fiction-Makers (1968) &
Vendetta For The Saint (1969). Also worth a look : The
Saint on Radio - Vincent Price played The Saint in a very successful US Radio
series in the late 40's / early 50's. In the mid 90's the BBC dramatized
three Saint stories to resounding acclaim. Both are available from the Radio
Shows on MP3 CD section of this website. These shows have been digitally
restored & come on MP3 CDs which work in your DVD player. The shows are
free - with conditions. Check out the Radio Shows on MP3 CD section for
further details Volume One (Season One)
3 DVD set: AU$30 or US$30 or £15 Disc No. 1 (Season One) The Talented Husband The Latin Touch The Careful Terrorist The Covetous Headsman Disc No. 2 (Season One) The Loaded Tourist The Pearls of Peace The Arrow of God The Element of Doubt Disc No. 3 (Season One) The Effete Angler The Golden Journey The Man Who Was Lucky The Charitable Countess Volume Two (Season Two)
6 DVD set: AU$45 or US$45 or £23 Disc No. 1 (Season Two) The Fellow Traveller Starring the Saint Judith Teresa Disc No. 2 (Season Two) The Elusive Ellshaw Marcia The Work of Art Iris Disc No. 3 (Season Two) The King of the Beggars The Rough Diamonds The Saint Plays with Fire The Well Meaning Mayor The Sporting Chance Disc No. 4 (Season Two) The Bunco Artists The Benevolent Burglary The Wonderful War The Noble Sportsman
- co-starring Anthony Quayle Disc No. 5 (Season Two) The Romantic Matron Luella - co-starring David Hedison The Lawless Lady The Good Medicine The Invisible Millionaire Disc No. 6 (Season Two) The High Fence Sophia - co-starring Oliver Reed The Gentle Ladies The Ever-Loving Spouse The Saint Sees It Through Volume Three (Season
Three) 5 DVD set: AU$40 or US$40 or £20 Disc No. 1 (Season Three) The Miracle Tea Party Lida Jeannine The Scorpion Disc No. 2 (Season Three) The Revolution Racket The Saint Steps In The Loving Brothers
(starring Aussies: Ray Barrett & Ed Devereaux) The Man Who Liked Toys Disc No. 3 (Season Three) The Death Penalty The Imprudent Politician The Hi-Jackers The Unkind Philanthropist The Damsel in Distress Disc No. 4 (Season Three) The Contract The Set-Up The Rhine Maiden The Inescapable Word The Sign of the Claw Disc No. 5 (Season Three) The Golden Frog The Frightened Inn-Keeper Sibao The Crime of the Century The Happy Suicide Volume Four (Season
Four) 2 DVD set: AU$25 or US$25 or £13 Disc No. 1 (Season Four) The Checkered Flag The Abductors The Crooked Ring The Smart Detective Disc No. 2 (Season Four) The Persistent Parasites The Man Who Could Not Die The Saint Bids Diamonds The Spanish Cow The Old Treasure Story |
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Science Fiction Theatre
Season 1 - 4 DVD
Boxed Set price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
In
this science-fiction anthology series host Truman Bradley introduces stories
extrapolated from actual scientific data available in the 1950's,
concentrating on such concepts as space flight, UFO's and mental telepathy. Vincent
Price, Pat O'Brien, John "Bulldog Drummond" Howard & Basil
"Sherlock Holmes" Rathbone, Howard "Sam Spade" Duff appear in episodes. Two
seasons were produced. Season 1 consisted of 39 thirty minute color episodes,
whilst Season 2 consisted of a further 39 thirty minute episodes but this
time in B&W The
set offered here is Season 1 only Quality Note: This set of color episodes has recently undergone
significant restoration work. Most of the episodes are now of acceptable
quality - although some are still down a little. But all 39 episodes can
still be enjoyed for what they are: fascinating Sci-Fi Also worth a look : The Dimension X & X Minus One Radio Shows - check
out the Old Time Radio section
of this website. These shows have been digitally restored & come on MP3
CDs which work in your DVD player. The shows are free - with conditions.
Check out the Old Time Radio
section for further details Science
Fiction Theatre (Season 1) Disc No. 1 Beyond Time Is
Just a Place Out of
Nowhere Y..O..R..D.. Stranger
in the Desert No Food
for Thought The Brain
of John Emerson Spider,
Inc. Death at
2 A.M. Conversation
With an Ape Science
Fiction Theatre (Season 1) Disc No. 2 Marked
'Danger' Hour of
Nightmare 100 Years
Young The
Strange Doctor Lorenz The
Frozen Sound The
Stones Began to Move The Lost
Heartbeat The World
Below Barrier
of Silence Negative
Man Science
Fiction Theatre (Season 1) Disc No. 3 Dead
Reckoning A Visit
from Dr. Pliny The
Strange People at Pecos Dead
Storage The Human
Equation Target
Hurricane The Water
Maker The
Unexplored The
Hastings Secret Postcard
from Barcelona Science
Fiction Theatre (Season 1) Disc No. 4 Friend of
a Raven Beyond
Return Before
the Beginning The Long
Day Project
44 Are We
Invaded? Sound of
Murder Operation
Flypaper The Other
Side of the Moon |
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(Episodes have also been re-ordered so that
they are now in the original telecast order)
Sea Hunt
4 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
Sea
Hunt was one of the most popular shows in syndication in the Sixties (4
seasons of episodes were filmed from 1957-1962). This show was produced by Ivan Tors and the underwater
footage was shot in various warm water places around the world, from
California to Australia, from the Caribbean to the Florida Keys. There was
lots of action on Sea Hunt and the underwater fight scenes were spectacular
as Mike Nelson hunted down criminals from the undersea underworld and ran
afoul of sharks, manta rays, octopuses and giant sea turtles. The experienced
skindiver also went after salvage and did rescues - whenever danger or
excitement lurked below the surface Mike Nelson was ready for action. While
fill-in footage was filmed in exotic locales, most of the show's action
scenes were shot in a huge aquarium located in California's long-gone
Marineland amusement park in Palos Verdes. Ironically, Lloyd Bridges had no
experience as a diver before starting the series, but quickly became very
accomplished. Early in the run of the series, Mike Nelson operated from land
and the diving sequences were short. As the show gained popularity, more and
more of the action took place underwater and Mike was operating almost
exclusively from his high-tech boat, the Argonaut. Sea Hunt went on to become
one of the most merchandised TV programs of its time, with "Mike
Nelson" flippers, goggles and rubber boats being offered during the
height of the show's popularity. This
four DVD set contains episodes from all four seasons in telecast order Nicely
restored prints throughout! Sea
Hunt Disc No. 1 The Sea
Sled Female of
the Species Sonar
Queen Midget
Submarine Hard Hat Capture
of Santa Rosa The
Shipwreck Lord
Christobal Sea
Hunt Disc No. 2 Operation
Greenback The Stunt Cave
Diving Chain of
Evidence Sea
Serpent The
Getaway Port
Security Underwater
Unit Sea Hunt Disc No. 3
Oil
Island Asylum Blind
Spot The
Replacement Storm
Drain Underwater
Narcotics The Sound
of Nothing Diplomatic
Pouch Sea
Hunt Disc No. 4 Point of
No Return River
Treasure The
Destroyers Hot
Tracer The
Defector Quicksand Superman Roustabout |
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Season One -
4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
Season Two - 3 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$30 or US$30 or £15
Season Three - 3 DVD
Boxed Set price : AU$30 or US$30 or £15 Sergeant Preston of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police astride his horse Rex and accompanied by his dog
Yukon King enforces law and order in Alaska at the turn of the century. While
other law officers were out talking to witnesses and victims, Preston and
Yukon King would sniff for their own clues, and no one ever beat them to the
bad guys. Like many of television's early shows, Sergeant Preston first began
as a radio show in 1947 and ran until 1955. It was created by George W.
Trendle, of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet fame. Every show concluded
with Sgt Preston saying to the dog : "Well King, looks like this case is
closed!" The entire series ran for 3
seasons and consisted of 78 full color episodes. All 3 Seasons are presented
here in broadcast order - great color prints throughout (except for two episodes from the
3rd Season which are in B&W) A "Who Cares? Trivia"
Note: This show
holds great significance for Trev - it was the first show that he watched on
the family's first TV (April 1961) Also
worth a look : The Challenge
of the Yukon / Sergeant Preston of the Yukon Radio Shows - check
out the Old Time Radio section
of this website. These shows have been digitally restored & come on MP3
CDs which work in your DVD player. The shows are free - with conditions.
Check out the Old Time Radio
section for further details Season One - 4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18 Sergeant Preston of the
Yukon (S1) Disc No. 1
Vindication
Of Yukon Rebellion
In The North Trouble
At Hogback Incident
At Gordon Landing Bad
Medicine Hidden
Gold Last Mail
From Last Chance The
Assassins Sergeant Preston of the
Yukon (S1) Disc No. 2
Golden
Gift Cry Wolf Girl From
Vancouver Treasure
Of Fifteen Mile Creek The Boy
Nobody Wanted The Mad
Wolf Of Lost Canyon One Bean
Too Many Crime At
Wounded Moose Sergeant Preston of the
Yukon (S1) Disc No. 3
Dog Race Phantom
Of Phoenixville Trapped Justice
At Goneaway Creek Skagway
Secret Relief
Train Totem
Treasure One Good
Turn Sergeant Preston of the
Yukon (S1) Disc No. 4
The Cache Cinderella
Of The Yukon Go Fever Fancy Dan The
Coward Father Of
The Crime Remember
The Maine Love And
Honour All Is
Not Gold Season Two - 3 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$30
or US$30 or £15
Sergeant Preston of the
Yukon (S2) Disc No. 1
The
Limping King The
Rookie Pack Ice
Justice Revenge Littlest
Rookie Lost
Patrol King of
Herschel Island Sergeant Preston of the
Yukon (S2) Disc No. 2
Fantastic
Creatures Eye of
Evil Luck of
the Trail Return
Visit Tobacco
Smugglers Turnabout Emergency
on Scarface Flat The
Williwaw Sergeant Preston of the
Yukon (S2) Disc No. 3
Border
Action The Black
Ace Scourge
of the Wilderness Blind
Justice The
Stolen Malamute The
Devil's Roost Ten
Little Indians Underground
Ambush Season Three - 3 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$30
or US$30 or £15
Sergeant Preston of the
Yukon (S3) Disc No. 1
Old Ben's
Gold The Rebel
Yell The Mark
of Crime Storm The
Pass Old
Faithful The Skull
in the Stone Ghost
Mine Sergeant
Preston of the Yukon (S3) Disc No. 2 The Jailbreaker (B&W) Out of the Night Three Men in Black Lost River Roundup The Old Timer Battle at Bradley's The Generous Hobo Sergeant
Preston of the Yukon (S3) Disc No. 3 Follow the Leader Gold Rush Patrol Grizzly The Diamond Collar Escape to the North Outlaw in Uniform (B&W) Boy Alone The Criminal Collie |
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Sheena Queen of the Jungle
2 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$25 or
US$25 or £13
Created in 1937 by S.M. Iger
and Will Eisner, Sheena became the star feature in Fiction House's
"Jumbo Comics," which ran for 167 issues between 1938 and 1953.
From '42 to '53, Sheena also starred in 18 issues of "Sheena, Queen of
the Jungle." From the outset, Sheena was
blond, beautiful, spear-carrying, and scantily dressed. Within a year she
appeared in the leopard-skin which became her trademark and later bore
polished metal armlets and occasionally brass bracelets and anklets. Eisner
said he created Sheena to be a female counterpart of Tarzan and that he
borrowed the name from the H. Ryder Haggard novel, She. In 1955, Sheena leaped into
television - "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" ran for 26 half-hour
episodes in '55 and '56. The syndicated series starred pin-up girl Irish
McCalla as Sheena and although it lasted only one season, the TV series
developed a cult following. Larry Urbanski, curator of one of the world's
largest libraries of early television shows, wrote of Sheena: "This
shapely beauty of the jungle is fondly remembered by all boys who watched
Sheena in her well fitting leotard. The girls fondly remember Sheena as the
woman who took charge in a 50's era when women usually did not take
charge". The Sheena TV series was
produced in a period of American social history in which what we now refer to
as "traditional" sex roles were firmly entrenched. Early television
was largely structured by the expectation of a return to the normalcy of
patriarchy. Female characters were overwhelmingly depicted in roles
subservient to and dependent on males. Sheena was preceded on television by
Annie Oakley, played by Gail Davis, by two years. Annie was a strong and
heroic female character, and probably paved the way for Sheena, but Annie was
petite and demure. Sheena was robustly feminine and her simple and direct use
of language ("Bob stay here!") gave her a forceful persona. 16 episodes are presented
here in their original release order Excellent (digitally
restored & enhanced) prints - much better than commercial offerings Sheena Queen of the
Jungle Disc No. 1
Curse Of The Voodoo The Elephant God Eyes Of The Idol Forbidden Cargo Forbidden Land The Ganyika Kid Jungle Pursuit The Lash Sheena Queen of the
Jungle Disc No. 2
The Leopard Men The Magic Bag The Renegades The Rival Queen Sacred River Secret Of The Temple The Test Touch Of Death |
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Sherlock Holmes - Peter Cushing (Movies
& TV Series) 3 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$30 or US$30 or
£15
Noted British actor Peter Cushing portrayed Sherlock Holmes on only two occasions in
the movies: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) with AndrŽ Morell & The Masks of Death
(1984) with John Mills. Of historical significance is the fact that the
former film was the first color Sherlock Holmes film. Surprisingly, in between the quarter of a century which separated
these films, Cushing also played Holmes in an excellent BBC TV series in the
mid 60's. These were nice color 50 minute outings co-starring Nigel Stock as
Watson and featuring some of the classic Conan Doyle stories. Perfect Picture & Sound throughout Other Sherlock
Holmes films available within the INDIVIDUAL MOVIE TITLES section of this
website are A Study in Terror (1965), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976),
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) & Murder By Decree (1979) Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes Movie
Series The Hound
of the Baskervilles (1959) The Masks
of Death (1984) Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes TV Series Disc No. 1 A Study
in Scarlet The Hound
of the Baskervilles (Part 1) The Hound
of the Baskervilles (Part 2) Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes TV Series Disc No. 2 The
Boscombe Valley Mystery The Sign
of Four The Blue
Carbuncle |
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The Silent Service
1 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$20
or US$20 or £10
This
was a half hour 1957-1958 dramatic anthology series about the U.S. Navy's
submarine fleet. All stories were based on fact and the realism was
heightened by actual use of combat footage from the files of the Navy. The
stories were varied between the South Pacific during World War II and the
Korean War. The Navy loaned him the U.S.S. Sawfish for the filming of several
episodes. The
Silent Service is narrated by Rear Admiral Thomas M. Dykers, who retired from the Navy in 1949
after 22 years of service. He began each episode with this refrain:
"Tonight, we bring you another thrilling episode of Silent Service
stories, of warfare under the sea É " Recall
the opening / closing song: "É we'll patrol the ocean wide
from down, down underneath the sea É " Trev
well remembers this series just because of that song! The
Silent Service Disc The
Squalus Story The
Seahorse Story Sea
Nettle vs. U-Boat The Tautog
Story The
Pargo's Lucky Seventh The
Batfish Scores The
Sealion Story The Gar
Story The
Hawkbill's Revenge The Sea
Dragon Story |
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Beautifully transcoded (PAL to NTSC) -
looks good on big TVs! Sir Francis Drake
4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35
or US$35 or £18
Like the similarly themed William Tell, The
Buccaneers, The Count of Monte Cristo & The Adventures of Sir Lancelot which came before, Sir Francis Drake was another offering from ITC's series of of late
50's historical TV swashbucklers. Sir Francis Drake proved itself a rather
dignified effort in comparison to the previous period actioners. Producer
Anthony Bushell delivered a robust melodrama that was often as much
cloak-and-dagger doings as high seas privateering. Imbued with zest for the
romantic patriotism of Elizabethan times, the series brought considerable
pictorial imagination to its small-screen presentation: sunlight and shadow
effects, eerily confined narrow streets, sumptuous palace interiors, and
decorative Spanish costumes and courtiers of the time of Philip II of Spain.
The storyline broadly traced the adventures of the piratical sea fighter,
commander of the legendary 'Golden Hind', as he preyed on Spanish commerce in
the late 16th century and outwitted various Spanish agents intent on forcing
an unprepared England into open war with Spain. Terence Morgan's Drake, endowed from the start
with an uncanny self-confidence, struck exactly the right balance between
poker-faced laconism and Errol Flynn-like exuberance. By contrast, Jean Kent,
in a finely measured performance, walked through it all with great patience
and dignity as a suitably regal Elizabeth I - though, at times, there were
unmistakable moments of dewy-eyed expectation whenever she and the virile
Drake convened privately to plot conspiracies against Spain. Making up the patchwork members of Drake's regular
crew were a young Michael "Phantom of the Opera" Crawford as
Drake's wide-eyed nephew John and Milton Reid as the mountainous, glowering
Diego, with Patrick McLoughlin's Trevelyan and Howard Lang's Grenville as the
stock British officer class. The recurring villain of the piece was the
scheming Spanish Ambassador, Mendoza, played by the saturnine Roger Delgado
with enough venom to sustain the entire Spanish Inquisition for years. Guest stars included David McCallum, Nanette
Newman and Warren Mitchell. It was shown in the US in 1962 as The Adventures
of Sir Francis Drake. This
4 DVD set contains the entire series of 26 episodes in their original
broadcast order Perfect
prints throughout Check out William Tell, The Buccaneers, The
Count of Monte Cristo & The Adventures of Sir Lancelot - all available from this website Sir Francis Drake Disc No. 1 The Prisoner The Lost Colony of Virginia Queen of Scots Doctor Dee Bold Enterprise The English Dragon Sir Francis Drake Disc No. 2 Boy Jack The Garrison Visit to Spain The Flame Thrower The Governor's Revenge Slaves of Spain Sir Francis Drake Disc No. 3 The Doughty Plot King of America The Irish Pirate Beggars of the Sea Drake on Trial The Bridge Johnnie Factotum Sir Francis Drake Disc No. 4 Mission to Paris The Reluctant Duchess The Gypsies Court Intrigue Gentleman of Spain The Fountain of Youth Escape |
Sir Lancelot - see The Adventures of Sir Lancelot in the TV Series A - H Section
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New 8 DVD set now available Sky King
Volume 1 (Seasons
1 & 2) 4 DVD (Disc Nos. 1 to 4) Boxed Set price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
Volume 2 (Seasons
3 & 4) 4 DVD (Disc Nos. 5 to 8) Boxed Set price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
Volume 3 -
Entire Series - (Disc Nos. 1 to 8): 8 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$55 or US$55 or
£28 "From out of the clear
blue of the western sky comes Sky King" was the familiar opening to
television's premier aviation program. Operating from his Flying Crown Ranch
in Arizona, airplane pilot Sky (Schuyler) King, his niece Penny and their
Cessna 310 airplane "Songbird" were constantly involved in one
adventure after another. Viewed by many children in the 1950's, this program
was responsible for inspiring many later aviation careers. Although it had
strong cowboy show elements, King always captured criminals and even spies as
well as finding lost hikers using his airplane The TV series was itself
inspired by the radio show of the same name (the brainchild of Robert Morris
Burtt and Wilfred Gibbs Moore, who also created Captain Midnight) which first
aired in 1946 and ran until1954 in both continuing 15 minute and stand-alone 30
minute formats. The television version
starred Kirby Grant as Sky King and Gloria Winters as his teen-aged niece
Penny. Other regular characters included his nephew Clipper, played by Ron
Hagerthy, and Mitch the sheriff, played by Ewing Mitchell. Mitch was always
coming to Sky for help. The television show was
notable for its dramatic opening with the Songbird banking sharply away from
the camera and its engines roaring. The credit roll was equally dramatic,
with the Songbird swooping at the camera. At the beginning of the
television series, Sky flew a Cessna T-50 twin-engine "Bamboo
Bomber," actually owned by Grant, who in real life was a pilot. The
plane was made of wood and eventually became unsafe to fly. The plane was
sold and later in the series he flew a twin-engine Cessna 310B. Like most TV cowboy heroes of
the time, Sky never killed the bad guys. Largely a show for kids, although it
sometimes aired in primetime, Sky King became an icon in the aviation
community. Many pilots who grew up watching Sky King name him as an
influence. In all 72 episodes were
filmed across 4 seasons. Fabulous
print quality throughout Sky King Disc No. 1
(Season 1 Disc No. 1)
Operation
Urgent Carrier
Pigeon Stagecoach
Robbers Deadly
Cargo Jim
Bell's Triumph Designing
Women One for
the Money Danger
Point Desperate
Character Sky King Disc No. 2
(Season 1 Disc No. 2)
The Man
Who Forgot The
Threatening Bomb Speak No
Evil Two-Gun
Penny Formula
for Fear The Giant
Eagle Blackmail Wings of
Justice Destruction
from the Sky The Porcelain
Lion Sky King Disc No. 3
(Season 2 Disc No. 1)
The
Neckerchief Man Hunt The
Plastic Ghost The
Rainbird The
Crystal Trap The Red
Tentacle Boomerang The
Geiger Detective The
Golden Burro Rustlers
on Wheels Sky King Disc No. 4
(Season 2 Disc No. 2)
The
Silver Grave Uninvited
Death Fish out
of Water Diamonds
on a Sky-Hook Flood of
Fury Rocket
Story Rodeo
Roundup Showdown Land
o'Cotton Dust of
Destruction Sky King Disc No. 5
(Season 3 Disc No. 1)
Mystery
Horse Double
Trouble Note for
a Dam Bad Actor Fight for
Oil Lost Boy The Brain
and the Brawn The
Feathered Serpent The
Circus Clown Mystery Dead
Man's Will Sky King Disc No. 6
(Season 3 Disc No. 2)
Cindy,
Come Home Rodeo
Decathlon Abracadabra Triple
Exposure The
Haunted Castle Man Hunt
II Danger at
the Sawmill Sleight
of Hand The
Runaway Stop That
Train Sky King Disc No. 7
(Season 4 Disc No. 1)
The Wild
Man Sky
Robbers A Dog
Named Barney Bullet
Bait Money Has
Wings Frog Man Terror
Cruise Sky King Disc No. 8
(Season 4 Disc No. 2)
Runaway
Truck Bounty Hunters A Mickey
for Sky Dead
Giveaway Ring of
Fire Mickey's
Birthday |
NEWLY REMASTERED
Beautifully transcoded (PAL to NTSC) -
looks good on big TVs! Smuggler
2 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$25 or
US$25 or £13
The British adventure series Smuggler is set in 1802 during the early stages of the
Napoleonic wars. The central character is Jack Vincent (Oliver Tobias), a swashbuckling ex-British naval captain turned
smuggler. A strong-willed, independent man who lives by both his wits and the
sword, Vincent enjoys outwitting British revenue officers and tweaking the
nose of the French higher-ups by indulging in various espionage activities.
We find out that Jack is actually a forsaken hero of the British Navy. A
series of plot lines center around him to reveal the golden core of this
otherwise shady character. Others within Vincent's orbit were petty thief Honesty
Evans (Hywel Williams Ellis), to whom
Jack owed his life, and the gorgeous, kidnap-prone Sarah Morton (Lesley Dunlop). With taut, adventurous plots
from writers Richard Carpenter
(Robin of Sherwood), Bob Baker
(Doctor Who) and John Kane (Dick
Turpin), the series ran for 13 half hour installments in 1981. Several episodes were
directed by the legendary Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob & A Fish Called Wanda). The series was produced by Harlech Television (HTV) and employed
the same crew (including writers and directors) as the similarly themed 1979
- 82 Dick Turpin series (which is
also available from this website). Harlech Television (HTV) was also responsible
for two other excellent TV series: Arthur of the Britons starring (again) Oliver Tobias
1972/1973 and Kidnapped starring David McCallum in 1978 - both of which are available from
this website This 2 DVD set contains the entire series of
13 episodes in their original broadcast order - superb color prints
throughout Smuggler Disc No. 1
The Right
Price Part One The Right
Price Part Two Forced
Run The
Respectable Traitor Part One The
Respectable Traitor Part Two Press
Gang Smuggler Disc No. 2
In At The Death The Missing Princess Hogshead The Felon An Eye For An Eye Straw Man Part One Straw Man Part Two |
Soldiers of
Fortune
6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23
In 1955 an action adventure series called
Soldiers of Fortune debuted. The storyline told of two international
adventures who travel the world offering their services for hire: the tall,
dark & handsome Tim Kelly (John Russell) and the rugged, everyman Toubo Smith (Chick Chandler) The storylines were pure escapist adventure:
one week finds the pair embarked on exotic quests to the jungles of India,
and next to the foggy waterfronts of London, the mountain tops of Tibet,
diamond mines of Africa, the pampas of South America, whence to the bazaars
of the Middle East, Australia, Siam É The entire series was shot on the Republic
Studios backlot and depending on the nature of the story, stock footage was
interwoven with regular photography and some location shooting. But no matter
the locale, all of shows each week were filled with non-stop action with an
abundance of stuntmen, some of whom were former Republic Studio daredevils
such as Dale Van Sickle, Tom Steele, John Day, Ken Terrell and David Sharpe.
In fact fans of Republic may notice a lot of that famous action factoryÕs
production crew in the credits here. High adventure, all the way with Tim
& Toubo! This immensely popular series ran for two
Seasons and comprised a total of 52 half hour B&W episodes. Since the
series was immediately syndicated and not sold as a network production, original
airdates can be a matter for disputed. So, in this instance, airdates as
advised by The
(well-researched & highly detailed) Classic TV Archive website have been used and thus
defines the Òoriginal broadcast orderÓ as mastered and listed below. Quite nice B&W print quality throughout
with all episodes having undergone digital enhancement (Some - less than a dozen - are down a little
- but all can be enjoyed for what they are: rattling good entertainment!) The
series ran for two seasons each of 26 for a total of 52 half hour episodes This 6 DVD set contains the entire series
of 52 half hour episodes of Soldiers of Fortune in their original
"broadcast order" - uncut B&W prints of mostly very nice
quality Soldiers of Fortune (Season One) Disc No.
1 The
Gaboon Viper The
Greatest Beast The Lady
of Rajmahal The
Runaway King Pearls
Off Dondra Head Jungle
Search The
Elephant Gun Cut
Charlie In Soldiers of Fortune (Season One) Disc No.
2 Bite of
the Ruby Red Girl in
the Jeep Escort to
Namtok Hate at Forty
Fathoms Malayan
Magic Torch of
Olympiad The
General Gypsy
Prince The Black
Scarab Soldiers of Fortune (Season One) Disc No.
3 The Lady
and the Lion Drums of
Far Island Aloha
Means Goodbye Return of
the Hawk The
Vanishing Island Run 'Til
You Die Escape
from Camp Diablo Last Days
of Dolores Walk Wide
of Lions Soldiers of Fortune (Season Two) Disc No.
1 Massacre
in Mokhara The
Greater Magic Limehouse
Knights The
Monster of Loch Mac Gora The Black
Cat Waits Boomerang
River of
Death Treasure
of VickersÕ Island Soldiers of Fortune (Season Two) Disc No.
2 The
Tattooed Lady of Torima Doubled
in Diamonds The
Danger Sisters Hatchet
Man Slave
Market Temple of
Terror Attack at
Ras El Ma Guns for
El Khadar Skull of
the Inca Soldiers of Fortune (Season Two) Disc No.
3 Pipeline
to Danger The Green
Trap A Gift of
Death Sandhogs The City
of Doom Crew of
the Dolly ÒDÓ The Honor
of Dr. Mazaro Jungle
Rebel Old
Lady's Mine |
NEWLY RESTORED
Now a 6 DVD set comprising 52 episodes which have undergone digital
enhancement Very Nice! Space Patrol
6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23
High adventure in the wild
reaches of spaceÉ Missions of daring in the
name of interplanetary justice! Travel into the future with
Buzz CorryÉ Commander-in-Chief ofÉ The Space Patrol! Commander Corey and youthful Cadet Happy roam
the 30th century universe in their ship "Terra" fighting
super-villains Mr. Proteus and Prince Baccarratti and other badguys. Captured
badguys get zapped with the Paralyzer, then get reprogrammed with the
Brainograph. Space Patrol was a weekend half-hour show on
the ABC Network which ran for 5 Seasons (1950-'55) Surprisingly it was done
"live" in the studio and despite the obvious limitations here, it
was deftly done and over the years built up a "cult" following
amongst its adult fans. It was even telecast here in Australia in the
late 80's on our own Government funded multicultural channel - late Friday
nites! Space Patrol was the brainchild of creator
Mike Moser, an ex-U.S. Navy Air force veteran in WW II. He conceived the
program as a way to bring the same sort of vision he has experienced as a
youth reading Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. He cast Ed Kemmer as Commander Corry and Lyn
Osborn as Cadet Happy. Although television was itÕs forte Space
Patrol also generated a radio show version with all of the TV series regulars
appearing on the radio shows (which were very well written). The radio shows
which often closely followed the TV series in story-lines could be heard at
10:30 on Saturday mornings whilst the TV shows were also telecast on
Saturdays Note these episodes are all kinescopes -
ie they were shot and beamed out "live". These filmed episodes were
achieved by pointing a camera at a special type of TV set - a kinescope! So whilst quite nice viewing, they don't
have the overall quality of filmed TV Also worth a look : The Space Patrol Radio Shows (starring the TV show cast-members) - check out the Old Time Radio section of this website. These shows have been
digitally restored & come on MP3 CDs which work in your DVD player. The
shows are free - with conditions. Check out the Old Time Radio section for further details Space Patrol Disc No. 1 Treachery
Of Mars - the 1st ever Network episode The Lost
City Of The Carnacans The Deadly
Weapon The
Legend Of Wild Man's Ridge Way
Station To The Stars The
Dangerous Discovery The Space
Patrol Code Belt Hit By A
Meteorite Space Patrol Disc No. 2 The
Lieutenant's Revenge The
Threat Of The Thormanoids The
Deadly Ray Gun The
Mystery Of Ancient Egypt The
Energy Thief The Chase
In Time The Rifle
Arsenal The
Deadly Flower Space Patrol Disc No. 3 Operation
Rescue Survival
In The Ice Desert The
Laughing Alien The Vital
Factor (aka The Space Doctor) The
Deadly Glacier The Fraud
Of Titan The Man Who
Stole A City Mysterious
Ocean In Space The
Mystery Of Planet X Space Patrol Disc No. 4 The Trap
On Planet X The Ice
Demon Of Planet X The
Castle's Destruction On Planet X The Space
Vault Robbery The
Pirate's Escape The Men
Slaves Of Cydonia The
Deadly Radiation Chamber The Plot
In The Atomic Plant Mr.
Proteus And The Poison Gas Space Patrol Disc No. 5 Baccarratti's
"Z" Ray Marooned
In The Past Evil
Spirits Of The Great Thunderbird Prisoners
Of The Giant Comet The Demon
Planet Trapped
In The Pyramid The
Underwater Space Ship Graveyard The Space
Patrol Periscope The
Defeat Of Manza Space
Patrol Disc No. 6 The Theft
Of The Rocket Cockpit (aka Mystery of the Stolen Rocket Ship DangerÉ
Radiation! The
Exploding Stars Terra,
The Doomed Planet Revenge
Of The Black Falcon Sorcerers
From Outer Space Baccarratti
And Black Magic (aka The Defeat of Baccarratti) A
Christmas Party For Happy The Wild
Men Of Procyon |
Spin and
Marty
See Mickey Mouse Club Serials: Spin and Marty & The
Hardy Boys (above)
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NEW É NEW É NEW É NEW Seasons Two & Three (together in an
8 DVD set) have now been added The series (all 104 episodes) is now
complete! State Trooper
(The Complete Series)
Season One: 5
DVD Boxed Set price : AU$40 or US$40 or £20
Seasons
Two & Three: 8 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$55 or US$55 or £28
State Trooper was a half-hour Western-themed crime drama
series starring action-movie specialist Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, a Chief
Investigator for the Nevada State Troopers. Blake travels throughout the
state of Nevada in a black, unmarked 1956 Ford V8 Sedan (usually with a
hose-trailer in back) helping other law enforcement officers solve various
crimes - and in collusion with the local SheriffÕs Department, he often goes
undercover to get the goods on the villains. A great deal of the show was filmed on
location at many famous Nevada landmarks, including Las Vegas, Boulder Dam,
Carson City, Goldfield and Tonapah. Its stories were based on real cases
focusing on miners, ranchers, dude ranches, released convicts, etc. Many of the familiar character actors of the
50's and early 60's appeared on the show, including soon to be famous actors
such as Angie Dickinson (Police Woman), John Vivyan (Mr. Lucky), Craig Stevens (Peter Gunn), Jack Kelly (Maverick), Amanda Blake (Gunsmoke) and Michael Landon (Bonanza). Direction came from the pick of the action
genre veterans: William Witney, John English and Richard Irving. State Trooper was not affiliated with any network pre se -
instead it was made by Revue Productions and immediately syndicated and distributed
by MCA TV. As
such air-dates varied depending on the location and so what actually
constitutes the each Season of State Trooper is debatable. Suffice to say that 104 episodes were
shot between 1956 and 1959 compring three seasons (plus a Pilot ÒKiller on
HorsebackÓ which aired on NBCÕs ÒStar StageÓ anthology series in 1955) All three Seasons (determined by
production number rather than air date) and comprising 104 episodes in total
are presented here É Season One (5 DVD set) consists of the first 39 half
hour episodes, whilst Seasons Two & Three (8 DVD set) consists of the
remaining 65 episodes. Perfect B&W uncut prints
throughout Also Rod Cameron also made another excellent half hour
adventure TV series: Coronado 9 -
its also available from this website (TV Series A-H). Also, also there's a nice set of Rod
Cameron westerns
which can be found in the "B" Westerns section of this website Season One: 5
DVD Boxed Set price : AU$40 or US$40 or £20
State Trooper (Season 1) Disc - No. 1 Red Badge of Death The Paperhanger of Pioche Meeting at Julias Jailbreak at Tonopah The Hills of Homicide From Here to Molokai What Price Gloria Weep No More O'Grady State Trooper (Season 1) - Disc No. 2 Nevada Boy, Pride and Joy One Way to Tahoe Room Service for 321 The Cash Out Trail of the Dead Rocking Chair Bandit Coate of Many Colors Boulder Joe's Bottle House State Trooper (Season 1) - Disc No. 3 Who Killed Doc. Robbins Buck Fever No Fancy Cowboys Violets on Mt. Rose The Last Stage Robbery The Silver Duke Death on the Rock The Last War Party State Trooper (Season 1) - Disc No. 4 Voice of the Bug The One That Didn't Get Away Cinder Jungle Diamonds Come High Jail Trail The Only Girl on Boot Hill No Blaze of Glory Beef a la Murder State Trooper (Season 1) - Disc No. 5 Ride Til You Die Madman on the Mountain Safe on a Boat Fury on Fremont Street The Live Shell Game A Penny Saved Out of Line Seasons Two & Three:
8 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$55 or US$55 or £28 State Trooper (Seasons 2 & 3) - Disc No. 1 The Black Leaper The Talking Corpse The Gandy Dancers Of Steptoe Valley The Sound Of Death The Dancing Dowager Diamonds In The Rough Cable Car To Tombstone The Perilous Picnic State Trooper (Seasons 2 & 3) - Disc No. 2 Grudge Race Dangerous Honeymoon The Doll Who CouldnÕt Sleep Full Circle Death On Wheels The Bride Wore Bullets Sweetheart Of Sigmund Kaye Crisis At Comstock State Trooper (Seasons 2 & 3) - Disc No. 3 The Case Of The Happy Dragon Wild Green Yonder Stay Lost Little Girl The Widow Makers 312 Vertical Another Chance 710 Hysteria Street Firebug State Trooper (Seasons 2 & 3) - Disc No. 4 Kitchen Kill The Last Waltz Still Water Runs Red No, My Darling Daughter Hardrock Man Key To A Killer The Woman Who Cried Wolf Inherit A Bullet State Trooper (Seasons 2 & 3) - Disc No. 5 The Winnemucca Weskit Joker's Dead You Can't Run Forever Sweet & Gentle, Ltd. When The Cat's Away The Clever Man The Silver Spiral Travel Now, Slay Later State Trooper (Seasons 2 & 3) - Disc No. 6 Lonely Valley Excitement At Milltown The Trap That Jack Built Fiddle Dee Dead This One'll Kill Ya Prettiest Dress In Goldfield What's Mine Is Mine Larceny And Old Ace State Trooper (Seasons 2 & 3) - Disc No. 7 Carson City Kitty The Man From Solitary The Choker Case Of The Barefoot Girl The Patient Skeleton The Judas Tree Hard Money, Soft Touch Let 'Em Eat Smoke State Trooper (Seasons 2 & 3) - Disc No. 8 Mystery Sniper Pistols For Two So Early In The Mourning Love On The Rocks While Jerome Burned And Baby Makes Two The Night Has A Thousand Eyes Everything Else Is Bridgeport The Girl On Cloud Nine |
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NEWLY REMASTERED Strange Report
4 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
Another in the line of ITC's
action-adventure series of the 1960s, Strange Report (1969) differed from the fantastical and exotic
exploits of The Champions of
the same year, by grounding itself in the reality of late '60s London and
dealing with contemporary issues and anxieties. The producer (Norman Felton)
was responsible for The Man from UNCLE, so the series shares the visual flair
of its predecessor whilst covering such subjects as illegal immigration,
racism, student militancy and euthanasia. Locating the show in a recognisably
contemporary London (with many interesting locations), Strange
Report arguably offered a more honest
assessment of the period, allowing the program to display a degree of realism
and authenticity unusual for its genre. Adam Strange (film actor Anthony Quayle) is a retired police detective turned
criminologist who solves obscure and sometimes bizarre crimes. Whilst only sixteen episodes of
the programme were made (a mooted second season to be filmed in Hollywood
never eventuating), one of Strange Report's strengths is the relationship
established early in the series between Strange and his two young companions,
his neighbour artist/model Evelyn McLean (Anneke Wills - Polly Wright from Doctor Who) and the American researcher Hamlyn
"Ham" Gynt (Kaz Garas).
Strange's authority and professionalism neatly contrasts with Gynt's idealism
and exuberance and Evelyn's youthful enthusiasm. Despite their differences,
it soon becomes obvious from the characters' affectionate interplay that they
share a mutual respect. The program achieves a satisfying balance between the
wonderfully formed characters, witty dialogue and the seriousness of the
storylines. This
4 DVD set contains the entire series of sixteen 50 minute episodes of Strange
Report in their original broadcast order - superb color prints throughout Note
that the complete series of other ITC productions of the era: The Baron,
Department S, Man in a Suitcase, The Champions & Return of The Saint are
also available from this website Disc No. 1 Report 4407 Heart 'No Choice for the Donor' Report 1553 Racist 'A Most Dangerous Proposal' Report 0649 Skeleton 'Let Sleeping Heroes Lie' Report 5055 Cult 'Murder Shrieks Out' Disc No. 2 Report 2493 Kidnap 'Whose Pretty Girl are You?' Report 7931 Sniper 'When is Your Cousin Not?' Report 3424 Epidemic 'A Most Curious Crime' Report 4977 Swindle 'Square Root of Evil' Disc No. 3 Report 2475 Revenge 'When a Man Hates' Report 3906 Cover Girls 'Last Year's Model' Report 4821 X-Ray 'Who Weeps for the Doctor?' Report 8944 Hand 'A Matter of Witchcraft' Disc No. 4 Report 8319 Grenade 'What Price Change?' Report 1021 Shrapnel 'The Wish in the Dream' Report 2641 Hostage 'If You Won't Learn, Die' Report 0846 Lonelyhearts 'Who
Killed Dan Cupid?' |
Superman -
see The Adventures of Superman in the TV Series A - H Section
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This new 4 DVD set is NOW AVAILABLE É A whole new set of episodes now
comprising all 34 which are known to have
survived. Each episode has been digitally
restored/enhanced during the mastery process É but É.. This is to be a very restricted release
É. Contact Trev for more details (genuine
fans only!) Tales of the Texas Rangers
4 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
Tales of the Texas Rangers premiered on radio in 1950 to great acclaim. It
came from an idea developed and carefully researched by Stacy Keach, who had joined the legendary 30 year Texas
Ranger veteran Capt. M. T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas on a number of fact-finding case investigations.
The series was adapted for television from 1955 to 1957 with Gonzaullas as
Technical Consultant. During the opening credits of the TV show, Rangers
Jace Pearson (Willard Parker) & Clay Morgan (Harry Lauter) would march toward the camera to the song:
"We are the Texas Rangers", to the tune of "I've
Been Working on the Railroad". The TV series featured both modern
cases and cases set in the "Old West". There were three seasons
comprising 52 episodes in all: Season One having 26 episodes whilst the
remaining two seasons saw the production of 13 episodes each. Of significance is the 3rd
season episode titled Jace and Clay.
It tells of how Clay Morgan became associated with Jace Pearson, firstly as
an outlaw and then at the end of the show, electing to join the Texas Rangers
and partner Jace This 4 DVD set contains
34 episodes in their original telecast order - so that scenes of "whats
happening next week" have relevance. These 34 episodes appear to be the
sum total of all that have survived out of the original 52 episodes produced.
Each of these 34
episodes has been properly identified and then digitally enhanced during a
careful mastery to DVD. Many episodes are of exceptional quality whilst
others are good and some are of average quality only. However the digital
restoration has rendered the set to be that of overall very good quality - to
such an extent that each and every episode can be viewed and enjoyed even on
big TV screens. Also worth a look : Tales of the Texas
Radio Shows - check out the Old Time Radio section of this website (starring Joel
McCrea as Ranger Jace Pearson) . These
shows have been digitally restored & come on MP3 CDs which work in your
DVD player. The shows are free - with conditions. Check out the Radio
Shows on MP3 CDs section for further
details Tales of the Texas
Rangers TV Series Disc No. 1
Ransom Flight Carnival Criss-Cross Shorty Sees the Light West of Sonora Blood Trail Uranium Pete The Shooting of Sam Bass Home in San Antone Tornado Tales
of the Texas Rangers TV Series Disc No. 2 Prairie Raiders Atomic Trail Return of the Rough Riders Blazing Across the Pecos The Rough, Tough West Hail to the Rangers Singing on the Trail The Devil's Deputy Horseman on the Sierras Tales
of the Texas Rangers TV Series Disc No. 3 The Man from Sundown The Hobo A Texas Million Hardrock's Dilemma The Kid from Amarillo Gypsy Boy Riders of the Lone Star Double Reward Tales
of the Texas Rangers TV Series Disc No. 4 Edge of Danger Cattle Drive Deadfall Steel Trap Desert Fury Texas Flyer Jace and Clay Kickback |
Originally mastered here in 2005, this title has now been
RECENTLY REMASTERED & DIGITALLY RESTORED!
New prints & all new episodes have
been added including the recently discovered "mystery
episode" The Diamond Maker (ItÕs a mystery because according to
sources it doesn't exist É but it does exist and in it there's a
nice costarring role for Frank Jenks - a role which isn't
confirmed at IMDB!) All nice prints with the exception of
"Overseer" however digital restoration has lifted
the quality of this episode (to quite OK) This series is now complete - all 18
episodes Terry and the Pirates
2 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$25 or
US$25 or £13
Calling all DC-3 and C-47
Dakota enthusiasts! Terry and the Pirates is a cult TV series from the 50's -
only 18 episodes were ever made (only 15 of which are now in existence) . Based upon a newspaper comic strip
created by Milt Caniff and preceeded by a successful radio show and movie
serial, it tells the adventures of Colonel Terry Lee, USAF. Terry has
inheritied a gold mine from his grandfather and travels to the Orient in
search of it. There he begins flying for Air Cathay, a no-questions-asked
cargo/passenger airline owned and operated by Chopstick Joe, a cunning but not too honest operator.
His friend and co-pilot is Charles
C. Charles, aka Hotshot Charlie. His girl, a pretty blonde named Burma and
his nemesis, Lai Choi San, alias "The Dragon Lady", a beautiful, possibly evil Euro-Asian
whose underlying motives remain a mystery Terry and the Pirates TV
Series Disc No. 1
Macao
Gold The
Maitland Affair Diplomatic
Passport The Green
God Loaded
Dice Affair Chinese
Coffin The
Boxer's Rebellion Little
Mandarin Terry and the Pirates TV
Series Disc No. 2
Co-Pilots Chinese
Legacy Black
Market in Death Compound
C-3 Extra
Cargo Deadly
Species Tea Hee The Randall Affair The Diamond Maker Overseer |
Originally mastered here in 2004, this title has now been
RECENTLY REMASTERED & DIGITALLY RESTORED!
The Thin Man
1 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$20
or US$20 or £10
A
follow up to the successful movies series starring William Powell & Myrna
Loy (available from the Movie Series section of this website). This 1957 - 59
30 TV series starred Peter Lawford & Phyllis Kirk. Nick
Charles, an ex-private detective, marries Nora and lives in a luxurious Park
Avenue apartment in New York City. Nick's former underworld friends still hang around and get him
involved in a number of crimes that he solves. Beatrice Dane is a beautiful
con artist using the alias "Blondie Collins" and Nora finds it
difficult to be hospitable to her A
nicely remastered and digitally restored set of episodes Note
that this DVD is also part of a 5 DVD set which includes all of The Thin Man
films -
it can be found in the Movie Series section of this website The
Thin Man TV Series (starring Peter Lawford) I Loathe
You, Darling Robot
Client The Angel
Biz Acrostic
Murders La Sabre
Invecta Est? Lost Last
Chapter Maine
Thing Dead Duck The
Dollar Doodle The
Departed Doctor |
Originally mastered here in 2006, this title has now been
RECENTLY REMASTERED & DIGITALLY RESTORED!
The Third Man
1 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$20 or US$20 or £10
The Third Man was a 30 minute action / adventure series from
the late 1950s. It centred on the adventures of Harry Lime, an international man of mystery who lives on the
edge of danger. The series was based on the 1949 film noir The
Third Man starring Orson
Welles (available from the INDIVIDUAL
MOVIE TITLES section of this website).
The character was changed from a criminal into a sort of "thief with a
conscience" for the subsequent popular 1951 radio series, "The
Lives of Harry Lime" (also starring
Welles and available from the Old Time Radio section of this website). The Third Man TV series changed the premise that Harry Lime died at the end of the movie, and morphs him from
a criminal into a much less ambiguous, more sympathetic, man with a
conscience. The show aired in the United
States on NBC running for 3 seasons, and was a joint production of BBC
Television, the National Telefilm Associates of America, and the British Lion
Film Corporation. The TV series received a good
reception probably because of a number of factors. These included the
"signature" zither theme song taken from the movie (performed by Anton
Karrass) and the casting of Michael
Rennie as Harry Lime, a suave, sophisticated, bold, witty, devilishly
handsome and brave individual who never lost his temper, his cool, or his
sense of humor-even in life threatening situations. Jonathan Harris ("Dr Smith" from the Lost in Space TV series) was perfect as Lime's conservative, milquetoast
assistant and treasurer of his corporations, Bradley Webster. Excellent print quality throughout! - the 11
episodes listed below are taken from all 3 seasons. Also worth a look : The Third Man
Radio Shows - check out the Old Time Radio section of this website (starring Orson Welles as
Harry Lime) . These shows have been digitally restored & come on MP3 CDs
which work in your DVD player. The shows are free - with conditions. Check
out the Old Time Radio section
for further details The Third Man TV Series
Disc No. 1
One Kind Word (the first ever episode) Barcelona Passage Listen for the Sound of a Witch How to Buy a Country The Third Medallion Toys of the Dead A Pocketful of Sin As the Twig is Bent Broken Strings A Diamond in the Rough A Question in Ice Note that this DVD is also
part of "The 50's TV Detectives" 4 DVD set - see
below (under "F" for 50's) |
Thriller
(Boris Karloff): see Boris Karloff's Thriller (TV Series A-H section)
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The Time Tunnel
6 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$45
or US$45 or £23 "Two
American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages,
during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project,
the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a
new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of
time." The
most expensive television show on the air in 1966 was The Time Tunnel, an
Irwin Allen production that debuted Friday night, September 6th. 'The
Time Tunnel' was the story of Dr. Tony Newman (James Darren) and Dr. Doug
Phillips (Robert Colbert), two research scientists who developed the top
secret Time Tunnel - only to become lost, tumbling among the infinite
corridors of time. Manning the Time Tunnel are Whit Bissell as General
Heywood Kirk, John Zaremba as Dr. Raymond Swaim, Wesley Lau as security
officer Jiggs, and Lee Meriwether as Dr. Ann McGregor. The
Time Tunnel explodes every time you use it. Allen's long time special-effects
supervisor Bill Abbott won an Emmy award for this incredible contribution to
the show. The
pilot episode, which had Tony and Doug aboard the Titanic hours before it
strikes an iceberg, has a strong script and is directed by producer Irwin
Allen, so the pacing is exciting throughout. This may be the best hour of
science-fiction television ever produced in the Sixties, the time travel
special effects are colorful and hypnotic, the characters are all likeable
and guest-star Michael Rennie is excellent as the doomed ship's captain. Unfortunately
the series only ran for one Season and a total of 30 episodes The
set below comprises the entire series - perfect color prints thoughout The
Time Tunnel Disc No. 1 Rendezvous
With Yesterday One Way
To The Moon End Of
The World The Day
The Sky Fell In The Last
Patrol The
Time Tunnel Disc No. 2 Crack Of
Doom Revenge
Of The Gods Massacre Devil's
Island Reign Of
Terror The
Time Tunnel Disc No. 3 Secret
Weapon The Death
Trap The Alamo Night Of
The Long Knives Invasion The
Time Tunnel Disc No. 4 The
Revenge Of Robin Hood Kill Two
By Two Visitors
From Beyond The Stars The Ghost
Of Nero The Walls
Of Jericho The
Time Tunnel Disc No. 5 Idol Of
Death Billy The
Kid Pirates
Of Deadman's Island Chase
Through Time The Death
Merchant The
Time Tunnel Disc No. 6 Attack Of
The Barbarians Merlin
The Magician The
Kidnappers Raiders
From Outer Space Town Of
Terror |
UFO
6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23
UFO was a 1970 British television science
fiction series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson and produced by
Lew Grade's ITC (The Baron, The Champions etc). The Andersons had previously
made a number of very successful marionette-based children's science fiction
series including Stingray, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet. They had also
made one live-action science fiction movie, DoppelgŠnger, aka Journey to the
Far Side of the Sun (starring Roy Thinness of The Invaders fame), and now
felt ready to move into live-action television and aim at a more adult
market. UFO was the Andersons' first totally
live-action TV series. Despite the assumption of many TV station executives,
the series was not aimed at children, but deliberately sought an older
audience; many episodes featured adult themes such as adultery, divorce, and
drug use. The premise of the series is that aliens are
visiting the Earth and kidnapping humans. To defend against the aliens, a
secret organisation called SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence
Organisation) is established. Operating behind the cover of the
Harlington-Straker Studios movie studio in England, SHADO is headed by
Commander Ed Straker (played by Ed Bishop), a former United States Air Force
Colonel and astronaut who poses as the studio's chief executive. Earth had a
satellite in orbit to detect the UFOs. It was called SID, another acronym
for, "Space Intruder Detector". SHADO has several lines of defense.
Missiles can be launched from a base on the Moon. High altitude aircraft can
attack after being launched from submarines. There are also a fleet of
armored vehicles spread out all over the planet. The episodes typically
involve attempted alien attacks and how Earth defenses stop them. UFO first aired in the UK in 1970 and in US
syndication over the next two years. In all, 26 episodes, including the
pilot, were filmed over the course of more than a year, In a sad coincidence, lead actors Ed Bishop
and Michael Billington died in June 2005, within five days of each other.
Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson went on after UFO to create another
live-action sci-fi series called "Space 1999" starring Martin
Landau & Barbara Bain. This 6 DVD set contains the entire series
of twenty-six 50 minute episodes of UFO in their original broadcast order -
superb color prints throughout Disc No. 1 Identified Computer Affair Flight Path Exposed Disc No. 2 Survival Conflict The Dalotek Affair A Question Of Priorities Disc No. 3 Ordeal The Square Triangle Court Martial Close Up Confetti Check A-O.K. Disc No. 4 The Responsibility Seat E.S.P. Kill Straker! Sub-Smash The Sound Of Silence Disc No. 5 The Cat With Ten Lives Destruction The Man Who Came Back The Psychobombs Disc No. 6 Reflections In The Water Timelash Mindbender The Long Sleep |
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U.S. Border Patrol
1 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$20
or US$20 or £10
"The
United States Border Patrol is the only federal law enforcement body whose
operations include the air, the sea and the land along the four borders of
our country. Whose men are the best trained in the world and whose primary
mission is to secure the border against all persons and things illegal." This
powerful 1959 TV series was Richard Webb's next gig after his successful run as TV's Captain
Midnight (aka Jet Jackson). Webb had a great screen presence and he projects an air of authority as
Deputy Chief Don Jagger, Chief of Operations for the U.S. Border Patrol. The
series had a high degree of realism and authenticity, being shot outside the
studio and employing no sets at all. U.S.
Border Patrol TV Series Disc No. 1 Everglades
Story A Bundle
of Dope Cargo
Unknown The
Logmen Rattigan
and the Cat Love,
Death and Diamonds In a
Deadly Fashion Death in
the Desert Night
Target |
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Voyage to the Bottom of
the Sea - All 4 Seasons Season 1 - 6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23 Season 2 - 6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23 Season 3 - 6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23 Season 4 - 6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23 In the fall of 1964, television
audiences were introduced to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the story of
the submarine Seaview and her crew. The adventures continued for four years,
making it until recently the longest-running science fiction show on network
television. It's arguable that the star of
the show was the ship, the most powerful and advanced submarine on earth, a
testimony to the genius of its creator, Harriman Nelson. The Seaview took on
a wide variety of missions, and consequently carried many passengers: spies,
politicians, world leaders, military men, castaways, aliens and monsters,
and--most especially--scientists, mad and otherwise. The crew of the Seaview was
top-notch: the brilliant Admiral Nelson, the ultimate scientist; the
courageous Captain Crane, devoted to his ship; the steadfast first officer,
Chip Morton; the stalwart Chief Curley Jones, sadly lost after the first
season but ably replaced by the inimitable Chief Sharkey; and the crewmen,
Kowalski, Patterson, Riley, and the many less fortunate others who gave their
lives for the ship. Again and again, they proved themselves capable of handling
any situation with courage and ingenuity The first Season of Voyage
begins with the color Pilot Episode "Eleven Days to Zero". Network
executives gave the series the go ahead by ordering 31 further episodes but
only budgeting for Black & White The second season marked a
substantial upgrade in budget for the series - color was introduced as was
the Flying Sub and crash-doors on the front "seaview" section of
the submarine Seasons 3 & 4 also showed
the benefits increased budgets. Picture & Sound are both perfect Season 1 - 6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23 Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea (Season 1) - Disc No. 1
Eleven Days To Zero - color
The City Beneath The Sea
The Fear-Makers
The Mist Of Silence
The Price Of Doom
Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea (Season 1) - Disc No. 2
The Sky Is Falling
Turn Back The Clock
The Village Of Guilt
Hot Line
Submarine Sunk Here
The Magnus Beam
Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea (Season 1) - Disc No. 3
No Way Out
The Blizzard Makers
The Ghost Of Moby Dick
Long Live The King
Hail To The Chief
Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea (Season 1) - Disc No. 4
The Last Battle
Mutiny
Doomsday
The Invaders
The Indestructible Man
The Buccaneer
Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea (Season 1) - Disc No. 5
The Human Computer
The Saboteur
Cradle Of The Deep
The Amphibians
The Exile
Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea (Season 1) - Disc No. 6
The Creature
The Enemies
The Secret Of The Loch
The Condemned
The Traitor
Season 2 - 6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23 Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea (Season 2) - Disc No. 1
Jonah and the Whale Time Bomb ...And Five of Us Are Left The Cyborg Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 2) - Disc No. 2 Escape from Venice The Left-Handed Man The Deadliest Game Leviathan Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 2) - Disc No. 3 The Peacemaker The Silent Saboteurs The X Factor The Machines Strike Back The Monster from Outer Space Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 2) - Disc No. 4 Terror on Dinosaur Island Killers of the Deep Deadly Creature Below! The Phantom Strikes The Sky's On Fire Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 2) - Disc No. 5 Graveyard of Fear The Shape of Doom Dead Men's Doubloons The Death Ship Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 2) - Disc No. 6 The Monster's Web The Menfish The Mechanical Man The Return of the Phantom Season 3 - 6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 3) - Disc No. 1 Monster
From The Inferno Werewolf The Day
The World Ended Night Of
Terror Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 3) - Disc No. 2 The
Terrible Toys Day Of
Evil Deadly
Waters Thing
From Inner Space The Death
Watch Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 3) - Disc No. 3 Deadly
Invasion The
Haunted Submarine The Plant
Man The Lost
Bomb Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 3) - Disc No. 4 The Brand
Of The Beast The
Creature Death
From The Past The Heat
Monster The
Fossil Men Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 3) - Disc No. 5 The
Mermaid The Mummy Shadowman No Escape
From Death Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 3) - Disc No. 6 Doomsday
Island The Wax
Men Deadly
Cloud Destroy
Seaview! Season 4 - 6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 4) - Disc No. 1 Fires Of
Death The
Deadly Dolls Cave Of
The Dead Journey
With Fear Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 4) - Disc No. 2 Sealed
Orders Man Of
Many Faces Fatal
Cargo Time Lock Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 4) - Disc No. 3 Rescue Terror A Time To
Die Blow Up Deadly
Amphibians Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 4) - Disc No. 4 The
Return Of Blackbeard Terrible
Leprechaun The
Lobster Man Nightmare Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 4) - Disc No. 5 The
Abominable Snowman Secret Of
The Deep Man-Beast Savage
Jungle Flaming
Ice Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Season 4) - Disc No. 6 Attack! Edge Of
Doom The Death
Clock No Way
Back |
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The Whirlybirds
3 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$30 or
US$30 or £15
This is the show that made
the Bell 47 helicopter into a television star and a national icon of vertical
flight. Conceived and produced by Desilu Studios, home of the much beloved TV
sitcom I Love Lucy, Whirlybirds brought the look, sound, and capabilities of
the Bell 47 helicopter into the mainstream of popular culture during the
mid-1950s. For several generations of post-war television viewers, the 47 was
to become the helicopter. The series debuted in 1957 and ran through 1959 for
a total of 111 half-hour episodes, of which 106 eventually aired. Thirty-nine
episodes were quickly re-syndicated by CBS under the name Copter Patrol. The
show had a big draw; some estimates place the Whirlybirds weekly audience
share as high as 25 million fans --- and this was the 1950s! The Whirlybirds centered
around Chuck Martin (Kenneth Tobey) and Pete (P.T.) Moore (Craig Hill),
owners of 'Whirlybirds, Inc', who flew their helicopter between Longwood
Field and anywhere where they could be of help to someone in trouble. Often
the boys would be called in to help the police locate an escaped prisoner, or
save some stranded fool out in the middle of nowhere. This would inevitably
lead to one of the guys dangling at the end of a rope at some point in the
episode. When they didn't just jump right out of the helicopter. The pilot episode for the
series (included in this DVD set) was titled "The Big U". It was
filmed in 1956 at the Iverson Ranch, a dude ranch used to film westerns. It
was a little different to the episodes from the rest of the series - the
"signature" theme song was missing and the boys uniforms were not
as sharp. Kenneth Tobey was chosen for his background in aviation, and Craig
Hill for his rugged good looks. Their secretary Janet Culver
(Sandra Spence) left before the end of the first series and was replaced by
Helen Carter (Nancy Hale) A lot of the episodes were
directed by Robert Altman. He went on the Academy Award Nominations for
Gosford Park, MASH, Nashville, Short Cuts & The Player Quality Note: Whilst each of these episodes have undergone
significant digital restoration, some of them are still not of good quality.
In these latter cases, the images are a little smeary - although quite
viewable The Whirlybirds Disc No.
1
The Big U
(pilot episode) The
Rustlers Aerial
Circus Fury
Canyon Take a
Little, Leave a Little Cycle of
Terror Airborne
Gold The
Killer The Whirlybirds Disc No.
2
Bankrupt
Alibi The
Deacon Wanted--Alive Rest in
Peace Two of a
Kind The
Challenge Two Came
Back Lynch Mob The Whirlybirds Disc No.
3
Search
for an Unknown Man His
Brother's Keeper Seven
Orchids Robert
Dixon M.D. (costarring Robert Vaughan) Journey
to the Past Missing
Witness Glamour
Girl Man, You
Kill Me |
NEW ÉÉÉ NEW ÉÉÉ NEW ÉÉÉ NEW
Whispering Smith
3 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$30 or
US$30 or £15 Whispering
Smith was an
action packed American Western series that aired on NBC in 1961. Based on the
1948 Alan Ladd movie of the same name, the TV series starred Audie Murphy as Tom "Whispering"
Smith, a police detective in Denver, Colorado. Just
like the film, the TV series was loosely based on the exploits of Allan
Pinkerton (first
head of the United States Secret Service), in that the character Whispering
Smith fought to bring modern police methods to the American West. Some
episodes were based on actual cases from the files of the Denver Police
Department. Unfortunately
for Audie Murphy fans, the U.S. Senate Juvenile Delinquency subcommittee
claimed that the series was excessively violent, and after viewing the second
episode, ÒThe GrudgeÓ, labeled the program Òa libel on DenverÓ. ÒThe GrudgeÓ
told a story of bloody revenge that included the "a fistfight, a
gunfight, a mother horsewhipping her son, and that same mother actually
shooting her daughter dead" (albeit by accident as she attempts to shot
Smith). Interesting the (horsewhipped) son who is forced into a bloody
gunfight with Smith, is played by a young (and impressive) Robert Redford - yep, that's The Sundance Kid
squaring off against Whispering Smith! Following
the adverse publicity, only 20 episodes were aired by NBC (although all 26
were telecast to the not so squeamish Australians - Saturday nights at 8 pm).
Audie Murphy became disenchanted with network TV and returned to movies -
notably Hell Bent for Leather which he filmed during a break in filming of the TV series This
3 DVD set consists of 25 half hour B&W episodes - one episode (ÒThe
InterpreterÓ) has apparently been lost All
episodes have been digitally restored during a careful mastery here into original
telecast order Very
nice uncut prints throughout By
the Way: despite is dubious notoriety ÒThe GrudgeÓ is an excellent piece of
gripping television in which the inevitable showdown relentlessly approaches
É both sides of the equation can really handle a gun É which will it be:
victor or vanquished? Whispering
Smith Disc No. 1 The Blind
Gun The
Grudge - that episode! (co-starring Robert Redford & Gloria Talbot) The
Devil's Share Stake-Out Safety
Valve Stain of
Justice (co-starring Richard Chamberlain) The
Deadliest Weapon The Quest Whispering
Smith Disc No. 2 Three for
One Death at
Even Money The Hemp
Reeger Case This
Mortal Coil Cross Cut Double
Edge Trademark The Jodie
Tyler Story Whispering
Smith Disc No. 3 Poet and
Peasant Case Dark
Circle Swift
Justice The Idol
- last of the ÒairedÓ episodes (co-starring Alan ÒCasey JonesÓ Hale Jr.) String of
Circumstances The
Homeless Wind Trial of
the Avengers (co-starring "B" Western legend Bob Steele) Prayer of
a Chance Hired to
Die |
|
NEW É NEW É NEW É NEW É The Wild Wild
West (Season 1)
6 DVD Boxed
Set price : AU$45 or US$45 or £23
The Wild Wild West was an American television series that ran on CBS
for four seasons and 104 episodes, from September 1965. Conceived as ÒJames
Bond on horsebackÓ
The Wild Wild West told the story of two Secret Service agents: charming
gunslinger James T. West (Robert
Conrad), and brilliant gadgeteer and
master of disguise Artemus Gordon
(Ross Martin). Their mission
was to protect President Ulysses S. Grant and the United States from all manner of
dangerous threats. The agents travelled in luxury aboard their own train, the
Wanderer, equipped with
everything modern convenience (for the time.) The show incorporated classic
Western elements with an espionage thriller, science fiction/alternate
history ideas and a dash of comedy. In the finest James Bond tradition, there
were always beautiful women, clever gadgets, and delusional super-villains
with barely incredible plots to take over the country or the world. A memorable recurring baddie
was Dr. Loveless (Michael
Dunn), a brilliant but megalomaniac
dwarf. Just like deadly opponents Professor Moriarty & Sherlock Holmes,
Loveless provided West & Gordon with a worthy adversary, whose plans
could be foiled but who resisted all attempts to capture him and bring him to
justice. This listing is for Season 1
only - the best season - all 28 one hour B&W episodes from Season 1 are
presented here in their original telecast order. All 28 episodes are of
exceptional quality and are completely uncut The Wild Wild West (Season 1) - Disc No. 1 The Night of the Inferno The Night of the Deadly Bed The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth The Night of Sudden Death The Wild Wild West (Season 1) - Disc No. 2 Night of the Casual Killer The Night of a Thousand Eyes The Night of the Glowing Corpse The Night of the Dancing Death The Wild Wild West (Season 1) - Disc No. 3 The Night of the Double-Edged Knife The Night That Terror Stalked the Town The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen The Night of the Human Trigger The Night of the Torture Chamber The Wild Wild West (Season 1) - Disc No. 4 The Night of the Howling Light The Night of the Fatal Trap The Night of the Steel Assassin The Night the Dragon Screamed The Night of the Flaming Ghost The Wild Wild West (Season 1) - Disc No. 5 The Night of the Grand Emir The Night of the Whirring Death The Night of the Puppeteer The Night of the Bars of Hell The Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo The Wild Wild West (Season 1) - Disc No. 6 The Night of the Druid's Blood The Night of the Freebooters The Night of the Burning Diamond The Night of the Murderous Spring The Night of the Sudden Plague |
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Beautifully transcoded (PAL to NTSC) - looks good on big
TVs!
William Tell
4 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$35 or US$35 or £18
This
has to be one of the most exciting TV shows ever made - full of fist fights,
sword fights, secret weapons and passageways - all played out at a breathless
rate! Its
tells the story of the legendary hero's escapades with his "cross-bow commandos"
in 14th Century Switzerland, as he resists brutal Austrian rule and upholds
the rights of peasants against the villainous Landburgher Gessler. Conrad
Phillips plays the dashing saviour of the Swiss peasants who depend on his
expertise with a crossbow and superhumanly quick thinking to outwit the
Austrians. The charismatic Phillips brings to role a genuine athleticism (he
performs all of his own stunts) and is ably supported by 'The Bear', expertly
portrayed with booming zeal by Nigel Greene (before he went onto major film
success). On the opposing side, as the blustering, outsize tyrant Landburgher
Gessler, Willoughby Goddard attacks his role with tremendous relish, charging
about in bewildered panic or in a savage fury when not thinking of ways to
kill the hero. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this series was the
chilling analogy made between the Austrian domination of Switzerland during
the Middle Ages and the Nazi subjugation of Europe during the Second World
War. The sadistic Hapsburg landburgher was clearly modelled on a Hitler-era
Gauleiter, or military governor. The writers extended the narrative beyond
the all-too-familiar shooting-the-apple-off-the-head fable to parallel
Gessler's methods of extracting taxes from the citizens, and his suppression
of the flare-ups of rebellion, with the Nazi barbarism of more modern
history. Produced
in 1958 by Lord Lee Grade's ITC, the series is peppered with interesting
guest stars including Christopher Lee, Michael Caine, Donald Pleasance, Sid
James and Robert Shaw - the latter being star of Grade's "sister" series: The
Buccaneers (ITC
also produced the similarly themed Sir Francis Drake, The Count of
Monte Cristo & The Adventures of Sir Lancelot) This
4 DVD set contains the entire series of 39 episodes in their original
broadcast order Perfect prints throughout Check out The Buccaneers, The Count of Monte
Cristo, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot &
Sir Francis Drake - all available from
this website William Tell Disc No. 1 The Emperor's Hat The Hostages Secret Death The Gauntlet of St. Gerhardt The Prisoner Voice in the Night The Assassins The Baroness The Elixir William Tell Disc No. 2 The Suspect The Cuckoo The Bear The Magic Powder The Golden Wheel The Bride The Boy Slaves The Young Widow Landslide The Trap William Tell Disc No. 3 The Shrew The Manhunt The Killer The Surgeon The Ensign The Unwelcome Stranger The Avenger The Bandit Gessler's Daughter The General's Daughter William Tell Disc No. 4 The Raid Castle of Fear The Black Brothers The Lost Letter Secret Weapon The Master Spy The Traitor The Spider The Mountain People Undercover |
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Yancy Derringer
1 DVD Boxed Set
price : AU$20 or
US$20 or £10
A Western series that ran on
CBS in the US from 1958 to 1959, Yancy Derringer starred the legendary Jock
Mahoney in the title role of a gentleman adventurer living in New Orleans,
Louisiana, after the Civil War.
He is hired by the city administrator, John Colton (Kevin Hagen), as a
secret agent authorized to help maintain law and order and justice in the
city by any means that may become necessary. His constant companion is a
Pawnee Indian, Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah (X. Brands) who communicates with Yancy only by
hand gestures, and appears ready at a moment's notice to use the shotgun that
he always carries. Yancy owns a riverboat, the Sultana, carries a trademark
Derringer gun in his hat and as part of his belt buckle and lives at the
former family plantation, Waverly. Madame Francine (Frances Bergen) is his
love interest and her establishment is where he likes to hang out (although
sometimes itÕs the jailhouse). This excellent series is
noted for its great array of stars who are included in episodes here: future box-office
star Charles Bronson, Academy Award
winner (for One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest) Louise Fletcher, Ray
Danton, Oscar nominee Nick
Adams and Lee Van Cleef.
Jock's then wife Maggie Mahoney also appeared in a few episodes - she
is perhaps best remembered as Margaret Field, the mother of Sally Field. Jock Mahoney has a big
presence on this website (I'm a big fan). He appeared in three action
packed movie serials for Columbia (Cody of the Pony Express, Roar of the Iron
Horse & Gunfighters of the Northwest) available from the Movie Serial
section of this website (in a nice 3 DVD set). He was also a pretty good
Tarzan - graduating from Tarzan's chief nemesis in 1960's Tarzan the
Magnificent to the man himself in Tarzan Goes to India (1962) & Tarzan's
Three Challenges (1963). This
Tarzan set (the Gordon Scott / Jock Mahoney Tarzan Collection) is available
from the Movie Series section of this website. Jock also came up against TV's
Tarzan (Ron Ely) in The Deadly Silence - a two part adventure which was released
theatrically outside the US (and can be found in the TV series section of
this website) Yancy Derringer Disc
An Ace
Called Spade (guest
star Ray Danton) A Bullet
for Bridget
(guest
star Maggie Mahoney) The Loot
from Richmond Old Dixie
(guest
stars Louise Fletcher & Maggie Mahoney) Nightmare
on Bourbon Street A Game of
Chance The Night
the Russians Landed (guest
star Nick Adams) Hell and
High Water (guest
star Charles Bronson) Longhair Outlaw at
Liberty (guest
star Lee Van Cleef) |
Zorro (Season 1)
4 DVD Boxed Set price : AU$35 or
US$35 or £18 Zorro
was a half-hour Walt Disney Productions TV series based on the well-known
Zorro character, premiered October 10, 1957 on ABC. Don
Diego de la Vega (Guy Williams) is an academic and renown fencer in Spain who
is recalled by his father, Don Alejandro de la Vega (George J. Lewis) to his
ancestral Californian home in order to fight the tyranny of Captain
Monastario. Diego decides to conceal his abilities with the sword, and change
his demeanor to that of a foppish milquetoast intellectual - much to the
chagrin of his father. But unknown to all but his faithful friend, the mute
Bernardo (Gene Shelton), Diego has an alter ego, that of a defender of good
and vanquisher of evil: a masked avenger who leaves a calling card - a huge
ÒZÓ carved on his adversaryÕs clothing after defeat by his blade, Zorro! This,
the first season consisted of 39 half hour B&W episodes. This season
consisted of 3 continuing story arcs, each of thirteen episodes. The first of
these chronicled the arrival of Zorro / Diego and his battle of wits with the
greedy and cruel local Commandante, Captain Monastario. The second storyline,
Episode Nos. 14 thru 26, told of ZorroÕs efforts to uncover and counter the
machinations of the evil Magistrado Galindo, who is part of a plot to rule
California. The third story arc, Episode Nos. 27 thru 39, concerned the
leader of that conspiracy, the shadowy figure of The Eagle. And
through all of this there are the usual skirmishes with the buffoonish
Sergeant Demetrio Lopez Garcia (beautifully played by Henry Calvin) This
listing is for Season 1 only - the best season - all 39 B&W episodes from
Season 1 are presented here in their original telecast order. All 39 episodes
are of exceptional (digitally restored) quality and are completely uncut
running the full 26 minutes. Note
that the 6 Republic Pictures productions of Zorro movie serials are available
separately and in various combinations from the Movie Serials section of this
website. The
particular combination that consists of all 6 serials also includes a bonus 7th
DVD: The
Bold Caballero (1936) - the first color Zorro movie and yes, its in COLOR Zorro
(Season 1) Disc No. 1 Presenting
Senor Zorro - begins the Zorro vs. Captain Monastario story arc Zorro's
Secret Passage Zorro
Rides to the Mission The Ghost
of the Mission Zorro's
Romance Zorro
Saves a Friend Monastario
Sets a Trap Zorro's
Ride into Terror A Fair
Trial Zorro
(Season 1) Disc No. 2 Garcia's
Secret Mission Double
Trouble for Zorro Zorro,
Luckiest Swordsman Alive The Fall
of Monastario - concludes the Zorro vs. Captain Monastario story arc Shadow of
Doubt - begins the Zorro vs. the Magistrado story arc Garcia
Stands Accused Slaves of
the Eagle Sweet
Face of Danger Zorro
Fights His Father Death
Stacks the Deck Zorro
(Season 1) Disc No. 3 Agent Of
The Eagle Zorro
Springs a Trap The
Unmasking of Zorro The
Secret of the Sierra The New
Commandante The Fox
and the Coyote Adios,
Senor Magistrado - concludes the Zorro vs. the Magistrado story arc The
Eagle's Brood - begins the Zorro vs. The Eagle story arc Zorro by
Proxy Quintana
Makes a Choice Zorro
(Season 1) Disc No. 4 Zorro
Lights a Fuse The Man
with the Whip The Cross
of the Andes The
Deadly Bolas The Well
of Death The
Tightening Noose The
Sergeant Regrets The Eagle
Leaves the Nest Bernardo
Faces Death The
Eagle's Flight - concludes the Zorro vs. The Eagle story arc |