episode 108- THE SLIME PEOPLE with short: COMMANDO CODY PT 6 (‘Honestly, Bonnie, the slime you bring home.”)
episode 205- ROCKET ATTACK USA with short: THE PHANTOM CREEPS PT 2 (“You’ll get the worst of it.”)
episode 523- VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS (“This is Tommy Kirk REALLY acting!”)
episode 804- THE DEADLY MANTIS (“But I got a mantis in mah pantis!”)
Bonus material:
* Interview with The Slime People star Judith Fraser (Judee Morton)
* Interview with Village of the Giants star Joy Harmon
* Introduction by Mary Jo Pehl
* Life After MST3K: Trace Beaulieu
* Chasing Rosebud: The Cinematic Life Of William Alland
* Theatrical Trailers
* Mini-Posters By Artist Steve Vance
ALSO as a gift if you purchase from Shout Factory:
The MST3K Serial Variety Pack Bonus Disc, stitching together, for your convenience, the riffed installments of “The Phantom Creeps,” “Undersea Kingdom” and “General Hospital.”
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Thanks Shout! You’ve done it again! :-)) :-))
‘Village’ and ‘Mantis’???
THANKS, SHOUT FACTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(This bodes very well for future releases, in spite of Corman!)
Yowza! Now that’s a set! Village Of The Giants and Rocket Attack USA? Amazing, just amazing. Forgive me if I’m a little gunshy with the shipping direct from Shout though. Never did get a reply from their customer service when the last set w/bonus disc was sluggish in getting out their doors. Great product but not so great customer contact.
Rocket Attack USA knocks down one of my personal favorites so that is cool. In the meantime Shout! is so amazing I see Universal’s Deadly Mantis on the list and don’t raise an eyebrow. Just look how much our perception has changed in the last year.
The final frontier: Susan Hart
The Deadly Mantis!
Not really a comment, just very excited for this set.
Oh wow can’t wait, Rocket Attack USA is a great ep. I love Joel’s deadpan delivery of the 10 pound balls joke.
“… Help me…”
Hard to believe that a group of civilized men could sit around and calmly discuss how to murder five or six million others.
That’s why we’ve got to CRUSH them!
Awesome set !! Finally Rocket Attack USA !!! :)
Slime People also finally – the only season 1 title that I knew they could get
I love the Deadly Mantis with or without MST3K ! :)
Village of the Giants – Bert I Gordon Cheese !
I assume it’s not up on Shouts site yet?
another solid set from Shout! Factory. still waiting impatiently for Riding With Death and Horror Of Party Beach.
Sweet! The best known copies of #108 and #205 leave a little to be desired so this is good news! Also, a Season EIGHT EP!!!!!!
Excellent! Love ’em all! I’m also a little wary about ordering from Shout!, but I’m guessing they’ll be more prepared this time.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Susan Hart in The Slime People? I heard she was.
UPDATED 26 March 2013. Here is a list of MST films that have not yet received a DVD release. Excluded from the list are the KTMAs, Godzilla vs. Megalon, and the 4 titles announced for Volume 27.
Season One
111 – Moon Zero Two
112 – Untamed Youth
113 – The Black Scorpion
Season Two
201 – Rocketship X-M
203 – Jungle Goddess
213 – Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster
Season Three
305 – Stranded in Space
307 – Daddy-O
309 – The Amazing Colossal Man
311 – It Conquered the World
313 – Earth vs. The Spider
315 – Teenage Caveman
317 – Viking Women vs. The Sea Serpent
319 – War of the Colossal Beast
Season Four
401 – Space Travelers
403 – City Limits
405 – Being from Another Planet
412 – Hercules and the Captive Women
416 – Fire Maidens of Outer Space
418 – Attack of the The Eye Creatures
420 – The Human Duplicators
422 – The Day the Earth Froze
Season Five
502 – Hercules
510 – The Painted Hills
519 – Outlaw
520 – Radar Secret Service
522 – Teenage Crime Wave
524 – 12 to the Moon
Season Six
601 – Girls Town
602 – Invasion USA
605 – Colossus and the Headhunters
614 – San Francisco International
618 – High School Big Shot
623 – The Amazing Transparent Man
Season Seven
703 – Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell
704 – The Incredible Melting Man
705 – Escape 2000
Season Eight
802 – The Leech Woman
805 – The Thing that Couldn’t Die
806 – The Undead
807 – Terror from the Year 5000
808 – The She Creature
809 – I Was a Teenage Werewolf
814 – Riding with Death
815 – Agent for H.A.R.M
817 – Horror of Party Beach
819 – Invasion of the Neptune Men
Season Nine
901 – The Projected Man
903 – Puma Man
905 – The Deadly Bees
906 – The Space Children
909 – Gorgo
912 – The Screaming Skull
913 – Quest of the Delta Knights
Season Ten
1007 – Track of the Moon Beast
1010 – It Lives By Night
1012 – Squirm
1013 – Diabolik
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And so my hopes for a “Mike Nelson: Destroyer of Worlds” set are forever dashed. Oh well.
Great set!
The Slime People: Yes, Susan Hart is in this one, but she has nothing to do with the rights for the film. Not surprised that there is no interview with her.
Rocket Attack USA: Another great episode with more of Albert Glasser’s frenetic music. Too bad there is no interview with William Schallert (he played one of the newscasters).
Village of the Giants: Glad to see there will be an interview with Joy Harmon, but saddened that Ron Howard, Tommy Kirk, Rance Howard, Joe Turkel, Beau Bridges, Johnny Crawford and Bert I. Gordon are not included. This is a Columbia/Sony film, so that opens the door for Teenage Crime Wave and 12 To The Moon.
The Deadly Mantis: Another Universal title! It looks like Shout! is working on the first five from season 8. I hope they will get some other Universal titles like Riding with Death, Agent for H.A.R.M., and The Projected Man.
I wonder if there was a problem with getting “The Leech Woman”. It seems odd that they’re doing Season 8 in order but skipped that one.
Deadly Mantis is on my top ten list. So at the very least I’ll be downloading that one from iTunes. village of the giants is good, but will I will need additional viewings of the other 2 to see if i will be purchasing the whole set.
Rocket Attack USA! Now there’s an old classic. ‘help me!’
and Deadly Mantis – love Season 8! More please!
and please please please SHOUT!, one day can we get Daddy-O? The world needs more Dick Contino!
#2, you’ve hit the nail right on the head.
For a LONG time now, I’ve been begging Shout! to release “Village” and “Mantis,” and now we get them both on the same set. Snoogans!
If you want an interview of the Slime People with Susan Hart – look for Creepy Creatures Volume 2, the 3/19/2013 release from VCI – Tom Weaver interviews her
This is worth the price for Village of the Giants alone! One of my all-time favorite episodes.
Shout Factory: I love you.
Anyone else think the episode selection of the recent sets has lacked OVERALL “oomph”? I was thinking so, so I did some calculations. I looked at the movies in each set, averaged the MSTIE rankings for that set, and put that against the average ranking of the remaining movie pool. Here’s what I found: Sets 16-22 were all BETTER than average (interestingly, the even-numbered sets were MUCH BETTER than average). Set 23 was WAY BELOW average. Set 24 was MUCH BETTER than average. Sets 25-27 have been a LITTLE BELOW average. Semi-raw data:
Set#, SetAVG, Remaining AVG, Difference
13, 33, 66, 33
14, 84, 64, -20
15, 74, 62, -12
16, 42, 60, 17
17, 56, 58, 2
18, 41, 56, 15
19, 51, 54, 2
20, 38, 52, 13
21, 46, 50, 4
22, 33, 47, 14
23, 74, 45, -29
24, 31, 43, 12
25, 47, 41, -6
26, 47, 39, -8
27, 44, 37, -7
Remember, the lower the ranking, the more MSTIEs like it. A POSITIVE number in the “Difference” column means the set was better than average, a NEGATIVE number means it was below average.
@16-Well, they skipped The Slime People for a few sets, too. I’m guessing we will get The Leech Woman at some point.
I think I still have bruises from the last Albert Glasser score I heard, but great set! “Village of the Giants” and “Mantis” as two faves for me.
Btw, if you had told me ten years ago that we would eventually have almost all of season 1 on official DVD, I’d have pointed at you and laughed, and laughed…
Am I the only one who thought Shout! was intentionally not releasing Slime People for fear that it would anger Susan Hart and make the odds of ever getting the rights the movies she owns even lower? That’s what the full Commando Cody disc implied to me anyway, but this set blows THAT theory…
The only pattern I’m seeing now is that both Joel titles were supposedly easy gets that just hadn’t been released yet, while the Mike titles are MGM and Universal. This begs the question of whether Shout’s had to offset the cost of licensing from MGM/Universal, or whether they want to preserve the balance of Joel/Mike at all costs, as releasing every Universal ep as fast as possible would mean a solid year of all-Mike or even all-SciFi box sets. I’d be fine with that, but they do need as much variety as possible.
Let me reiterate: I adore you, Shout!
Here’s my wish list for future releases. I obviously want all eps released, but, these are all must-buys for me:
Season Three
305 – Stranded in Space
307 – Daddy-O
309 – The Amazing Colossal Man
319 – War of the Colossal Beast
Season Four
401 – Space Travelers
403 – City Limits
405 – Being from Another Planet
416 – Fire Maidens of Outer Space
418 – Attack of the The Eye Creatures
Season Five
519 – Outlaw
Season Six
614 – San Francisco International
618 – High School Big Shot
Season Seven
703 – Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell
704 – The Incredible Melting Man
Season Eight
806 – The Undead
814 – Riding with Death
Season Nine
903 – Puma Man
Season Ten
1007 – Track of the Moon Beast
1010 – It Lives By Night
1013 – Diabolik
Rocket Attack USA is one of my absolute favorites (“Looks like she got the worst of it again”, “How did you get to the phone so fast?”, “I would like to order, please!”). The others are solid episodes. Slime People was one of only two episodes we never could catch on Comedy Channel/Comedy Central and I didn’t see it till the first Conventio-Con after which some kind fellow MSTie sent me a tape of a tape so I’m really looking forward to having a good quality DVD of that one. Deadly Mantis is one of those films that ran endlessly on UHF channels years ago, it’s a B-movie classic. Village Of The Giants is the only film with a few cast members worth noting. The bonus disc of serial episodes sounds great!
So looking at the shorts compilation from Shout:
The Phantom Creeps
203- JUNGLE GODDESS with short: THE PHANTOM CREEPS PT 1 – Not yet released
205- ROCKET ATTACK USA with short: THE PHANTOM CREEPS PT 2 – Volume 27 (coming Fall ’13)
206- THE RING OF TERROR with short: THE PHANTOM CREEPS PT 3 – Volume 11 (in print)
Undersea Kingdom:
406- ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES with short: UNDERSEA KINGDOM PT 1 – Volume 6 (out of print)
409- THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN with short: UNDERSEA KINGDOM PT 2 – Volume 11 (in print)
General Hospital:
413- MANHUNT IN SPACE with short: GENERAL HOSPITAL PT 1 – Volume 14 (in print)
415- THE BEATNIKS with short: GENERAL HOSPITAL PT 2 – Volume 17 (in print)
417- CRASH OF THE MOONS with short: GENERAL HOSPITAL PT 3 – Volume 18 (in print)
So really, if you collect every volume, then the Shout! exclusive isn’t that tempting. Only “never before released” bit is the short before JUNGLE GODDESS.
Especially excited about The Slime People. The DAP’s version is not exactly pristine, and I’m guessing the print the Brains’ used wasn’t exactly THX-certified in the first place. It’s like watching with my glasses fogged up.
@ The Bolem #26: I’m almost certain that they have to balance out the more expensive licenses with with cheap and/or public domain flicks, otherwise the MSRP of the boxsets would fluctuate wildly. I’ve no doubt that Shout try to provide a good mix of episode vintages (as well as movie genres) in each set, but I’d wager that’s a distant second to the cost/profit balancing act. Some people (like me) might love a boxset of, say, the first 9 episodes of season 8 (all expensive Universal films); certain other individuals might hate it; but nobody would want to pay the hefty pricetag.
I’m hoping that #802 – Leech Woman has been overlooked in favor of more popular (i.e. giant bug) episodes, but it does worry me a tad. Is there any way we could get an official answer from Brian? Perhaps via this interweb the kids keep talking about?
Barry the Nomad #29 – Good point. Also, I never really latched on to the serials that much. I probably would have been more interested had they presented the serials, well, in a series instead of spread out across several episodes (excepting, of course, “Hired!”). Also, in retrospect, all of the other shorts they did blew the serials out of the water.
One might say the other shorts were “serial killers”.
Anyway, I salute Shout for trying to find a neat little way to add a perk to their set. However, I will pass on this one.
Now, the Mike and Joel miniatures will be a different story!
Nice set :)..i actually predicted 2 of these episodes for volume 27..the Slime People and the Deadly Mantis ha..Rocket attack USA is one of the best,yet most underrated episodes of the Joel era i think..Village of the Giants i dont think ive ever seen..but nice set..like always!!.
I had a dream last night that volume 27 came with a SOL model with a stand, that you could set next to the bots. Ah, dreams…
Awesome! Rocket Attack U.S.A and Slime People were seriously long overdue so it’s good they’re finally getting an official release along with another MGM and Universal episode. Well done, Shout.
Though one episode I did think was going to be on here was It Conquered the World, and while it’s pretty much impossible to get right now, it did have me wondering with the recent riffs Jim posted on mst3k.com….
Another winner! SHOUT! DOES IT AGAIN!!
My VHS copy of Slime People was pretty poor, so needless to say it didn’t transfer very well to DVD. I’m hoping they got a good broadcast original from the vault of BBI (or wherever they get their master copies). Even the original unMSTed version is kind of marginal–“the fog obscures the action…what action.”
Great news from Shout! Keep up the good work.
I’ll likely skip this one.
Of this set I’ve only seen Deadly Mantis, and it’s great. As usual with new dvd announcements – I like it very much.
Shout Factory also released Madtv today, which is owned by Warner. Perhaps this means they are closer to releasing the movies owned by them as well?
Yeehaw!
Another killer set from Shout! The Slime People is one I’ve wanted for ages, and The Deadly Mantis is one of my favs! The other two I’ve never seen in any way, shape or form. So once again, kudos to Shout Factory, for making a better next Sunday A.D., tomorrow! :-)
Another good selection. I’m starting to think the negotiators at Shout could bag the rights to the Adam West “Batman” series if they wanted to.
Wow! This is one of the best sets announced in a long time! Rocket Attack! Village! Slime!
Sweet set indeed. Village and mantis rock. It will be nice to get upgrades on rocket attack and slime people. My copy of slime people was transferred to dvd from a really poor copy. The transfer is so bad I barely watch this episode ever. Great job Shout!
BTW, folks, just discovered this bit of info on the Daily Grindhouse website: http://dailygrindhouse.com/2013/03/26/john-carpenters-the-fog-bddvd-and-the-incredible-melting-man-bd-get-july-30th-release-date-from-scream-factory/
So Shout Factory’s sister company Scream Factory has the rights to The Incredible Melting Man (ep 704). Might we be seeing the MST3K version sometime this year?
So… release date sometime at the end of June/beginning of July?
I’m in no hurry — we’re in the mid 400’s in our watching order and won’t reach 523 for at least six months (only one a week given our otherwise busy watching of Rifftrax and other, non-riffed movies and TV :>). The one interesting thing for me is that by the time we come around to the beginning we may well have nearly every single episode in as good a quality as it will ever be (but we won’t get around to the start again until, um, 2017? I would project that Shout will run out of releasable episodes well before that)
That’s the reason I’m surprised Melting Man isn’t yet released.
Anyway, so Volume 28 will be out before Christmas, I’d imagine.
Another set I am very happy with. I love both Deadly Mantis and Village of
the Giants. I think they are great episodes. I have not seen Slime People or
Rocket Attack USA before.
Extras sound good as always. Mary Jo has to be doing the intro for Deadly Mantis
which should be a fun one.
Hoping to see The Leech Woman on the next set, among other episodes.
VOL.27 COOL,COOL COOL! SHOUT ROCKS! Just got my Vol. 26 can’t wait to watch them!
I’ve been saying I wish SHOUT would do another DVD with the other shorts on it, and they did this is great I cant wait.
Nifty! My copy of “Slime People” is sooo bloody dark, maybe this will help me see the monsters? I bet that would improve the overall humor of watching the thing. I love all the choices.
So, I have “Amazing Colossal Man” on VHS that Rhino released. But it was never released on DVD? Why should that be? What kind of sin could the owner of an aging VCR commit in a single lifetime to bring this upon herself?