I ordered the latest official Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD set straight from Shout! Factory because I knew it would be packaged in a metal can, and ordering from the company would make it certain I'd also get the regular cardboard slipcase to go alongside all the other collections in them. It was a foolish consistency, perhaps, but it did also mean I was shipped the whole thing a few weeks early. However, I haven't yet managed to find the time to actually watch any of its episodes, but even so I was aware how this would be the time for announcing the titles of a new set, especially with American Thanksgiving being closely associated with Mystery Science Theater under the name "Turkey Day." When I checked Satellite News, the announcement was there for the thirty-second set (a significant number in binary, anyway).
With all the episodes of the first season now on official DVDs, I had been thinking most of all of a few episodes left to release from the second season. However, the upcoming collection will lead off with "Space Travellers," which despite its cheap "Film Ventures International" opening credits is actually a cut-down version of the movie Marooned, perhaps infamous as a movie "not quite right for the series" but a hint the handful of other Columbia Pictures movies featured on the series might be available for future collections. In any case, it's been a while since I've seen that episode. It's also been a while since I've seen "Hercules," which picked up the "muscles 'n' mythology" tradition again after three movies with three different lead actors in them in the previous season (although this particular episode manages to break that pattern). Heading from the "Joel episodes" to the "Mike episodes," but still staying in the same season, we're also going to get "Radar Secret Service" with the infamous short "Last Clear Chance." "San Francisco International" will close the collection out, another episode I perhaps hadn't quite been expecting for release but one that may have grown on me a bit. Even with a whole collection still to open, I'm looking forward to the one to follow it.
With all the episodes of the first season now on official DVDs, I had been thinking most of all of a few episodes left to release from the second season. However, the upcoming collection will lead off with "Space Travellers," which despite its cheap "Film Ventures International" opening credits is actually a cut-down version of the movie Marooned, perhaps infamous as a movie "not quite right for the series" but a hint the handful of other Columbia Pictures movies featured on the series might be available for future collections. In any case, it's been a while since I've seen that episode. It's also been a while since I've seen "Hercules," which picked up the "muscles 'n' mythology" tradition again after three movies with three different lead actors in them in the previous season (although this particular episode manages to break that pattern). Heading from the "Joel episodes" to the "Mike episodes," but still staying in the same season, we're also going to get "Radar Secret Service" with the infamous short "Last Clear Chance." "San Francisco International" will close the collection out, another episode I perhaps hadn't quite been expecting for release but one that may have grown on me a bit. Even with a whole collection still to open, I'm looking forward to the one to follow it.