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Thursday, June 19, 2008

VCI Entertainment Announces Classic DVD Sets On The Way


HONEY WEST THE COMPLETE SERIES

FIRST TIME ON VIDEO!

Honey West (Anne Francis), sensual and glamorous female private eye, was something of a trendsetter, she was one of television’s first liberated females. In an era when actresses were restrained to sedate housewives and girlfriend roles, this series marked an exceptional and original departure. In 1965 the character was introduced to television audiences in a Burke’s Law episode, "Who Killed the Jackpot?" and true to form, Honey outwitted the suave detective played by Gene Barry. Producer Aaron Spelling spun the character off into a separate thirty-minute series which premiered in the fall of 1965. Honey West was the first dramatic TV show with a female star in an action-adventure role.

In the show, Honey inherited her spying business from her late father, a top private eye. She also got his partner in the deal, rough and handsome Sam Bolt, played by John Ericson. In addition to being television’s first modern, independent, self-sufficient woman, Honey frequently engaged in fight scenes and shootouts. She was expert at judo and held a black belt in karate. She is also the first character, male or female, on U.S. television to use martial arts as self-defense.

900 minutes, B&W, 1.33:1, NR,1965-1966

OVER 15 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING
4 DISCS – WITH A TOTLA OF 30 EPISODES
EACH EPISODE IS COMPLETE WITH NO COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTIONS
BOTH PICATUE AND SOUND HAVE BEEN DIGITALLY RESTORED FROM
THE ORIGINAL 35MM FINE GRAINS

EACH EPISODE IS LOADED WITH A CAST OF SPECIAL GUESTS:
James Best
Bert Parks
Maureen McCormick
Herschel Bernardi
Kevin McCarthy
PLUS MANY MORE…

Format: DVD
DVD # 8515
UPC: 089859851520
SRP: $39.99
Product Specs: 4-DVD9/Dolby Digital/NTSC/All Region/English Language
Special DVD Features: Photo Galleries, Vintage Commercials
Street: 09/02/08



SPACE ANGEL COLLECTION VOLUME 1

9 EXCITING EPISODED ON DVD!

Director: Dick Brown
Cast: Ned Lefebver, Margaret Kerry, Hal Smith

Scott McCloud is the Space Angel, a secret agent for EBI (Earth Bureau of Investigation), who together with his friends, Taurus, Crystal, and Professor Mace, travel far and wide from their base on the space station Evening Star, on board the spaceship Starduster. Whether it’s battling a mass exile, or stopping a brainwashing mad scientist, it’s all in a day’s work to secure the welfare of the solar system. Space Angel was an animated science fiction television series produced from early 1962 through 1964. It used the same Synchro-Vox (live-action moving lips over the mouths of the animated characters lips) technique as Clutch Cargo, the first cartoon produced by the same studio, Cambria Productions. The science fiction stories were serialized with five episodes comprising each adventure. Voices included Ned Lefebver as Scott McCloud, with Margaret Kerry and Hal Smith providing other incidental voices. This DVD has 9 complete episodes and each episode is 25 minutes and in 5 segments.

TRIVIA FACT: Margaret Kerry stated that Gene Roddenberry’s character "Scotty" from Star Trek was inspired by Space Angel’s Scottish engineer.

225 minutes, Color, 1.33:1, NR, 1962

Format: DVD
DVD # 8533
UPC: 089859853326
SRP: $14.99
Street Date: 7/29/2008
Product Specs: DVD9/Dolby Digital/NTSC/All Region/English Language
Special DVD Features: An Interview with "Tinker Bell" – An exclusive one on one interview with actress Margaret Kerry, the voice actress for Space Angel & Clutch Cargo and the original alter-ego, actor and reference model for the famous pixie from Walt Disney’s "Peter Pan."



DICK TRACY’S G-MEN

CAN DICK TRACY STOP A MASTER CRIMMINAL THAT EVEN DEATH COULDN’T KEEP?

Directors: William Witney, John English
Cast: Ralph Byrd, Phylis Isley (Jennifer Jones), Irving Pichel, Ted Pearson,
Walter Miller, George Douglas

Nicholas Zarnoff, master spy and the most hated man on Earth, is sentenced to die in the gas chamber. By using a secret drug, which does not permit the gas to enter his lungs, Zarnoff cheats death and escapes. Dick Tracy, the government’s ace investigator, is assigned the task of tracking down Zarnoff and bringing him to justice. For 15 episodes Dick Tracy and Zarnoff battle it out on land, on sea and in the air. Jennifer Jones, seen at the outset of her distinguished career, plays Gwen, Dick Tracy’s loyal secretary.

263 minutes, B&W, 1.33:1, NR, 1939

FIRST TIME ON DVD! INTRO BY MAX COLLINS!
Digitally restored and re-mastered from the 35mm fine grains.
15 Pulse-pounding chapters!

Format: DVD
DVD #8504
UPC: 089859850424
SRP: $29.99
Street: 07/29/08
Product Specs: 1-DVD9 & 1-DVD5/Dolby Digital/NTSC/All Region/English Language
Special DVD Features: Scene Selection, Trailer, Intro by Max Allan Collins, Adlets
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