Let’s say that Shout!Factory holds a fan contest. The winner gets to select 4 episodes for the next volume. Which do you select?
To help you pick, here’s a handy list of episodes that have not yet received a DVD release. Excluded from the list are the KTMAs and Godzilla vs. Megalon, and the 4 titles announced for Vol. 28.
Season One
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
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
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
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
Me, I’m gonna go with:
112 – Untamed Youth
307 – Daddy-O
601 – Girls Town
903 – Puma Man
Your pick?
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113 – The Black Scorpion
213 – Godzilla vs the Sea Monster
313 – Earth vs the Spider
809 – I Was A Teenage Werewolf
RIDING WITH DEATH, SHE CREATURE, AGENT FOR H.A.R.M. and DIABLOIK would be my choices. Iwould also be delighted to see I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF.
Without question:
307 – Daddy-O
519 – Outlaw
814 – Riding with Death
903 – Puma Man
#48 The music in the Gumby short is what’s causing the problem. I’m guessing it’s one of those “Puma Man” situations where they can’t track down who owns the rights.
Personal dream set:
203 – Jungle Goddess
307 – Daddy-O
418 – Attack of the The Eye Creatures
522 – Teenage Crime Wave
“Things That Are Bigger Than They Usually Are” set:
309 – The Amazing Colossal Man
313 – Earth vs. The Spider
319 – War of the Colossal Beast
420 – The Human Duplicators
There’s always one sure fire way to find out who has the rights: Release it on DVD and whoever owns them will come crawling out of the woodwork. Note that I never said it was a good suggestion.
I’ve already made this prediction in another thread, so here it is again:
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My Prediction:
Vol. XXIX (29) will have:
305-Stranded in Space
418-Attack of the the Eye Creatures
703-The Incredible Melting Man
804-The Thing that Couldn’t Die
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You got 2 Joels/2 Mikes, continues down the path of their recent Season 8 releases, also finally sees Incredible Melting Man released (which we know Shout! has the rights to now, as they released the movie on Blu Ray last month. Eye Creatures is a personal fave and Stranded in Space. . . .well, it’s gotta happen sometime… just looking for a nice mix of episodes (they can’t all be favorites) with some of the more likely candidates for soon-to-be-released.
@ 54 Duane Zykov – Ah, I see, thanks! It’s funny how the (seemingly) littlest things can hold up releases, but hey, things are what they are.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Shout! manages to make it happen at some point, though.
LarryP@48:
Yes, the music in the Gumby short is holding up The Screaming Skull. As for Track of the Moon Beast, many sources have confirmed that the film is in the public domain, which does seem surprising since the film was made in the 70s.
XXIX
Episode 112- The Untamed Youth
Episode 201- Rocketship X-M
Episode 614- San Francisco International
Episode 805- The Thing That Couldn’t Die
XXX
Episode 113- The Black Scorpion
Episode 412- Hercules and the Captive Women
Episode 705- Escape 2000
Episode 814- Riding with Death
XXXI
Episode 203- Jungle Goddess
Episode 420- The Human Duplicators
Episode 519- Outlaw
Episode 901- The Projected Man
In that list of copyright holders, why are Daddy-O and The Undead separate from the rest of the Arkoff films?
Riding with Death, Riding with Death, Riding with Death, and Riding with Death.
What the F@!& is the holdup here?!
Jeff@61:
Here is the story of American International Pictures – the VERY brief version: Founded in the early 50s by James H. Nicholson (Susan Hart’s father) and Samuel Arkoff. Went out of business in the late 70s. Film library sold to Filmways. Filmways goes out of business. AIP library sold to Orion Pictures. Orion Pictures goes out of business. At this point, the AIP film library was sold to a number of people and companies including Susan Hart, Roger Corman, Samuel Arkoff’s Estate, Lionsgate Films, and others. That’s why the AIP films currently have so many different owners, and so far (as far as we know), none of them have given in…….yet…..
I’ve got a few suggestions for sets
A space or space monster themed set with:
Fire Maidens
Human Duplicators
12 to the Moon
Incredible Melting Man
A teen crime set with:
Teenage Crime Wave
Girls Town
Horror of Party Beach
Squirm
And finally an “I’m undercover” set with:
Daddy-O
San Francisco International Airport
Riding With Death
Agent for HARM
I’m kind of surprised Diabolik hasn’t made it’s way to DVD yet. You think that the final episode would have been released.
The Amazing Colossal Man, 309, might have been my first experiment so then follow it up with the War of the Colossal Beast, 319, and then to get Mike in there Puma Man, 903, was so weird as is The Screaming Skull, 912. But I need the Viking Women too and Girls Town and Agent from Harm.
614 – San Francisco International
520 – Radar Secret Service
401 – Space Travelers
307 – Daddy-O
And how about either a Satellite of Love model to go With Crow, Tom and Gypsy? Or Cambot? OR start venturing into figures of Joel, Mike, Dr. Forester, TV’s Frank, Pearl Forrester, Brain Guy, Professor Bobo and The Observer (and Torgo too). Recreated mini-sets of Deep 13 or the main stage for Joel/Mike and bots.
With episodes still to hit, they could make a little more off the sells and the fans would get some more cool MST#K related figures.
Kickboxer@65:
Diabolik is owned by Paramount, as is The Space Children and The Deadly Bees. Since Shout! has worked out arrangements with four other major studios, I feel confident that we will eventually get the three Paramount titles.
My first choice is a Teen-sploitation spectacular:
Untamed Youth
Daddy-O
Teenage Crime Wave
Girl’s Town
with bonus discs:
Amazing Colossal Man
War of the Colossal Beast
Now THAT’S a set!
213 – Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster
502 – Hercules
814 – Riding With Death
903 – The Pumaman
The Human Duplicators
Escape 2000
Amazing Colossal Man
Puma Man
#67 – I agree with the idea of the figures. They could release a box set with my LEAST favorite episodes and I would buy it as long as it came with a Torgo figure.
Four of my most favorite episodes not yet on DVD!!!
703 – Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell
806 – The Undead
903 – Puma Man
912 – The Screaming Skull
311 – It Conquered the World
809 – I Was a Teenage Werewolf
905 – The Deadly Bees
912 – The Screaming Skull
Sorry, a herd of vicious question marks seem to have attacked my post. All fixed now, I think.
I’d pick four episodes which have in common some sort of departure from the usual movie riffing routine:
412 – Hercules and the Captive Women (Gypsy in the theater)
416 – Fire Maidens of Outer Space (Timmy in the theater)
913 – Quest of the Delta Knights (Pearl in the theater)
1013 – Diabolik (The SOL crashes)
My Mike-centric set would be:
519 – Outlaw: Say Cabbot a million times more times, I dare you.
703 – Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell: Potatoes are what I eat! with some steak, too.
814 – Riding with Death: Some turkeys tried once to rob me, so I can sympathize with Guy Patent Papers.
1007 – Track of the Moon Beast: Oh, corn, peppers, onions, motor oil, vacuum cleaner waste…
Too many good episodes to choose what I want.
What I can do is predict the most-likely episodes on the next set:
112-Untamed Youth
201-Rocketship X-M
519-Outlaw
805-The Thing that Wouldn’t Die
The LMD classics collection:
Rocketship XM
Incredible Melting Man
Horror of Party Beach
Pumaman
why is the music from the gumby holding up the release of the screaming skull. also who is the rights holder of puma man anyway. they can always try to have it declare an orphan work (since they tried to find the rights holders and have not found them).
618 – High School Big Shot
704 – The Incredible Melting Man
819 – Invasion of the Neptune Men
1007 – Track of the Moon Beast
#80 The music used in the short got its copyright renewed. Heck, when they re-aired “Robot Rumpus” on Gumby & Pals, they redubbed the whole thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb5M3iWM72Q
201-Rocketship X-M
317-Viking Women vs. Sea Serpent
703-Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell
1007-Track of the Moon Beast
814-Riding With Death – Fadeaway jerk handshake…
817-Horror of Party Beach – “Say what you want to about her, but at least she’s not doing the Zombie Stomp.”
903-Puma Man – “Scholiosis Man!”
1007-Track of the Moon Beast – “California Laaaaaady.”
Picking only four is tough, but here we go:
201 – Rocketship X-M
203 – Jungle Goddess
307 – Daddy-O
309 – The Amazing Colossal Man
Rocketship XM
Jungle Goddess
Godzilla vs the Sea Monster
Horror of Party Beach
My two cents: “Rocketship X-M,” “Attack of the The Eye Creatures,” “Outlaw,” and “Horror of Party Beach.” Honorable mention, by way of bonus DVD: “Puma Man.”
Yeah, I selected five. So why don’t you throw some sodium on me? Or shine a light in my direction. I just don’t care.
Wow, so many classic episodes left.
I have to go with:
814- Riding with Death
405- Being from Another Planet- because you can never have too much Ben Murphy.
704- The Incredible Melting Man and
815- Agent From H.A.R.M.- “Oh, you lucky trunks.” “Get ready to gift wrap a beautiful package!!”
Sorry, mine’s an all-Mike set:
Outlaw
Escape 2000
Puma Man
Squirm
I like the 2 Joel, 2 Mike set-up.
307 – Daddy-O
502 – Hercules
601 – Girls Town
817 – Horror of Party Beach
Outlaw
Deathstalker & The Warriors from Hell
Quest of the Delta Knights
Pumaman
It’s a fantasy movie smug-off!
Outlaw is a Top 5 for me. I’ve even started reading the Gor books (strange, even by fantasy standards–there’s a bit of a BDSM undertone to them, and from what I understand, it becomes more of an overtone the further into the series you get).
Attack of the the Eye Creatures and The Undead are also favorites. Mmm…Allison Hayes…
Also, I’ve wondered why they don’t put the uncut movies on as bonus features (ala Rhino box set 1). Might make the rights holders more amenable to work with. Of course, I know nothing about things like that, so it might just be more of a headache. But there are a handful of MSTied movies I’ll actually sit through (on purpose!) sans riffing. It’s interesting to see what they cut and appreciate just how bad some of these movies are (or not as bad as you thought, as the case may be).
Wow, it’s really something to see how few episodes are left for getting a legit home release like that.
Boy, I really like the OP picks. Those are the episodes I want the most too.
But everything left from Season 6 looks great. I need those.
The Black Scorpion
Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster
Earth Vs. The Spider
Quest Of The Delta Knights
there is a theme here, it’s just not the obvious one at first glance.
I think that would make a really strong box set
They’re all good, man! Gimme 4 more! (I can’t believe how easy I am to please these days.)
P.S. I also like bartcow’s (remark 92) suggestion: include the uncut original as an extra. Do that too!
Hercules and the Captive Women. Doesn’t even matter what’s in the rest of the set; as long as I get that one, I’m happy.
Rocketship XM
The Amazing Colossal Man
Invasion of the Neptune Men
Squirm
Maybe a bonus disc of “Danger Diabolik” and a documentary on the “Making of the Finale” to tie it all together?
I just hope that the Godzilla episodes are released somehow, someday.
For me,
Rocketship X-M
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Girls Town
Squirm