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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Well, my choices would be:
903-Pumaman
903-Pumaman
903-Pumaman
and…903-Puma…wait…hmm.
In all seriousness, and completely disregarding what can actually be licensed:
903-Pumaman
905-The Deadly Bees (Actually scared the crap outta me when I was a little kid, no one ever believed me when I talked about this movie on regular non-cable TV until the MST3K movie came out)
705-Escape 2000
???-Either Deathstalker, Delta Knights or maybe Moon Beast…(it has a lot of things! Chicken, corn, green peppers, chili. Sigh. Onions?)
If I had to sub two Joel movies in, I’d take out the questionables in line four, and Bees. I’d sub in Untamed Youth and Teenage Caveman.
Here are the 20 I’d most like to get:
201 – Rocketship X-M
203 – Jungle Goddess
213 – Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster
311 – It Conquered the World
418 – Attack of the The Eye Creatures
601 – Girls Town
602 – Invasion USA
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
817 – Horror of Party Beach
901 – The Projected Man
905 – The Deadly Bees
912 – The Screaming Skull
1007 – Track of the Moon Beast
1010 – It Lives By Night
1012 – Squirm
1013 – Diabolik
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I’d be happy with any set that featured at least one of these, but here’s a set that works on the Mike backlog (per Captn Ross Hagen) and includes two from MGM to make Shout Factory’s work a little easier (per Loran Alan Davis):
418 – Attack of the The Eye Creatures (MGM)
817 – Horror of Party Beach (Dark Sky)
905 – The Deadly Bees (Legend Films/Paramount)
1010 – It Lives By Night (MGM)
I like the idea of themed sets (like the Gamera collection), but I’m always afraid that if a single collection fails to sell well for being insufficiently eclectic, SF might decide they’ve gotten enough out of the project and end it. So I hope my (and others’) favorites will be spread throughout until all eps are available. (I know I’ll buy every single set sold. I’d even like a few KTMAs, however impossible to that may be.)