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10/7/09 at 3:04pm
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Warner Archives has released a pair of Gene Roddenberry's '70s TV movies: Planet Earth and its prequel, Genesis II.  It's hard to believe it's taken this long for them to make it to DVD, especially with Roddenberry as writer/producer.  Each can be ordered for $19.95, or together for $29.95.  Mine are on the way!

www.wbshop.com/Roddenberry%27s-Genesis-II-and-Planet-Earth-Value-Pak-+2-DVDs/WARODDENBERRY,default,pd.html

From IMDB:  Planet Earth: A man awakens from suspended animation and finds himself in the 22nd century, where he finds that women rule the world and that men are slaves called "dinks". He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and hooks up with a male rebel movement.

I have fond memories of watching this with my younger brother in the '70s.  I remember how much we giggled every time we heard a woman call a man "dink"!
 
I sure enjoy reliving these classic '70s TV movies on DVD!  The '70s were a great time for sci-fi/horror TV movies like these, and others such as Moon of the Wolf, The Night Stalker, Devil Dog, The Six Million Dollar Man, Killdozer, Salem's Lot, Trilogy of Terror, just to name a few.  The production values were pretty poor, but I've always thought they did a lot with very little.  The stories were well written (usually by known genre talent) and the staging provided the necessary thrills.




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10/7/09 at 3:35pm
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Wow that is going to make it nearly impossible for a search of these shows with that topic title.
It's already hard enough to search with this Huddle software.
anyway Hopefully these will show up on netflix or blockbuster online so I can see them.
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10/7/09 at 9:04pm
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I forgot to mention... WB's listings indicate "widescreen" and the preview clips are shown matted.  These were both originally aired on TV, so I'm hoping WB didn't pull a Kung Fu: Season 1 on these releases.  It's possible they were shot wide, with potential theatrical releases in mind, or perhaps for foreign markets.  Anyone have any info?
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10/16/09 at 6:09pm
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I received my order from WB Archives yesterday.  I immediately popped in Planet Earth, but the disc didn't play.  Checked it in two other players with no luck.  I checked the other discs (Genesis II, Man From Atlantis, Our Gang Collection) and all played fine.  I called WB for an exchange, and they're shipping a replacement today (no need to send back the defective disc.)

All the discs are in DVD-R format.  The actual discs have screened art on glossy, printable discs, and the cases feature quality inserts.  Only the Our Gang discs feature menus to access individual shorts.  The others simply start with a message that you can skip forward-and-back at 10-minute interval chapter marks.

Overall, the transfers are very nice.  A few film scratches here-and-there (especially during the first reel of Atlantis). 
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10/16/09 at 6:22pm
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I heard that the Man From Atlantis has a green line running through the film print for a good portion of the movie. For what they are charging, you would think they could make it look better than my old VHS pre-recorded.
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10/16/09 at 7:25pm
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I forgot to mention... both Genesis II and Atlantis are indeed 1.37:1, and not matted as shown in the WB sample clips.

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I forgot to mention... WB's listings indicate "widescreen" and the preview clips are shown matted.  These were both originally aired on TV, so I'm hoping WB didn't pull a Kung Fu: Season 1 on these releases.  It's possible they were shot wide, with potential theatrical releases in mind, or perhaps for foreign markets.  Anyone have any info?


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10/17/09 at 9:19am
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Warner Archives has released a pair of Gene Roddenberry's '70s TV movies: Planet Earth and its prequel, Genesis II.  It's hard to believe it's taken this long for them to make it to DVD, especially with Roddenberry as writer/producer.
 
     What's also hard to believe is that with the following Roddenberry has, Warner hasn't thought to release the first TV series that he produced, The Lieutenant. Starring Gary Lockwood (2001 A Space Odyssey) and Robert Vaughn (Man from UNCLE), the future stars that guested on the show were quite impressive: Bill Bixby, Rip Torn, Greg Morris, Neville Brand, Linda Evans, Barbara Bain, Paul Burke, Ed Asner, Ted Bessell, Eddie Albert, Sherry Jackson, Patricia Crowley, James Gregory, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Anderson, Leonard Nimoy and Majel Barrett. All of whom would go on to become stars of their own TV series.

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