Greatest Sports Legends: Pete Rose on VHS. Video starring Pete Rose, Tom Seaver. 1985.
From the VHS box cover:
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Gallagher Melon Crazy
Gallagher Melon Crazy on VHS video. TV short starring Gallagher, Bill Kirchenbauer. Directed by Joe Hostettler. 1984.
From the VHS box cover:
It’s official. Gallagher, America’s most outrageous comic has gone Melon Crazy!
The first warning sign of Melon Craziness is a tendency to collect strange “melonabilia” like huge thirty foot watermelons, watermelon blimps, or three-piece watermelon suits. (And other very strange piece of melon matter.)
The second warning sign is a tendency to hang around with other crazy people like special guest comic Bill Kirchenbauer (Tony Roletti of Fernwood Tonight) who does impressions of xerox machines. And the third sign of melon craziness is the messiest Sledge-O-Matic demonstration of all time. Take home your copy today… and stand back! SPLAT!
Not found on DVD, but it is on Prime:
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The Head Saves The Earth
MTV’s The Head on VHS video. Starring Gordon Barnett, Jason Candler, Patricia Bibby. Created by Eric Fogel. With Mike Judge. 1994.
From the VHS box:
At Last, A Cartoon-Super-Hero Who Really Uses His Head.
Jim (The Head) is an animated mutant super-hero with an insanely large cranium. A freak encounter left him with a problem. A big one: he’s got an alien named Roy living inside his oversized dome. Plus, he’s got the added headache of having to deal with an impending invasion of Earth by a fiendish army of evil parasitic aliens.
Jim and Roy are feverishly assembling the Anti-Invasion Machine, whose five pieces have been scattered throughout the world. Will Jim and his skull-dwelling companion have the skill to save the Earth? Only The Head knows.
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Monty Python’s Parrot Sketch Not Included
Monty Python’s Parrot Sketch Not Included on VHS. Starring Steve Martin, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland, Connie Booth. Directed by Ian McNaughton. 1989.
From the VHS box cover:
You look like the type we’re looking for. Warm and breathing — a perfect customer for this hilarious 20th anniversary look back at the BEST bits, pieces and gags of Monty Python foolery.
Parrot Sketch Not Included features snippets of Pythonmania never before available in the USA. And it’s packed with unforgettable moments from longtime faves like the Fish-Slapping Dance, the Ministry of Silly Walks, the Argument Clinic, World Forum and the comfy chair torment of the Spanish Inquisition.
In nature, a snake cannot have legs. In show biz, an act that’s enduringly popular has legs. Monty Python’s got ’em. However, the lads do remind you that it’s impolite to stare.
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Connie Gomper and the Pack
Connie Gomper and the Pack on VHS video. Starring Cindy Sandberg, Brett Favre, Mike Holmgren, Robert Brooks, Gilbert Brown, Aaron Taylor. Directed by Greg Kohs. 1996.
From the VHS box:
Is Connie Gomper the Ultimate Packers Fan? You Betcha!
After a lifetime of loyalty to the greatest football team in the world, Green Bay legend Connie Gomper has realized her lifelong ambition of becoming the nation’s best know Packer Backer!
On this, her first video, Connie proudly shows photos of her family with the Packers… gossips about the Packers at the beauty parlor… and takes you behind the scenes (into her garage actually) where she tapes her local Cable TV show “Gomper Gab with Connie.”
Educational? Yah, by golly! “Connie Gomper and the Pack” features Connie’s history of the team from “Bart to Brett,” with rare archival newsreel clips, exclusive NFL Films action footage, and special appearances by Coach Holmgren, Brett Favre, Aaron Taylor, Gilbert Brown, and record-setting receiver Robert Brooks who serenades Connie with his original song “Jump in the Stands.” Connie also introduces you to such fellow fanatics as Mel and Leonne Knocke, who have missed less than a dozen Packers games since 1929, and Steve Gay, whose 1966 Dodge motorhome, the “Big G,” is a Green Bay icon! All-in-all, Connie’s created the only video on earth that’s more fun than a Sunday afternoon in Green Bay!
Not found on DVD. For VCRs: Connie Gomper and the Pack [VHS]
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It
Stephen King’s It on VHS video. Starring Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Annette O’Toole, Tim Curry, Richard Masur, John Ritter, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. 1990.
From the VHS box:
Your every fear — all in one deadly enemy.
It can be anything. A fanged monster that won’t stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. No matter what your biggest fear is, no one knows It better than Stephen King.
Based on the King Of Horror’s 1986 bestseller, It is a jittery, jolting excursion into personal fear. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It is not clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom — until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends who vividly remember the terrors of their youth reunite to make a desperate stand against It.
DVD upgrade: Stephen King, IT!
It by Stephen King: It
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The Best of John Candy on SCTV
The Best of John Candy on SCTV on VHS. Starring John Candy. With Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara, Harold Ramis, Dave Thomas. VHS collection from 1992.
From the VHS cover:
John Candy at his hilarious best — plus the great comedy stars of SCTV.
Get ready for non-stop John Candy in this hilarious collection of classic moments from the brilliant SCTV series. The popular star of hit comedies such as Uncle Buck, Splash, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Stripes and Home Alone is at his antic best — showing off the characters and comic styling that launched his stellar career.
Check out the characters at this “Candy counter”: slick TV star Johnny LaRue; utterly over-the-edge Divine; raging Jake LaMotta; grown-up Theodore “The Beaver” Cleaver; Leutonian Polka legend Yosh Shmenge; and a wrestling version of Julia Child! There’s also Mike Chisel: Small Town Dick; Dr. Tongue; Alfred Hitchcock; Johnny Pavarotti; Tommy Shanks; Steve Roman; Dr. Wainwright; Ralph Kramden; Orson Welles; and more!
Plus, you’ll see the now-famous SCTV gang including Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara, Harold Ramis and Martin Short.
If you like your Candy — and who doesn’t — you’ll crack up with The Best of John Candy on SCTV!
Turn on SCTV: SCTV, Volume 1 – Network 90 (5 Disc Set)
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Golden Years
Stephen King’s Golden Years on VHS. 232 minutes. Starring Keith Szarabajka, Frances Sternhagen, Felicity Huffman, Ed Lauter, R.D. Call, Bill Raymond. Television mini-series directed by Allen Coulter, Kenneth Fink, Mitchell Galin, Stephen Tolkin, Michael Gornick. 1991.
From the box:
His body held the secret of time. Now time is… running out!
Reigning horror master Stephen King (Misery, Pet Sematary, The Shining) creates a chilling vision of scientific progress run amok in this electrifying, original techno-thriller! Starring Keith Szarabajka (Missing, “The Equalizer”) and Frances Sternhagen (Misery, Doc Hollywood), Golden Years features make-up and special effects supervised by legendary effects master Dick Smith (The Exorcist, Amadeus) and a plot that builds to an astonishing ending!
When aging janitor Harlan Williams is accidentally exposed to exotic chemicals in a lab explosion, he undergoes an extraordinary change. It’s a process the government will do anything to learn more about — no matter who has to die in the process. Soon, Harlan, his wife Gina and the lab’s beautiful security chief are on a cross-country race to evade a murderously effective federal agent. But even as he stays one step ahead of his ruthless pursuers, Harlan continues his transformation into something the world of science has never seen… or imagined!
DVD upgrade (2 discs, 236 minutes): Stephen King’s Golden Years
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X-Men
X-Men: The Animated Series on VHS. Episodes: Night Of The Sentinels Part 1 & 2 and Days Of Future Past Part 1 & 2. Starring Cedric Smith, Cathal J. Dodd, Norm Spencer, Iona Morris. Directors: Larry Houston and Richard Bowman. 1992.
Days Of Future Past Part 1 & 2
Part 1: Word of a future where mutants are hunted down and terminated by murderous sentinels, leads the X-Men and a time-traveling bounty hunter, Bishop, to Washington D.C. to prevent the murder of Senator Kelly.
Part 2: Convinced Gambit is the assassin, Bishop and the X-Men find themselves battling who they assume to be Gambit’s new allies, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Night Of The Sentinels Part 1 & 2
Part 1: When a pretty young mutant named Jubilee is attacked in a shopping mall by huge search-and-destroy robots known as Sentinels, Rogue, Storm and Gambit unleash all their X-Men powers to rescue her. With Professor Xavier’s help, the X-Men discover that the Sentinel assault is part of a sinister program to exterminate all mutants!
Part 2: In order to protect a sinister plot to track and eliminate all mutants from succeeding, the X-Men break into the Mutant Registration Office to destroy the files. But, Beast is apprehended while trying to escape. Gyrich and Trask, the renegades responsible for the Sentinels, kidnap Jubilee, hoping she can lead them to the rest of the X-Men.
DVD Upgrade: X-Men: Volume One (Marvel DVD Comic Book Collection)
Watch Now: Marvel Comics X-Men Season 1
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Serial Experiments Lain: Knights
Serial Experiments Lain: Knights on VHS. Starring Bridget Hoffman. Character Design by Yoshitoshi Abe. 1998.
From the box:
Close the world, Open the nExt.
Fulfill the Prophecy…
“KNIGHTS” — a super hacker group that has large effects in the wired. No one knows who the members are, but they control information and sometimes develop and distribute illegal information equipment. The KNIGHTS are trying to make Lain do something… When Lain metaphorizes her physical self into the wired to search for an answer of incidents that kids commit suicide. She finds that the KNIGHTS are behind this incident. One day, a group of men in black suits make a contact Lain. They ask “Are those people who you live with really your parents?” “Are you Lain of the wired?” and “Who are you really?”
DVD Upgrade: Serial Experiments – Lain: Knights (Layers 5-7)
Connect To The Wired: Serial Experiments Lain: Complete Series – Classic (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
