Not-So Friendly Skies: Just as the second season of the Steven Spielberg-produced sci-fi series gears up on TNT, Falling Skies: The Complete First Season lands on the DVD shores ready to invade your home. The show tells of an alien takeover of Earth and is set a few months after the evil E.T.’s have landed. They have killed most of the Earth’s population and are out to capture and brainwash the children. Facing off against them are a group of 300 survivors from Massachusetts who have banded together to form a militia. Led by history professor Noah Wylie, the group includes doctor Moon Bloodgood and former military officer Will Patton. All ten episodes are available on three discs.
MTV Monstrosities: A hip series about creatures loose in the San Fernando Valley—no, they’re not Valley Girls—Death Valley: Season 1 (Uncensored) is a comedy in which a new division of the Los Angeles Police Department is assigned the job of rounding up the werewolves, zombies and other terrifying figures that have started to roam the streets of the Valley. The show is presented in a mockumentary fashion using hand-held cameras as the new sector of the LAPD is captured by a news crew. Bryan Callen, Charlie Saunders and Caity Lotz are among the actors who play the cops on this very peculiar beat. All 12 episodes are available, uncensored, on two discs.
30 Is A Dangerous Age, Gregory: MGM’s 1976 big budget sci-fi yarn Logan’s Run led to this series that ran from 1977 to 1978 on CBS. Taking over for the big screen’s Michael York, Gregory Harrison plays the titular lead character, an elite futuristic policeman in a society where ritual suicide is mandated at age 30. The powers that be will bend the rule for Logan—providing he can find wanted fugitives. But when Logan learns of an idyllic domed city called Sanctuary, he makes a break for it. He’s accompanied by underground leader Jessica (Heather Menzies, filling filmdom heroine Jenny Agutter’s footware) and the android Rem (Donald Moffat), and they’re pursued by Francis 7 (Randy Powell), Logan’s former partner. Based on William F. Nolan’s novel, the show featured such guest stars as Mariette Hartley, Melody Anderson, George Maharis, Kim Cattrall and William Smith. All 13 episodes are on this three-disc set.
All Is Wells: Between his best-known series stints as secret agent Ilya Kuryakin on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and forensic surgeon “Ducky” Mallard on NCIS, David McCallum was seen—kinda-sorta—in The Invisible Man: The Complete Series, which ran on NBC from 1975-1976. He played scientist Dr. David Westin, whose experiments with matter transformation went awry, leaving him invisible and unable to reverse the process. He soon becomes a spy, thwarting those trying to sabotage the government while trying to find the correct formula that will reverse his condition. This intelligent and entertaining take on the H.G. Wells story was “created” by Steven Bochco (NYPD Blue) and Harve Bennett (executive producer for The Six Million Dollar Man), and also starred Melinda O. Fee and Craig Stevens. The four-disc set includes twelve episodes and the pilot telemovie.