A blurb from BCI/Entertainment Rights about “The Secrets of Isis-The Complete Series: Now available on DVD for the first time, the entire two seasons of THE SECRETS OF ISIS contains a treasure-trove of special features, and all the super-powered goodness that the heroine represented. Now, you too can be heir to…THE SECRETS OF ISIS!
Oh Mighty Isis! It’s about time that someone finally put the first super heroine of Saturday mornings on DVD! All 22 episodes of both seasons are on the set. One of my favorite show in the mid 70’s was the Shazam/Isis hour, which I watched every Saturday morning. She was also the only pretty woman on the air at the time, well for me anyway. The premise was adequate and the acting was pretty good for a 12 year old which I was at the time. The 3-disc set is quite nice with a lot of extras but not a definitive collection. In the 1990’s, who ever owned the rights to the film negatives for reasons unknown cut out all the “morals” that were at the end of each show, telling the kids what was right & what was wrong. No fault of BCI/Entertainment Rights. BCI found 13 out of the 22 morals from various video sources. I’m glad they did that. There is also interviews spanning 2 hours from Brian Cutler, Joanna Pang and Ronalda Douglas along with the producer and writers of the show, An Audio Commentary on one of the episodes, Rare Commercial bumpers and next week bumpers, photo galleries, Scripts on DVD Rom and a bonus episode from the animated series-Freedom Force.
VIDEO
The video quality is quite good! The episodes were not digitally remastered but are from good film prints. There is also a Play All feature.
Audio
Was originally recorded in Mono. Audio quality is also in Mono.
Disc 1-
1. “The Lights Of Mystery Mountain”
2. “Fool’s Dare”
3. “The Spots Of The Leopard”-with Lou Frizzell and Debra Lee Scott
4. “The Sound Of Silence”-with Leigh McCloskey
5. “The Outsider”-with Mitch Vogel
6. “Rock Hound Roost”
7. “Lucky”
8. “Big Foot”-with Bill Engesser
Disc 2-
9. “To Find A Friend”-with Michael Lookinland
10. “The Show Off”
11. “No Drums, No Trumpets”-with John Davey (Captain Marvel II)
12. “Funny Gal”
13. “Girl Driver”
14. “Scuba Duba”
15. “Dreams of Flight”*
16. “The Seeing Eye Horse”
Disc 3-
17. “The Hitchhikers”
18. “The Class Clown”
19. “The Cheerleader”-with Laurette Spang and Colleen Camp
20. “Year Of The Dragon”-with Victor Sen Yung (Bonanza)
21. “Now You See It…”-with John Davey and Evan Kim
22. “And Now You Don’t-with John Davey and Evan Kim
Extras
Disc 1- None
Disc 2- Isolated Music and Effects Track for Funny Gal
Audio Commentary for Dreams of Flight
Disc 3- Isolated Music and Effects Track for Now You See It…
Isolated Music and Effects Track for And Now You Don’t
Interview with Lou Scheimer (06:07)
Interview with Richard Resenbloom (06:42)
Interview with Brian Cutler (21:07)
Interview with Joanna Pang Atkins (25:57)
Interview with Rolanda Douglas Lombardo (19:31)
Interview with David Dworski (08:22)
Interview with Michael Reeves (06:36)
Interview with David Wise (06:37)
Interview with Bob Kline (07:15)
Interview with Henry Lange Jr (10:52)
Bonus Episode-Freedom Force-The Plant Soldiers (10:48)
Rare Footage-“Morals”, Commercial Bumpers and Next Weeks
Image Galleries-Promotional-(30) Pictures
Behind The Scenes- (30) Pictures
Memorabilia- (37) Pictures
Legend of Isis-Bluewater Productions Comic Book
Oh Mighty Isis! It’s about time that someone finally put the first super heroine of Saturday mornings on DVD! All 22 episodes of both seasons are on the set. One of my favorite show in the mid 70’s was the Shazam/Isis hour, which I watched every Saturday morning. She was also the only pretty woman on the air at the time, well for me anyway. The premise was adequate and the acting was pretty good for a 12 year old which I was at the time. The 3-disc set is quite nice with a lot of extras but not a definitive collection. In the 1990’s, who ever owned the rights to the film negatives for reasons unknown cut out all the “morals” that were at the end of each show, telling the kids what was right & what was wrong. No fault of BCI/Entertainment Rights. BCI found 13 out of the 22 morals from various video sources. I’m glad they did that. There is also interviews spanning 2 hours from Brian Cutler, Joanna Pang and Ronalda Douglas along with the producer and writers of the show, An Audio Commentary on one of the episodes, Rare Commercial bumpers and next week bumpers, photo galleries, Scripts on DVD Rom and a bonus episode from the animated series-Freedom Force.
VIDEO
The video quality is quite good! The episodes were not digitally remastered but are from good film prints. There is also a Play All feature.
Audio
Was originally recorded in Mono. Audio quality is also in Mono.
Disc 1-
1. “The Lights Of Mystery Mountain”
2. “Fool’s Dare”
3. “The Spots Of The Leopard”-with Lou Frizzell and Debra Lee Scott
4. “The Sound Of Silence”-with Leigh McCloskey
5. “The Outsider”-with Mitch Vogel
6. “Rock Hound Roost”
7. “Lucky”
8. “Big Foot”-with Bill Engesser
Disc 2-
9. “To Find A Friend”-with Michael Lookinland
10. “The Show Off”
11. “No Drums, No Trumpets”-with John Davey (Captain Marvel II)
12. “Funny Gal”
13. “Girl Driver”
14. “Scuba Duba”
15. “Dreams of Flight”*
16. “The Seeing Eye Horse”
Disc 3-
17. “The Hitchhikers”
18. “The Class Clown”
19. “The Cheerleader”-with Laurette Spang and Colleen Camp
20. “Year Of The Dragon”-with Victor Sen Yung (Bonanza)
21. “Now You See It…”-with John Davey and Evan Kim
22. “And Now You Don’t-with John Davey and Evan Kim
Extras
Disc 1- None
Disc 2- Isolated Music and Effects Track for Funny Gal
Audio Commentary for Dreams of Flight
Disc 3- Isolated Music and Effects Track for Now You See It…
Isolated Music and Effects Track for And Now You Don’t
Interview with Lou Scheimer (06:07)
Interview with Richard Resenbloom (06:42)
Interview with Brian Cutler (21:07)
Interview with Joanna Pang Atkins (25:57)
Interview with Rolanda Douglas Lombardo (19:31)
Interview with David Dworski (08:22)
Interview with Michael Reeves (06:36)
Interview with David Wise (06:37)
Interview with Bob Kline (07:15)
Interview with Henry Lange Jr (10:52)
Bonus Episode-Freedom Force-The Plant Soldiers (10:48)
Rare Footage-“Morals”, Commercial Bumpers and Next Weeks
Image Galleries-Promotional-(30) Pictures
Behind The Scenes- (30) Pictures
Memorabilia- (37) Pictures
Legend of Isis-Bluewater Productions Comic Book
Verdict
My only disappointment is that there were not any interviews with Isis herself-Joanna Cameron. Either the DVD team was unable to get an interview with her or she did not want to give one. Pity. Otherwise, a well done set.
Rating: *****!
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