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Whistle Stopper - Monsterquest - Complete Season 1 (History Channel) (Steelbook)
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List Price: $39.95
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Manufacturer: A&E HOME VIDEO
Starring: Monster Quest
Directed By: The History Channel
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: A&E
EAN: 0733961110913
Format: Box set
Label: A&E HOME VIDEO
Manufacturer: A&E HOME VIDEO
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: A&E HOME VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-05-27
Running Time: 611
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
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Summary: One of the best shows ,must have dvd !
Comment: This is one of the best of it's kind, I"m so happy that they released this show on dvd. And I'm very impressed that they did it so quickly.I love to watch all eposides.I can hardy wait each new week to see what the new show will be.Season 2 will be released on January 20th 09. Thank you so very much History Channel. Hope that there will be many more seasons.
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Summary: My son loves this show
Comment: my son loves this show. he has been watching it since it started on tv. I figuered it would be a great christmas present for him.
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Summary: Things That Go Bump in the Night--or the Mind?
Comment: "Monster Quest" is one of life's guilty pleasures. Each episode features high production values, good narration and a spooky story. The series clearly leans toward the "monsters are real!" side of the spectrum, but it presents the views of skeptics as well (albeit in a pretty perfunctory way).
Each hour creates an entertaining atmosphere of mystery, but the show is honest in reporting negative results. The camera traps that are set to take pictures of elusive beasts yield lovely shots of deer, horses, cows, cars and even eagles, but (so far, at least) never a Sasquatch, skunk ape, or dog man. DNA testing shows that the mutant monster dog is not a dire wolf--it's a big feral dog. The footprint of an elusive orang pendek (hypothesized to be a relict specimen of homo floresiensis) turns out to belong to a bear. And a clever experiment with high speed photography does a good job of refuting the theory that "rods" captured on ordinary video cameras are creatures from another dimension.
Whether you think of monsters as real or as folklore, this show will do nicely if you just want to sit back and enjoy a spooky, interesting story for an hour or so.
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Summary: Cryptozoology All-Stars
Comment: Cryptozoology enthusiasts will no doubt rejoice at the long awaited DVD release of the first season of History Channel's successful Monsterquest series. This deluxe metal case comes with four DVDs, containing all thirteen episodes of the original first season. Amongst the creatures covered are Champ (the lake monster of Lake Champlain), bigfoot, giant 'thunderbirds' sighted in the Midwest, the Florida skunk ape, giant squid, Indonesia's orang pendek, rods (strange rod like things caught on film), strange dog like creatures killing pets and livestock, mystery big cats in the US, the Bray Road Beast (a 'werewolf' in Wisconsin), giant fish, and the rumored ape-human hybrids Stalin wanted to create. Quite an exhaustive list of monsters, both well known and more obscure.
Each episode is relatively straight forward - they give an overview of the monster or creature in question, some interviews with witnesses, the camera crews go out looking for evidence or footage, and some comments from 'experts,' both skeptical and believing. Unfortunately, as interesting as the subject matter is, the show rarely comes up with anything new in the field. I mean, we still are no closer to 'proving' the existence of sasquatch one way or another. But it does give some interesting and up-to-date information on sightings, especially with the more obscure cases. Monster lovers young and old will no doubt appreciate the amount of background information given on these creatures, and the sightings aren't especially frightening for most children, so all ages can appreciate the show. Incidentally, the 'bonus' footage only consists of outtakes and unused footage from some of the episodes, mostly in the form of interviews with witnesses. This could be useful to researchers, but theres not alot of new data.
The biggest downside to this release is that, as nice as the packaging is, the individual discs are painfully difficult to get out of their little slots and I'm always afraid I will damage them. I really hope they change the packaging for season two, when/if they release that. Furthermore, the 'giganto' episode featuring the search for the extinct ape gigantopithecus is not featured on this DVD (hopefully we'll get that later on in season two). Still, in spite of these small flaws, this release is AWESOME. Anyone with an interest in the paranormal or unexplained will get a kick out of this. And if you like this, keep your eyes peeled for season two, which has more episodes (twenty or so I think) not only exploring new monsters (chupacabras, hogzilla, the beast of exmoor, ghosts, etc) but also re-visiting some of the cases from this season! More goodness indeed!
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Summary: a complete season
Comment: After being gone for nearly a year; I was finally able to see all of the programs episodes. Alot of them deal with the same equipment and the effectiveness is spotty, yet promising. At least someone is taking a professional and scientific approach to trying to find conclusive evidence of these mysterious creatures and happenstances. More or less the series is an updated version of an older TV series. If you're into the strange and spooky, this can help shed some more onfo on those subjects.
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Each episode of MONSTERQUEST is a mini-expedition to a remote, far-flung corner of the world. Science and technology come together to give viewers a greater understanding of these mysterious monsters bones and key pieces of proof are analyzed and submitted to a battery of tests. Instead of relying on the cliché grainy archival footage usually associated with these monsters, the series goes on-location with high-tech gadgetry (special cameras, listening posts, even underwater lures) to further the quest for answers. While the monsters may not necessarily be real, each episode does feature real scientists.
The 13 50-minute episodes cover: Kraken: the Real Leviathon, Night of the Monkey Man, Stalin s Planet of the Apes, Creature of Snellgrove Lake, China s Lake Beast, Werewolf of Bray Road, Jurassic Fish Monsters, Creatures from the Fourth Dimension, America s Loch Ness Monster, Man-Eating Birds, Giganto II, Bigfoot and the Hounds of Baskervilles.
Bonus: Short-Form Featurettes
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