Several home video releases for Colonel Bleep have been issued since 1991. Many are by companies that specialize in public domain releases.
A few other features by Soundac, particularly Mighty Mister Titan and Weather Man, have also been made available on home video.
Titles with an asterisk (*) indicate home video debuts.
Colonel Bleep
VHS
Cover art by Mike Kazaleh
Title | Distributor | Release Date | Contains | |
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Colonel Bleep #1 | Streamline Pictures/Video Comics | July 1991[1] | |
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Colonel Bleep #2 | Streamline Pictures/Video Comics | November 1991[1] |
DVD
East West Entertainment cover art by Patrick Owsley
Miscellaneous
Speed Racer
Title | Distributor | Release Date | Contains | |
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Speed Racer: The Movie (aka The Speed Racer Show) | Streamline Pictures (Theaters), Family Home Entertainment (Home Video), Artisan Home Entertainment, Pioneer (DVD) | May 13, 1993 (Theaters)[1], February 16, 1994 (VHS, Laserdisc)[2][3], February 27, 2001 (DVD)[4] |
The episode is included in a package film meant to simulate a broadcast of Speed Racer episodes. |
Public Domain DVD Collections
Title | Distributor | Release Date | Contains | |
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Cartoon Crazys Spooky Toons | Winstar | October 3, 2000 | "The Lunar Luger", with new sound effects, as part of a public domain cartoon compilation.[5] Cover art features Dr. Destructo. |
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Sci-Fi: The Greatest Sci-Fi Cartoons of All Time | GoodTimes Entertainment | 2004 | "The Lunar Luger" as part of a public domain cartoon compilation. |
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Giant 600 Cartoon Collection | Mill Creek Entertainment | July 22, 2008[6] | 25 episodes of Colonel Bleep, along with 5 George Pal Puppetoons, 10 Mel-O-Toons, 9 Christmas cartoons, and the Meany, Miny and Moe cartoon "House of Magic", on Disc 10.
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Super 300 Cartoon Collection | Mill Creek Entertainment | March 31, 2009[7] | Disc 4: same cartoons as Giant 600 Cartoon Collection Disc 10, albeit in a different order. Cover art includes artwork from Alpha Video DVD. |
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150 Fantastic Cartoons (aka 150 Cartoon Favorites) | Mill Creek Entertainment | January 5, 2010[8] | Disc 1: same cartoons as Giant 600 Cartoon Collection Disc 10, albeit in a different order. Cover art includes artwork from Alpha Video DVD. |
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Kids TV Sci-Fi And Adventure Animation Classics | PR Studios | May 11, 2013[9] |
Also includes the Clutch Cargo episode "Air Race", the Space Angel episode "Visitor from Outer Space", and the Superman cartoons "The Mad Scientist", "The Mechanical Monsters", "The Arctic Giant", and "Billion Dollar Limited". |
Unreleased
VHS
Title | Distributor | Notes |
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Colonel Bleep #3-5[10][11] | Streamline | Cancelled due to a lack of episode masters available.[12] |
DVD
Title | Distributor | Notes |
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Colonel Bleep, Volume 2 | Alpha Video | Implied by the title of the initial DVD release. |
Mighty Mister Titan
Cover art by Mike Kazaleh
Title | Distributor | Release Date | Contains | Notes | |
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The Worst Cartoons Ever! (DVD) | Rembrandt Films | 2007 (DVD)[13] | One episode of Mighty Mister Titan*, part of a presentation by Jerry Beck | Available via the Rembrandt Films website. Tipso is featured in the cover art. |
Weather Man
Title | Distributor | Release Date | Contains | Notes | |
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Mid-Century Modern Animation, Volume 1 (DVD and Blu-ray) | Thunderbean Animation | 2012 (DVD) 2018 (Blu-ray)[14] |
A reel of Weather Man spots*, featuring commentaries by historian and designer Dave Kirwan, among other Mid-century modern animated productions | Both versions separately cleaned up and scanned for high definition; DVD digital cleanup done in standard definition.[14] |
Trivia
- As of 2022, “A Windy Knight”, “Ball of Fire”, “The Falling Star”, “Space Station X-1”, “Winner Take All”, “Ice Demons Attack”, “The Magnetic Menace”, “The Relentless Rain”, and “The Rusty Robots” are the only surviving Colonel Bleep episodes that have yet to be released on home video. All were uploaded to YouTube by Toon Tracker in 2019.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/streamline-pictures-part-3/
- ↑ https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/23685/LD-27505/Speed-Racer:-The-Movie
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1994/02/06/favorite-stories-in-words-and-pictures/0fc1566b-d64e-47cc-b8ae-cd054b35669b/
- ↑ http://filmdvdreleases.com/2001_dvd_releases.htm
- ↑ http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/r-displaycatalog.php?ID=526
- ↑ https://www.millcreekent.com/products/giant-600-cartoon-collection
- ↑ https://www.oldies.com/product-view/01026O.html
- ↑ https://www.oldies.com/product-view/9666FD.html
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Kids-Sci-Fi-Adventure-Animation-Classics/dp/B00CQH3X2W
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-173/page/n15
- ↑ https://www.furaffinity.net/view/8023551/
- ↑ https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/streamline-pictures-part-18/
- ↑ https://www.worldcat.org/title/worst-cartoons-ever/oclc/298113319
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/here-they-are-mid-century-modern-on-blu-ray-volumes-1-and-2/