Video NewsBriefs, October 15, 2011 

Entertainment in November will release Farscape: The Complete Series Blu-ray. The 20-disc boxed set includes all four complete seasons (88 episodes), plus 15 hours of bonus programming, all of which has been optimized from the European PAL masters for the highest quality visuals and sound. The Complete Series, which ran in the United States on the Sci-Fi Channel from 1999 to 2003, carries a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $199.95. Each season also is available individually in five-disc sets of 22 episodes each, running roughly 18 hours including bonus materials. The individual seasons will retail for $69.95, making The Complete Series package a sweet deal.

Bang, zoom! The honeymoon, it seems, is never over. This fall, MPI Home Entertainment will release The Honeymooners Lost Episodes: The Complete Restored Series on DVD, a 15-disc collection featuring more than 50 hours of footage (SRP $129.98). The Honeymooners ran for 39 episodes over a single season between late 1955 and 1956. But that 30-minute weekly sitcom was spawned from far shorter sketches that were a regular feature of star Jackie Gleason’s variety show, which ran from 1952 to 1970. The variety show material constitutes the “lost episodes.” Several of the sketches have been unavailable to the public since their original live airing. The recordings have been digitally restored; the package includes a 42-page booklet profiling the series’ history.

Players! Alexander Street Press’s ­Filmakers Library imprint is now marketing the Dramatists Guild Fund’s The Legacy Project, a ten-DVD boxed set featuring interviews with top American dramatists conducted by emerging playwrights. The ten interviews include talks with Stephen Sondheim, Lanford Wilson, and John Kander. The publisher says that the interview series also will be available online as streaming video later this year.
—Mike Rogers