Upcoming pop culture DVDs: Dollhouse; Transformers series; Father Knows Best; UK Life on Mars; Peyton Place; Petticoat Junction; Zabriskie Point, more

Upcoming DVDs of possible interest to pop culture fans. Click the links to pre-order discounted titles from Amazon. Proceeds help support this site.


Dollhouse: Season One
4 DVDs, out July 28.


Transformers: The Complete First Season (25th Anniversary Edition)
3 DVDs, out June 16.


Father Knows Best: Season Three
5 DVDS, out June 9.


Life On Mars: Series 1 (U.K.)
Out July 28.


Secret Diary of a Call Girl Season 2
2 DVDs, out June 30.


Peyton Place: Part Two
5 DVDs, out July 14.


Petticoat Junction: The Official Second Season
5 DVDs, out July 7.


The Jack Lemmon Film Collection (Phffft! / Operation Mad Ball / The Notorious Landlady / Under the Yum Yum Tree / Good Neighbor Sam)
6 DVDs, out June 9.


Zabriskie Point
1 DVD, out June 30.


For All Mankind [Blu-ray]
1 DVD, out July 14.


The Jetsons: Season Two, Vol. 1
3 DVDs, out June 2.

New Star Trek movie pictures

Upcoming CDs: George Harrison; rockabilly; Sonic Youth; Costello; Shawn Phillips; Marshall Crenshaw; Madness; Les Baxter; Who Sell Out deluxe; more!

Here's a look at some upcoming CDs of possible interest. Click the links to pre-order discounted CDs from Amazon.


Let It Roll: The Songs of George Harrison by George Harrison


Rockabilly Legend by Warren Smith


John Cage: Sculptures Musicales, Twenty-Six with Twenty-Nine, Twenty-Six with Twenty-Eight & Twenty-Nine, Eighty / Christina Fong, Prague Winds, Karen Krummel, Michael Crawford, Glenn Freeman, The Chance Operations Collective by John Cage


Red Hot by Billy Lee Riley


Arkansas Wild Man by Sonny Burgess


Boppin' Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins


Queen Of Rock 'N' Roll by Brenda Lee


The Eternal by Sonic Youth


Infinity in Sound, Vols. 1 & 2 by Esquivel


Goldwax Northern Soul by Various Artists


You Heard Them Here First - First Recordings By Famous Or Influential Artists by Various Artists


About Time - The Terry Callier Story 1964-1980 by Terry Callier


Here And Now by Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey


Guitar Man by Duane Eddy


Contribution/Second Contribution by Shawn Phillips


Secret, Profane and Sugarcane by Elvis Costello


Jaggedland by Marshall Crenshaw


Crystal Blues Symphonies: The Psychedelic Years by Tommy James & the Shondells


Liberty of Norton Folgate by Madness


Space Escapade by Les Baxter


Who Sell Out (Deluxe Edition) by The Who

Pop links: Wolverine sucks? McCartney meets King Kirby!

Early reviews of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" aren't looking too good, reports Newsarama.

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The Beatle photo blog has pics of Paul McCartney's 1976 meeting with comic book genius Jack Kirby. Kirby gave Paul and Linda specially drawn illustration after learning of Macca's tune "Magneto and Titanium Man," which was inspired by Kirby's Marvel Comics creations.

Hanna-Barbera character rings

Video find: Harry Nilsson on the Smothers Brothers Show

Here's a great segment of Harry introduced by Tommy. Harry goes on to sing several of his best-known songs and even provides a brief songwriting tutorial.

Pop links: Plastic Ono Band redux; Batcave garage sale; Flash Gordon comics; Hammer horror comics; Everett Raymond Kinstler

Yoko Ono is convening a new Plastic Ono Band to back her performance at the upcoming Meltdown Festival in London. Jazz legend Ornette Coleman, who Ono collaborated with back in her pre-John Lennon days, has selected those to perform, who also include Sean Lennon, Patti Smith and Robert Wyatt.

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Adam West holds a Batcave garage sale:

Batman Garage Sale with Adam West from Adam West

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Geek Orthodox shares some vintage Flash Gordon comic book covers.



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Harry Green Eyeball presents a Brian Bolland-illustrated adaptation of Hammer Studio's "Vampire Circus" from 1978.



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Golden Age Comic Book Stories pays tribute to pulp illustrator and comic book artist Everett Raymond Kinstler.