Product Details

• Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Ryder, Lexa Doig, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Laura Bertram
• Writers: Gene Roddenberry, John Lloyd Parry
• Producers: Emily Skopov, Ethlie Ann Vare, Keri Young, Robert Simmonds
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: A.D. Vision
• DVD Release Date: July 30, 2002
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006CXFV
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,191 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Andromeda Season 1 Collection 1 (Episode 101-105)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars oh, come on, December 5, 2002

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This review is from: Andromeda Season 1 Collection 1 (Episode 101-105) (DVD)

The dialogue in the first ten minutes "There are too many of them!" and "It's our only chance (hope?)" peg the script writer as a student at the George Lucas School of Scriptwriting (correspondence only). The starship (who is a machine, let us not forget)wants to look like a sexy babe with a lot of cleavage showing prominently. Would that 'look' really appeal to a machine - wouldn't it want to be metallic and oily? Besides, the 'living ship' idea is done so much better in Farscape. So I wonder if I have wasted my money.
However, Kevin Sorbo is a surprise - a better actor than our lad in Farscape (who only looks sober and/or confused most of the time). Sorbo's athleticism adds a reality to the fight scenes and he seems totally dedicated to his dream of reuniting millions of worlds (unrealistic as that seems in the face of our inability to unite even a portion of our planet).
Tyr is tremendously sexy, especially when given a chance. And the other characters are off-beat enough to be interesting. Except for the furball - they really should have gone to see Brian Henson on that one - the mask looks like a mask - it never moves. And the spraying is inconsistent with his Zen-like character (who seems more Catholic with his confession and absolution stuff - poor fellow). He won't kill anyone, but he will torture them? Come on.
Are we still going to be riding motorcycles with windscreens 12,000 years from now? Will people from another planet be quoting the Bible about "Reaping the whirlwind" - wouldn't they be quoting Neitzsce instead (sp?)? The anachronisms boggle.
So I bought the next set. So I'm hooked anyway. So sue me.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roddenberry would have been proudest of this, September 4, 2002

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Russ Miller (Laramie, Wyoming USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Andromeda Season 1 Collection 1 (Episode 101-105) (DVD)

I was skeptical when I saw yet another "Gene Roddenberry" apostropheed title and noticed mighty Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) as the lead character. "Oh, no, B-movie all the way," I thought. But just for fun I rented this DVD set and was astonished at the very high standard it has set. Andromeda is faster-paced and flashier than the most recent crop of Star Treks, and yet it is also superior in depth and breadth. Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Majel Barrett Roddenberry and the other creative honchos have created an instant universe that is more interesting than the canonized but increasingly stale one that Star Trek perpetuates. By starting at the end of an era (the fall of an empire) and setting out to pick up the pieces we are led through mysterious history like the fall of the Roman Empire or the disappearance of Atlantis. The dialog is quick-witted and the characters have a lot more to say than the usual stock "Shields at Maximum! We're losing power!" cliches. Andromeda mixes the "sexually charged negotiations" of this old empire's barbarians (the Nietzchian fanatics) with high minded nostalgic idealism and bug-eyed monsters without making us cringe. It is the best of scifi action-adventure and it isn't afraid to get cerebral -- the word all network executives hate. I'm going to buy all the DVDs as they come out.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent set of DVDs, August 9, 2002

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"jbrittjr" (Rome, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Andromeda Season 1 Collection 1 (Episode 101-105) (DVD)

The Andromeda DVD set is truly astonishing. The picture is crystal clear. The soundtrack is properly set so that the dialogue remains understandable rather than being overpowered by sound effects or music. There are a lot of special features, including history of the Systems Commonwealth, character biographies, interviews, bloopers, commentaries, set and prop design diagrams, a making-of documentary and more.

This first DVD offering is a pleasant surprise. I hope that the rest of the series will be released with the same high amount of forethought that went into this set. Enjoy!