Product Details

• Actors: Townsend Coleman, Micky Dolenz, Rob Paulsen, Kay Lenz, Cam Clarke
• Directors: Art Vitello
• Writers: Andy Yerkes, Ben Edlund, Christopher McCulloch, Henry Gilroy, Lee Shapiro
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: August 29, 2006
• Run Time: 252 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FS9MVK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,633 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Tick Vs. Season One" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

TICK VS SEASON 1 DVD AT LAST! THE TICK ANIMATED COMES TO DVD!! The Tick Animated Series Volume 1 is now available for order! This 2 disc DVD contains 12 episodes from the first season of the 'Classic' Fox Kid's Club show! The box illustration was drawn especially for the two disc set by The Tick's creator Ben Edlund! Just think you can now own such great show as: 'The Tick vs the Idea Men' 'The Tick vs Arthur's Bank Account' and everyone's favorite show.... 'The Tick vs The Tick' which features 'THE MIDNIGHT BOMBER WHAT BOMBS AT MIDNIGHT!' What more could you ever want?!****ATTENTION**** ALL PURCHASES MADE BY RESIDENTS OF MASSACHUSETTS WILL BE SUBJECT TO 6.25% SALES TAX THAT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE AMAZON LISTING PRICE. If you have any questions please email us [e-mail]

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181 of 190 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars These are not the DVDs the fans have been waiting for, September 15, 2006

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Damon D (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tick Vs. Season One (DVD)

You've been waiting over 10 years for the Tick to come out on DVD. You've eyed Amazon feverishly. You follow up every rumor. You even bought the live action disks.

And then, in seeming answer to your decade of diligent prayers and blue votive candles, it's finally here, and the package looks fan-freaking-tastic.

You call in sick to work, plunk yourself onto your sofa with a box of Lucky Charms, a gallon of milk, a cereal bowl, and your favorite SPOON! and prepare for a six hour TV-watching orgy.

You pop Disk 1 in the DVD player, and (once you get past all the ads) are nearly drowned by a wave of nostalgia. The main screen is full of animated eye candy, and you watch it at least a half dozen times. Finally you grab the remote and flip through the options.

That's odd... no special features. Must be on the other disk. I mean surely no one would release The Tick on DVD without acknowledging its origin as a comic book or its rabid cult following.

Hmm... now that's REALLY odd. There don't seem to be any commentary tracks either. You KNOW Edlund has things to say about the series. You've been scouring the Internet for Tick info since Mosaic was the only graphical web browser.

Well, you reason, all that other stuff is just parsley. The main course is the shows themselves.

So you push play on episode one, and you chuckle through the opening interview sequence, but something is niggling at you. Something doesn't look quite right, and yet the show looks exactly as you remember. It's not until the title sequence that it hits you so hard that you stop singing along in mid "Dum-dwee".

You pause to confirm your horror:

The reason this looks exactly like you remember from 10 years ago is because it's an analog-to-digital recording! Instead of recording from the original cells, the manufacturer recorded from video.

You sit there for a bit, stunned. They had 10 years to make this DVD, and this is the best they could do? Heck, it's not much better than the bootlegs you made with your first DVD-R. You don't really want to push play again. Your cereal has gone warm and mushy. After a bit you pick up the phone. "Yeah... it was just my sinuses. I'll be into the office in 30 minutes."

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic series. Horrendous DVD presentation., August 30, 2006

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Kevin H. Dudley (Roanoke, VA (USA)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Tick Vs. Season One (DVD)

I, like tons of other people, have been anxiously awaiting for SOMEBODY to finally start releasing the classic cartoon of The Tick ever since the inception of DVD. It seemed like every single series was getting some kind of DVD attention except for this one.

Finally, someone answered our prayers and Season 1 of the animated Tick has been unleashed on DVD.

But there's a dark side to this.

First of all, this set is missing episode 11 "The Tick vs. The Mole Men" due to what is being labled "creative reasons" whatever in the hell that means. While I know this is regarded as one of the weakest episodes in the entire history, this isn't the full first season due to its ommision.

Secondly, the video quality is HORRIBLE. It literally looks someone took some high quality VHS copies of the show and just slapped them on a couple of DVD's. The colors are washed out & bland and there's a really annoying interlacing issue in almost every episode that causes most animation lines to "shimmer" a bit. The shimmering effect might not be quite as distracting on smaller TV sets, but on big screen sets it is really atrocious.

The sound is also muffled and tinny sounding. There's also little bits of missing dialogue here and there as well. I'm thinking that a few episodes might be cut slightly actually.

So, while I am glad whoever finally got off of their duff to release The Tick animated on DVD, I think that they could have done a much, much better job than this.

I hope they realize the error of their ways with Season 1 and really put forth a whole lot more effort on subsequent season releases.

The show itself gets a full 5 star rating from me but the DVD presentation gets a 1.

I wish that Amazon had a seperate rating system in which you could rate both the feature AND the DVD quality seperately.

82 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Belated indeed, and butchered., June 1, 2006

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Matthew VanAndel "Veraxus" (SoCal, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Tick Vs. Season One (DVD)

Originally titled "The Tick: Season 1", this two disc set only included 12 of the first seasons 13 episodes. The missing episode is S1E11, "The Tick vs. The Mole-Men", in which The Tick and Arthur act as guide for a bunch of vacationing mole-men and their mole-king. When the mole-king falls in love with a Cindy Crawford lookalike, things get complicated. Disney swears the episode was left out for "creative reasons", which may have some truth as this episode is widely accepted as the weakest of the series - but some sort of legal complication is more likely (maybe they couldn't fit all 13 episodes on 2 discs?). The point is, don't expect any sort of definitive compilation here, this is Season 1 sans one episode. Maybe we'll see the Mole-Men episode as a bonus for Season 2 or, god forbid, a re-release of this Season 1 set.