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I've gotten a couple of questions in email from European Hercules fans about the DVD sets - they aren't easily available over here - and especially about what extras are on them, so I thought I'd expand my answers and put them up here too. Please comment with followups or corrections!

ETA: I've added more details to this post, with many thanks to Sue Sanders and

dchan07.

What are the extras on the H:tLJ DVD sets?
TVShowsonDVD has detailed reviews for all five of the Hercules season DVDsets, with a very complete listing of the commentaries, interviews and other tidbits, including time codes so you can see how long they are. *g*

What's this about a special Best Buy version, and should I get it?
The five season sets were produced in two different versions: the normal version sold everywhere and a version sold only at Best Buy, a store that doesn't ship overseas. The Best Buy sets had an 'Exclusive Content' banner on the front and an extra feature inside.

# In the season 1 set, the Best Buy extra was The Men Behind The Myth (60 mn) which is immediately followed by a 30 mn conversation between Kevin Sorbo and director Bill Norton, on disc 3.

# In the season 2 set, the Best Buy extra is 30 minutes of more interviews with Kevin, Michael, and Tapert, similar to the season one interviews ('as a matter of fact, Michael's, at least, is more excerpts from the same interview--you can tell because he still has his dark Hamlet hair'). The exclusive interviews are on disk 6.

Note: Contrary to what I posted earlier, the 'bonus disc' was apparently included in ALL the season 2 sets, Best Buy and normal. It has a 20+ minute blooper reel, hour-long interview with Rob Tapert, Kevin Sorbo on "Regis and Kathy", costume designs and a special effects feature on the making of the Argonauts episode with the animated skeletons. (Thanks, Sue, for clearing this up!)

# In the season 3, 4 and 5 sets, the extras diminished in quality - they were half-hour 'interviews' with cast and crew that were really bits and pieces cut out of the other interviews.

When's the sixth season coming out?
The sixth and last season of Hercules: the Legendary Journeys is coming out on DVD on July 12th this year. There are only eight episodes, and it's reputed to be a five-disc set. According to TVShowsonDVD, it will have the following extras:

# Featurette: "Bringing Monsters To Life At K.N.B. 2FX Group - Part 3"

# Audio Commentaries and Interviews with Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Paul Robert Coyle and Other Cast and Crew Members

# Final Episode - Behind The Scenes

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First of all, I would like to thank you, Mary,for these infos.

Actually, I live in France, and when I ordered online my Hercules DVD box sets, I didn’t even know there were regular and special box (so you can imagine my pain when I knew it).
So, instead of hanging myself with a rope (LOL), I decided to search what I missed (and believe me, it’s not so simple !), so I browsed the net for hours and I finally found what I wanted.

Here is my summary (I add some stuff beside your description :-)

Season 1 :

The Men Behind The Myth (60 mn) which is immediately followed by a 30 mn conversation between Kevin Sorbo and director Bill Norton, on disc 3.

Season 2 :

30 mn bonus interviews with Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst and Rob Tapert, on disc 6.

Plus the “surprise” disc with : 60 mn interview with Rob Tapert, Kevin on “Regis and Kathy”, Blopper reel, SFX reel, costume designs.

Season 3 :

30 mn interviews bonus called “a conversation with Kevin and sam Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Rob tapert, Eric Gruendemann and Rob Gillies”, on disc 8

Season 4 :

30 mn Bonus interviews with cast and crew (sorry, I don’t know more i.e who is interviewed and on which disc it is)

Season 5 :

30 mn Bonus interviews with cast and crew on disc 8

If I missed something, or if I am wrong on something, feel free to correct me :-)

I have a description of season 6 too if someone is interested in, just ask :-)

By the way, I would have something to tell you, Mary, so I will certainely email you later, hope I won’t bother you too much :-)

D-Chan

Thank you very much, D-Chan! I've added the info you provided to my post. :-)

And sure, email away: at the livejournal addy or mcvices at gmail dot com.

Here is some details I found about season 6 (that's for the regular set, not the BestBuy one :-)

Season 6 :

Disc 1
-Be Deviled - Audio Commentary from writer Paul Robert Coyle.
-Love, Amazon Style - Interviews: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, writers Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster.
-Rebel With a Cause
-Photo Gallery
-Weblink
-DVD Credits

Disc 2
-Darkness Visible
-Hercules, Tramps and Thieves - Interviews: Kevin Sorbo, Rob Tapert.
-City of the Dead

Disc 3
-A Wicked Good Time - Interviews: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Rob Tapert.
-Full Circle - Audio Commentary from Kevin Sorbo and Michael Hurst.
-It’s a Wrap (The HTLJ wrap party with Kev Mike and Eric singing "my way" at the end :-)

Disc 4
-Bringing Monsters to Life Part 3
-Behind the Scenes - The Final Episode (final filmed, Herc Tramps and Thieves)
-Alternate Main Title Sequence

Oh, thanks! That's cool, I am glad there's a feature about the wrap party, sounds fun. Pity the 'final episode' bit isn't the last ep with Kevin and Michael together. *g*
Where did you find this? I wonder if the fifth disk mentioned by TVShowsonDVD is only in the BB version. Hmm.

Well, actually, I post on a very nice Kevin and HtLJ board and some of the people there already have their season 6 box set so they share with us its content :)

The 5th disc seems to be the CD-Rom.

But we don't know yet what will be in the best buy extra set !!!

Here is the link to the HtLJ board :

http://www.sf-fandom.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=60&f=20

Cheers

D-Chan

Oh, I see! Thank you for the link. Wow, I had no idea the sets were being shipped out already.

By the way, I emailed you yesterday (at your gmail addy)

D-Chan