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DVD releases
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Show” features Mordecai and Rigby, two groundskeepers
at a park whose job is so deadly dull that they will do any-
thing they can to avoid it. Their attempts to escape bore-
dom take them to fantastic extremes. This doesn’t go over
well with their boss Benson (an anthropomorphic gum ball
machine), but their efforts often result in insane escapades
that delight their co-workers and friends. In this collection,
Mordecai’s crush, Margaret, shares the spotlight. From her
introduction in “Caffeinated Concert Tickets” to “Steak
Me Amadeus,” the bittersweet finale of Season Four, Mor-
decai and Margaret’s relationship is explored in nearly
three hours of episodes included on the DVD release.
“Hindenburg: The Last Flight” (Anchor Bay) is a mini-
series that purports to explain the real cause of the zep-
pelin Hindenburg’s going up in flames in 1937, when the
world was on the verge of war and the Hindenburg was the
pride of Nazi Germany. This fictional account uses one of
the most devastating accidents in aviation history to reveal
an insider look into the story before the airship’s fatal des-
tiny. Merten Kroeger (Maximilian Simonichek), is the
young engineer who led the design of the legendary zep-
pelin. A modest man of meager means, he falls in love with
a wealthy socialite (Lauren Lee Smith) who is beyond his
reach. She is the daughter of Edward van Zandt (Stacy
Keach), a wealthy American oil industrialist with power
and privilege who will stop at nothing to gain riches, even
if it means putting the airship, with its passengers and
crew, in danger.
Fascination with the Hindenburg disaster has led to a
number of theories of why and how it suddenly exploded
while landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Scientists have
attributed the cause to static electricity igniting the zep-
pelin’s massive hydrogen supply, but this German-made
mini-series, and the 1975 feature film “The Hindenburg,”
both prefer to create fictional accounts. There are no bonus
features on the DVD release.
“Gentle Ben: Season Two” (Paramount) contains 28
episodes from the final season of this series. The show
stars a young Clint Howard as Mark Wedloe and chron-
icles his adventures with a lovable 650-pound American
black bear named Ben (played by Bruno the Bear). Musi-
cian and voice actor Candy Candido provides the voice of
Ben; Dennis Weaver plays Mark’s father, Wildlife Officer
Tom Wedloe; and Beth Bricknell has the role of the mother,
Ellen. Rance Howard, Clint’s real-life father and the writer
of several episodes for the show, plays the Wedloes’ neigh-
bor and friend. Guest stars include Ron Howard, NFL foot-
ball legend Bart Starr, and Albert Salmi. The series was
produced by Ivan Tors, creator of the Lloyd Bridges series,
“Sea Hunt.” The four-disc DVD set contains no extras.