| Eerie, Indiana - The Complete Series | 
 enlarge | Director: Bob Balaban
Actors: Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow, Mary-margaret Humes, Francis Guinan, Julie Condra
Studio: Alpha Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (38 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10334
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Original Recording Remastered, Surround Sound, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 912 minutes
Number Of Items: 5
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.5
MPN: 47894
UPC: 755174789496
EAN: 0755174789496
ASIN: B00062WUQY
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1991
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 Another show that shouldn't have been canceled! September 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Marshall Teller is a 13-year-old with a fascination for the strange and unusual. At least, ever since he moved to Eerie, Indiana, which he believes is the center of weirdness for the entire planet. Elvis lives on his paper route, Bigfoot eats out of his garbage, and his sister is a goddess. Well, actually, that bit about his sister is just my opinion. Along with his best-friend and partner, 10-year-old Simon, Marshall keeps track of everything strange that goes on in the seemingly quaint little town, and more often than not finds himself in the heart of the weirdness with nothing but his wits and his sidekick to get him out.
"Eerie Indiana" aired on NBC from '91 to '92. I was in high school at the time, one year older than the show's lead, Omri Katz (probably most recognized as the star of Disney's Halloween film "Hocus Pocus"), and I was an instant fan, though I can't for the life of me recall the time slot the show was in. Sort of a junior version of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and a predecessor to Night Stalker-inspired "The X-Files", Eerie was noteworthy as a highly imaginative show for the whole family that wasn't dumbed-down. The writing was smart and fun, and the acting was excellent! The show boasted some fine guest-stars and great continuity. Omri Katz was a fabulous actor (a shame he didn't do much other stuff), as was everyone on the show. And, yeah, I was and am still totally in love with Julie Condra, who played Marshall's big sister Syndi. The final six episodes of the all too short-lived series involved a retooling that replaced "World O' Stuff" proprietor Archie Hahn with the original Addams Family's John Astin in a cleverly written twist and introduced the new character of Dash X, a weird, gray-haired, self-interested kid with no home or knowledge of his past, played by a longtime fave of mine who gets much more cartoon voice work than live-action work, Jason Marsden.
This DVD set is a fine collection for loyal fans of the show or anyone interested in the weird and unusual. Definitely a "must have", though the picture and sound quality aren't really what one hopes for from DVD by any means, and there are no DVD extras. All 19 episodes are included here, including one that wasn't aired in the original run, which is probably the reason it appears as the final episode in the set, despite being set before the Dash X episodes. Here is my breakdown of the episodes.
Disc One
Forever Ware: Marshall and Simon try to help the oddball twin sons of a woman who is inducting Mrs. Teller into her cult of Forever Ware sellers, but Forever Ware holds a very strange secret.
The Retainer: In his nervousness about a trip to the dentist for a retainer, Marshall relays to us the tale of a kid he and Simon new who had a tragic experience as a result of his own retainer, a bizarre invention of the local dentist with the unexpected ability to translate the voices of dogs.
ATM With a Heart of Gold: Simon makes friends with Mr. Teller's latest invention, an ATM with a personality of its own. But the ATM is so eager to make friends that he begins shelling out the dough to Simon every time he comes by.
Disc Two
The Losers: Marshall has to make a trip to the Bureau of Lost when he decides that recovering his father's lost briefcase may be vital to keeping his parents together.
Scariest Home Videos: It's Halloween, and things are as weird as ever when Marshall and Simon have to deal with a mummy from an old movie that has switched places with Simon's little brother, now trapped in the television.
Just Say No Fun: Eerie is losing its since of humor thanks to a school nurse reprogramming everyone with a fun-removing eye-test and matching glasses.
Heart on a Chain: Marshall's crush on a cute girl with a heart problem leads to trouble when she gets a transplant from their mutual friend.
Disc Three
The Dead Letter: Guest starring Spider-Man's Tobey Maguire, Marshall and Simon encounter a ghost who insists that they deliver a letter for him to his lost love, but the now old woman isn't willing to accept the message.
Who's Who: Marshall and Simon meet a distressed girl at the World O' Stuff whose family is simply unbearable. When Marshall sees the girl has a talent for drawing, he buys her an Eerie-made pencil that unleashes some amazing abilities.
The Lost Hour: Setting his watch back an hour, even though Indiana doesn't do the Daylight Savings thing, throws things off bigtime for Marshall, landing him an hour behind everyone else in an Eerie nearly devoid of life. Nearly.
Marshall's Theory of Believability: Marshall and Simon are psyched to meet their idol, Professor Zircon, a paranormal investigator who is in town with his traveling museum on a mission to experience an alien encounter and make a whole lotta money on his way out.
Disc Four
Tornado Days: During a bizarre town festival, Marshall stays home and has a strange encounter with a tornado rider determined to join up with Eerie's own annual whirlwind. The great Matt Frewer guest stars!
The Hole in the Head Gang: While investigating a haunted house, one of many in Eerie, the guys discover a strange, homeless, gray-haired kid around Marshall's age with markings on his hand and no name or memory of how he got to Eerie or anything before that. In addition, they discover the ghost of the worst bank robber ever, Grungy Bill.
Mr. Chaney: It's time for the town to pick a Harvest King, and most everyone is excited about it, but Marshall and the gray-haired kid know something is weird about the whole thing. The Harvest King has a great day, but at the end he must go out into the woods till he sees the Eerie Wolf, and it does seem strange that there are no ex-Harvest Kings.
No Brain, No Pain: Marshall and Simon try to help a homeless guy with a scrambled brain who is being pursued by a strange women with some high-tech gear. The weird gray-haired kid is helping the highest bidder though.
Disc Five
The Loyal Order of Corn: Marshall and Simon are investigating the local lodge that Marshall's father has joined. They have a reputation for being more than just a group of men having a good time, and the gray-haired kid, who now calls himself Dash X, is already working there, so something sinister must be up!
Zombies in P.J.s: When Mr. Radford is concerned about a visit from the I.R.S., a visitor comes into town to help him increase sales 100 percent, but at what cost? No one seems to get anything from him without signing one of his many contracts.
Reality Takes a Holiday: Marshall is thrown for a loop when his reality suddenly changes on him. After finding a script to everything he and his family just said, he finds himself in a world where Eerie Indiana is just a TV show, he and his family are just a bunch of actors, and Dash X is scheming to have him killed off and take over the show! Yep, this is the real final episode.
The Broken Record: In an episode that didn't air till syndication, possibly because of the more serious subject matter, Marshall introduces a new friend to his favorite heavy metal band, the Pitbull Surfers, but he doesn't anticipate how deeply obsessed with the band the boy will become. A victim of verbal abuse from his father, the music soon becomes an outlet for the boys frustrations, and that's not all. This one was supposed to come between "Tornado Days" and "The Hole in the Head Gang".
"Eerie Indiana" is definitely one of my all-time faves, and it was a hoot watching it all over again in this DVD set. If you are a fan of shows like "Kolchak the Night Stalker", "The X-Files", "Twilight Zone", "So Weird", "Goosebumps", "Are You Afraid of the Dark", "Smallville", "Honey I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show" or anything of that nature, you're sure to love this! I also recommend fans of the film "Hocus Pocus", the greatest Halloween movie ever made, give "Eerie Indiana" a look. With the same lead actor riding around town on his bike trying to save it from weird dangers, it clearly has its similarities. There was actually a spin-off series of "Eerie Indiana" called "Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension" on Fox in 1998 that followed a replay of the original show. Unfortunately, while I remember the advertisements, I never caught that show, which was apparently set in a parallel dimension in which the situations were very much the same but the cast of characters (played by different actors, of course) had different but similarly sounding names. That show's Marshall Teller was named Mitchell Taylor. Instead of Simon Holmes, his sidekick was a Stanley Hope, and Mitchell's big sister was named Carrie instead of Syndi. I hear it didn't have the same spirit of the original. Probably was dumbed-down for kids, though that's just my guess. Knowing that, my biggest disappointment in not seeing that 15 episode series is that another actress I have a big crush on, Lindy Booth, played the big-sis this time around.
Anyway, do yourself a favor and pick up the original show. It's currently at a pretty sweet price for a 5 disc set of such a great, complete series. You also get to enjoy the beauty of Julie Condra all over again, as I certainly have been enjoying over the past week or so. And, if you like it, there are some books out there that continue Marshall and Simon's adventures which came out back when the spin-off series did. I haven't checked them out, but they certainly look intriguing! Wish they'd start up a comic book series now too!
best little series - so funny September 9, 2008
My son and loved this series and was sorry to see it cancelled - he was a teenager and we just thought it was so great!
Updated packaging August 13, 2008
I just got this a couple of days ago and the packaging is very nice. Each individual movie is in it's own DVD case and wrapped and the entire box is wrapped. The picture quality is remeniscent of TV, but it's just so worth getting this great series. Wish they would do the Disney Movie of Blake Holsey High (AKA Black Hole High School).
such and oldie!!... blast from the past! June 26, 2008
totally brings me back to my childhood I LOVED watching that show and never missed an episode!
Eerie indiana: the complete series May 14, 2008
i bought this collection because i never did get to see the entire series
when it first aired. It was kinda neat to see all the campy goofiness that
went on. i found the DvD to be in good quality both in sound and video
and it had the 1 feature i do like "play all episodes" nice feature if you don't want to keep clicking the "back to the main title button".
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