Attention fans of The Simpsons!

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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010614/en/video-simpsons_1.html

Thursday June 14 2:09 AM ET

Fox sets ``Simpsons'' for DVD boxed set

By Scott Hettrick

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - ``The Simpsons (news - Y! TV)'' are coming to DVD.

On Sept. 25, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment will release an elaborate boxed set of the first season of the 10-year-old
animated hit that is TV's longest-running current comedy series.

A follow-up set of the second season may be released in time for the holidays, with two more sets being released each year
thereafter, according to Peter Staddon, Fox Home Entertainment senior vice president of marketing.

With only 13 episodes in the first season, the first three-disc set will be fleshed out with loads of extra material, including the
original shorts that debuted on ``The Tracey Ullman Show'' and a never-before-seen lost episode.

Unlike the first three seasons of ``The X-Files (news - Y! TV)'' that each take up seven discs and are priced at $149 (seasons
four and five are in the works), ``The Simpsons Season 1'' will be priced at $39.98.

But the price and number of discs will go up for subsequent seasons that each had 26 or more episodes.

With sales expectations high, Fox will launch a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign for the series.

Creatively, producers are experimenting with innovative features to include in future boxed sets. Staddon said that one idea is to
produce retrospective programs featuring highlights of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie or other selected characters from the
show.

What viewers will not see is the actors recording the voices of the characters.

``That would burst the bubble,'' Staddon said. ``We don't want people to think of anything but Bart and Homer when they see
those characters.''

There will also be no interactive gaming features, so as not to take away from the popular video games featuring ``The
Simpsons.''

But the first boxed set will include seven foreign-language clips, showing, for instance, Homer and Bart as dubbed in Japanese.

Also included will be Albert Brooks outtakes, a BBC special called ``America's First Family'' and an ABC News Special
Report on the Bart Simpson T-shirt controversy.

Other extras include original scripts, commentary for each episode, early sketches, magazine covers and stills.

[billyjoelfan]

IT'S ABOUT TIME!

i only hope that thay don't censore the dvd's

i know when thay are on tv thay get cut for eather time or content and over dubbed (if you have the close caption on most of the time the caption says the word (i.e. *****) but you here scamp)

i have four videos of the simpsons and thay are GREAT

and i got over a 1,000 dub off the tv

now i got to get the dvd!

thank you for the great news

billy joel TO RELEASE A NEW CLASSICAL ALBUM THIS FALL! fan

[Larry T]

Yep, it's about time. I know people everywhere of all ages are familiar with the Simpsons in one form or another. I, myself, have been waiting for a good comprehensive collection in a easily-stored format for quite some time (50 or so videotapes of the original airings can get a little hard to sort through after awhile).

My only hope is that maybe the Tracey Ullman shorts will be COMPLETE, not like the ones that made it to the VHS collections (which were missing segments in several of them.... "Making Faces" was reduced to three segments from four, "At The Zoo" was reduced to three segments from four, etc.).

What else would be neat is that they include all of the related Simpsons advertisements, some of them are pretty funny as well (Butterfinger commercials, Burger King Commercials, Ford Winstar, The Oprah Winfrey interview, the Larry King interview, etc.)

I know what's going to be at the top of my Christmas list this year!! :D

[billyjoelfan]

What else would be neat is that they include all of the related Simpsons advertisements, some of them are pretty funny as well (Butterfinger commercials, Burger King Commercials, Ford Winstar, The Oprah Winfrey interview, the Larry King interview, etc.)

well the only prob with that is copyrights

20th centry owens the shorts from the tracy alman show

but being able to get interviews promos that is the hard part

reason

tv shows are rented by the tv station the prod co's (i.e. oprah is owend by harpo inc)

so say you see rabbit stew on a talk show (ie springer) then speingers distubuteing co owns the copy rights for that clip

now you can by it but it will coast you at least 100

hope that helps some

billy joel [insert message here] fan

[Pietro]

Sounds great, I really want to see the very first Ullman short, "Good Night." I hope that's on there as well as all the others. I really want to see "Dinner Time" as well.

-Pietro

[Pietro]

Contents of the Simpsons DVDs are announced!

DISC #1
“Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” (7G08 - December 17, 1989);
“Bart the Genius” (7G02 - January 14, 1990 - official series premiere);
“Homer's Odyssey” (7G03 - January 21, 1990);
“There's No Disgrace Like Home” (7G04 - January 28, 1990);
“Bart the General” (7G05 - February 4, 1990);
“Moaning Lisa” (7G06 - February 11, 1990);
Plus, Original scripts with notes by Matt Groening for “Bart the Genius,” “Bart the General”, and “Moaning Lisa.”

DISC #2
“Call of the Simpsons” (7G09 - February 18, 1990);
“The Telltale Head” (7G07 - February 25, 1990);
“Life on the Fast Lane” (7G11 - March 18, 1990);
“Homer's Night Out” (7G10 - March 25, 1990);
“The Crepes of Wrath” (7G13 - April 15, 1990);
“Krusty Gets Busted” (7G12 - April 29, 1990);

DISC #3
“Some Enchanted Evening” (7G01 - May 13, 1990);
“Good Night” (the first-ever Simpsons short to air on “The Tracey Ullman Show”);
Plus, Original script with notes by Matt Groening for “Some Enchanted Evening,” outtakes from the unaired version of “Some Enchanted Evening,” an excerpt of the animatic version of “Bart the General” (1m:49s) with commentary from Matt Groening and former director David Silverman, Albert Brooks Outtakes from “Life on the Fast Lane” (3m:43s), the BBC “America's First Family” television special (4m:48s), an ABC News Special Report on the Bart Simpson T-Shirt controversy (1m:45s), five foreign-language clips, a stills gallery of early Simpsons sketches, and magazine covers.

Click Here for Details (http://www.snpp.com/news.html#dvd)

-Pietro

[hippety hopper]

I can't wait for this and I've heard the price should be cheap so I wont have to sell 1 of my arms and 1 of my legs to pay for it.

There could have been more "Tracy Ullman" shorts but they will probably on their own DVD.