<em>Home Video Report:</em> Fun and Games, and Some Terror
Headlining our home video list this week is the much publicized extension of Ken Burns' 1994 Emmy-winning documentary on baseball. It's a two-disk addition titled "The Tenth Inning," also out on Blu-ray.
We also have a new version of The Exorcist from 1973 (above) -- William Friedkin's Academy Award-winning masterpiece that terrified many. The Blu-ray version includes both an "extended director's cut" along with a remastered theatre version.
Also, there's The Karate Kid, with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, in a couple of Blu-ray combinations but nothing involving that 1994 flop, The Next Karate Kid.
And, from 1979, Mel Gibson in Mad Max. The Blu-ray edition adds a commentary by the filmmakers.
"The Complete Mary Tyler Moore Show" is out from 1976 and 1977 -- 24 episodes on three disks. And, from 1974, the voices of Mickey Rooney and Shirley Booth in the claymation made-for-TV novelty, "The Year Without a Santa Claus."
Next week, what should be a favorite: "The Busby Berkeley Collection" -- ten disks with production numbers from nine of the master's magical musicals from the '30s.
Reported by Bob Nelson, KYW Newsradio.