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Monkey! - The Complete Series DVD [13 Discs/2340 Mintues] $51 Delivered @ Amazon UK

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Monkey! - The Complete Series DVD [13 Discs/2340 Mintues] $51 Delivered @ Amazon UK
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[Deactivated] on 10/06/2013 - 19:16 amazon.co.uk (1393 clicks)

Monkey! - The Complete Series DVD box set Region 2 [13 Discs/2340 Mintues] $51 Delivered @ Amazon UK

The cheapest price at time of posting.

Cheaper than JB ($99 ), Zavvi (£57.95)…

Product Description

Collected edition of series one and two of the Japanese television adaptation of the ancient Chinese legend, featuring the off-the-wall antics of Monkey (Masaaki Sakai) and his friends Pigsy and Sandy as they accompany the venerable monk Tripitaka (Masako Natsume) on her pilgrimage to find the ancient Buddhist scrolls that will establish peace throughout the world. Includes all the original dubbed episodes, and the 13 previously unseen subtitled episodes.

The 26 episodes from series one are:
'Monkey Goes Wild About Heaven
'Monkey Turns Nursemaid
'The Great Journey Begins
'Monkey Swallows the Universe
'The Power of Youth
'Even Monsters Can Be People
The Beginning of Wisdom
Pigsy Woos a Widow
What Monkey Calls the Dog-Woman
Pigsy's in the Well'
The Difference Between Night and Day
Pearls Before Swine
The Minx and the Slug
Catfish, Saint and the Shape-Changer
Monkey Meets the Demon Digger
The Most Monstrous Monster
Truth and the Grey Gloves Devil
Land for the Locusts
The Vampire Master
Outrageous Coincidences
Pigsy, King and God
Village of the Undead
Two Little Blessings
The Fires of Jealousy
The Country of Nightmares' and 'The End of the Way

The 26 episodes from series two are:
Pigsy's Ten Thousand Ladies
The Dogs of Death
You Win Some, You Lose Some
Pigsy Learns a Lesson
The Land With Two Suns
The House of the Evil Spirit
Am I Dreaming?
The Tormented Emperor
Between Heaven and Hell
The Foolish Philosopher
Who Am I?
What is Wisdom
The Fountain of Youth
Better the Demon You Know
A Shadow So Huge
Keep on Dancing
Give and Take
Such a Nice Monster
The Fake Pilgrims'
Pretty as a Picture
Mothers
The Tenacious Tomboy
Stoned
Howling at the Moon
Monkey's Yearning' and 'At the Top of the Mountain'.

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  • King Tightarse on 10/06/2013 - 19:21
    +10

    The spirit of monkey is……
    irrepressible!

    • justtoreply on 11/06/2013 - 11:17
      +2

      That's what I thought.

      Then I bought this box set about 5 years ago. Watching it again tainted such a sweet memory of mine :(

      • AusSam on 05/07/2013 - 13:54

        justtoreply: My exact thoughts as well….

        Same goes for many other shows from my childhood - Goodies, A-TEAM, Dukes of Hazzard.. the list is endless..

        So I stopped watching them..

        • bajillionaire on 08/07/2013 - 13:59

          I agree regarding lots of childhood TV shows, but I have to disagree when it comes to "Monkey!". Personally I still love watching the originally dubbed episodes to this day!

  • giggles on 10/06/2013 - 19:36
    +2

    Wonder Twin Powers, activa….oh sorry wrong show.

  • Tal_Shiar on 10/06/2013 - 19:37
    +6

    Man, so many awesome memories watching this..

    • UFO on 11/06/2013 - 09:07
      +1

      it was kung fu fighting and magical powers all rolled into one neat package for kids to watch after school…. whats not to like! unreal memories :).

  • muncan on 10/06/2013 - 19:38
    +2

    http://youtu.be/K25QkogsjH0

    • ryang on 10/06/2013 - 19:48

      The good ol' days when TV shows went for more than 10 episodes a season…

      • muncan on 10/06/2013 - 19:52

        Ha - edited my comment.
        Here's what today's kids get subjected to: http://youtu.be/xCEuNqofDM4

        • teaBagger on 10/06/2013 - 20:58
          +2

          wtf - no wonder the kids are fkt up nowadays

        • tsunamisurfer on 10/06/2013 - 22:17
          +1

          You just can't convey how lecherous Pigsy is via a cartoon.

        • youknow on 11/06/2013 - 08:32
          +1

          "She's so delicious I could drink her bathwater!"

  • morpheu on 10/06/2013 - 19:41

    loved watching these years ago on ABC, what kid didn't like kung-fu?

    • jelko on 10/06/2013 - 19:51
      +3

      A certain Sydney Swans player?

  • hollykryten on 10/06/2013 - 19:41
    +5

    Oh yeah i was watching this show back in the 1980's. I could of sworn it was called Monkey Magic back in those days.

    • ryang on 10/06/2013 - 19:47
      +1

      Yeh, I remember it as Monkey Magic as well - but it's quite possible that because the theme song was 'Monkey Magic' I might be remembering that instead!

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)

      • Scrooge McDuck on 10/06/2013 - 20:07
        +1

        I followed this series since it first aired during "Recovery" on ABC.

        I'm almost certain that it was never officially called "Monkey Magic" and always called "Monkey".

        • mordie71 on 10/06/2013 - 20:09

          Remember it in the '80's after school staple :)

        • hollykryten on 10/06/2013 - 20:11
          +4

          I guess it was sort of unofficially known to the kids back in those days as Monkey Magic. This was one of the shows we watched after school besides the classic Doctor Who.

        • SteveBuscemi on 10/06/2013 - 20:13
          +3

          Back in the 80s and early 90s it was on The Afternoon Show with James Valentine and then Michael Tunn … predates Recovery by quite some time.

          And yes, it was always just 'Monkey' officially.

        • UFO on 11/06/2013 - 08:56

          I always referred to it as Monkey Magic back in primary school as well.

          Google it appears, also knows it better as "Monkey Magic" when searching :).

  • hollykryten on 10/06/2013 - 19:48
    +3

    Here is the intro. lol. It's a japanese tv show from the 80's. Have a bit of a laugh at the episode intro video.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2huJqFsFDE

  • hollykryten on 10/06/2013 - 20:20

    Any how this box set is cheap. The boxed version sold at JB HI-FI is $99.99 but strangely it's on 16 DVD's as opposed to the 13 DVD's from the one off Amazon UK. I guess is because the one from JB is a collector's edition.

    http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvd-genres/tv/monkey-the-…

    • meroveus on 10/06/2013 - 23:00

      According to that link, the collectors edition has only 720 mins of viewing as opposed to 2340 for the boexed set on amazon UK.

      • hollykryten on 11/06/2013 - 10:21

        That can't be right as the Collector's Edition has 3 extra DVD's so they can't be filled up with nothingness.

        Yes that 720 hours noted on on the JB website is wrong. It's actually 2160 minutes according to mightyape. It also includes all 52 episodes. But then again this Collector's Edition costs twice as much as this bog standard box set from Amazon UK. But then again the Collector's Edition box set from JB HI-FI is region 4 DVD so guaranteed to play on any region 4 DVD player.

        http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/DVD/Monkey-Collectors-Ed…

  • StewBalls on 10/06/2013 - 20:24
    +2

    This has got to go down in history as one of the most enjoyable retellings of the venerable Journey to the West.

    I was quite sad some years ago to hear that Tripitaka (Masako Natsume) passed away due to leukemia in the mid 80's at the tender young age of 27. Anybody fortunate to have seen her outside of the monk garb would have been very surprised to see that not only was she very feminine, but also quite beautiful.

    • [Deactivated] on 10/06/2013 - 20:27
      +13

      She was indeed beautiful. She was meant to be a man in the show. I was a very confused teenager.

  • daddydirtsurfer on 10/06/2013 - 20:30

    Does it have English Subtitle? It's a must for me as I am hearing impaired.

    • Agatha on 10/06/2013 - 21:07
      +1

      Amazon review…

      By Brian Jewell (London) - See all my reviews
      Amazon Verified Purchase(What is this?)
      This review is from: Monkey! - The Complete Series [DVD] (DVD)
      Many happy years of television after school are being relived with this massive boxed set. Unfortunately anyone with a hearing impairment will not be able to enjoy the first three episodes on each DVD as there are no subtitles available.

  • Adz81 on 10/06/2013 - 20:30

    Thanks OP, ordered through your link… I'm gonna be the coolest person in the world once this gets delivered :D

  • [Deactivated] on 10/06/2013 - 20:33

    All the episode titles would make great porn film names lol

    • giggles on 10/06/2013 - 20:53

      as your name would make a great porno actors nick.

      …to the wrist, Risto.

  • giggles on 10/06/2013 - 20:44
    +4

    Does anyone else remember this childish lyric when the series first ran, a loooong time ago:…?

    Monkey is spunky
    and Pigsy is fat,
    Sandy's a pansy
    and Master is Kojak!

    ..why doesn't my brain store more useful information. :)

    • spiritek on 10/06/2013 - 21:06

      I remembered them as that also until I got the album a few years ago… I don't know what I heard back then but it doesn't even sound anything like that… maybe there was something in the water back then (or a lack of internet nerds to correct us ;) )

      • ugoagogo on 10/06/2013 - 21:32

        Yeh I got the lp soundtrack as well …… But that was a long time ago. Where did the years go.

  • lukeloop on 10/06/2013 - 21:11

    You lazy swine

  • bhm133 on 10/06/2013 - 21:39

    Awesome deal. I already have the 13 dvds and will now drag them out for the memories.

    The series i have doesn't end though. Apparently they couldnt translate the whole series. I remember watching monkey in Japan about 10 years ago. It was an episode I had never seen!

    Would be great to get them all subbed into English.

    • Onysius on 10/06/2013 - 22:22

      I remember hearing about 10 years ago that a group was eventually able to get the original voice actors back to dub over the remaining episodes. How true this is though, I cannot say.

      • bhm133 on 10/06/2013 - 22:27

        Wikipedia tells me this is true!!
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)

      • bajillionaire on 10/06/2013 - 22:42

        It's true and I have the earlier release of these DVDs from about 8 years ago or so. Have to say I'm disappointed with the voice acting on the remaining episodes but fair play to original voice actors who were quite old at the time. I believe the guy who played Pigsy passed away not long after dubbing his part for these episodes.

  • altomic on 10/06/2013 - 22:58

    if only there was someway to type monkey calling for his cloud….

    • StewBalls on 11/06/2013 - 07:12

      Yup, it almost defies the laws of phonology. ;)

  • eve on 10/06/2013 - 23:39

    Is the region two an issue?

    • hollykryten on 11/06/2013 - 10:20
      +1

      It is if your player can't play region 2 DVD.

      • eve on 13/06/2013 - 22:40

        How do you know if your dvd player can play region 2?

        • muncan on 13/06/2013 - 23:37

          put a region 2 DVD in your player. if it plays, it can play region 2.

        • eve on 14/06/2013 - 03:08

          I tried that with arrested development (region 1 i think)… Didnt work… Costly experiment…

        • ryang on 14/06/2013 - 08:00

          Google for region-free coding on whatever model DVD player you have.. Very few players are completely restricted nowadays.

          And if by chance yours doesn't support region-free, you can pickup DVD players from super cheap stores all the time - and they almost always unlock.

        • [Deactivated] on 14/06/2013 - 09:30

          @eevee888

          GVA multi zone DVD player from TGG is a good buy if you have to get one.

          http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/106490

  • Gengar on 11/06/2013 - 00:40

    Great find! This is one of my favourite shows.
    Here's a memorable moment:

    http://youtu.be/1NK5KW7KFxc

  • jagboy on 11/06/2013 - 07:22

    Brilliant! So many memories to relive.

  • changa on 11/06/2013 - 10:04

    Excellent. Just purchased!

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