The Venture Bros.: Season 1
Turner Home Entertainment (2003)
Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy
In Collection
#522
0*
Seen ItYes
053939752625
IMDB   8.4
291 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
James Urbaniak Dr. Venture 
Patrick Warburton Brock Samson 
Michael Sinterniklaas Dean Venture 
Christopher McCulloch Hank Venture 
Doc Hammer Dr. Girlfriend 
Soul Bot
Paul Boocock Dr. Jonas Venture
Steven Rattazzi Dr. Orpheus 
Lisa Hammer Triana Orpheus 
Venture Bros
Director
Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick
Writer Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick

Hank and Dean Venture, with their father Doctor Venture and faithful bodyguard Brock Samson, go on wild adventures facing megalomaniacs, zombies, and suspicious ninjas, all for the glory of adventure. Or something like that. Hank and Dean Venture are relatively identical twins, only born six minutes apart, who live for the thrill of adventure. Their dated vocabulary and high-pitched voices are intentionally annoying, especially to their father, Doctor Venture, a boy genius turned mediocre scientist who hates everything about his life. In the midst of this conflict is Brock Samson, a man of swift neck-breaking action. Preferring to resort to his brawn instead of his brain, Brock is simple but effective, and does a better job at taking care of the kids than Doctor Venture, as long as they leave his treasured Dodge Charger alone. The Venture Brothers is a take off of Johnny Quest and the Hardy Boys.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    8/7/2004  1.  Dia de Los Dangerous!
When the Venture Family visits Tijuana for a lecture Dr. Venture is giving at the (community) University of Mexico, the dastardly Monarch weaves a cocoon of villainy that leaves the Venture brothers trapped in his clutches, Dr. Venture kidney-less and Brock...dead? If only Dr. Venture would return the Monarch's calls...
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick 
Guest starring:  Miguel Martinez-Joffre, Nina Hellman,  Doc HammerMichael SinterniklaasChristopher McCulloch, Richard Liebmann-Smith
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    8/14/2004  2.  Careers in Science
The Venture family must travel to space to repair an orbiting space station that Dr. Venture's father built in the 1970s, but a mysterious space phantom could be haunting the station! Things get even more intense as Brock's presence adds heat to an already tense romantic relationship between the station's two officers.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Ben Edlund  / Doc Hammer 
Guest starring:  Paul Boocock,  Christopher McCulloch, Terrance Fleming, Nina Hellman
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    8/21/2004  3.  Home Insecurity
To protect the Venture compound while Brock is on his yearly mountain survival sabbatical, Dr. Venture builds a panic room and a robotic bodyguard -which are soon put to the test when both the Monarch's and Baron Underbheit's henchmen choose the same night to launch attacks. While the supervillains bicker over who has dibs on Dr. Venture, Brock is busy befriending the strangest couple in the Cascadian mountains. Oh yeah, and H.E.L.P.eR. runs away in a fit of jealousy.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick 
Guest starring:  Mia Barron,  James UrbaniakChristopher McCullochDoc Hammer, T. Ryder Smith
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    8/28/2004  4.  The Incredible Mr. Brisby
Dr. Venture is offered a job by theme park owner and cartoon magnate Roy Brisby, who won't take no for an answer in his quest for worldwide entertainment dominance. Meanwhile, the boys are given the Patty Hearst treatment by the Orange County Liberation Front, a group of militant suburbanites who want to take down Brisby's empire Brock enlists the aid of former lover and fellow superspy Molotov Cocktease to 'mount' a rescue, but she may have her own agenda.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick 
Guest starring:  Mia Barron,  Christopher McCullochDoc Hammer, Paul Boocock, Charles Parnell
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/4/2004  5.  Eeney, Meeney, Miney...Magic!
Dr. Venture's new experiment has the entire family interested -not to mention trapped inside! The Ventures' strange new neighbor, master of mysticism Dr. Orpheus, may be the only one who can help them escape. Meanwhile Dean falls for Dr. Orpheus's teen aged daughter and Brock falls for his old flame: Molotov Cocktease.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Doc Hammer 
Guest starring:  Mia Barron, Lisa Hammer, Rachel Simon,  Doc Hammer, Tom Vollette
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/11/2004  6.  Ghosts of the Sargasso
On a scientific expedition in the Bermuda Triangle, Doc's experimental equipment awakens and possibly enrages the submerged ghost of Major Tom, a test pilot who crashed in an experimental aircraft designed by Doc's father. While there, the Ventures' hydrofoil is hijacked by a group of fake ghost pirates who've been stranded in the sargassum since Jesus Jones was popular.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  / Doc Hammer 
Guest starring:  James UrbaniakChristopher McCulloch, Paul Boocock,  Doc Hammer, Lisa Hammer
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/18/2004  7.  Ice Station - Impossible!
Dr. Venture, Pete White and Master Billy Quizboy are invited to take part in a top secret government think tank run by supergenius Professor Impossible (coincidentally their former college professor), but Doc's life is in jeopardy once he learns the dark secrets of Impossible's sequestered family. Meanwhile, Hank has become a walking time bomb thanks to a stolen Cold War serum, and Brock and Dean must race the clock to save him.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick 
Guest starring:  Doc Hammer, Mia Barron,  Christopher McCulloch, Stephen Colbert
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/25/2004  8.  Mid-Life Chrysalis
The Monarch sends Dr. Girlfriend undercover to seduce Dr. Venture in order to inject him with a body-altering serum. Meanwhile, Brock is deeply depressed to he learn his secret agent license to kill has expired, but the boys are hell-bent on helping him cram for his government exam.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  / Doc Hammer 
Guest starring:  Christopher McCullochDoc HammerJames Urbaniak, Paul Boocock
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/2/2004  9.  Are You There, God? It's me, Dean.
The Monarch finally has the Venture family right where he wants them- hanging upside down above the Amazon river! But his victory is postponed when Dean suffers a strange but fairly common injury- acute testicular tortion. According to the bylaws of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, a temporary truce must be called in order to get Dean medical attention, so Brock and Hank are held as collateral. Doc calls on his friends, Master Billy Quizboy and Mr. White, to perform orchiopexy on Dean.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Doc Hammer 
Guest starring:  Christopher McCullochDoc Hammer, Lisa Hammer,  James Urbaniak
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/9/2004  10.  Tag Sale - You're It!
Always short on cash, Dr. Venture decides to unload some of his father's old scientific equipment in a huge yard sale that attracts fellow scientists and super-villains alike. Everyone is supposed to be on their best behavior, but The Monarch can't resist the temptation to wreak havoc once he finds himself inside the 'belly of the beast'...nor can he find a bathroom.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Doc Hammer 
Guest starring:  T. Ryder Smith,  James Urbaniak, Lisa Hammer, Charles Parnell,  Michael SinterniklaasChristopher McCullochDoc Hammer
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/16/2004  11.  Past Tense
When Brock and Dr. Venture are kidnapped from the funeral of a college friend, the boys enlist the aid of the original Team Venture: a group of superscience adventurers who worked for their grandfather in the sixties. Meanwhile, the mysterious kidnapper reveals the secret of his twenty year old grudge through a series of flashbacks to when he, Brock, Doc, Baron Underbheit and Mr. White were all in college together.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick 
Guest starring:  Steve Park, Steffen Vala,  Christopher McCulloch, Paul Boocock, T. Ryder Smith, Lisa Hammer, Richard Liebmann-Smith
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/23/2004  12.  The Trial of the Monarch
The Monarch is on trial for the one crime he may not have committed, under mysterious circumstances stemming from his bitter breakup with Dr. Girlfriend. The boys and Dr. Orpheus are forced to testify, but only Brock is aware that something far more sinister is afoot.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Doc Hammer 
Guest starring:  Christopher McCullochDoc Hammer, James Urbaniac, Nina Hellman
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/30/2004  13.  Return to Spider-Skull Island
Dr. Venture finally learns the secret of his recurring womb nightmares when a stomach tumor turns out to be something far more sinister. In a fit of jealousy over their mistaken belief their father is pregnant, the boys run away from home. But their newfound freedom is short lived once they run afoul of the law and land themselves in a 'Scared Straight'-style outreach program headed by none other than the recently incarcerated Monarch.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  / Doc Hammer 
Guest starring:  James UrbaniakMichael SinterniklaasChristopher McCulloch, Stephen Ratazzi,  Doc Hammer, Paul Boocock, Lisa Hammer
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/19/2004  14.  A Very Venture Christmas
Dr. Venture is a bit behind on his shopping, but he's excited about hosting his annual Christmas Eve shindig. Brock turns out to have some sentimental Yuletide traditions. Dean and Hank, who still believe in Santa Claus, accidentally unlock a magical demon who threatens to ruin Dr. Venture's annual Christmas party and murder all his guests. Dr. Billy Quizboy and Mr. White hit on Triana, Dr. Orpheus' underage daughter. Meanwhile, The Monarch plans the ultimate gift for Dr. Girlfriend--the destruction of the entire Venture Compound.
Director:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick  Writer:  Christopher McCulloch as Jackson Publick 
Edition Details
Series The Venture Bros.
Distributor Warner Brothers
Release Date 5/30/2006
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Stereo [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 2