I've been a huge fan of "The Secret Saturdays" ever since I saw it premiere last year on October 3rd, 2008! The basic plot of the show is that, the Secret Saturdays (Zak, Doc, and Drew, along with their cryptid pets, Fiskerton (a Fiskerton Phantom, a seven foot tall gorilla-cat), Komodo (a genetically modified Komodo Dragon that can turn invisible and that has a huge appetite), and Zon (a Pterosaur-like living dinosaur that they rescue in the second half of the pilot episode, that is the only female cryptid pet of theirs, and carries Zak through the air in some later episodes), are Secret Scientists that help protect cryptids (the mythological animals studied in cryptozoology that are, so far, undiscovered in science, such as Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, etc.) from being revealed to the public/media and from being harmed by villains, such as, V.V. Argost, my favorite character/villain in the series, his assistant/servant, Munya (who can transform into a half-human, half-giant spider monster), and many other villains. The main storyline is that, the Secret Saturdays, along with a bunch of other Secret Scientists, find an artifact called the Kur Stone, eleven years before the events of the pilot episode, which is supposed to release Kur, the most powerful cryptid, which will give the person that follows the clues on the Kur Stone and releases Kur, a huge, invincible, insanely powerful cryptid army, which would allow the person to become insanely powerful and rule the world, so in pretty much every episode, the Secret Saturdays have to fight against V.V. Argost and Munya, because Argost wants to unleash Kur and rule the world. Also, each Secret Saturday character has a special ability: Doc is able to use a Battle Glove to fight against enemies with, Drew is able to use a Fire Sword to fight against enemies with, Zak has a gift with cryptids, which lets him bond with and control the cryptids, so he can sometimes stop cryptids from attacking his family, etc., Fiskerton has superstrength and can climb very well, and he has another special ability that is revealed in a much later episode, Komodo can turn invisible and can eat a lot of things, and Zon can fly.
The five episodes on this DVD are:
1. The Kur Stone: Part One (first half of pilot episode)
2. The Kur Stone: Part Two (second half of pilot episode)
3. The Vengeance of Hibagon
4. The Ice Caverns of Ellef Ringnes
5. Guess Who's Going to be Dinner?
There are also some special features, such as animatics/drawings of some of the episodes, some deleted scenes from those episodes, and a cryptid catalog (pictures of and information about some of the cryptids encountered in the first five episodes of the show.) There's supposed to be a second DVD of this show The Secret Saturdays, Vol. 2 coming out on October 27th of this year, so hopefully, "Cartoon Network" will release even more DVDs of this show and maybe a few boxsets of it, too, in the near future. I love and own this DVD and I can't wait to get the next one and anymore of them released in the future!
