This week’s home entertainment offerings include a lost Doctor Who serial featuring the Second Doctor, Ben Stiller’s Zoolander 2, the latest season of the best police procedural on American TV, a rare 1970s Hanna Barbera animated drama, the DVD debut of the late 1970s newspaper drama Lou Grant, plus a second Tokyo Ghoul series heading a strong slate of anime releases.

Theatrical Movies

Those who enjoy comedies about really dumb people shouldn’t be afraid to check out Ben Stiller’s Zoolander No.2: The Magnum Edition (Paramount, “Unrated, the theatrical version was “PG-13,” 101 min., $29.99, BD $39.99), the sequel to the 2001 comedy about clueless male supermodels played by Stiller and Owen Wilson.  Some will find Zoolander 2, which received only a 24% positive rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, incredibly tedious, but those who like the “Dumb and Dumber” style of humor will find some real laughs here.

For those who enjoy old-fashioned true-life adventure films there is The Finest Hours (Disney, “PG-13,” 117 min., $29.99, $39.99), which is based on an actual Coast Guard rescue that took place off Cape Cod in 1952 in which the intrepid guardsmen rescued the crew of a tanker that split in half.  Chris Pine stars in this rip-roaring action tale that deserved a better fate than it received in theaters where it earned just $27.6 million.

The romantic comedy How To Be Single (Warner Bros., “R,” 120 min., $28.98, BD $29.98) follows five single people sleeping around in the city that never sleeps.  While at times How To Be Single subverts the romcom genre by suggesting that you don’t need to be married to be happy, it still doesn’t quite manage to break free from the conventions of the genre.

Many of the increasing number of religiously themed pictures coming from Hollywood are contemporary stories, but Risen (Sony, “PG-13,” 107 min., $30.99, BD $34.99) stars Joseph Fiennes as a Roman military tribune who investigates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Examining the New Testament story from the point of view of an unbeliever in a format that resembles a period police procedural actually works pretty well, and Risen also manages the difficult task of maintaining a lighter tone, something that sets it apart from those plodding super serious Biblical epics of the 1950s.

TV on DVD

This week’s best contemporary TV on DVD offering is Major Crimes: The Complete 4th Season (Warner Bros., 880 min., $44.98).  Major Crimes, which airs on TNT and features much of the cast of The Closer, is simply the best all-around police procedural being produced in America today, infinitely superior to such tired network efforts as Blue Bloods.  Strong writing that mixes humor, hard-hitting social commentary, and intricate realistic crime narratives makes Major Crimes an altogether superior series, and one of the best shows on basic cable.  The five-disc set includes deleted scenes as well as a gag reel.

Another basic cable series is the gritty Appalachian drama Outsiders: Season 1 (Sony, 583 min., $45.99), which airs on WGN.  The only other contemporary non-animated show out on Tuesday is the BBC offering, Call the Midwife: Season 5 (BBC, 565 min., $39.98, BD $44.98).

The lone modern animated series out this week is a good one, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—Season 4, Vol. 1 Beyond the Known Universe (Nickelodeon, 300 min., $19.99), which contains the first twelve TMNT episodes from the most recent season that aired on the Nickelodeon network.

For those who like animated rarities there is Devlin: The Complete Series (Warner Bros., 400 min., $24.98), which collects all 16 episodes of the 1974 Hanna Barbera series that followed the adventures of a motorcycle daredevil (Evel Knievel was at the height of his fame then) and his family who worked in a traveling circus.  Devlin was one of Hanna Barbera’s rare dramatic animated series.

There are some other very interesting vintage TV offerings including Lou Grant: Season 1 (Shout Factory, 1110 min., $39.97).  Featuring Ed Asner as the irascible TV newsroom editor from the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant was a paean to investigative journalism (Watergate was very fresh in the public mind when the series debuted in 1977), and this series, which has never been released on disc before, earned 13 Emmy Awards over its five-year run.

For Doctor Who fans the top vintage offering is probably going to be Doctor Who—Story #032: The Underwater Menace (BBC, 97 min., $24.98), which was originally broadcast in four-weekly parts in 1967 and features Patrick Troughton.  The Underwater Menace is one of the “lost” Doctor Who sagas, and this version includes the two episodes of serial that have been found along with reconstructions of the two missing episodes.  Serious Whovians will want to see Troughton’s strong performance, and they might just get a chuckle from the costumes worn by the show’s Fish People.

Also of interest are the remarkably fresh sitcom The Wonder Years: Season 5 (Time Life, 600 min., $29.95), which contains all 24 episodes from the penultimate season of the late 1980s show that looked back nostalgically at growing up in the 1960s, and the reissued Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume 2 (Shout Factory, 360 min., $44.99), in which the MST3K crowd make merciless fun of bad movies like Cave Dwellers and Pod People along with, in this long-out-of-print Volume 2, short films like “Body Care & Grooming,” “Why Study Industrial Arts?,” and “Chicken of Tomorrow”.

 Anime

This is a strong week for anime releases, which are led by Tokyo Ghoul (rootA): Complete Collection (Funimation, 300 min., DVD/BD Combo $64.98, Ltd. Ed. $69.98).  Based on characters and concepts from Sui Ishida’s highly popular manga (#4 in Japan in 2015), but with an original story, the 12-episode Tokyo Ghoul (rootA) anime from Studio Pierrot that aired in Japan in 2015.  This saga of a flesh-eating subculture in Tokyo is one of the most popular dark fantasy manga creations of this decade.

Equally interesting are two manga-based dark fantasy anime.   Black Butler: Book of Murder (Funimation, 58 min., BD/DVD Combo $34.98), collects 2 OVAs produced in 2014 by A-1 Pictures and directed by Noriyuki Abe that provide a very faithful adaptation of the “Phantomhive Manor Murders” story arc from Yana Toboso’s popular Black Butler manga (published here by Yen Press), while Seraph of the End--Vampire Reign: Season 1, Part 1 (Funimation, “PG-13,” 300 min, BD/DVD Combo $64.98) collects the 12-episode 2015 anime from Wit Studio that adapts the action-packed dark fantasy manga about a teen who fights back against the vampires who have taken over the world.

For those who enjoy anime that examine the behind-the-scenes world of anime and manga there is Shirobako: Collection 2 (Sentai Entertainment, 300 min., Subtitles Only, $49.98, BD $59.98), which collects the final 12 episodes of the 24-episode series produced by Warner Entertainment Japan and based on the shonen manga series by Kenji Sugihara that follows the adventures of five friends who enter the animation industry.

For those who love classic anime, Viz Media has created a superb Blu-ray edition of the 161-episode early 1990s Ranma ½ anime, which was produced by Studio Deen and based on Rumiko Takahashi’s gender-bending martial arts comedy manga.  Viz was careful not to crop the image of this 1990s gem, which remains (like Takahashi’s original manga) a thorough delight.  On Tuesday Viz Media is releasing the entire Ranma ½ series on Blu-ray in seven volumes each of which will include 23 episodes (530 min), and will have an MSRP of $49.98.