That's basically the same group of films that had been the premier Godzilla package through the '80s and '90s. Angilasman mentioned them above as "the Saperstein package". Saperstein had the rights to those (plus MZ, FCTW, WOTG, and a few other non-kaiju Toho movies) and pimped them to all interested TV networks and home video labels. The five Godzillas were mainstays on TNT and later AMC but filtered down to local stations, too. They were also released on video by Paramount ('80s and 1992-94), Simitar (1998), and finally Classic Media (2002, although they dropped MZ for Rodan)._JNavs_ wrote:I give Godzilla's Revenge a hard time because of the Minya suit, but i'd be lying if i said that set wasn't my favorite line up of Showa films due to nostalgia alone. Same reason i love ToMG, Rodan, GvM and of course the original.
In other words, if you were a North American Godzilla fan from 1980 to the mid 2000s, these should probably be among the most familiar Godzilla movies to you.
Classic Media's 2006-2008 releases constituted basically the same library of films (plus GRA and Ghidrah from the Golden Books package) but obviously those weren't the same pan and scan video transfers that had been around since the early 1980s.