I think you missed the memo.... sorry, you may be disappointed. The original announcement for the 70's vol.1 is not what is coming on the dvd! This is the actual show list:
You did see it....That's what I was referring to, the original announcement had the first episode of Laugh A Lympics listed, but then the content list changed.
The inclusion of MARINE BOY is all wrong for this set! I’m not certain if it WAS a Sat AM show! If so, which one of the THREE NETWORKS was it on?
I also don't THINK (though I could be wrong) that MB was a WB owned or acquired show!!! No matter, an anime show will seem jarringly out of place in that mix – and is not particularly representative of the “Sat AM experience” of that era. What little anime there was at the time was in weekday syndication… at least in New York.
I’ve said this before, but why not just select another episode of a H-B hero-action show that they already control the rights to, or a ROAD RUNNER SHOW (“When you’re on a highway and Road Runner goes Beep-Beep…”), or a BUGS BUNNY SHOW (“On with the Show, this is it!) – the half-hour episodes with interstitials, before they were combined into one mega-show with lots of edits.
…Or how about the long lost H-B SPACE KIDDETTES – with such voicing stalwarts as Daws Butler, Don Messick, Dick Beals, and Janet Waldo. (Probably nixed because that show was padded with series from Total Television – like Go-Go Gophers) Any of these suggestions would be more representative of sixties Sat AM than Marine Boy!
As for “selected episodes”, I fear this may be as close as we get for such shows as Quick Draw McGraw, Atom Ant, Secret Squirrel, and Frankenstein Jr. So, even if reluctantly, I’m in. Besides, there’s so much here that IS worthwhile (Marine Boy notwithstanding), that I’ll enjoy it anyway. And, let’s be completely honest… as much as I loved some of those later H-B series, they are better when viewed individually rather than consecutively in series – start to finish.
Not to mention, F-TROOP started out as “selected episodes” and moved up into complete season sets, and so did JUSTICE LEAGUE and SUPERMAN TAS. So, there’s some WHV precedent… IF we support THIS RELEASE!
I wish we’d have the street date agreed upon once and for all, as I intend to get the sixties set upon release!
TSOD still lists it as May 19 (as of the afternoon of May 11) – but also lists outdated content info, so I’m dubious.
DVDTalk lists it as May 26… the date I believe to be accurate.
Yes I do like some cartoons coming out. I don't like how you only get one episode of a few. Speed Buggy I enjoyed and JabberJaw someone pointed out. I wonder if they'll have the Theme song b4 each episode that I'd enjoy.
One Hanna Barbera show thats not showing I think is THE HAIR BEAR BUNCH Im sure it was 70's not 80's era.
I'm really excited about this series, and I'm already looking forward to the volume 2 sets and possibly even an 80's edition.
I've started scribbling notes to myself on possible shows in the next batch.
Since the approaching two volume are a mix of episodes that have already come out on series sets on DVD, and some that have never before been released at all. I wonder if WB will repeat the same forumula again. 1/2 never before released at all, 1/2 already out on DVD.
Possiblities next time (on the seventies): Devlin, Jabberjaw, Valley of the Dinosaurs, Inch High Private Eye, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, Sealab 2020, Partridge Family 2200, Clue Club, Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, and dare I say it Korg, 70000 BC. . .
I do have to confess that the best thing about these shows are the theme songs.
Yeah, but Amazon says May 26, and with all respect to Gord and David and their wonderful tvshowsondvd.com Amazon is the one doing the selling and the shipping, which means they know when they're going to be releasing the product better than anyone.
It's possible that the shipping date was adjusted, and the release schedule on tvshowsondvd.com wasn't updated. However, Amazon and deepdiscount (the two biggies here) both say May 26. So, odds are, May 26 is when these will be out, unless you get the special time travel shipping.