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I have a dub of a circa 1964 NBC Underdog show with the commercial breaks. It starts out with a show opening (same announcer audio but different visuals than the one frequently seen in syndication). There are two Underdog chapters (in this case, "The Magnet Men" parts three and four), and in...

Both were used during the series run. Comstock on ABC, Steiner on NBC. Both were used in syndicated reruns, but more Comstock than Steiner.

A good chunk of the "missing minutes" in the Saturday morning showings were used for previews of next week's show. And it's not like Shout Factory "cut things out" -- it's more like they failed to "put things in," as the "shows" were actually created specifically for these DVDs, i.e. this isn't...

Originally the "warm-up" was followed by a sponsor billboard before the "main" end credits. The show opening was like that too, in two segments separated by a sponsor billboard. Ditto for the syndicated "Rocky Show."

Apparently General Mills has/had footage that Classic Media doesn't and vice versa. Also, there isn't any documentation of which segments were in which shows originally, and they have been shuffled and re-shuffled over the last 50+ years. One thing I was told by someone who was there at the...

I would love to see that as well. Years ago someone bootlegged them on VHS from showings on the New York ABC affiliate. They cut out all the other segments because they were the same as on the Bullwinkle show. Some of that stuff later found its way onto "Dollar DVDs" from a company called East...

Sponsor General Mills owns the domestic TV rights to these cartoons "in perpetuity." Rights for home video are different. Until a few years ago, most of the old syndicated TV packages were still available through DFS Program Exchange and they would pop up here and there because (If I understand...

Yeah, "The King & Odie" in syndication ran on the original "King Leonardo" and the later episodes (produced for Tennessee Tuxedo) were on "Dudley Do Right And Friends." There was a 15-minute version of "The King & Odie" syndicated in the 1960s but then it wasn't seen for years. Both Leonardo and...

Here's a basic summary of which cartoons went where, the best I can reconstruct it. It starts with "King Leonardo And His Short Subjects" which premiered in 1960. It featured "The King & Odie" (which were two-part storylines, one at the beginning of the show and the other at the end). In...

Tennessee Tuxedo is great in that it has all the (Tuxedo) cartoons, but (1) no attempt was made to reassemble the actual shows, each "show" is just the Tennessee Tuxedo cartoon only (with other characters' cartoons presented separately), and (2) the version of the theme song (audio) is different...

It switched to ABC some time in the 1960s, certainly by 1966 because I have a couple shows on tape from that era. The Sunday morning ABC reruns ended in 1973. Then it was in syndication, but eight years later, a version of the show aired Saturday mornings on NBC during the 1981-82 season while a...

Actually the reruns did move back to ABC later in the 1960s (then returned to NBC for one season in 1981).

"The Bullwinkle Show" open and close are nowhere to be found on these DVDs. The openings and closings are modified versions of the Season 1 and 2 "Rocky And His Friends" but with the 1961 music as heard on the individual Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon intros. Some incidental music is also removed or...

I don't think EVERY cartoon is sped up, but there are some speed issues and also some DVNR abuse, but again I don't think it affects every cartoon. I would check them but my sets are misplaced at the moment.

Yes. Originally called "Rocky And His Friends" on ABC, "The Bullwinkle Show " on NBC.

They are mostly decent standard-def transfers and they appear to originate via video transfers from 35mm film, done who knows when. They look and sound good for the most part, although there appears to be some DVNR as well as speed-up issues on the Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo sets. The Rocky...