Hanna-Barbera 2008 DVD Releases

[MrCleveland]

What H-B DVDs will be released in 2008? Because it would be nice to see Loopy de Loop (H-B's theatrical release cartoons) on DVD.

But chances of that is the same chance as Cleveland winning a Championship.

[tvje]

It is rumored that this shows are coming to DVD soon.

Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
Richie Rich / Scooby Doo Hour
Pebbles and Bam Bam show

It is confirmed that

The Smurfs (volume 1 coming in February)
A Pup Named Scooby Doo (season 1 coming in March)

[tv star collector]

They can release THE SMURFS and A PUP NAMED SCOOBY-DOO but not
QUICK DRAW McGRAW or TOUCHE TURTLE? There's no accounting for taste.

[waichingliu81]

Originally Posted by tv star collector

They can release THE SMURFS and A PUP NAMED SCOOBY-DOO but not
QUICK DRAW McGRAW or TOUCHE TURTLE? There's no accounting for taste.

oh god, i hated 'a pup named scooby doo' and 'flintstone kids' where they were kid versions of the great toons themselves. plus they weren't that good to watch

[tv star collector]

Originally Posted by waichingliu81

oh god, i hated 'a pup named scooby doo' and 'flintstone kids' where they were kid versions of the great toons themselves. plus they weren't that good to watch

Re THE FLINTSTONE KIDS: talk about throwing out the window continuity! In
both the other versions of THE FLINTSTONES (the original series and the live-
action movie prequel " ... Viva Rock Vegas"), Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty
were all adults when they first met!

[AaronHandy3]

Originally Posted by tvje

It is rumored that this shows are coming to DVD soon.

Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
Richie Rich / Scooby Doo Hour
Pebbles and Bam Bam show

It is confirmed that

The Smurfs (volume 1 coming in February)
A Pup Named Scooby Doo (season 1 coming in March)

Here's another confirmation: The Complete Series of The Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm Show is coming March 18th. Check here for further details courtesy of ToonZone.

[comedyfreak]

Here's another confirmation with Box Art from tvshowsondvd.com
http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Pebbles...te-Series/8448

[hch]

I actually thought both of those kid-versions shows were cool. But when it comes down to what I would rather have for my DVD collection, I say "Bring on the Pup named Scooby-Doo". I absolutely loved a Pup named Scooby Doo because it made me appreciate the earlier SCooby-Doo incarnations better.

[Jrog]

Originally Posted by tv star collector

Re THE FLINTSTONE KIDS: talk about throwing out the window continuity! In
both the other versions of THE FLINTSTONES (the original series and the live-
action movie prequel " ... Viva Rock Vegas"), Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty
were all adults when they first met!

About Flinstone Kids: It always seemed weird that bedrock's technology "back then" trumped what they had in the original cartoon. That there's called "regression" (or as my girlfriend likes to say it's "my boyfriend needs to get a life-itis" ).

[waichingliu81]

also i read somewhere that fred, wilma, barney and betty all met up when they were in their teens or as adults, not as kids

[bossradio93]

Originally Posted by tv star collector

...but not QUICK DRAW McGRAW or TOUCHE TURTLE?

From what I've read, music rights issues for Quick Draw McGraw (copyrights) are a problem since the person who did the music scores passed away several years ago and the quality of the masters were in very poor condition.

[LiveByTheSea]

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was sorta okay.

[waichingliu81]

i want to get the scooby doo/dynomutt one, especially as i am a fan of the dynomutt cartoons. unfortunately they are on region 1 only and i live in the uk- which is region 2

[Frosty81]

I would like to see the following released H-B shows released on DVD:

*Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (1977-1978) (the full 2-hr show with)
**Laff-A-Lympics
**Scooby-Doo
**Blue Falcon & Dynomutt
**Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels
(Scooby's All-Stars, the 1978-1979 season title, is the same as above except Dynomutt is removed from the lineup, thus trimming said block to 90 minutes)

*Yogi's Space Race (1978-1979) (the full 90-min show with)
**Yogi's Space Race (obviously)
**The Galaxy Goof-Ups
**Buford & the Galloping Ghost

*C. B. Bears (1977-1978) (the full 1-hr show with)
**C. B. Bears (obviously)
**Blast Off Buzzard
**Heyyy, It's the King!!
**Posse Impossible
**Shake, Rattle and Roll
**Undercover Elephant

*The Super Globetrotters (1979-1980)

*The New Shmoo (1979-1980)

*The New Fred & Barney Show (early 1979)

*Fred & Barney Meet the Thing (1979-1980)

*Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo (late 1979-1980)

*The Flintstone Comedy Hour/Show (1972-1974 and 1980-1984)

*Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels (1977-1979 and spring 1980)

*The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976-1977, reissued with original titles)

~Ben (Frosty81)

[Steve Carras]

Originally Posted by bossradio93

From what I've read, music rights issues for Quick Draw McGraw (copyrights) are a problem since the person who did the music scores passed away several years ago and the quality of the masters were in very poor condition.

Actually, it's much more complicated than that. The scores came from the old John Seely Associates/Capital Production Music,Inc., which spun off Capitol Records in the 40s, and coincided with the libaries of Alexander Laszlo, Jack Shaindlin, KPM, MuTel, etc. all of which wound up in that service.

But much more confusingly, John Seely and Bill Loose headed up a team of ORIGINAL composers [others were Spencer Moore, Jack Cookerly, Emil Cadkin, George Hormel, Harry Bluestone, Ed Lund,etc.]

By the mid 1960s the service encompassed literally hundreds of hours of music in the various Hi-Q and Produciton Music Service and Capitol Q series, a good deal [by Shaindlin, Cadkin, Cookerly, Green, and Loose,among others, though not all], is available online on the "Play Production Music" and "Associated Production" sites.

Confusingly, a number of different registered titles were used for a lot of the cues falling under the "Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin", and the latter-named in conjunction with Bill Loose and some other,s causing confusion furthered by other titles by them sharing the same title.

For instance, there's a cute, rather short "Gumby" cue on same, a uptempo, perky-reed cute, that you can audition on the Carlin site, which has the "Cadkin-Bluestone" scores from those "Quick Draw McGraw" shows [particularly the "Augie Doggie" ones], but I've never heard it on a HB show, titled "Happy and Gay"[in the "Happy" sense of old], which shows up also under THIS title: "Housewives Choice"). BOTH ALSO are titles of OTHER compositions by the same composers. They worked for John Seely, who was credited fort using these guys music in six Warner Bros. cartoons in fall-winter 1958 and Art Clokey's "Davey and Goliath" [which unlike Gumby, had constant end title credits on every show].These titles by these Cadkin and Bluestone guys, though unsung gents they are, were registered at BMI with "Carbert Music,Inc." Like all of the cue music of this library, it was used on "The Donna Reed Show" as well.

Cadkin, apparently still around, and some others like Wally Castleman, seem to have been suing the William Loose estate regarding that old cue music, and Cadkin is suing himself for some reason. At least more and more of this, including stock music cues that I seldom if ever hear on Quick Draw but [this being a very large music production service, remember] heard on Art Clokey shows like Gumby. These are titles by Jack Cookerly and some others like "Bicycle Ride" [heard on some Gumbys and the wacked cult bike film narrated by Edward Everett Horton, "One Got Fat", 1963], recently added. Go to "Play Production Music," search Carlin archives or type in the names..

But going back to mid 1960s again, John Seely and William Loose left the produciton service in the capable hands of Ole Georg, the guy who took it over as the OGM service. Since Quick Draw used different stock music than did Yogi as a rule, and as did Gumby, things have gotten messy.

Irma Loose, whose late husband Bill, was a head composer, and the composers of many of the Huck trilogy and Ruff and Reddy and Gumby's, had been reluctant to lease a lot of these.

However in 2005 the Huck Show with that hard to release B.Loose music [John Seely, his partner in writing, was set to have those released. He died in 2004.] did get a major release in terms of the entire first season, but that was it. And some of the Jay Ward Fractured Fairy Tales and Art Clokey's early Gumbys, but not all, and some 1960s and 1980s adventures of Gumby [but I never cared for the eighties version!] HAVE been revived as restored videos.

The other guys who did that..Spencer Moore and George Hormel, for instance, still have a not yet known kind of status as to licensed music that could be licensed, but some of that is still aviable. The problem is how many people to negoiate with for Quick Draw music rights. Phillip Green, Emil Cadkin & Harry Bluestone, Roger Roger, Jack Shaindlin, and Louis DeFranscesco are among some who did the Capitol Produciton cues used in that show, and fortunately some are avaible as mentioned, Jack Shaindlin's a lot of fun. "Comic Suspense' is used with Quick Draw, a mysterious, very slow sounding cue when Baba Looey and Quick Draw look in a cave, right before a big El-Ka-BANG by the desperado du jour. Fun on Ice is the happy ending Huck, Pixie and DIixie, and Yogi cue. Roger Roger and early film composer L.DeFrancesco did a some recognize cues used, but they may not be as recognizable.Update: Lee Jacobs is the name on the current CARLIN PRODUCTION MUSIC archive listed instead. Relevant to Gumby, which also immensle used those..BRUTON has a number of those...
"Capering Clowns"/MAX SAUNDERS
"Chase me Chester"/ROGER ROGER
[both used in a 1967 episode about Pokey sleepwalking and then sleepdriving, "Gabby Auntie",1967]

"Charlie the Chimp"/CHARLIE LEONARD

CARL:IN has added stuff by composer
HARRY LUBIN, this includes stuff on COWBOYS AND THE WILD WEST and CHILDREN - FUN AND LAUGHTER.




PS I have on a mp3 one of the Fractured Fairy Tales using one of the most popular of those pieces, the Snoop and Blab and Quick Draw end one, "Comedy Circus" [Capitol Hi Q] nee "Custard Pie Capers" [EMI UK] by Phillip Green, whose many familiar [in Britain and USA] John Seely/Capitol cues were used on many US shows. Inclduing Quick Draw. ALSO, another UPDATE...CARLIN has a lot of the PHIL GREEN stock cues, mentioned..oddly not in the archive but as CAS 404 CLASSIC CARTOON CPAERS [oh well, self-explantory..]

[takes a bow]