Finally - Huckleberry Hound & Yogi Bear coming to DVD!!!

[STASHONE]

From TVShowsOnDVD.Com (www.tvshowsondvd.com):

"The Hanna-Barbera cartoons are hot on DVD, no doubt about that! After recent news items we've posted letting you know that Wacky Races (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1472), Top Cat (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1471), The Flintstones - Season 2 and Tom & Jerry (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1483) are all coming, we have even more to report for you!

In this article (http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-05-10-animated-dvds_x.htm) published a couple of weeks ago, USA Today's Mike Snider reported on the success of TV 'Toons on DVD. In his story, Snider got Warner Brothers to go on record that Huckleberry Hound was on-the-way, along with others:


Look for more DVD titles from the Hanna-Barbera library, which includes Huckleberry Hound, Tom & Jerry, Josie and the Pussycats and Yogi Bear. "Parents grew up with these great evergreen properties, and the story lines still resonate today," says Warner's Mike Saksa. "They are introducing their children to them because it's such high-quality entertainment and not as edgy as much of what is on TV these days."

Very nice to hear! Our thanks to reader Peter Morley for the find, which we've overlooked for sure. Stay tuned, because we'll have details for you just as soon as Warner announces them."

:D

[Jimmy Kustes]

They should release this the same day as the Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind DVD. I should be in marketing.

[nakak]

wow. cool!

So let's see...do you think "Touche Turtle", "Wally Gator" and "Lippy and Hardy" will be remastered on DVD. I see them alot on CN Japan here, but the quality is crappy. the film quality for "Touche" here is faded and....I can't tell if those are blue or just plain white

[Daniel P]

Speaking of fourth quarter DVD releases for 2004 from Warner, has anybody heard about that new "Phantom Tollbooth" DVD? All I know is that it will possibly include "The Dot and the Line" as a bonus feature, and that the feature itself has been remastered. I haven't heard anything else about it or seen any announcements in a while.


-Dan

[JCorey3rd]

From TVShowsOnDVD.Com (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/):

Look for more DVD titles from the Hanna-Barbera library, which includes Huckleberry Hound, Tom & Jerry, Josie and the Pussycats and Yogi Bear. "Parents grew up with these great evergreen properties, and the story lines still resonate today," says Warner's Mike Saksa. "They are introducing their children to them because it's such high-quality entertainment and not as edgy as much of what is on TV these days."


:D
Resonate today? Has Saksa tried to make it through a Josie and the Pussycats episode sober?

[David Gerstein]

We live in an age when the nostalgia of powerful people blinds them completely to the lousy quality of certain cartoons.
In Copenhagen two years ago I watched as passersby walked into a WB Studio Store, lured by a great Bugs Bunny cartoon playing on a large screen. As they watched Bugs, they did what was expected of them— browsing through merchandise. Then Bugs ended and a Scooby-Doo Christmas cartoon began. Customers put their merchandise down and left, visibly put off by what they were seeing.
Hey, did any Warner exec notice that the Looney Tunes Golden Collection nicely outsold its Scooby equivalent? No? I didn't think so.

[Nelson]

YES! Now that's what I'm talkin about :D

Any clue when the Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear will be released and I wonder if it will include the show's other cartoons(Pixie And Dixie, Hokey Wolf, Snagglepuss, Yakky Doodle) like the original show's run?

[Thad Komorowski]

I'm guessing they'll either be "Best of"'s (with Huck also having discs of Pixie & Dixie, Hokey, and Yogi having Snagglepuss, Yakky), or just boxsets of all of the Yogi and Huck shorts... I'm REALLY hoping it's the former though... I can sit through a lot of Yogi Bear, but sorry, I can't watch more than about 4 Huckleberry Hound shorts in one setting.



-Thad

[STASHONE]

Given the context of WB's previous H-B cartoon releases on DVD (even though these shows fit into a seperate category all their own), it seems that Warner Bros. are going for the actual season by season, complete package.

If this is the case, I'd expect to see these marketed as "The Yogi Bear Show: The Complete First Season" and respectively "The Huckleberry Hound Show: The Complete First Season" and feature all the accompanying short segments including Pixie & Dixie, Snagglepuss, Hokey Wolf, etc.

The only conflicts that might exist in such a package context, would be the inclusion of the Yogi Bear shorts in the initial seasons of The Huckleberry Hound Show. I'm not sure if these shorts were exclusive to their broadcasts (meaning that all the latter Yogi shorts, post-Huckleberry, were newly produced) or if they were later reused and packaged again when Yogi Bear recieved a successful television series of his own... but for convenience' sake, and in light of the fact that Yogi will already be featured in his own collection, I wouldn't expect to see these sets issued in such a way.

I would guess that these will be offered as "character sets" and feature both Yogi's and Huckleberry's entire library of cartoon shorts within each package.

I sincerely hope these are not released as "Best-of's", as I'd prefer not to have some studio higher-ups offer me their considerations for what should be deemed "the best" material. I would hope to be able to own all of the cartoons and determine for myself which I'd like to watch.

Afterall, sitting through any cartoon collection screening... be it a drawn-out television marathon, home video viewing (DVD, VHS), etc... would get monotonous and tired really fast if one attempted to watch the cartoons all in one sitting!

Just having them available to enjoy at one's own convenience and leisure though, is very welcomed and I believe that this is how WB will handle these discs. The only downside - we'll have to wait all the while longer for full releases of Pixie & Dixie and the other supporting character segments!

[Jon Cooke]

Just having them available to enjoy at one's own convenience and leisure though, is very welcomed and I believe that this is how WB will handle these discs. The only downside - we'll have to wait all the while longer for full releases of Pixie & Dixie and the other supporting character segments!

The trouble is that the supporting characters just do not have enough recognition these days to support a DVD set of their own. Releasing them on the Huck/Yogi sets would probably be the only way they'd get released to DVD at all. I just can't picture Warner Home Video ever issuing a Yakky Doodle or Snooper & Blabber box set, for example.


-Jon

[STASHONE]

I'm concerned about that as well... but I just think it would be extremely complicated for WB to issue these as complete season sets when I would expect that a number of the cartoons which aired were rebroadcast and shows were repackaged and rehashed and that a complete first season might not be all of exclusive material. If I'm wrong, I will be extremely happy but that's just what I suspect. In many instances for me, the supporting cartoons made the shows, so I really hope WB can find a way around this...

If they are to be released as character sets though, I would at the very least hope to see:


Quick Draw McGraw
Snagglepuss
Pixie and Dixie
Auggie Doggie
Loopy De Loop
Hokey Wolf
Wally Gator
Magilla Gorilla
Atom Ant
Secret Squirrel

I would really hope to see these as proper sets in relation to their original broadcast context though. I'd be dissapointed if the likes of Touche Turtle, Yakky Doodle, Snooper and Blabber, Ricochet Rabbit, Breezly and Sneezly, etc. never made it to disc...

[Captchucky]

I'd love to see complete season sets like they're doing with Top Cat for Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and Quick-Draw especially. I bet they'll do them right, because I choose to be an optomist today.

I think people buy complete seasons in greater numbers than best-of compilations.

[Jave]

Loopy de Loop is one set I would love to see remastered. Considering they were originally released in theaters and made in association with Columbia, the colors had to be superior than most of the TV cartoons. Most of that series have very dark prints currently airing on Boomerang.

[stevea]

... I can sit through a lot of Yogi Bear, but sorry, I can't watch more than about 4 Huckleberry Hound shorts in one setting.



-Thad
Are you put off by a blue dog with a southern drawl, that sings 'Clementine'?