The Alvin Show on DVD

[CyberKFox]

The Alvin Show is finally coming to DVD, well sort of...
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Alvin-The-Very-First-Alvin-Show/12109
Before you say "Screw this, I'm not gonna buy it until they release a proper DVD release of the cartoon" hear me out
For a while, I am none too happy with Viacom
- Sitting on the Terrytoons library [while CBS has the Filmation Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle cartoons and the Ralph Bakshi "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures" series (which is coming to DVD later this year, hopefully)]
- Making shows with distasteful content only THEY can get away with while other channels get complaints for on channels like Comedy Central and MTV

Viacom is also a money grubbin company and so far... SpongeBob, Star Trek and South Park are putting money in their pocket
What i'm going for is Viacom own the rights to The Alvin Show despite the characters being owned by Bagdasarian Productions and if this DVD doesn't sell, No hope for a complete series set
I want EVERYBODY here and everywhere in the US to buy this DVD, for a better chance of a release of the complete series DVD set of "The Alvin Show"

[gummibears]

im into this. i for one loved this show and your 100 percent right, if this does well than viacom might consider releasing the series as a whole.

i did not know viacom owned this show, i knew it was on nick in the 90s but can someone explain how and when viacom obtained this show?

[CyberKFox]

im into this. i for one loved this show and your 100 percent right, if this does well than viacom might consider releasing the series as a whole.

i did not know viacom owned this show, i knew it was on nick in the 90s but can someone explain how and when viacom obtained this show?

Part of the reason is that it originally aired on CBS, Viacom has the rights to the show for years ever since the show was canned

Seeing how stubborn Viacom is in terms of $$$
This is why i want everyone here and elsewhere to buy this DVD to persuade Paramount/Viacom to release a complete series DVD set

[Tobias]

Here's an update on what's actually on the release (prepare to be disappointed):

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Alvin-Early-Artwork/12238

Sorry, no, just... no. I'm not putting out money for just ONE episode from the original series and two from the recent series.

[CyberKFox]

Here's an update on what's actually on the release (prepare to be disappointed):

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Alvin-Early-Artwork/12238

Sorry, no, just... no. I'm not putting out money for just ONE episode from the original series and two from the recent series.

I already know that!
Seeing that Viacom is uber-stubborn and only goes for the money talks strategy of the DVD market, This is why i'm suggesting for everyone to buy this DVD in hope for a compete series set of The Alvin Show.. that and in hopes that you beg and plee Paramount to do so

[zoombie]

Anyone know what Clyde Crasscup invented in episode 1?

[Mister Donut]

Here's an update on what's actually on the release (prepare to be disappointed):

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Alvin-Early-Artwork/12238

Sorry, no, just... no. I'm not putting out money for just ONE episode from the original series and two from the recent series.
This is how I feel about it as well. I'd rather they tried to give you a few episodes to watch or even a compilation of the best episodes from the show for that price. I remember seeing that one special with Will Smith and thought it was rather cheesy and dumb but it had a few amusing things such as a clip from one of the old Jello ads done for the Alvin Show's ad breaks.

Rather people saved their $20 and get Beany & Cecil Vol. 2 when that comes out!

[Mister Donut]

Anyone know what Clyde Crasscup invented in episode 1?
Too bad I don't feel like looping that up, but someone out there probably has an episode guide and who could say. I only hope the quality of the episode may justify buying it, and that it isn't DVNR-ed to hell either. I hope it might be something like those sing-along tapes back in the 90's that looked like they were using the original camera negs that time.

[CyberKFox]

This is how I feel about it as well. I'd rather they tried to give you a few episodes to watch or even a compilation of the best episodes from the show for that price. I remember seeing that one special with Will Smith and thought it was rather cheesy and dumb but it had a few amusing things such as a clip from one of the old Jello ads done for the Alvin Show's ad breaks.

Rather people saved their $20 and get Beany & Cecil Vol. 2 when that comes out!

What part of No Sales = No more Alvin Show DVDs don't you understand?

[Tobias]

It's the fact there's only one- ONE- episode on this disc that's the reason that I'm refusing to buy this. Meanwhile, the 80's/90's A&TC releases have had multiple best of releases with episodes ranging from three all the way to thirteen per collection.

I don't care if it means the rest of the series will never see the light of day, there is no way I'm spending 12 bucks (or whatever will be charged depending on the store) for one measly episode.

[AnimationX]

I think I saw an Alvin show DVD in Wal-Mart yesterday that looked different from the one in question in this thread, I didn't pick it up and look at it or anything but could have it been a series set or maybe a volume with multiple episodes on it? I'm going to go do some research on this one because it looked like a thick case and not the standard single DVD case that most movies come in.

EDIT: I guess it was the same one in question here, it didn't seem like it though when I was browsing the DVD section at the store, but like I said, I didn't pick it up or anything so I guess it's the same one. Oh well, I gave my hopes up too soon. It's a shame that classic shows like this don't have any airtime anymore on television. :(

[Steve Carras]

This is how I feel about it as well. I'd rather they tried to give you a few episodes to watch or even a compilation of the best episodes from the show for that price. I remember seeing that one special with Will Smith and thought it was rather cheesy and dumb but it had a few amusing things such as a clip from one of the old Jello ads done for the Alvin Show's ad breaks.

Rather people saved their $20 and get Beany & Cecil Vol. 2 when that comes out!


Interesting thing is that show used a famous chase cue from the Chipmunks which apparently used its own music [Ross Bagdasarian]. Thad[K] on the GAC Forums noted the Darrell Calker/Lantz Woody theme [ealry] on some [which I've, to be honst, heard Beany also using due to public domain use, in "The Dirty Bird"-based on 50s comic George Gobel's catchline]-Thad" mentioned hearing a lot of Woody msuic in "Cecil meets Cecilia", and that Chipmunk chase cue [going very fast, I think I mentioned it here before, like this: "Da-da-da-da-da-da-Da-da-, da-da-, da-da-da-da-DA-da-DAA-da-DAA" then key changes a bit, during the final "Cecil Meets Ceciclia" note when Cecilia imposter Dishonest John [that dirty guy!]
revelas himself acccidentlaly, thus causing Cecil to spin him in the air and that cue is heard, as it is elsewhere and in the Chipmunks [think Clyde Crashcup standing on a roller skate that he's just invented and - WHOOSH ZOOM - it's outta control! But in a different version.]

It is a shame that only one original Alvin episode's on there [and I've seen the video, in local Target store.]

The Beany episodes have of course BEEN released on ALL formats-DVD, before that LASER AND VHS back in the 80s on many volumes [even have one - Volume 8 - myself.]

[Mister Donut]

It is a shame that only one original Alvin episode's on there [and I've seen the video, in local Target store.]
It's one of those cases you were have to ask, "Why bother?"

The Beany episodes have of course BEEN released on ALL formats-DVD,
If only illegitimately.

before that LASER AND VHS back in the 80s on many volumes [even have one - Volume 8 - myself.]
I had a couple.

[Steve Carras]

It's one of those cases you were have to ask, "Why bother?"


If only illegitimately.


I had a couple.
Haven't been on herem and I'kk say why as I've been someplace else...but..

Which Volumes??:)

[Mister Donut]

Haven't been on herem and I'kk say why as I've been someplace else...but..

Which Volumes??:)
I had nearly all of them, mostly the first 5 or 6 at one point.

[Mark The Shark]

Too bad I don't feel like looping that up, but someone out there probably has an episode guide and who could say. I only hope the quality of the episode may justify buying it, and that it isn't DVNR-ed to hell either. I hope it might be something like those sing-along tapes back in the 90's that looked like they were using the original camera negs that time.

Here is show #1's rundown as it aired in the 1980s/1990s:

Cold Opening (Fortune Teller)
Show Opening
Alvin Cartoon (Stanley The Eagle)
Bumper (Write Something)
Music Segment Intro (Archery)
Music Segment (Oh Gondaliero)
Crashcup Intro (Alvin)
Clyde Crashcup (Invents Baseball)
Music Segment (I Wish I Could Speak French)
Outro (Clyde Crashcup)
Show Closing

I just picked up the new DVD yesterday -- the episode matches up 99.9% with the above, except there is a different "cold opening" (the Chipmunks approach a tall building with a wrecking ball and knock it down) which I have never seen before -- that intro did not appear in any of the 26 shows as I saw them in syndication (1980s-1990s). The short intro segment also has no music on it -- but the soundtrack for the rest of the episode is, as far as I can tell, fine. (I wonder if this wasn't some kind of unfinished or unused piece which never had the music added to it in the first place.) Also, the closing credits have Alvin's hand appearing a couple of times and adding "...and Alvin" to some of the credits -- the credits appeared this way during the network run but not in syndication.

It looked fine to me, but I haven't scrutinized it very closely. (Certainly in much better shape than my old VHS version, which seems to have been broadcast from tape transferred from 16mm film.) I scanned through "Rockin' Thru The Decades" but haven't watched the rest. The only "extra" seems to be a promo for other Chipmunks DVDs (the 1980s/1990s Chipmunks).

Would love to see the whole series released!

[Mister Donut]

Here is show #1's rundown as it aired in the 1980s/1990s:

Cold Opening (Fortune Teller)
Show Opening
Alvin Cartoon (Stanley The Eagle)
Bumper (Write Something)
Music Segment Intro (Archery)
Music Segment (Oh Gondaliero)
Crashcup Intro (Alvin)
Clyde Crashcup (Invents Baseball)
Music Segment (I Wish I Could Speak French)
Outro (Clyde Crashcup)
Show Closing

I just picked up the new DVD yesterday -- the episode matches up 99.9% with the above, except there is a different "cold opening" (the Chipmunks approach a tall building with a wrecking ball and knock it down) which I have never seen before -- that intro did not appear in any of the 26 shows as I saw them in syndication (1980s-1990s). The short intro segment also has no music on it -- but the soundtrack for the rest of the episode is, as far as I can tell, fine. (I wonder if this wasn't some kind of unfinished or unused piece which never had the music added to it in the first place.) Also, the closing credits have Alvin's hand appearing a couple of times and adding "...and Alvin" to some of the credits -- the credits appeared this way during the network run but not in syndication.
Either way, it seems like they changed a lot in the arrangement to where these segments were seen in syndication later on.

It looked fine to me, but I haven't scrutinized it very closely. (Certainly in much better shape than my old VHS version, which seems to have been broadcast from tape transferred from 16mm film.) I scanned through "Rockin' Thru The Decades" but haven't watched the rest. The only "extra" seems to be a promo for other Chipmunks DVDs (the 1980s/1990s Chipmunks).

Would love to see the whole series released!
You and me both! :(