DVD : The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies

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Rating:

- FINALLY! My favorite cartoon of ALL time . .
I NEVER thought I would see these epsiodes again, I was probably only 5 or 6 when they aired back in the early 80's and I only saw them a few times before they stopped playing in Canada altogether.
My absolute FAVORITES are mostly on here, which include The Candy Factory with mama cass - my # 1 favorite and the one I remember the most which isn't saying much since I saw them about 20 years ago - The Dick Van Dyke carnival and the Fricket Fracas. Those were, in my opinion, 3 of the top 5 best of all time movies. I only remembered foggy snippets of them, but treasured memories at that. Ones I was sad they didn't include and don't know why were the Sandy Duncan, the Hagglethorn Hall and Shark Island. Those were the 6 I wanted to see the most, and I got 50 % on this DVD which isn't bad. I hope they will eventually release the others, as there is a lot of Harlem Globetrotter and Don Knotts episodes. But still, I never thought I'd ever see these again, so I was ecstatic with this compilation. Way to go Hanna Barbera! Scooby Doo lives forever.

Rating:

- OK For a Not Complete Set
I have a 6 year old daughter who thinks Scooby-Doo is the greatest. It is unfortunate that those episodes that were not included in the "Greatest" collection are some of the best. I especially missed the Addams family. I was only a baby when Scooby came out, but I love the shows as does my child. I hope we do get a second volume of the best of scooby-doo movies.

Rating:

- Globetrotter Get no scooby snacks
I ran into Curly Neal at a supermarket opening and asked him about "appearing" in the Scooby Doo Cartoons. he said that he gets nothing from the DVDs since he didn't do the vocal work and his likeness was covered under promotional appearances as a Globetrotter. But he didn't seem too bitter about it since a lot of small kids knew who he was from these cartoons - doesn't hurt that he still looks young.

I get a kick out of watching these adventures although not the same rush as when I was a kid - seeing Don Knotts and Shaggy together, that was star power.

For anyone wondering about the missing 9 episodes - they are:
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family ?(1972) ?
A Good Medium Is Rare ?(1972) ?Phyllis Diller
Sandy Duncan's Jekyll And Hyde ?(1972) ?Sandy Duncan..
The Secret Of Shark Island ?(1972) ? Sonny and Cher.
The Haunted Horseman Of Hagglethorn Hall ?(1972) Davey Jones
The Phantom Of The Country Music Hall ?(1972) ? Jerry Reed.
The Haunted Showboat ?(1973) Josie and the Pussycats
Scooby-Doo Meets Jeannie ?(1973) ?Jeannie, Babu,
The Spirited Spooks Sport Show ?(1973) ? Tim Conway.

Rating:

- Missing the best ones
While I understand copyrights and the need to secure permission to include the missing 10 "movies" - Warner Brothers, you need to put urgency on this and issue a second dvd compilation with the missing movies - no repeats please, that's horribly annoying.

and, I can't resist this one but reviewer "bobby the c" has annoyed me. I am Wiccan and would like to have Phyllis Diller's episode prominently displayed on the cover. :)

Rating:

- Great Box set even though its missing some good ones
I know alot of people are dissapointed with some of the shows that were left out.Sonny and Cher, Josie and the Pussycats, Phyllis Diller, Davey Jones, Addams Family, Sandy Duncan and Jerry Reed. Of these Sandy Duncan and Jerry Reed are the only two I would have liked to have owned. I wonder if music rights were an issue? As a christian I was really glad the Phyllis Diller episode "A Good Medium Is Rare"
was not encluded as it had some occultic stuff in it like the Seance.
The list is
Disc 1
The Ghastly Ghost Town (with The Three Stooges)
The Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair (with Batman & Robin)
The Frickert Fracas (with Jonathan Winters)
Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner (with Don Knotts)
Disc 2
The Spooky Fog (with Don Knotts)
The Ghost of Bigfoot (a.k.a. "Scooby-Doo Meets Laurel & Hardy")
The Ghost of The Red Baron (with The Three Stooges)
The Ghostly Creeps from the Deep (with The Harlem Globetrotters)
Disc 3
The Caped Crusader Caper (with Batman & Robin)
The Lochness Mess (with The Harlem Globetrotters)
The Mystery of Haunted Island (with The Harlem Globetrotters)
The Exterminator (with Don Adams)
Disc 4
The Weird Winds of Winona (with Speed Buggy)
The Haunted Candy Factory (with "Mama" Cass Elliot)
The Haunted Carnival (a.k.a. "Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke")

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