DVD : The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies

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- Scooby Movies Bah!
I'm a big fan of Scooby but these episodes were played to death on cartoon network especially The Harlem Globetrotters and Laurel and Hardy.i wouldn't be surprised this is all the Scooby movies they put out, I mean the Tom and Jerry Collection wasn't complete and Uncut which totally sucks. Here's something that's strange Hanna Barbera put out the classic cartoons why cant they put out the new cartoons like The Addams Family cartoon that was shown in the early Nineties and Bill and Teds Excellent Adventures. Also were is the Smurfs MR T Dragons Lair and Space Ace and Pacman along with Saturday supercade and The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby Doo. Never mind what they want to put out they should listen to what the fans want instead were the ones that buy them.

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- GUEST STARS GALORE!
I've always been a big Scooby Doo fan ever since the show first premiered in 1969 when I was just 6 years old. In 1972, "Scooby Doo, Where are You?" became "The New Scooby Doo Movies". The show was now an hour long instead of 30 minutes and each episode had the gang meet a new guest star each week. This format lasted from 1972 through 1973 and featured 24 total episodes along with a Halloween special. Unfortunately, instead of giving us ALL 25 episodes, Warner Home Video has chosen to give us a "best of" collection of 15 episodes. Why not do all of them is a mystery for Scooby and the gang but I guess beggars cannot be choosers.

"Ghastly Ghost Town" guest stars the Three Stooges. The gang is forced to seek help on foot in the desert after their van is forced onto a sand dune by a low-flying, king-sized bat. They come across Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita, whose amusement park is really the one in need of help.

"The Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair" with Batman & Robin. When The Mystery Machine breaks the gang bump into smugglers, Batman and Robin, a little old lady, and a punching clown filled with counterfeit cash. A tip leads them to the carnival. . .where they find Joker and Penguin behind the kooky counterfeit caper. As is usually the case with these villainous villains, our heroes wind up in a funhouse hideout.

"The Frickert Fracas" with Jonathan Winters. Hoping they will have a vacation from haunted houses and spooky characters when Jonathan Winters invites them to stay at Maude Frickert's farm, Scooby-Doo and company soon learn differently when the place becomes overrun with vandalizing scoundrels and living scarecrows.

"Guess who's Knott Coming to Dinner?" with Don Knotts. When the gang stop at Moody Manor to get directions, they find themselves mistaken for Captain Moody's neices and nephews by an assortment of characters who all resemble Don Knotts.

"The Spooky Fog" - with Don Knotts. A spoof of Knott's show Mayberry R.F.D, wherein a unique form of small-town hospitality is in store for Scooby-Doo and pals when officer Don Knotts invites them to spend the night at the best hotel in Juneberry: the local jail!

"The Ghost of Bigfoot" with Laurel & Hardy. While visiting a ski lodge, the gang run into bellhops Laurel and Hardy, who attempt to help the gang uncover the mystery of the ghost of Bigfoot... but Laurel and Hardy are even more cowardly than Scooby and Shaggy.

"The Ghost of the Red Baron" with the Three Stooges. The gang re-teams with the Three Stooges to ground the ghost of Baron Ludwig von Richtofen, The Red Baron, the evildoer of daring who has scared off all of Mr. Sawyer's crop dusting pilots in an effort to pressure the farmer into leaving his land.

"Ghostly Creeps from the Deep" with the Harlem Globetrotters. Scooby and the gang run across the clown princes of basketball, The Harlem Globetrotters on the eerie banks of a haunted swamp so that their boosted team spirit might protect them from the supernatural spirits being released by the ghost of Redbeard The Pirate.

"The Caped Crusader Caper" with Batman & Robin. In Batman and Robin's second appearance on this series, Scooby and the gang try to foil Joker and Penguin's attempts to steal a flying suit from a goofy scientist.

"The Lochness Mess" with the Harlem Globetrotters. The Gang travel to a small New England town to visit Shaggy's Uncle Nathaniel but walk into the middle of a mystery complete with the ghost of Paul Revere and a spooky sea serpent. With the aid of The Harlem Globetrotters, they uncover a plot whereby Morgan, a local crook, is trying to scare the townsfolk into moving away in order to hide his discovery of a treasure ship.

"The Mystery of the Haunted Island" - The Globetrotters are back again. The gang and the Trotters are taken by a spectral ship to a deserted island. They take refuge in a deserted mansion where statues come to life, books fly off the shelves, and ghosts and secret passages are everywhere.

"The Exterminator" with Don Adams. The gang pick up Don Adams who is running an extermination business and take him to his next job at Horror Hill, an eerie, foreboding-looking ramshackle which is also the home of old horror film star Lorne Chumley.

"The Weird Winds of Winona" - with Speed Buggy! The Mystery Machine breaks down and the gang find themselves running into Speed Buggy and his friends. It's up to the two gangs to discovery the mystery of the winds that blow through the town that they've been stranded in.

"The Haunted Candy Factory" with Mama Cass. Mama Cass, Scooby-Doo and company are caught in a "sticky mess" at her namesake candy factory when two green cotton candy globs attempt to "cover" stolen gold bullion with caramel, chocolate and nuts.

"The Haunted Carnival" with Dick Van Dyke. The gang takes a trip to the carnival to escape their ghost-chasing troubles, only to find Dick Van Dyke owns and operates the park. . .which is haunted.

I'm not sure how Warner's chose these particular episodes. Maybe there was something to do with obtaining the rights to shows with other guest stars. I would have preferred to see the episodes which featured the Adams Family, Phyllis Diller and Tim Conway myself as opposed to all the Globetrotter shows, Speed Buggy and Mama Cass. This set is aimed at us baby boomers since most kids today are not going to have any idea who people like Don Adams and Mama Cass are but they are still fun and I've not seen many of these in over 30 years. Great to see these on DVD! Actors doing voices for animated films and shows is quite common today but it wasn't so common back then and it's fun to see animated versions of these great comics with their own voices.

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- All good things...
So much for the 'Golden Collection'!

I, and i might say many others, have been anxiously awaiting the next 'Complete' season of Scooby-Doo. And this is what we get?! Another lame 'Best of'..? Please, most of us Scooby fans have already double dipped on your titles, more than once!!
What has happened to the once great 'Golden Collection'? A note to those at Warners, "Get it right the FIRST time"!!

This is a case of 'buyer beware'! Get this set, but be prepared for the 'complete' series to be released later down the track!!

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- They Cut out Sonny and Cher, Phyllis, Davey and Jeannie!?!?!?!
I grew up watching the Scooby-Doo Movies and I was so happy to hear that the series was finally coming out on DVD....that is until I found out that they only included 15 out of the original 25 episodes. Some of the episodes Warner Bros decided to omit were my favorites...including the ones with the Sonny and Cher, Addams Family, Phyllis Diller,Davy Jones and Jeannie. Instead what they did was include 4 episodes that they had already released on DVD 2 years ago( the Harlem Globetrotters and the Batman episodes). What a rip off! People at Warner Bros. if you're reading this , I just want to say one thing.....in the future when releasing the other scooby doo series on DVD, don't give us another "Best of" just give us the complete series! And please do release the rest of this Series sometime soon...I still ccan't believe you edited out Sonny and Cher!

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- Here I go.....
doing something I hate that others do on this site - reviewing a dvd that hasn't been released yet and I have not viewed.

I would like to say that the Scooby Doo Movies featuring the guest stars were my favorites. So I will definitely buy this....my daughter is also a big Scooby fan. My only complaint is that if you are going to make a box set of the movies with Guest Stars put them all on the disc. I can't understand why they haven't included them all. I would think if they were going to do this they would call this Vol. 1 - it is not.

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