The Real Ghostbusters cartoon on dvd?

[Turtledude2k3]

I was watching Ghostbusters 2 on Movies on the run on UPN and I remembered one of those old cartoons.. The Real Ghostbusters that was on years and years ago.

Is the show on dvd!? I would buy it in a flash if it did!

[Dontebell]

in UK it is.

[DrSpengler]

There's been 2 or 3 DVDs released in England so far, each with 4 episodes a peice.

Now that someone in the UK has purchased the rights, it's only a matter of time before someone in American does the same. Happened with He-Man.

Personally, I own the first two seasons (91 episodes), as well as a ton of random ones from latter seasons, on VHS. I'll wait for the DVDs to hit America rather than spend too much importing them.

[the Dark Knight]

Gawd, I hope we get it here in the states, that would be awesome! I liked that cartoon! It really expanded on the films well, and the voice actors were well casted.

[Weapon X]

Man it would be sweet to get them over her Real Ghostbuster was a real good show especially in the first couple seasons.
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[ZariusTwo]

Some of the early seasons are airing on Jetix in the U.K, but that's pretty much it for now, hopefully we don't get the dreaded post-JMS seasons

[DrSpengler]

Some of the early seasons are airing on Jetix in the U.K, but that's pretty much it for now, hopefully we don't get the dreaded post-JMS seasons

Well, JMS worked on 4 of the seasons, technically.

He did several of the best episodes of season 1, but quit due to the changes made to the show by the producers. One of his scripts (the Grundel) was used in season 2, even though he had quit.

He returned for seasons 4 and 5 but had to water-down a good deal of his stories. So many of them ended being pretty bad (THe Ghostbusters Live From Al Capone's Tomb, Russian About).

The best season, without a doubt, was season 1. It had the best animation (though it fluxated often) as well as the darkest stories and the best voice cast, combined with some really great humour that was never dumbed down too much for children.

Season 1 was 78 episodes, syndicated for the most part but moved to saturday mornings at the very end. Seasons 2 and 3 were, for the most part, pretty awful. They were animated by Toei Studios in Japan and had some, visually, pretty exciting episodes. But for the most part we ended up with crap like "Baby Spookums".

Seasons 4, 5, and 6 were utterly abysmal. Maybe 1 or 2 decent episodes per season. The animation, now being done by Wang Films in Korea, was atrocious. And the humour, the only thing that was keeping the show interesting now that it couldn't be "dark" any more, was aimmed directly at children. That's mostly due to the Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters show that airred for a couple seasons. Truely awful.

Season 1 is magnificent, though. And Season 2 has plenty of damn good moments (Halloween II 1/2, the Boogeyman is Back, the Grundel, It's a Jungle Out There, the Two Faces of Slimer, the Copycat). Season 3, had good animation but only a few winners (The Joke's on Ray, Follow that Herse, Short Stuff, Flip Side, Standing Room Only). Season 4, 5 and 6, not so much (Something's Going Around, Partners in Slime, Janine You've Changed, Revenge of the Ghostmaster).

IMO, Extreme Ghostbusters was superior to the last 3 seasons of the Real Ghostbusters, no matter how bad that show could get.

[ZariusTwo]

IMO, Extreme Ghostbusters was superior to the last 3 seasons of the Real Ghostbusters, no matter how bad that show could get.


Four words

"Back In The Saddle"

For obvious reasons, the tightest episodes of Extreme Ghostbusters, (some of the original voice actors coming back to voice thier characters etc) one great aspect about that show was that it could really be a true sequel to the original series when it wanted to be.

It could have done without the female though...blech...

[DrSpengler]

Extreme Ghostbsuters was a mixxed bag. There was some incredibly dark story-telling that put the first season of the Real Ghostbusters to shame (the Chinese Bone Demon was nuts), some very clever humour and enough subtle and obvious references to the original show to please hardcore fans.

Yet it failed anyway. Mostly because the new team was absolutely unlikeable. One PC stereotype after another.

Back in the Saddle was an excellent series finale, though (even if it was shown out of order, accidentilly, it was meant to be the series finale). I didn't like the idea of the Real Ghostbusters having gotten so old in only 5 years, but it was great seeing them back none-the-less.