Real Ghostbusters Coming to DVD -- Completely!
 

A Complete Series set for Real Ghostbusters is planned for later this year, done by Time Life!

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Real-Gh...te-Series/9711

This is epic news. Though one thing disturbs me:

They say that the set will have "just over 100 episodes". The Real Ghostbusters ran for 140 episodes, while Slimer! (which they seemed to imply would be included) ran for 33 episodes. "Just over 100" wouldn't cover the complete series. Hmmm...

Still, this sounds magnificent.

The "Just over 100 episodes" note is rather awkward. But the disc count (26) certainly sounds like it would have all of the episodes.

S.O.B.!! :x:x:x *prepares to go broke for a few years after that purchase* I was bankrupt for at least six months after buying the Best of The Muppet Show collection from them... :tgrumble: I sure do hope they include the pilot or whatever it was they showed on their TGIF-hosted preview special where the characters all more closely resembled their movie counterparts.

It's good news and bad news.... I want season setes yes (or even volume by volume), not the entire series, and a 26 disk set will cost well over a hundred dollars. Well Well over. And since its from Time Life, they'll be the only ones selling it, so there's not even a competitive price.

And in all honesty, I'd rather ONLY have the earlier episodes. I don't want the Slimer cartoons at all.

It's better than nothing, but I was hoping for a wide release brick and mortar release of single seasons (or volumes of X amount of episodes).

yea!!! I'm wicked happy to hear about thi new I' love the Real Ghost busters what an awsome series!

*DrTooth*

Well, the price may be a little high. But, from checking Time Life's site before, the Get Smart Set they have available is a 25-Disc Set going for $199.95. So Real Ghostbuster will probably be in that range (which isn't too shabby for such a large set).

This neat, but I'm definantly not getting it due to the likely high price.

I'm glad they didn't do TMNT like this (altought, considering how slugishly the series is being released It wouldn't have been all bad).

I'm just really disappointed. This is the extreme to the other side of the problem we had before. I wanted to see season by seasons, and buy maybe the first 2 or 3 season, and ignore all the Slimer episodes all togethjer.

I also wished that they'd drop the Get Smart License by the time the movie came out, but sadly, they didn't. We only get Get Smarter or Get Smart Again, or whatever it was called.

I'm glad that they were able to put it in sets, but 200 bucks for a whole set when you only want a a few seasons sounds unreasonable to me.

I don't understand why Sony didn't sublicense it to its offspring company, Shout. Their DVD sets were well priced and well done.

Actually, since you have the option of getting the first two seasons of Get Smart outside of the set, I can't imagine they would only offer RGB in its 'complete series' set. Even if that wasn't a reason, they'd be idiots to make this the only way to get the show as they'd miss hundreds or more potential sales. So, all the individual volumes may not be available right away, but I'll bet they will be eventually.

Hah. If they have induvidual volumes, I WILL order these from them. Of course, I could wind up changing my tune and buying the whole set anyway. That is if one of the job offers I've been getting would actually hire me.

I'm still wondering about why Get Smart hasn't gone through the same treatment as Beavis and Butt-Head, The Muppet Show, and Fat Albert, and getting a secondary license to release these in stores. The Columbia/Sony released Muppet show disks were basically just rereleased Time Life best ofs anyway... B&B and Fat Albert were both released in volumes though.

This is fantastic news,I had tears in my eyes reading the article.

Im glad theres not gonna be season-by-season sets,it would take to long to get all of them.

Dr. Tooth,I can understand that you would like season-by-season sets because of the high price but this is much better because even if someone cant afford it right away then they can save up and have the whole series in one purchase...besides,this doesnt release til fall so theres time for people to save up for it.

As far as the "done in one" approach goes, I can totally understand the hesitations people are having.

However, I look at it this way: how long has it taken us to get the first six seasons of the old TMNT toon from Lions Gate? How many years? And there are still four more seasons to go. How many years will it take us to get those? Will they even finish?

With a complete series set, expensive as it may be, we get the instant gratification of having the whole series at once instead of spread over five years AND we get the comfort of knowing that all the episodes will be released and we won't be left hanging ala Gargoyles or GI Joe.

Add to that the fact that you'd probably be spending MORE money buying each individual season set than if you just bought the complete series set, and I see more positives to this approach than negatives.

Since we have an idea of when the set is coming out (and its gonna be a while), we have plenty of time to start saving. So even if the set is $200 bucks, if we start saving now we should be able to afford it by release time.

Thats very true,I had forgotten about that.Season sets usually cost $30.

I wanna get all of the "Friends" DVDs,The Complete Series is $180 on Amazon but buying the seprate box sets would cost around $300...plus Complete series usuually come with nice bonus stuff like collector tins what-not.

I've been so excited about this since I heard the rumors. Now I can forget about those piddly lil' 3-4 episode collections and save up for this bad boy.

As far as the episode number controversy, here's the answer: There were not 140 episodes to the series, but 140 stories, since some of the episodes had 2 different stories.

I don't care what it costs, I'll sell an organ if it comes to it. Then none of you will hear from me, because I'll be locked in my house, on dialysis, watching the complete Real Ghostbusters back to back.

Well, that still doesn't solve the problem. If you counted the episodes with 2 15-minute stories as a single episode, then the count would be 134 instead of 140. That's still more than "just over" 100 episodes.

Additionally, "The Halloween Door" was originally a TV special, and if DuckTales season 1 and TMNT season 5 taught us anything, its that companies don't include TV specials in catalogues alongside TV episodes. So there's a chance that might go missing.

On top of that, several episodes have been cut for both content and time over the years. The recent Ren & Stimpy DVDs have proved that companies that are ignorant of this ocassionally use the edited versions of episodes instead of the original ones (despite plastering "uncut" on the box).

So I'm still a little concerned. But still excited!

Yeah... that's all true. It would be nice if we got all of it, but at least we'll have more than has ever been available.

dialysis? You mean you aren't plainning to give up your left nut for the Real Ghostbusters? ;) Unless you aren't going to castrate your self you're not a true RGB fan . ;):lol:

I am mostly looking forward for the first two seasons (as well as season three) of the Real Ghostbusters when the show was more scary and gritty, and Peter was voiced by Lorenzo Music and Janine was still spunky. Though the other seasons still had some good episodes too I just didn't like the watering down.

Here's an interresting developement reguarding another Time Life Released DVD. Talks of this series heading to retail just came up

Get Smart

This, of course, being another in a long line of Time Life DVD's that came to retail (The Muppet Show ones were rereleased exactly the same by Sony, while Entertainment rights and Urban Works released a different style of Fat Albert sets). It makes me curious about the future of the Ghostbuster DVD's....

^ Checked that out, and seems the retail Get Smart Season 1 is an 'alternate version'. As it's not going to have the Bonus Disc Time Life's release has, and possibly not have the Commentary either.

So have to watch out if do get a retail release on Ghostbusters (if such a thing might happen, too).

does any body remember a version of the Ghostbusters called "The Extreme ghostbusters"? It had diffrent characters but I believe one of the orginal ghostbusters from the first series was in. I remember watching it when I was a little kid.

Yes, it was basically a follow-up series. Airing in the 90s, the show has 40 episodes.

The RGB characters that returned in main roles were Egon, Janine and Slimer. While Peter, Winston and Ray appeared in a 2-Parter near the end.

Weren't they regulars in the following eps as well?

In Extreme Ghostbusters Peter, Ray and Winston were just in the 2-Parter. And there were only 2 episodes aired after the 2-Parter anyway (but they weren't in them).

"The Sphinx" and "Witchy Woman", which were aired after the "Back in the Saddle" 2-parter were actually aired out of order. The official production list shows that "Back in the Saddle" was the intended series/season finale. Which makes sense, since it's so ****ing epic.

I just hope if they release the entire series, they don't package it like this

Shudder shudder shudder.... Way to turn a disk set into a nice collection of colorful beverage coasters.

i enjoyed Extreme ghostbusters. It was in a sence darker and more ballsey in content and story telling than even the Real ghost busters where on occassion. It was a good follow-up series and I actually got attached to the new characters. It fit in perfectly as a revival of the franchise with diffrent characters and didn't seemed to forced. My only minor gripe was the whole forced air of "lets have the main characters be so blatantly diverse sterotypes" aprouch that was prominent in the 90's. They had a goth girl with a brain, a guy in a wheel who was Mr. Athalete, a cultured black guy with asperations of being a Ivy league memeber, and a slacker smart-ass hyspanic who was the tocken screw-up of the group. They where more than just their sterotypes and had depth and layers but all these diffrent catogories was a bit patranizing none the less. Regardless i still loved Extreme Ghost busters and wish they had more than one season to the series.

One thing that i'm really hoping that could be realeased with the the box set is the songs that used to play in RGB. It was one of the things that i rrally enjoyed about the series was the cool 80's songs that would play in the back ground in some scenes. And these wheren't silly cartoon songs but songs that sounded like some actual artist was doing them and actually put some effert into the lyrics. I would really like to get a CD of they songs because they where pretty good. I especially liked the song of the bansee sung in the episode Banshee bake a cheery pie?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Vi64KxMMU

song at 3:34

Extreme Ghostbusters is a series that has a bum rap. I really wish they had a different name, like Ghostbusters: the New Gerneration or something like that. Extreme was a buzzword that kids who didn't do sports (not even mainstream ones, let alone extreme) liked to see on their corn syrup and fructose fruit flavored drinks and their extreme sour corn syrup rolls.

There was nothing Extreme about the series. They even had Slimer back to his initial, not talking camera mugging form. Almost out of the movie. In fact, in a lot of ways, this show was better than the last Slimer-centric seasons of the Real GB.

I can't wait to these hit the stores. I adored the the Real ghostbusters back in the day. My favorite Ghostbuster was Peter Venkman. 8) For all of you hard core RGB fans which Janine did you like better? Janine from seasons one through two where she a cute but kinda of geeky looking with the nasaly new york accent voice or Janine from three through seven where they changed her looks and softened her personality to be all mother like?

^ Well, still don't know when/if they'll do a retail release of Real Ghostbusters Seasons. This Complete Series Set is going to be from Time Life.

In the meantime, as far as Ghostbusters go:

Check this out

Woo-hoo!!!!! More stuff I feel compelled to buy with money I need for things like clothing, food & shelter!

Who needs all of that when you can surround yourself with toys that bring back fond childhood memories?

Yeah! I remember when Neca had the license to the Ghostbusters movie, but for some reason couldn't get the agreement of all the actors, hense we never got the Ghostbusters themselves.

So either one of 2 things...

Mediacom has more money, or they were able to get by on a "they have no noses, so therefore we have a loophole" technicality.

More news for this release--

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Real-Gh...onfirmed/10021


Main aspects of the news are the possibility of 27 or 28 Discs to the Set (the initial news saying 26); and *Andy Mangels* brought on to the project.

Any approximates for the release date yet? Admittedly, I'm more stoked about The Real Ghostbusters DVDs than the game (which I'm sure will be a great success). But, it's safe to assume the two will be released within a couple weeks of each other.

Time life wants are help in selecting the box art for the complete series release.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.net/graphics...GB-Slime-s.jpg http://www.tvshowsondvd.net/graphics...irehouse-s.jpg

Here are the links where to vote:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Rea...k-Voting/10110

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/rgb/index.cfm

I voted for the Firehouse box. That one is just too cool.

I haven't voted yet, but TV Shows has another update on the Set (having: release date, contents, and price for it)--

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Real-Gh...-Details/10112

Agreed. And it really fits in with other complete series DVD sets that look like houses and objects from the series (sort of like the Full House complete series shaped like the house).

And 180 bucks isn't cheap, but it's hardly as bad as I thought it would be. I was thinking 300+ dollars. And the special features sound amazing. I'm really going to try to get this one.

Press release Confirming the number of disks and special features.