Real Ghostbusters Coming to DVD -- Completely!

[Jon]

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

[DrSpengler]

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.

[Jon]

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

[gobo]

S.O.B.!! *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... 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.

[Drtooth]

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).

[Sage Ninja]

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

[Jon]

*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).

[ToTheNines]

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).

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Jon

*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).

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.

[gobo]

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.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by gobo

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.

[Wildcat]

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.

[DrSpengler]

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.

[Wildcat]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

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

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.

[CudleyCowlick]

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.

[DrSpengler]

Originally Posted by CrazyCowboyDion

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.

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!

[CudleyCowlick]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

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.

[Sage Ninja]

Originally Posted by CrazyCowboyDion

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.

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 .

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.

[Drtooth]

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....

[Jon]

^ 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).