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Archie’s Funhouse: The Complete Series
Filmation (1969/1970), Classic Media/Genius (March 4, 2008), 3 discs, 336 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $29.95 Storyboard: America’s most famous teenager… |
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He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe: Volume Two
…The Universe cartoon craze, when Filmation put out their landmark cartoon in 1983 to tie in with the Mattel toy line that had launched in 1981. Actually, I do recall… |
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Norm Prescott dies aged 78
…radio training did not go to waste, and he spoke for many characters in the {{link http://www.danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/Filmation.html Filmation shows}}, often as narrator, before retiring and becoming somewhat of a recluse… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1
Filmation Studios (September 9, 1985 – November 28, 1987), Classic Media (September 28, 2010), 2 disc set, 430 mins, 1.33:1 original aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated, Retail:… |
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Sabrina, The Teenage Witch: The Complete Animated Series
Filmation (1971), Classic Media/Genius (April 29, 2008), 3 discs, 628 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $29.95 Storyboard: Archie’s magical pal… |
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DVD reviews: Two more from BCI, plus contest winners
…that review over again for the new review; but the fact remains that this film presents the best of what Filmation was capable of. It’s just too bad that the… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 2
Filmation (1980-1981), BCI (July 15, 2008), 2 discs, 396 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $14.98 Storyboard: Two icons of the… |
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Eric Goldberg's Character Animation Crash Course book!
…The release is also important, of course, for presenting the final shows in Filmation’s legendary history; it wasn’t long after these programs aired that the studio closed down. “Bravestarr has… |
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Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection
…away from the quality of the Fleischer series. The New Adventures was devised by Superman’s publishers as a way to keep him on screens and the fledgling Filmation Associates, a… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…revenge against the King who betrayed her many years ago? The Sweatbox Review: Let’s go back in time to the late 1980’s. Filmation Associates, the production company behind He-Man and… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
Entertainment Distributors/Filmation Studios/Atlantic Releasing/JVC (November 22 1985), MGM DVD (June 21 2005), single disc, 100 mins, 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital Stereo Surround, Rated PG, Retail: $14.98 Storyboard: Set on… |
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Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
Hey gang! Rand has jumped back into the Filmation world to deliver his thoughts on a show that proved comics adaptations didn’t have to mean super heroics. The Archie Show… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…Best Of BraveStarr Filmation/BCI/Eclipse (July 3, 2007), 2 discs, 230 mins plus supplements, $25 Without question, BCI have been doing an amazing job with their Filmation titles, reaching far into… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…Complete Series / DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures One of the most surprising hybrid highlights of the year just had to be the live-action Speed Racer movie from the… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…set overwhelms the single Looney Tunes and anime outings. It would have been nice to see, in addition, something here from Filmation, another big player of the era. This would… |
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She-Ra DVD details
Follow the ‘More’ link to see DVD box art and extensive details on the special features for Filmation’s She-Ra: Princess of Power® DVD due out on July 18. Fans will… |
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Little King and Bravestarr's best, plus hi-def gripes
…of Filmation around these parts too, and will be bringing you our coverage of the recent Warner Bros. releases of both The New Adventures Of Superman and The New Adventures… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…creation of his finest incarnation in Batman: The Animated Series. It had been years since the last Batman cartoon had aired on television, that being Filmation’s The New Adventures of… |
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A double dose of Sabrina
…a look at the recent release of Filmation’s Sabrina The Teenage Witch show from the early 1970s. The Archie spin-off contains much of the charm of the other Archie shows,… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
New on the site in this new week is a review of Filmation Studios’ Journey Back To Oz, the closest the company ever got to creating anything approaching a truly… |
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Jackson up for Tintin; plus Venture and Ghostbusters reviews
…take a look at the other animated spook-hunting show from the 1980s, Filmation’s Ghostbusters, now out in a pretty nice six-disc Volume 1 collection. The series will be completed with… |
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Josie And The Pussycats: The Complete Series
…franchise for CBS and Filmation, it was only natural that the network would attempt to duplicate its success. Instead of using Filmation, however, the job went to Hanna-Barbera, who had… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…way for acceptance of more action-adventure American cartoon shows such as 1966’s Filmation series The New Adventures Of Superman. Perhaps inspired by the Saturday morning success of The Mighty Mouse… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 2
…DVD. But here it is! Yes, this was a cartoon based on the terrible yet great 1960s sitcom classic Gilligan’s Island, with animation by Filmation. All the characters but the… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 1
…Filmation (every other series on this DVD set is from Hanna-Barbera). I was surprised that Warner had the home video rights for Tarzan— now we’ll really have to bug them… |
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Scrat's director; new BCI live-action; Flushed deals!
…and these two could well be of interest to hard-core 70s animation fans, seeing as they were executive produced by Filmation’s Lou Scheimer. First up (and spawning an animated series… |
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Hobbits, Floyd Norman, Lone Ranger, Zorro, Moses…what a line-up!
…for another slice of nostalgia is our own Randall Cyrenne, who has served up his childhood memories of a classic Filmation show for a review of The New Adventures Of… |
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What the heck? Cult animation, live-action and seals in love!
…the live-action Filmation show The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series, a spin-off from Shazam! which sounds like tremendously bonkers fun! Coming shortly before Jamie Summers and Diana Prince provided… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume One
…still remembered the overwhelming ratings success that Filmation had had with The Adventures Of Superman (beginning in 1966), and so they looked at doing their own adaptation of DC’s heroes…. |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…ends I could find, such as Filmation’s kitschy but fun 1960s and ’70s versions of Superman, Batman and Aquaman. Apart from that diet of screen gems, I watched the regular… |
