Classic toons and more recent hit shows arrive on the popular DVD format in multiple disc sets today in the form of The Flintstones: The Complete Fourth Season, The Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume 1, The Yogi Bear Show: The Complete Series, Home Movies Season Three and Winx Club Volume 2: The Power of Dragon Fire. In addition, SpongeBob SquarePants fans can pick up the ‘Where’s Gary?’ double-length episode from Paramount Home Entertainment.
All 26 episodes from the fourth season of The Flintstones are re-mastered, restored and included in a four-disc set from Warner Home Video. In addition to the season that introduced the mighty Bamm-Bamm to the Rubble household, the set offers such extras as audio commentary by historians and writers on the episodes ‘Ann Margrock Presents’ and ‘Little Bamm-Bamm’, a documentary on theme song composer Hoyt Curtin and a look back at how The Flintstones became the first primetime animated series.
Also from Warner Home Video comes The Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume 1, a four-disc set with 26 episodes of the show about a blue dog with a slow, Southern drawl. Extras include reassembled episodes, a tribute to legendary voice talent Daws Butler, "Huckleberry Quotes,’ and a featurette titled Huckleberry Hound: A Linguistical Masterpiece, a humorous interpretation by a linguistics professor.
Rounding out this wave of releases from the Warner vault is The Yogi Bear Show: The Complete Series. All 35 re-mastered and restored original episodes are included on four discs, along with bonus features such as a time capsule look at the original pilot episode, a featurette on the art of Hanna-Barbera sound, a stills gallery featuring never-before-seen animation sketches, and a curiosity titled Yogi Gets Global, which presents a single episode translated into a variety of languages. Each of the Warner Home Video sets mentioned carries a suggested retail price of $44.98.
Fans of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim will want to pick up Home Movies Season Three, a three-discer with 13 episodes of show currently airing in reruns during the late-night animation block. Among the bonus materials are commentary tracks, animatics for select episodes, A Featurette for People Who Don’t Necessarily Like Home Movies by Jon Benjamin, a music video and an the ‘Decide Your Doom’ game Revenge of the Dorks. The set is available from Shout! Factory for around $34.98.
For girls, the weekly DVD drop includes Winx Club Volume 2: The Power of Dragon. Included are six episodes of 4Kids Ent.’s cartoon series about a group of tween friends who attend the Alfea School for Fairies, the oldest and most prestigious fairy school in the magic dimension. The show airs in the U.S. during the 4Kids TV Saturday morning block and on Cartoon Network. This latest home video release can be had for $14.98.
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