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Rating:  -
This was one of the 1st cartoons I ever watched when I first had my eyes open. The quality is great and am still enjoying the memories.
Very Good!! Thank You
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that this collection was being released to DVD I was deeply saddened. I recall with great enthusiasm, how much I despised this series even as a child. Lou Scheimer is without a doubt the worst thing to happen to animation ....EVER!!! His "work" makes the worst output from Hanna-Barbera look like great art. If this talentless hack didn't have his rotoscope he'd have nothing. It never occurred to him that whatever deficiencies there were in the animation could be easily overlooked by a good script. This production was for the paycheck and nothing more. This collection is a vast waste of time and money.
I didn't think that anything could make the already great "Animated Series' look better, but this collection does exactly that. Purchase those collections and leave this tripe to rot and be forgotten as it deserves.
Rating:  -
In my opinion everything about this DVD release from Warner Studios is a complete disappointment to fans of this wonderful 1970's Filmation show. The packaging is the absolute cheapest I've ever purchased and the quality of the discs is positively terrible. For the price of this set, you'll receive a very cheap cardboard package that includes one single sided disc and one double sided disc. The discs also sit on top of one another making them extremely hard to remove and increasing the chance of scratching them, if they're not already.
I pre-ordered this set from Amazon and when I received it I was upset to find that the discs were already full of fingerprints, smudges and scratches. I contacted Amazon customer service immediately and they issued a replacement set without hesitation. When the second set arrived it was riddled with deep scratches, more fingerprints and some kind of residue on the discs. I contacted Amazon once again and they told me to send the set back so they could contact Warner Studios about the problem. I also sent an email to Warner Studios and I still haven't received a reply regarding the poor quality from them. Finally I contacted a reputable DVD review site and explained the problem to them. I was later informed that Warner Studios doesn't do their own actual DVD replicating, they just put their name on the final packaging. Congratulations Warner Studios, once again you have disappointed me with an inferior product bearing your name.
When it comes to customer service Warner, you could learn a thing or two from Amazon. Fortunately I was able to clean the fingerprints and smudges, but the scratches still remain. Even with the obnoxious Bat Mite character I still give this show four stars for entertainment, but the packaging and scratched discs deserve two stars. I hope this information is helpful to fans of this show and they don't encounter the same problem as I did.
DVD Episodes:
1. The Pest [22:49]
2. The Moonman [22:42]
3. Trouble Identity [22:46]
4. A Sweet Joke on Gotham City [22:42]
5. The Bermuda Rectangle [22:46]
6. Bite-Sized [22:46]
7. Reading, Writing & Wronging [22:46]
8. The Chameleon [22:46]
9. He Who Laughs Last [22:52]
10. The Deep Freeze [22:44]
11. Dead Ringers [22:46]
12. Curses! Oiled Again! [22:42]
13. Birds of a Feather Fool Around Together [22:14
14. Have an Evil Day - Part 1 [22:14]
15. Have an Evil Day - Part 2 [22:45]
16. This Looks Like a Job For Bat-Mite! [22:46]
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary: "Bat-Commentary" - An audio commentary from Filmation historian Michael Swanigan and Filmation founder Lou Schiemer on two of the episodes from the series.
Documentary Featurette: "Dark Knight Revisited" (1977 marked Batman's return to television in Filmations "New Adventures of Batman" Interviews from the President of DC Comics and the President of Warner Bros try to shed some insight into the legacy of the Batman character.
Thanks to Lou Schiemer and his Filmation Studios for all the wonderful characters and memories he gave us.
Rating:  -
Bat-mite. The very mention of his name induces collective groans and sends a shudder down the spines of Batfans everywhere and with good reason. He is probably the most reviled sidekick to have come along until he was dethroned by Jar-Jar Binks. Filmation's 1977 animated Saturday morning The New Adventures of Batman will always be remembered, for better or worse (probably the latter) for featuring the short, mousy, impish Bat-wannabe with magical powers from the Mxyzptlk universe (voiced by producer Lou Scheimer) and the precursor of He-man's Orko. That was the only thing I had remembered from this 1977 CBS cartoon other than it featured the voices of Adam West and Burt Ward, the live-action Dynamic Duo from the campy 60's TV show. Not to be confused with the 1968 animated The Adventures of Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder which featured the voices of Casey Kasem and Olan Soule who were the regular voices for their characters on Challenge of the Superfriends, the competing series airing concurrently on the ABC network produced by Hanna-Barbera. Revisting this cartoon again on DVD it still retains most of that 60's camp no-thanks to the annoying Bat-Mite who was obviously thrown in to appeal to the kiddies but instead of being a continuation of the 60's TV show, The New Adventures of Batman takes the Dynamic Duo into the 70's giving it a more urbanized look and feel. The traditional Rogues Gallery of villains make their appearances including the Joker with his laughing hyena, Penquin, Mr. Freeze, Clayface, and Zardor, the Bat-Mite villain from his home planet Ergo. Melendy Britt who voiced Princess Aura on Filmation's Flash Gordon provides the voices for Batgirl and Catwoman. The Riddler and Scarecrow were verboten as they were in use by the competing Hanna-Barbera on Challenge of the Superfriends. Reciprocally, they could not use the Joker on Challenge of the Superfriends for the very same reason as Filmation had the rights to the character. The DVD packaging is almost as detested as Bite-Mite himself with bland artwork printed on a cheap cardboard slipcase holding 2 DVDs, one of which is a dual-sided DVD-9 which can be easily scratched. It seems these were given the rush treatment to get them out there without much consideration to marketing it to the fans. There's a good 18-minute documentary called The Dark Knight Revisited on the B-side of the disc that goes into the history of Batman in animated form with excellent interviews with writer Paul Dini (Batman: TAS), comic writer/editor Dennis O'Neil and Mark Hamill (the voice of the Joker on Batman: TAS) that make this set worth the purchase alone. It's a crime that Warner Bros. didn't give this DVD a more respectable treatment with better packaging, artwork, and commentaries, but it seems the controversial Bat-mite may have tarnished forever the credibility and reputation of this arguably classic Filmation series, branding it the bastard step-child of the animated Bat. As Batman himself would say, "Crime doesn't pay."
Rating: -
A whole lot of 60's Batman fans are gonna hate me for this one, but I'm sorry...while I couldn't get enough of the hokey Batman & Robin fashion of the 60's as a little kid, I grew to love the original Dark Knight persona of Batman from the 80's to the present, no exceptions. This collection is good for historical value but not for nutritional. Felt like I was watching Suiperfriends with only Batman & Robin. BOOOOOOO!
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