The New Scooby Doo Movies

Anyone pick up The New Scooby Doo Movies "Best Of"?

While I'm happy some of these episodes finally made it to DVD,
most of the fan favorites (the Sonny & Cher, Addams Family, & Jerry
Reed episodes) didn't. I'm sure this was due to rights
issues involving the actors' voices. But this led to a really bad
editing job in the opening credits to each episode.

For those who recall the original airings of these shows, it starts
with Shaggy & Scooby looking up to discover a group shot of the Addams
Family. But since the AF episode isn't on this set,
they went back and took out the Addams Family shot and replaced it with
a scene from another episode. Not only was this poorly edited into the
opening credits, but it was a scene from the haunted castle episode
with Davy Jones, which ironically, isn't included in the set either!

Also, whoever did the audio remastering on these DVDs should be shot.
While I hate having the laugh tracks over these episodes, I could've
learned to tolerate them, but appears that on the most of the episodes
they've cranked up the laugh tracks so loud that at times they overlap
dialogue and you can't hear what people are saying!

Now, I don't want to come off sounding like a total geek, (I'm sure I
did anyway), I just thought those die-hard purists who grew up watching
these shows in their childhood (like me), would want to know about
this.

Anybody else have any thoughts?

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I had considered picking this up but when I heard that the Sonny and
Xher one was not going to be on (the one I remember most vividly) and
the roundabout $50 pricetag, I declined.

It also stinks that they modify the openings too.

About the audio, I think it just reflects the higher dynamic range of
DVD sound. The soundtracks were originally built for more compressed
range TV sound.

I also noted how cranked up the laugh tracks sound on Flintstones and
Hogan's Heros. I think it comes from a more precise recreation of the
original soundtrack with canned laughter mixed in to be able to be heard
on the limited TV audio of the time.

Mike

wrote:
>
> Anyone pick up The New Scooby Doo Movies "Best Of"?
>
> While I'm happy some of these episodes finally made it to DVD,
> most of the fan favorites (the Sonny & Cher, Addams Family, & Jerry
> Reed episodes) didn't. I'm sure this was due to rights
> issues involving the actors' voices. But this led to a really bad
> editing job in the opening credits to each episode.
>
> For those who recall the original airings of these shows, it starts
> with Shaggy & Scooby looking up to discover a group shot of the Addams
> Family. But since the AF episode isn't on this set,
> they went back and took out the Addams Family shot and replaced it with
> a scene from another episode. Not only was this poorly edited into the
> opening credits, but it was a scene from the haunted castle episode
> with Davy Jones, which ironically, isn't included in the set either!
>
> Also, whoever did the audio remastering on these DVDs should be shot.
> While I hate having the laugh tracks over these episodes, I could've
> learned to tolerate them, but appears that on the most of the episodes
> they've cranked up the laugh tracks so loud that at times they overlap
> dialogue and you can't hear what people are saying!
>
> Now, I don't want to come off sounding like a total geek, (I'm sure I
> did anyway), I just thought those die-hard purists who grew up watching
> these shows in their childhood (like me), would want to know about
> this.
>
> Anybody else have any thoughts?

Mike