[78-L] Rocky and Bullwinkle

[David Lennick]

According to a recent update on WackyPackia, the release date for the complete 
set is January 11. The Toronto StarWeek Magazine says January 4.

 From Wacky, re DVD sets:

In 2002, Jay Ward Productions established a partnership with Classic Media 
called Bullwinkle Studios. In 2003 and 2004, the partnership produced DVDs of 
the first two seasons of the series, which were renamed (for legal reasons) 
Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends. These sets were followed by season 3 in September 
2005, and season 4 nearly 5 years later, in August 2010.[26] According to a 
pamphlet accompanying the DVDs for the first season, the DVDs use the second 
season opening, which Ward's daughter Tiffany says was her father's favorite. 
However, the DVDs for the third and fourth seasons use the opening and closing 
from the first season. The DVDs for the first two seasons replaced the original 
music with themes Ward produced for the third season.

The DVD releases of the shows differ from the originals. The renaming of the 
show to "Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends" led to the sometimes clumsy 
superimposition of the new title onto preexisting opening credits and interior 
bumpers.[27] A Bill Conrad impersonator was used to announce the new title, 
which viewers found jarring.[27] A semi-transparent "R & B" logo appears for 
five seconds at the beginning of each segment. Some segments were moved from 
their placement in the original episodes.

In 2005, Bullwinkle Studios released a series of "best of" DVD compilations of 
popular segments of the series: two volumes of "The Best of Rocky and 
Bullwinkle", plus the single-volume "The Best of Boris and Natasha", "The Best 
of Mr. Peabody and Sherman", and "The Best of Dudley Do-Right". These 
compilations contain episodes from the entire run of the show, including the 
otherwise-unreleased season five.

On August 17, 2010, Classic Media released the complete 4th season of Rocky and 
Bullwinkle on DVD.

On January 11, 2011, Classic Media will release Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends- 
The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1.[28]

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On 1/1/2011 10:21 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> I see the COMPLETE Rocky and Bullwinkle is coming out next week (in Canada,
> maybe it's already out in the States). Does anyone know if this will
> incorporate the existing sets or be completely re-done? I got so fed up with
> the two minutes it took to get through the cutesy-poo menu each freakin' time I
> wanted to watch one episode (and try and remember what I'd last looked at) that
> I just gave up and buried the sets on the shelf.
>
> dl
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