Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Surf’s Up Scooby-Doo! (DVD)
A new two-disc collection, Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Surf’s Up Scooby-Doo! features a brand new 22-minute cartoon, “Scooby-Doo! and the Beach Beastie.” Frank Welker provides the voice of both Scooby-Doo and Fred, as the whole gang—Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) Velma (Mindy Cohn) and Daphne (Grey Griffin)—as they head out on a vacation to Florida. When a […]
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (DVD)
First introduced in 1969, the adventures of Scooby-Doo—a talking brown Great Dane—and his teenage friends Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville “Shaggy” Rogers who solve crimes involving supposedly supernatural creatures has become a cultural phenomenon. Given the success of several animated series, and live-action films, it’s no surprise that Warner Bros. found success […]
The Facts of Life: The Complete Series Coming to DVD in January 2015
“You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have The Facts of Life…” The Facts of Life: The Complete Series arrives on January 13th, 2015, courtesy of Shout Factory. The Facts of Life: The Complete Series contains all 201 episodes of this quintessential 80s show as originally aired, […]
Blu-ray Review: Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright
The Scooby series’ latest direct-to-video original movie, Stage Fright finds the Mystery Incorporated gang—Fred (voiced by Frank Welker), Daphne (Grey Delisle), Velma Dinkley (Mindy Cohn), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and of course, Scooby-Doo (Welker, again) traveling to an old opera house in Chicago, where auditions are being held for an America’s Got Talent-style TV competition. Everyone […]
DVD Review: Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated – Season 1, Volume 3
The eleventh adaptation of Hanna-Barbera’s Scooby-Doo, the Cartoon Network’s Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated should also be considered a reboot of the series. As I wrote in my review of Volume One, this latest incarnation maintains the essence of the cartoon while bringing the familiar characters into the 21st century. The third volume contains just four […]
DVD Review: Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated – Season One, Volume One
Warner Bros. | 2010 | 88 mins. | NR Scooby-Doo has been around since 1969. In 2010, his eleventh TV series, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated aired on the Cartoon Network. This latest incarnation maintains the essence of the cartoon while bringing the familiar characters into the 21st century. Volume 1 features just four episodes and fairly […]
DVD Review: The Facts of Life – The Complete Fourth Season
Shout Factory | 1983 | 690 mins. | Not Rated A spinoff of the popular sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, The Facts of Life was centered on the goings on at Eastland, a private school for girls in Peekskill, New York. Mrs. Garrett (Charlotte Rae), Left her jobas the Drummond’s Housekeeper to become a dorm housemother, and […]
DVD Review: The Facts of Life – The Complete First and Second Seasons
Going to school in the 1980s, one of my favorite television shows was The Facts of Life. I wanted to be a student at the Eastland School for Girls and I imagined that I would be great friends with Blair, Natalie, Tootie and Jo and that Mrs. Garrett would be the ultimate den mother. So […]