Warner Home Video Expands Their Catalogue of Classic Animation with the Highly Anticipated DVD Release of ``Top Cat: The Complete Series'' and ``The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season''.BURBANK, Calif. -- Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. : --Part of the Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection, "Top Cat: The Complete Series"; "The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season" as well as "The Man Called Flintstone," The First Full-length Tune-Full Adventure, will be Available in Stores December 7th The king of Bedrock meets the king of the alley when "Top Cat," Manhattan's slickest alley cat alley cat n. A homeless or stray cat. Noun 1. alley cat - a homeless cat domestic cat, Felis catus, Felis domesticus, house cat - any domesticated member of the genus Felis and "The Flintstones," America's favorite stone-age family come to DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. on December 7, 2004. Part of the Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection Series on DVD, Warner Home Video (WHV WHV Wilhelmshaven (Northern Germany, Headquarters of the German Navy) WHV Warner Home Video WHV Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus WHV Working Holiday Visa WHV Westdeutscher Hockey-Verband (West German hockey association) ) brings these legendary animated series to consumers, each beautifully packaged in a deluxe collector's box set, featuring loads of bonus features sure to dazzle even the most expert connoisseur of cartoons. "Top Cat: The Complete Series;" "The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season" along with "The Man Called Flintstone," which is the first full-length adventure featuring The Flintstones, will be available in stores on December 7, 2004. "Top Cat: The Complete Series" and "The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season" will be available for $44.98 DVD (SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. ). "The Man Called Flintstone" will be available for $19.97 DVD (SRP). "Hanna-Barbera are legendary artists who re-defined the look of animation, paving the way for much of the animation that is on TV today, and ultimately leading cartoons straight into primetime television," commented Christine Martinez, WHV Vice President Non-theatrical Franchise Marketing. She added, "'Top Cat' and 'The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season' are classics that will definitely be a must-have for all cartoon fans and will have viewers feeling like a kid again." "Top Cat: The Complete Series" will be available in a four-disc collector set, featuring over nine hours of content with 90 minutes of DVD bonus features. "The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season" will also be available in a four-disc collector set and contains the original 32 episodes from the series' second season and delivers over 800 minutes of original TV programming and enhanced content. For the first time on DVD, "The Man Called Flintstone" is the animated series first full-length digitally mastered cartoon spy spoof that was produced right after production of the original Flintstones series ended and was intended as a swan song for the characters. Exclusive special features included with "Top Cat: The Complete Series" four disc DVD set will be: --Commentaries on three episodes by several experts in the animation field including: Animation historian, Jerry Beck, writer/animation historians Earl Kress and Mark Evanier Mark Stephen Evanier (born 2 March 1952[1]) is an American writer. Evanier chose to be a writer after witnessing the misery his father felt from working for the Internal Revenue Service and contrasting that with the portrayal of a writer's life on as well as Leo de Lyon Leo De Lyon is a voice actor famous for his role as Spook and Brain in the cartoon Top Cat. In the mid and late seventies he performed on stage as pianist en vocal entertainer and was musical director for several artists s.a. Sandler and Young , who voiced the show's Spook and The Brain characters. --Storyboard Showcase --Retrospective Featurette entitled "Hoagy's Alley: The Making of Top Cat" --Cool Cats in Interview Alley featuring Arnold Stang Arnold Stang (born September 28, 1925 in Chelsea, Massachusetts) is a comic actor who plays a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type. Never known as a solo performer (despite the existence of an unsold television pilot called The Arnold Stang Show (Top Cat), Leo de Lyon (Spook and the Brain), Marvin Kaplan Marvin Kaplan (born January 24, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York) is a character actor and voice artist. Kaplan is probably best known for his recurring role on the 1970's sitcom Alice where he portrayed a phone company employee named Henry who frequented Mel's diner. (Choo, Choo) and Barry Blitzer ("Top Cat" writer) --"Top Cat" sing-along --"Top Cat" art collection --"Top Cat" Kellogg's commercials "The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season" bonus features include: --Commentary on three episodes by layout artist, Jerry Eisenberg, writer/animation historian Earl Kress and cartoonist/Hanna-Barbera historian Scott Shaw --"Carved in Stone Adj. 1. carved in stone - no longer changeable; "the agreement is not yet set in stone" set in stone unchangeable - not changeable or subject to change; "a fixed and unchangeable part of the germ plasm"-Ashley Montagu; "the unchangeable seasons"; "one of the : The Flintstones Phenomenon" - A retrospective documentary --"And Now a Word from Our Sponsor" -- Sponsor interstitials that include One-A-Day Vitamins, Welch's Grape Juice, Kitchen Rich Cookies and Carnation carnation: see pink. carnation Herbaceous plant (Dianthus caryophyllus) of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean, widely cultivated for its fringe-petaled, often spicy-smelling flowers. Evaporated Milk --Songs of the Flintstones featuring original TV voices, starring Fred & Wilma Flintstone Wilma Flintstone (née Slaghoople-- see below), is a fictional character in the popular television animated series The Flintstones. She is the red-headed wife of caveman Fred Flintstone, daughter of Pearl Slaghoople, mother of Pebbles Flintstone and a grandmother. as well as Barney and Betty Rubble --How to Draw Fred Flintstone Frederick F. "Fred" Flintstone, also known as "Fred W. Flintstone" in at least one episode, is a fictional character who originated in the popular television animated series The Flintstones. Fred has since appeared in various other cartoon spinoffs and commercials. -- An original archival piece --Flintstone Art -- A menu-based feature where viewers can explore rare animation cells and background accompanied by Bedrock sound effects Featuring its signature swinging big band theme song, "Top Cat" is one of Hanna-Barbera's most enduring creations. Inspired by the hit '50's TV comedy series "The Phil Silvers Show," "Top Cat" premiered in 1961 and ran for 30 episodes. Top Cat is the smooth-talking New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. cat known as T.C. to his merry bunch of Manhattan alley cats --Benny the Ball, Choo-Choo, Spook, the Brain and Fancy-Fancy. They are always on the make towards a big score or swindle swindle v. to cheat through trick, device, false statements or other fraudulent methods with the intent to acquire money or property from another to which the swindler is not entitled. Swindling is a crime as one form of theft. (See: fraud, theft) . And the bothersome and ever exasperated Office Dibble is relentlessly on his case trying to evict the gang from Hoagy's Alley. Like "The Flintstones," "Top Cat" was first screened primetime on US television. The prehistoric and prehistorically funny legacy of "The Flintstones" grows larger on DVD with this fabulous 32-episode 4-disc set of "The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season." A perfect alchemy of adult humor, outlandish plots and childish pranks, The Flintstones offered cartoon characters that, over time, appear even more human and multidimensional than many of their live-action TV situation comedy counterparts. But the biggest ongoing series treat -- the one that hooks each new generation is the sight gag of dinosaurs performing as "modern" appliances such as lawnmowers, airplanes, vacuum cleaners, and garbage disposals. "The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season" is full of such visual delights and classic episodes. After completing the 6th and final network TV season of "The Flintstones," William Hanna and Joseph Barbera thought it was time to bring their adventures to the big screen. "The Man Called Flintstone" marked the Stone-aged family's first theatrical film. Originally released in 1966, and making its DVD debut, this feature-length adventure was highly-influenced by the high popularity of James Bond and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., this animated adventure introduces Fred Flintstone as a super spy. He's the kind of guy who'd go down in history except this is the Stone Age and history hasn't been invented yet. Our man from Bedrock takes on the mission of an injured super agent who looks exactly like Fred. His task: find the arch-baddie Green Goose and stop his world-domination plan. So, pretending to be on a modern Stone-Age family vacation, Fred wings overseas to Eurock for some wild and woolly-mammoth intrigue. This is one spy caper caper, common name for members of the Capparidaceae, a family of tropical plants found chiefly in the Old World and closely related to the family Cruciferae (mustard family). that won't be finished 'til it's yabba-dabba-done! "The Flintstones: Second Season" is a follow up to WHV's release of "The Flintstones'" first season, which was made available to consumers in a specially packaged box set in March 2004. For more information on this and other titles distributed by Warner Home Video, visit www.whvdirect.com. Artwork is downloadable at www.WHVDirect.com or by request. |
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