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The Real Ghostbusters - Spooky Spirits

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I want to go ahead and officially start a petition of sorts that demands a season 1 DVD set of The Real Ghostbusters! Give us what we want SONY.

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These DVD releases of The Real Ghostbusters were a long time coming. This was one of the few Saturday morning cartoons that had some continuity and smarts to it as well as the blending of supernatural and science fiction in a way fun for both kids and some adults. The reason I'm not too thrilled is because this is just four episodes from the series, and they aren't even in any particular order. They try and set this DVD with a theme and pick out episodes close to that theme, but in my opinion they should have just put an entire season into one complete set. Good episodes are being missed here. The episodes on this DVD, according to my sources, are as follows (all eps are from season 1):

Revenge of Murray the Mantis - Spirits take over a balloon (of a preying mantis) in the Thanksgiving Day parade and the boys have to release Stay-Puft to battle the bug.

Ghostbuster of the Year - Self explanatory. The boys compete for man of the year.

Drool the Dogfaced Goblin - The boys find a goblin at a circus as well as an unamalgamated shape shifter

Mr Sandman Dream Me a Dream - The Sandman attacks New York and Winston is the only one awake to stop him.

I've heard nothing about extra features and considering the starting price on these DVDs I wouldn't expect any. We'll be lucky if they cleaned up the video and audio. I just hope they decide to add other collections that include other good episodes (season one had over 70 eps in all). Still these are good ones and most of them are written by the guy who created Babylon 5. If you remember the T.V. show and think the price is right on this collection, by all means go for it.

Ok,I know that buying this the studio will see if customers are interested in the show but Sony should make an effort and release complete seasons sets.Fans will buy more sets even if prize is higher.This Dvd has many flaws.No commentary or special features.Image quality is bad in some episodes.But has CC and I have bought similar Dvds with 2,3 o 4 eps that hasn't any(cheap transfer and unknown studios)that hasn't any and had a higher prize.

I enjoyed these little Ghostbusters teasers, but like everybody else, I wish they would put out the whole thing. There were 7 seasons with tons of episodes & then later the Extreme Ghostbusters show. They were all funny & very well-written (even the Slimer shows from the later seasons). I'd buy all of them. If that other Ghostbuster show with the monkey is putting their lame stuff on DVD, it's time for the REAL Ghostbusters to do their thing. Box sets for every season, please!

This volume contains four episodes. In ghostbuster of the year. The ghostbuster head to hearse castle to capture a ghost to win ghostbuster of the year award. Can they solve the mystery one there own our will the reunite together solve the mystery with the word rosebud as there only clue to the ghosts intensions. In revenge of Murry the Mantisis a superpowerful ghost enty posses a mantisis ballon when it pops ion the perade a real gigant mantis apparition with a gozzer guardian high power level is released and threatens the city. The ghostbuster can not defeat the mantisis on there own. In order to defeat murry and save the city the ghostbuster have only one choice. They must set free the big guy the staypuff marshmellow man he bust engage murry in a battle royal of godzilla portions can the massive 2000 tons marsmellow enties power and the proton beams bring down this over grown deadly mantisis want to be. In drool the dog face goblin they encounter a dog like goblin in a traveling show in the mountains. Shortly after words a huge evil ghost attack then is drool the evil monster they seek find out in thrilling conclusioon. Finally in Mr. Sandman in my dreams when the war hating sand man tries to put the world to sleep for 500 hundred years it's up to the ghost buster to burst his sandbag and defeat his nightmares creations before the whole word ins plunged into a 5 century slumber can they can this formible spirits find out in the magical and wonderful conclusion

Hardcore fans of the series will not be disappointed with this compilation, even though it is not the full boxed set that we have been begging for since 1992. The title of the compilation seems more worthy of a Scooby-Doo disc set, but don't let the title keep you from purchasing the disc. Each disc's episodes were selected around a theme, in this case, "spirits." The episodes appear the way they originally aired and do not appear to have been edited or cut. The images appear to have been retouched; the colors are somewhat more vibrant, but still keep the muted tones that marked the show. Although the characters' appearances on the front cover have ben updated, the artwork inside and on the disc remains the same.
My only complaint was the lack of special features and the lack of a foreign language track.
Younger children who did not grow up with the series may be somewhat frightened by the images and themes in some episodes.

Sony just released these three discs to see if people would actually buy them, and i must say that this is great! i bought all three and am just waiting for the boxed sets to be released. Although there are no extras at all or subtitles (i love subtitles)i'd still recommend them and the boxed sets (if they come out anytime soon).

I don't understand the fuss about only being 4 episodes this is how it was released on vhs. It did not seem to bother anyone then. Anyhow I am just glad to get them on dvd. They could of picked better episodes like Boodunnit and When Halloween was forever.

The storys are funny, spooky with a big dose of mystery thrown in. Doesn't get any better.

Well, going back to the 80's, and that's what you get with this DVD. I was hesitating when deciding to buy one of the The Real Ghostbusters dvds but Stay Puff, the marshmallow man made me decide which one. Fortunately there were some episodes that I never saw when they were on TV, 'cause they were transmited in pairs and almost at the same hour when I came out of elementary school, so I used to arrive on time to see the second episode, therefore I found them quite amusing. I think that the only con of this dvds (And that is why I score it as four stars only when it really deserves five stars) is that the episodes are spared, they are not presented in a timely sequence, and of course not all the episodes are available, I do not know how many episodes were made though. Please I want the complete seasons! That'll be great!