The
Jetsons: Season 3
(1987/Hanna Barbera/Warner Archive DVD)/The
Wheels On The Bus: A Day At The Farm
(2014/E1 DVD)
Picture:
C/C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Episodes: C+
Though
the show ended in the 1960s, The
Jetsons
was in constant syndication afterwards and they made appearances in
other Hanna Barbera shows, so with most of the original talent still
around, a Season
3 was
suddenly produce in 1987 and it is not bad, if not as charming and
funny as the original show. 10 more half-hours were produced
including the voice talents of George O'Hanlon, Mel Blanc, Daws
Butler, Jean Vander Pyl, Don Messick, Penny Singleton and Janet Waldo
pick up things as if the show never ended. In some ways, it never
has.
The
new tech jokes show their age a bit and the original credits (a
little color poor from being reprinted) are reused from the original
show, but the new animation matches it for the most part. It is as
child-friendly and these are not bad overall versus some other
revivals. Now we wait for the new revival.
The
Wheels On The Bus: A Day At The Farm
(2014) is more of the same from the live action puppet show with
Roger Daltrey of The Who supplying one of the voices we covered a
single of a while ago at this link:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/12312/The+Adventures+Of+Prince+AchmeAchmed+(1926
This
is more of the same, but that's a good thing. However, this is a
shockingly short 36 minutes and that is the only disappointing thing
here. Why so few shows?
The
1.33 X 1 image on Jetsons
has some good color at times, but these look like old digital back-up
copies with aliasing errors, staircasing and other flaws that they
should not have, but Wheels
also has this to less of an extent, though it is a newer video
production and looks a little better overall. The lossy Dolby
Digital 2.0 Stereo on Jetsons
does sound good for its age, but Wheels
very narrowly sounds a bit clearer, but not enough to outdo the older
show.
There
are sadly no extras for either DVD, but we did cover the second half
of the previous season of The
Jetsons
at this link:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/8608/The+Jetsons
To
order The
Jetsons
DVD, go to this link for it and many more great web-exclusive
releases at:
http://www.warnerarchive.com/
-
Nicholas Sheffo
