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Scooby-Doo's Original Mysteries

Scooby-Doo's Original Mysteries

List Price: $14.97
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This DVD Is Better Than A Scooby Snack!
Review: Movie Summary: Five meddling "kids" drive around in a van called "The Mystery Machine" solving spooky mysteries. Scooby Doo a talking Great Dane is a big scaredy-cat but can usually be bribed into doing something with a Scooby Snack as can hippie Shaggy. This volume contains the first five episodes of the famous Saturday morning cartoon.

My Opinion: This is a classic DVD. It's fun to see the original Scooby Doo episodes. They hold up well. Why does Velma always get stuck going with Shaggy and Scooby when they split up? Freddy and Daphne always end up going off alone! And one Scooby snack never seems to be enough for Scooby. He always has to bargain for at least two just like my 4 year old daughter!! This is good clean fun.

DVD Quality: Standard Full Screen 1.33:1 with Mono Sound. Extras include a music video and trivia quiz.

What You Should Do: See it and show it to the kids. They will love it. Buy it if you are a huge Scooby fan. You can't go wrong.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Original
Review: My 3 yr old son enjoys watching Scooby-Doo, and this was the perfect gift for him. I have to make him take a breaks. This cartoon is just as it was when I was young-original.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Classic!!
Review: My kids love this DVD. It has some of the original episodes. Classic cartoons at it's best!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Enjoyable Return to Childhood with the Original Scooby Doo!
Review: Scooby Doo and the gang may have hit the big screen, but this is the real stuff: the original Saturday morning cartoon series that so many of us grew up with. And although we might say we got this for our kids, the truth is that even as grown-ups we're addicted to these cartoon Scooby snacks ourselves!

This particular DVD offers the first five episodes in the series, each one running just under half an hour. "What a Night for a Knight" finds the gang investigating a suit of armor that comes to life during the full moon. When their ship run aground on a spooky island, the gang visits a creepy castle in "Hassle in the Castle"--and encounters a ghost! "A Clue for Scooby Doo" concerns a ghostly scuba diver; "Mine Your Own Business" has the gang investigating 'the miner forty-niner' that haunts an old gold mine; and "Decoy for a Dognapper" finds Scooby himself dognapped and the gang searching an abandoned Indian village to find him. And you'll find all the stereotypes here: crazy clues, frantic chases, and the "ghosts" are NEVER real!

The animation is pretty flat, the music is 1969 wannabe funky, the plots are loose and pretty silly--no one would ever accuse the series of being great art. But it has tremendous nostalgic appeal. The episodes seen here have not been restored, but to my mind the scratches, blips, and dust spots just add to the sense of watching an old favorite. The DVD includes a number of extras that the kids will enjoy... if you ever decide to share it with them!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Scooby shows on DVD without those annoying commercials
Review: Scooby Doo is one of my favorite cartoons, yeah it's true that it's campy and you can always tell who the villain is before the ending, like usually the villain always turns out to be the person who warns them about some kind of legend involving a ghost, monster, etc, but that and the campy style are appealing and kids don't get so scared when they know the monster will turn out to be just a bad guy trying to steal something, etc. I think it's nice to have these shows on DVD because if you or your child is a Scooby fan then you can put the DVD in and you and your child can watch a couple of Scooby episodes without being a slave to the TV and the TV schedule by being a couch potato who wants to sit and watch all of the Scooby episodes that are on TV every day and you can choose what time you or you or child will watch a Scooby episode and there are no annoying intrusive commercials. The shows weren't restored but I have read in magazines and heard on TV that it's very expensive to restore old film, but it seems like some people think that all they need to do is take a dust cloth spray on some cleaner and wipe the film off and it actually takes a lot more than that and with so many classic films needing restoration I think they usually get top priority first. I give the shows 5 stars even though I think chapter selections like on the Simpsons first and second season DVD would have been nice but as the old saying goes "beggars can't be choosers"

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great compilation
Review: Scooby-Doo is one of the great TV cartoon stars, and the show, while cartainly fairly flimsy in the plot department (although pretty strong compared some of the other H-B cartoons), is still as entertaining as ever.

This disc has the first five episodes in order (unlike most of the other discs, which are just random collections of episodes), which is a welcome change to the compilation discs and tapes. However, as always, the special features basically stink if you're above the age of like 8, and there still hasn't been any sort of series (or season) box set, so if you want the episodes in order, this is it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Absolutely timeless
Review: Sure, the gang's attire and vocabulary don't always fit in with the current trends, but these cartoons have been loved by every generation since their TV debuts. I've been watching Scooby cartoons for at least 25 years now, and I still can't get enough of them. Scooby is the favorite cartoon of both of my children, which just freaks me out. This DVD has the first five episodes of Scooby Doo. They made their television debut in 1969, and 32 years later, they are my children's favorite cartoons. There really isn't much else to say. Good, clean entertainment that is appropriate for kids 1-100. The special features aren't too bad either. For the price, you can't beat it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Classics and a few extras on DVD
Review: The five episodes from the original series, plus a short quiz and short clips of music & music videos, make this a good DVD for those who remember the series and/or children. In each story, the bad guys are unmasked and their tricks explained by the gang in the end.
The episodes are : What a Night for a Knight, A Clue for Scooby-Doo, Mine Your Own Business, Hassle in the Castle, and Decoy for a Dognapper.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: They;re fun to watch.
Review: These shows are funny and have a charm that has not been seen on Saturday mourning Tv for a long time now. Watch them.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: How awesome is this!
Review: This DVD is incredible....the transfer is very good and the colors are vibrant! Any fan of the Scooby Doo mysteries should own this DVD! Give the kids of today a treat and show them what real Saturday morning entertainment was like!


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