The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies

Rating:
Summary: Why this series?
Review: After the extras-light release of the first and second seasons of the original Scooby Doo Where are You, you might have expected the Scooby box-sets to continue in a similar vein ie. the good shows. Instead we are given 'the best of (bad news for completists) The New (hardly) Scooby Doo Movies (oh, dear)'.
The 'special' guests with a few exceptions will be unrecognisable to modern audiences (Who is Speed Buggy daddy? Mom, do you know who Phyllis Diller is?) and the show, even in the 1970's was pretty weak.
Extras have yet to be announced but apparently there is some sort of decoder competition type thing - obviously to get you to buy the thing.
I had hoped that the releases would have continued with the basic Scooby Doo mystery shows instead of moving on to the gimicky ones but at leaset we are still being spared Scrappy Doo!

Rating:
Summary: Best of? Go Big or Go Home!
Review: I gave this 3 stars because I am a huge Scooby fan and was a really disappointed to see the episodes that make up this DVD set. Heres the break down:
Disc 1
The Ghastly Ghost Town (with The Three Stooges)
The Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair (with Batman & Robin)
The Frickert Fracas (with Jonathan Winters)
Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner (with Don Knotts)
Disc 2
The Spooky Fog (with Don Knotts)
The Ghost of Bigfoot (a.k.a. "Scooby-Doo Meets Laurel & Hardy")
The Ghost of The Red Baron (with The Three Stooges)
The Ghostly Creeps from the Deep (with The Harlem Globetrotters)
Disc 3
The Caped Crusader Caper (with Batman & Robin)
The Lochness Mess (with The Harlem Globetrotters)
The Mystery of Haunted Island (with The Harlem Globetrotters)
The Exterminator (with Don Adams)
Disc 4
The Weird Winds of Winona (with Speed Buggy)
The Haunted Candy Factory (with "Mama" Cass Elliot)
The Haunted Carnival (a.k.a. "Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke")

Don't forget that this has some "Stardusted" special features, probably found on the fourth disc:
Featurette: The Hanna-Barbera Kennel Club Roasts Scooby-Doo
Featurette: Uptown With Scooby-Doo and The Harlem Globetrotters
Featurette: The Girls Rock!

I am just glad they are releasing this series but if I made a best of compilation, I would have picked one episode of the returning guests (i.e. one harlem globetrotter rather than all three since these episodes have been previously released on DVD). This way I could include the great guest episodes like Sonny and Cher, Josie and the Pussycats, Phyllis Diller, Davey Jones, Addams Family, Sandy Duncan and Jerry Reed. These episodes I feel far surpass the Don Adams, Dick Van Dyke, the "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner (with Don Knotts)", "The Ghost of The Red Baron (with The Three Stooges)", "The Mystery of Haunted Island (with The Harlem Globetrotters)" and the Laurel and Hardy episodes.

Rating:
Summary: NO ADAMS FAMILY :(
Review: I really enjoy watching Scooby-Doo but the best episode from "The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies" is when Scooby and the Gang meet the Adams Family. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???

Rating:
Summary: What about the other 9 episodes?
Review: So far I've been very pleased with the Hanna-Barbera collections, but this is really a poor choice. There were 24 one-hour episodes of "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" produced, there are 15 on this set, what about the other 9 episodes? Will there be a second volume? Why didn't they just add a fifth two-sided disc and give us the complete series? BOOOOO!