“How much is that gorilla in the window?”

See the picture above? You won’t be seeing the scene that comes from on the upcoming Warner Home Video release of Magilla Gorilla. Jon Cooke of Golden Age Cartoons has received an advanced copy of the DVD set and posted his review. After I’ve written several pieces about the DVD’s of this Hanna-Barbera series without seeing the final product, it seems that once again they’ve completely overlooked the obvious and misjudged what people want. All the cartoons are present, but some of them are in terrible condition. Worse, the very memorable Main and End Titles (”We’ve got a gorilla for sale, Magilla Gorilla for sale!”) are nowhere to be found. Instead of packaging these as complete half-hour shows, the way collectors want them, they only put the individual cartoons on the set.

I have it on good authority that the Warner Home Video marketing department is as distraught about this as the fans are. They are searching the vaults for the missing material and if found, they are considering a disc replacement program like the one they are currently running for the Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection, Volume 2. I repeat, this is only under consideration at this time! When a final decision is made, I will… PING! PING! PI-I-I-I-I-NNNG!… pass it along.

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