I started noticing that almost every TotalTV character is a parody/imitation of old 30's stars-- Starts when you find out that Simon Bar-Sinister was a parody of Lionel Barrymore, and so I started trying to identify the others: I take their word on faith that Underdog's Riff-Raff was meant to be a ...

Hey Marshall, good to see you again! Excellent review. Love me some King Leonardo. Hi Daniel, Good to see you here again, too! Thanks for the comment regarding the article. I've always enjoyed King Leonardo. About 20 years ago, I bought on eBay an old vinyl single, with picture sleeve, that had the...

They're currently airing on TubiTV (unfortunately, the cheap Shout Factory disc releases, that had lost the music rights to the original theme songs and openings, and which jumbled all the old King Leonardo toons into the mix), and...they'd fallen a long way from the Jay Ward days of Rocky & Bullwi...

Hey Marshall…thanks for posting. Yes, I fondly remember these shows from reruns back in my day, though admittedly haven’t seen them in a long while. I did also enjoy the recent-ish live-action Underdog Disney film, which may not have been totally faithful but was hugely entertaining fun. Your revie...

Hello all, A new book was recently released titled "The Total Television Scrapbook" by Mark Arnold and Victoria Biggers (daughter of TTV's co-founder Buck Biggers). The book features images of cels, model sheets, comic book pages, storyboards, and advertisements for the studio's characters Underdog,...

Hello all, I know it's been available since September, but I just wrote a web review/article on Popeye The Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 3 Blu-ray. The picture quality is really great, with excellent color. The cartoons are as entertaining as ever, too. BTW, as has been mentioned, Jerry Beck on Stu's Sh...

Nice to see you again, Marshall! :) Great review, very informative. We've been discussing the title some in our Archive thread. Do you own the DVD set? Would've been cool to see some comparison shots. Hi Daniel, Nice to see you again, too, my fellow Alvin Show fan. I do own The Jetsons DVD set rele...

Hello all, Yesterday, I published a web review/article on Warner Archive Collection's new Blu-ray set of The Jetsons: The Complete Original Series (the 1962-1963 episodes). I'm really impressed by the quality in the restoration of the episodes. Also included is a few original bumpers from the ABC pr...

Daniel, I agree!

Marshall

Daniel, Thanks so much for your reply and kind comments. That made a lot of sense to have those Alvin Show sing-along VHS tapes and audio cassettes released in the 1990's. I'd like to see a complete edition of all 26 of those Alvin Show episodes on Blu-ray, DVD, and/or streaming one of these days. A...

Hello all, Thanks for letting me join the site.There’s a new book on Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (aka David Seville), creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks, which includes info on The Alvin Show. That’s the program that had inventor Clyde Crashcup and his assistant Leonardo in a cartoon among the Chipmunks se...