Showing posts with label Care Bears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Care Bears. Show all posts

Monday, March 17, 2014

DVD Review - TV Guide Spotlight: Totally 80s Toons

TV Guide Spotlight: Totally 80s Toons
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Retail: $9.98
ASIN: B00HZMZ1YG
Running Time: 7 hours 8 minutes
Rating: Not Rated

Review:

The '80s were a great time to be a kid with the overload of Saturday Morning cartoons and weekday afternoon cartoons. Of course most of these were created to sell toys and cereals, which we probably pestered our parents in buying anything and everything with our favorite animation character on it.

Over the years, the cartoon craze has settled down, mostly thanks to network television stations dropping children programs for local news; though, there are several cable channels that still air new cartoons, but they're nothing compared to the ones from my childhood. Mill Creek Entertainment will be releasing several TV Guide Spotlight DVDs on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, including the two-disc Totally 80s Toons DVD set, featuring three full episodes from Heathcliff, The Littles, Care Bears, Dennis the Menace, The Get Along Gang, and Little Clowns Of Happytown. There are also two episodes of Nellie the Elephant and three bonus episodes.

Heathcliff (based on the comic book of the same name) aired from 1984 to 1988 with a total of 86 episodes. Each episode contains two segments, one starring Heathcliff and the other starring The Cadillac Cats.

The Heathcliff episodes featured on this set are:
  • Nightmare in Beverly Hills/ The Cat in the Iron Mask
  • Spike's Coach/ The Trojan Cadillac
  • North Pole Cat/ He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (Series Finale)
The Care Bears need no introduction, as I'm sure everyone from the '80's
remembers these cuddly, good-hearted bears. Based on the American Greetings' cards, the Care Bears animated series aired from 1985 to 1988 with a total of 60 episodes.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Care Bears Are Returning to DVD!

Do you remember those cuddly caring bear from the 1980's? Well, I have some good news. Mill Creek Entertainment has released the original 1980's cartoon onto DVDs this month with three titles: Care Bears: Beary Special Edition, Care Bears: Wonderland Wishes and Care Bears: Cuddles in Care-A-Lot, featuring six exciting adventures on each DVD.

Care Bears: Beary Special Buddies contains the first three 22-minute episodes of the 1985 series, which has two adorable adventures in each episode.

The episodes are:

  • Camp - A camp counselor tells the children a scary story involving a phantom.
  • The Birthday - Matt and Eddie learn they are soon to be big brothers to a baby girl and they decide to wreck their home that is until the Care Bear arrives.
  • Braces - The Care Bears try to help a young boy feel better about wearing braces
  • Split Decision - A boy wearing eyeglasses is teased by bullies and the Care Bears come to his rescue.
  • The Lucky Charm - Proud Heart Cat and the other Care Bears join forces to help a young girl who is late for school.
  • Soap Box Derby - The Care Bears help two girls build a soap box derby car.