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.

Heathcliff: Season One - Volume Two
Voice Cast: Mel Blanc
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Retail: $12.98
ASIN: B00F3L8OQS
Running Time: 12 hours 11 minutes
Rating: TVY7

Review:

When most people hear about an animated cat, they probably think of Garfield, but there was another cat on the airwaves in the 1980s called Heathcliff, based on the comic strip of the same name. The smart-talking cat debuted in a short animated series from 1980-1982, but returned in an all-new series in 1984-1988 with a total of 86 episodes, which featured an 11-minute Heathcliff adventure and an 11-minute The Catillac Cats episode.

Mill Creek Entertainment recently released Heathcliff: Season One, Volume Two featuring 33 episodes on a 3-disc set.

The episodes are:

 Last month I entered a DVD giveaway on a blog just for a chance to win the Heathcliff: King of the Beasts. Luckily, I won the contest and I have been spending my free time watching new and old cartoons. Even though I was only a three-year-old when Heathcliff originally aired back in 1984, I vaguely remember the show, but for some odd reason I do remember the catch theme song.

Heathcliff is based on the comic strip by the late George Gately. Prior to the 1984, Heathcliff appeared in the 1980 series Heathcliff and the Dingbats, which last two years and 25 episodes. When Heathcliff returned to TV in 1984, it followed a similar format with each episode having two 11 segments, followed by a short ending segment with Heathcliff giving good pet advise to kids. The old Dingbats segment was replaced with The Catillac Cats, which was created by Jean Chalopin, Bruno Bianchi.