DVD : Birdman and the Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0014764306827
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Running Time: 30 minutes
Sales Rank: 7977
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: September 09, 1967
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Featuring the episodes in the three-segment form as they originally aired, these popular retro hits take the action around the world and into outer space! First, winged hero Birdman harnesses the power of the sun to fight criminal masterminds like Number One, Vulturo and Dr. Millenium. Then, cosmic crusaders Gravity Girl, Vapor Man and Meteor Man - better known as the Galaxy Trio - serve up justice in space as they travel the universe eradicating evil and procuring peace across the cosmos. And finally, it's more Birdman with his trusty eagle Avenger and his namesake battle cry that strikes fear into the hearts of his enemies. Fly away with these favorite retro heroes as they deliver old-school justice in this 2-disc collector's dream compilation.
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Rating:  -
Another classic superhero from the late 1960s produced by Hanna-Barbera and designed by Alex Toth, BIRDMAN combined superheroics with the spy genre. A bit too campy for my taste, but it's a enjoyable view. THE GALAXY TRIO shorts has its own coolness, too, and also highly enjoyable.
I once again strongly urge the heads at Warner Bros.'s DVD division to dig into the vaults and release these other superhero gems from Hanna-Barbera and soon:
HERCULOIDS
SHAZZAN!
MOBY DICK & THE MIGHTY MIGHTOR
YOUNG SAMSON & GOLIATH
THE BANANA SPLITS ADVENTURE SHOW
Moreover, it's all good to see new SCOOBY-DOO mysteries, but when will fans see new works of both JONNY QUEST and the H-B TV Super Heroes. Here's hoping that Warner Bros. know their fans' hearts and minds, and will make something happen.
Rating:  -
Let's face it - you can never go home. The context in which those of us who watched Birdman, Space Ghost, Herculoids, Shazzan et al,on Sat mornings is very much viewed through rose-tinted glasses. I can think of dozens of shows I watched as a kid (Land of the Lost, The Shazzam/Isis Hour, Sigmund the Sea Monster etc) that I thought were awesome and on watching them today, discover that the mythology I built around them was built on a premise that no longer exists. So we have to view them differently - it's like watching the original King Kong and saying how crap the effects were.
Having said that I still enjoyed them and they were still entertaining albeit for different reasons. So what if they all followed a similar premise or rehashed stories used in other cartoons shows? Don't we do that today anyway? It's great to have these on DVD and I only hope more are released such as Herculoids, Mightor, Valley of the Dinosuars, Shazzan. Geez, considering some of the crap that they are releasing on DVD, I can't see why these wouldn't be released. Sit back and enjoy.
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Based on my dim childhood memories I had no idea how brilliantly terrible this series was. Now I'm in total awe of the myriad of tricks and plot elements utilized in Birdman to avoid doing any actual animation, while still somehow managing to convey stories. Birdman is virtually always a stationary drawing that shoots "animated" energy beams. Occasionally while flying his wings twitch a bit. Very often an action is about to happen and the camera cuts to another character in a talking head shot saying something like "Those evil robots have just walked through the doorway." Basically, any individual episode of Birdman could be animated in a weekend by a 12 year old kid who mastered Flash... if he had Alex Toth and some top notch voice actors working for him. And what really dumbfounds me is that as a kid I had NO IDEA the animation on this series was so cheap. I just thought Birdman looked cool and was mysterious because I caught his show only rarely for some unknown reason. Next to the Challenge of the Superfriends (the season with the Legion of Doom), I think this is my favorite cartoon of all time... just slightly ahead of Space Ghost.
Rating: -
growing up i always enjoyed the hanna barbera super-heros and this is an excellent addition to my collection now if only someone would putSAMSON AND GOLIATH and the 1967 FANTASIC FOUR series onDVD[hint ,hint]
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This package is great. Every episode of one of the great cartoon heroes of all time. Bring on the Herculoids!
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0014764306827
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Running Time: 30 minutes
Sales Rank: 7977
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: September 09, 1967
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