Top Cat - The Complete Series (1960-61) (Warner Archive Collection)

[brenton2000]

Originally Posted by Leviathan

Some comparisons with the old DVD.

















The old DVD was definitely faded, red-tinted and cropped, but some of these colors look a little dark to me,especially Dibble's uniform. Maybe that's the difference between a heavily-compressed digital TV feed and a Blu-Ray.

Even compressed they look pretty good to me. I’ll have to see it’s full glory on Blu-ray though to see the full effect.

[kaden1108]

https://youtu.be/hUuyXIY0ioA?si=2A_iZYI37s7bQbbX

MeTv airings won't include the Kelloggs sponsor. This one seems to cut the 30 sec clip before the intro, which I would be worried about, but the same thing happened with Flintstones streaming but the blu ray had it all intact.

[somebody34]

Originally Posted by kaden1108

MeTv airings won't include the Kelloggs sponsor.

of course not, if those are included, it'd be on the blu-ray release only.
i have no clue where you even got the idea from that metv airings would have such things included.

[grim_tales]

The colours seem a bit dark to me (look at the colour of the wall on the Blu Ray)

On the old DVD, they had a little 'preview' of each episode at the start before the actual opening credits for some reason

[brenton2000]

Originally Posted by kaden1108

https://youtu.be/hUuyXIY0ioA?si=2A_iZYI37s7bQbbX

MeTv airings won't include the Kelloggs sponsor. This one seems to cut the 30 sec clip before the intro, which I would be worried about, but the same thing happened with Flintstones streaming but the blu ray had it all intact.

It won’t let me watch the video.

[brenton2000]

Originally Posted by grim_tales

The colours seem a bit dark to me (look at the colour of the wall on the Blu Ray)

On the old DVD, they had a little 'preview' of each episode at the start before the actual opening credits for some reason

Yeah I have to agree. I thought they’d be a bit brighter.

[lesco]

Originally Posted by filmlover22

So top cat is yellow and not orange?

He was yellow in the comics I had as a kid, so I've never thought of him as any other colour.

[Dsneybuf]

Originally Posted by kaden1108

https://youtu.be/hUuyXIY0ioA?si=2A_iZYI37s7bQbbX

MeTv airings won't include the Kelloggs sponsor. This one seems to cut the 30 sec clip before the intro, which I would be worried about, but the same thing happened with Flintstones streaming but the blu ray had it all intact.

YouTube embeds only work if you paste the long URL:

Top Cat intro (MeTV Toons Airing) (8/24/2024) - YouTube

[MTAFOfficial]

Originally Posted by kaden1108

https://youtu.be/hUuyXIY0ioA?si=2A_iZYI37s7bQbbX

MeTv airings won't include the Kelloggs sponsor. This one seems to cut the 30 sec clip before the intro, which I would be worried about, but the same thing happened with Flintstones streaming but the blu ray had it all intact.

Two things

1. Weigel do a lot of time cuts on shows. They cut the pre-intro stingers for every cartoon that has them. They WILL be on the Blu it's just saving time for commercials on TV (TC and Stones episodes sometimes hit around 25 minutes)

2. After the credits the Turner logo played. This means the credits are sourced not from the DVD but instead the 1990s Turner prints (which were the ones that aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang)

[Strumm]

Did anyone really expect sponsor plugs to a company that isn't even sponsoring the show in its reruns? Also the credits is a weird bug, but they were in HD (and also in a little less quality, grainier and darker than the main show regardless of the night scene). This makes me think that something definitely happened to the individual end credits early on. I'll get photos of the episode airing later today

[Strumm]

Here are photos from Choo Choo Goes Ga-Ga

[brenton2000]

Originally Posted by Strumm

Here are photos from Choo Choo Goes Ga-Ga

I personally think that transfer looks better than the previous one. Anyways, what was the end credits like on this one?

[brenton2000]

Strumm, could you post side by sides of the transfers for this episode too? Especially the one with the blue. That would be a sight to see compared to the washed out colors.

[Strumm]

Someone else can post side by sides. End credits were identical to the previous episode. My guess is that when HB prepared Top Cat for air after the initial run, they only reworked the first episode's credits and used it for every episode. Even for the DVD they couldn't locate any network prints with individual credits for the correct end. I guess they found the original material for the end they edited (though it looks a little grainier and darker than the main show) with the Screen Gems logo, and that's it

[ClassicCraig]

Turner started a "one-credits fits all" policy in the '90s for H-B cartoons, so WB may be using the Turner masters.
For Jonny Quest, the same end credits were used for every episode on home video and syndication starting in 1996. For the Blu-ray, Warner Archive Collection put in the effort to restore all 26 unique end credits (and the two original versions of the opening titles).
For Flintstones, Harvey Korman had a credit on many/every episode/s on cable, even though he only voiced The Great Gazoo in a handful of the classic episodes.
I'm surprised there aren't union rules against this sort of thing.

[Watershipdownisgood]

I want to pre-order this so bad, but it's not up for pre-order anywhere yet not even Amazon. It's very nostalgic for me as I watched a number of episodes of Top Cat on Boomerang a lot back in the mid 2000s so it holds a special place in my heart quite a bit.

[brenton2000]

Originally Posted by Watershipdownisgood

I want to pre-order this so bad, but it's not up for pre-order anywhere yet not even Amazon. It's very nostalgic for me as I watched a number of episodes of Top Cat on Boomerang a lot back in the mid 2000s so it holds a special place in my heart quite a bit.

It’s up on Moviezyng. The preorder link is also on Amazon but it still says “currently unavailable.”

[brenton2000]

It’s now up on Amazon for $31.99.
https://a.co/d/5LiuxzC

[Watershipdownisgood]

I Finally made my pre-order of Top Cat on Amazon heck yeah such a classic cartoon show from the great Hanna Barbera I won’t be rewatching it immediately though, but it is in the cards for next year.

[Strumm]

I wonder what the next HB WAC set will be - WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME is now airing in HD!