Brett Fern, one of our readers, saw
our story a few days ago about
Garfield and Friends - Volume 5 coming to DVD in early December. He wanted to let us know (thank you!) that it was already
up for pre-order at Amazon for a
December 6th release date (which jibes with the "first or second week of December" info we had before).
The 3-DVD set has a list price of $39.98, but Amazon will pre-sell it to you at $27.99, which is 30% off (if you purchase it via that link, you'll help support this site; we appreciate it!). The running time shown there is "650", but that seems to be a typo: Fox indicates a 550 minute running time. Video is full-frame and audio and subtitles are both English and Spanish. There are no extras (other than possibly ads for other Fox DVD releases).
Mark Evanier, Co-Producer and Writer on this show,
posted several remarks about this release, such as a list of guest voices that includes Mark Hamill, Imogene Coca, George Foreman, Tracy Scoggins, Rip Taylor, Harvey Korman and John Byner. He further points out that the epiosdes on this volume (as well as some on Vol. 3 and all on Vol. 4) "
have never been syndicated since their original network airings," so this will be brand-new to many fans who missed the first broadcast run of this show. Evanier describes some of the episodes on this set: "
There's a sequel to the 'ant' episode and one where we parodied Barney the Dinosaur (voiced by Stan Freberg) and got an angry letter from that character's proprietors. It also has 'The Man Who Hated Cats,' which is my all-time favorite episode -- a mini-musical with the great George Hearn in the title role."
Would you like a complete list of all the episodes you'll see on this release? We've got it first for you, in a disc-by-disc breakdown:
Disc 1:
- The Floyd Story / Garfield Quickie / How Now, Stolen Cow? / The Second Peneleope Episode.
- Dr, Jekyll and MR. Mouse / Garfield Quickie / Payday Mayday / How to Drive Humans Crazy.
- Date of Disaster / Garfield Quickie / A Little Time Off / The Longest Doze.
- Stairway to Stardom / Garfield Quickie / Return if the Incredibly Stupid Swamp Monster / The Life and Times of the Lasagna Kid.
- Magic Monsters and Manicotti / Garfield Quickie / The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere´s Duck / Unreal Estate.
- The Garfield Musical / Garfield Quickie / Mind Over Melvin / Madman Meets His Match.
- Knights and Daze/ Garfield Quickie / Holiday Happening / Jailbird Jon.
Disc 2:
- The Third Penelope Episode / Garfield Quickie / Hare Force / Garfield´s Garbage Can and Tin Pan Alley Review.
- Change of Mind / Garfield Quickie / Temp Trouble / Perfect Match.
- The Legend of Jonny Ragweedseed/ Garfield Quickie/ Grape Expectations/ Catch as Cats Can´t.
- A Matter of Conscience/ Garfield Quickie / Grape Expectations Part Two / Top Ten.
- My Fair Feline / Garfield Quickie / Double Trouble Talk / Half Baked Alaska.
- Puss in Hi-Tops / Garfield Quickie / Egg Over Easy / The Beast from Beyond.
- Model Behavior / Garfield Quickie / Egg Over Easy Part 2 / Another Ant Episode.
- The Guy of her Dreams / Garfield Quickie / Discount of Monte Cristo / The Fairy Dogmother.
Disc 3:
- The Stand Up Mouse / Garfield Quickie / Daydream Doctor / Happy Garfield Day.
- Sit on It / Garfield Quickie / Kiddie Korner / Brainwave Broadcast.
- Suburban Jungle / Garfield Quickie / Thing in the Box / The Feline Philosopher.
- Thoroughly Mixed Up Mouse / Garfield Quickie / The Old Man of the Mountain / Food Fighter.
- The Jelly Roger / Garfield Quickie / The Farmyard Feline Philosopher / Dogmother 2.
- Alley Katta & The 40 Thieves / Garfield Quickie / If it´s Tuesday This Must be Alpha Centauri / Clash of the Titans.
- Canned Laughter / Garfield Quickie / Déjà vu / The Man Who Hated Cats.
- The Horror Hostess / Garfield Quickie / Newsworthy Wade / Horror Hostess Part 2.
- Arbuckle the Invincible / Garfield Quickie / The Monster who Couldn´t Scare Anybody / The Ocean Blue.
