Quote from: SAGG on September 07, 2016, 11:21:27 PM
B & V Comics Annual #224....

Ah, okay, I remember that. That was a while ago. B&V aren't even angry; they're HAPPY - as if they're each anticipating seeing the other naked.

Quote from: SAGG on September 07, 2016, 06:22:59 PM
How about the recent B&V digest cover where Betty and Ronica show up at the beach in the same bikini, see each other, then demand to each to take off their bikini "RIGHT NOW"!, all the time while the boys are watching them with grins (leering ones?)...

I just looked through the recent B&V and B&V Friends digest covers at Grand Comics Database and don't see anything like that.

The new review is up: the Filmation Sabrina segment, "Hiccups".

I remember, on some days, all of the classes were shortened, so we'd finish early, because the rest of the school day was taken up by something that everyone had to be present for, regardless of whether they liked it or not. For example, a Tae-Kwon-Do show in the school auditorium (I remember one routine set to "Bad to the Bone", and my friend, sitting next to me, said "Oh, God"), a concert by some nobodies singing popular songs (a "reward", I guess; I think this was in middle school, because "U Can't Touch This" was big), or, Goddess forbid, a pep rally. I hated pep rallies. I just sat in the bleachers and had to endure a dimly-lit, noisy environment. At least, my friend was smart enough to have one of his parents pick him up early (which probably wasn't "allowed", but whatever). Do school still do crap like this?

Any forum members currently of high school age or that have kids of high school age, what's high school like today? Is it much different than when I attended in the early-to-mid-1990s? I mean I know I hear about things like active shooter drills (even at my old high school). Do they still have bomb threats (I'm guessing yes) that causes everyone to have to evacuate and stand around and socialize until the all-clear is given?

I had homeroom, 7 periods of around 50 minutes each, a lunch (half-hour, I think), and 5 minutes between each of those to get from one place to another. There was a warning bell followed by the tardy bell. Toward the end of high school, they started experimenting with "block days", where we'd have four longer classes on a particular day at the expense of excluding the other three. What are the school days like today?

School ran from around 7:55 AM to 3:05 PM, and the bus ride each way was over an hour, due to the large number of stops and trips down side streets to pick everyone up. These would take longer if a student or students causes problems on the bus, resulting in the driver pulling over and calling the "base" over the radio to talk about it, which resulted in a collective groan from all of the students. Also, if we got too loud, the overhead lights would come on, meaning shut up. Any school bus stories to share?

Do students still carry textbooks, or are they assigned tablets?

What about taking notes? In a notebook or typed? Or audio-recorded?

Are hand-written papers still sometimes required, or can everything be printed?

Tests and quizzes: paper or computer?

Are scantron sheets and No. 2 pencils still used?

Anything else that might be a "thing" at school nowadays that I might be completely unaware of?

Quote from: Oldiesmann on August 24, 2016, 12:53:07 PM

Cheryl is GORGEOUS here! And not only that but very, very pretty and likeable.

Another new review is up. This time, I'm taking a look at the Filmation cartoons, specifically the first segment of the first episode.

Quote from: The Downloader on August 31, 2016, 02:20:27 AM

Quote from: Tuxedo Mark on August 30, 2016, 02:15:48 PM

Quote from: The Downloader on August 30, 2016, 01:16:58 PM
I Did October's so it is not listed.

Where is it?

http://www.archiefans.com/all-about-archie/octobernovember-2016-archie-comics-solicits-(super-hype)/msg5684/#msg5684

Thanks.

Incidentally, in the October solicits, Archie Comics touts a "new" story written by Tom DeFalco and written by Pat and Tim Kennedy and a "brand new" story written by Paul Kupperberg and drawn by the Kennedys:

http://archiecomics.com/october-2016-solicitations/

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 30, 2016, 03:10:04 PM
When I spoke to Dan Parent a couple of weeks ago, he confirmed that he is indeed the only artist left doing new classic Archie stories for ACP. The stories described in solicitations as "lead" (but not as "new") may either have appeared somewhere before, or been completed some time ago and were part of an inventory of stories that haven't appeared elsewhere prior to their recent digest appearances.

So, at Grand Comics Database, if a story is credited solely to Dan Parent in a recent digest, and it doesn't have a reprint note, it's probably new, right?

Quote from: The Downloader on August 30, 2016, 01:16:58 PM
I Did October's so it is not listed.

Where is it?

After reading the new release announcements (by the way, where's October's?), I'm confused. Some stories are advertised as "new", but others are advertised as "lead" (which probably means it's just the first old story in the digest).

Would someone please list the new stories in the digests, going back however many years that they've had credits on every story? (Before that, it was simple; new stories had credits; reprints didn't.)

Thanks. I actually have all of those episodes listed. However, I have "Up at the Bat" and "Computerized Moose" as part of "The Archie Comedy Hour".

Quote from: Ottawagrant on August 26, 2016, 07:34:37 PM
Just want to add to this: TV shows from this era, once they enter syndication, get messy. For exampe: Total Television's 'Underdog', 'Tennessee Tuxedo & His tales' & 'King Leonardo & his short Subjects'. I have 2 x 16mm copies of Network Prints, with original commercials, of 'Tennessee Tuxedo'. I know they're not original run prints because each contain a 'Commander McBragg' episode & a 'King Leonardo' short'. Plus the General Mills commercials are with 'Rocky & Bullwinkle', a Jay Ward Production.  When you watch the 1/2 hour prints on the DVD set of 'Archie's Funhouse' watch the 'Giant Jukebox' parts. Some episodes have 1, some 3. As mentioned above, in their original hour run they each contained 2 x Sabrina cartoons. There is a push on the get 'Underdog' restored to its original NBC run. The DVD sets, while nice to have, are nothing like the original run. Tennesse Tuxedo is worse! They used the original cartoon opening credits, with a different theme song! The Horror! Quick trivia note: The voice of Commander McBragg is veteran Radio voice 'Kenny Delmar'. Kenny Delmar was famous on the 'Fred Allen Show' as a character known as Senator Beauregard Claghorn. Warner Brothers copied the voice as 'Foghorn Leghorn' & then tried to sue Delmar for copywrite infringement. They lost. Well (As Fred Allen used to say) let's head down Allen's Alley & see who we meet. . .

I always look at DVD sets skeptically. The original Transformers cartoon was released twice on DVD, each time by a different company. The first time, the company used 35mm film prints of the episodes that they've discovered. (The series' broadcast masters were on 16mm video tape.) They thought they were giving the fans a treat by presenting Transformers better than it's ever looked. Well, as it turned out, the 35mm film prints were incomplete workprints. A lot of errors had been fixed by the time that the episodes aired, so the company unknowingly made public a bunch of errors that were never meant to be seen.

On top of that, they took it upon themselves to "fix" some "errors" (which weren't). Also, they wanted to remix the originally mono soundtrack into 5.1 surround sound for whatever reason. They hired a third-party company to add a bunch of new sound effects to the audio and then, when called out on it, claimed these sound effects had always been there; you just couldn't hear them until their brand-new, awesome 5.1 mix.

Finally, they seemed to recreate the closing credits sequences from scratch (I guess the workprints didn't contain them). Some actors' names were misspelled. The original three-part series premiere used a different animation sequence, but the standard one appeared on the DVD set. Also, on some season 1 episodes, the season 2 credits appeared over the season 1 animation sequence, which has absolutely no basis in historical reality.

When the series was re-released, the new company...did pretty much the exact same thing (except for the 5.1 mix and the added sound effects). They claimed the 16mm broadcast masters were too damaged to use, so they used the 35mm film workprints and then consulted YouTube videos of old VHS footage to fix any workprint errors that had been fixed prior to airing but left the "nostalgic" errors intact. Same mess with the closing credits.

I read on Wikipedia about the mess with the Filmation Archie DVDs. Sourced from PAL? Really? Footage missing? No thanks.

I just stumbled upon this gem in SAGG's gallery:

Quote from: The Downloader on August 26, 2016, 03:46:24 AM
I have the 1962 pilot on my computer.  I'll try and see if there is still a copy on YT.  If not, ill figure out a way to upload it.  pilottv.net is a good site for finding old pilots.  They have their own Roku channel.

Maybe you could upload it as an unlisted video and share the link here.