The Extras - Animation Reviews & Updates with Clips: Huckleberry Hound, Touche Turtle and Dum Dum, and Looney Tunes Collector's Vault

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

Send us a textJoin our new public Facebook Group for Warner Archive Animation Fans and get the latest update on all the releases.George Feltenstein of the Warner Archive joins the podcast for a review of Huckleberry Hound: The Complete Series Blu‑ray.  We discuss why it’s a landmark restoration, how the team rebuilt the original Kellogg’s‑era broadcast experience, and play clips to remind you of the fun of this show. We also cover the Touche Turtle and Dum Dum Complete Series Blu-ray, then share big updates on Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault Vol. 2. This is an episode animation fans don't want to miss.Purchase Links:  Huckleberry Hound: The Complete Series Blu-rayTouche Turtle and Dum Dum: The Complete Series Blu-rayPre‑order link for Tom & Jerry Golden Era Anthology Collection Blu-ray The Extras Facebook pageThe Extras Twitter Warner Archive & Warner Bros Catalog Group Join our new public Facebook Group for Warner Archive Animation Fans and get the latest update on all the releases. As an Amazon Affiliate, The Extras may receive a commission for purchases through our purchase links. There is no additional cost to you, and every little bit helps us in the production of the podcast. Thanks in advance. Otaku Media produces podcasts, behind-the-scenes extras, and media that connect creatives with their fans and businesses with their consumers. Contact us today to see how we can work together to achieve your goals. [e-mail]

Hi, I'm animation historian Jerry Beck, and you're listening to The Extras. I know there are a lot of animation fans out there, and a lot of you enjoy these Hanna-Barbera releases from the Warner Archive. And George and I did not have a chance to talk about a couple of these. So today we're going to talk about Huckleberry Hound, the Complete Series, Blu-ray, a fantastic release. And we're going to play a few clips and things from that release as well, so you get a sense of it. And then we're also going to talk about Two-Shade Turtle and Dum-Dum, the Complete series, which also came out recently. So a couple Hannah-Barbera series that I think you'll enjoy hearing our thoughts on those. And then stick around because George has a very important update

about Looney Tunes that I think many of you are going to find very interesting and very exciting. So stick around for that as well. In town is Huckleberry Hound with all his cartoon house. It's Huckleberry Fun, it's for everyone, so come on, gather round. Get yourself all set, tune up your TV set for Huckleberry Hound. That's so merry, Juckleberry, Huckleberry Hound. Kelloggledg's, your best choice in cereals. The best to you each morning presents

I'll go very hot Hello and welcome to The Extras I'm Tim Malar your host And joining me is George Feltonstein of the Warner Archive To talk some classic animation Sounds like a great idea, Tim Wonderful

We've talked a lot of classic animation this year George but there's been a few months here Where a couple titles were released Amazing titles And we kind of just never had a chance to get back to him because you literally have had so many titles releasing each month, many of them worth a lot of effort and podcasts on their own. And so here we're finally going to get to Huckleberry Hound, the Complete Series Blu-ray,

and that released in late August. And my general take on this, George, is the episodes look amazing. They sound great. And when you consider that there are 68 half-hour episodes meticulously restored from these 4K scans of the original 35-millimeter negatives, I think it's your best animation collection release of the year. So far that is, because we have a big one coming up. That's true. But I haven't seen that one. I think just because of the pure number of 68 half-hour episodes,

we're not talking five-minute cartoons, we're talking full-length episodes that you guys put together here. So that's my like out of the gate. I love this release, and I think it's fantastic. This is the big time. Millions of folks live hay. My job for typing, because I'm a cop. Of, holiesmen, right now I'm patrolling my beat in a squad car, ready to do my duty.

Calling car 13, calling car 13, officer Huckleberry, be on the lookout for an escaped gorilla. Description, male, Caucasian, seven feet tall, weight, 350 pounds. Answers to the name Wee Willie. Wee Willie is reported in the vicinity of Maine and Broadway. proceed there immediately. Well, we're very proud of it. It's become very popular.

People still send me letters in the mail with a stamp on it in an envelope. Right, right. So many really, really nice letters, particularly people who grew up with Helkebury Hound and never got to see

this version with Kellogg's and the bumpers and the bridges, because basically for the last 60 years until we started on this project, you couldn't see them that way. You couldn't see them as they were originally aired. And this was an enormous undertaking. I've spoken about that before, but I can't stress enough how many of my colleagues literally were going through little tiny pieces of film that were unidentified, hoping, well, especially with the bumpers and the bridges and the commercials. well does this picture match this sound and then to find out that the sound was

had gone vinegar or was not we couldn't play it back because the oxide was peeling off the celluloid it just was almost three years of work and very very difficult for the people you know i'm talking about it i'm planning these things and marketing these things and working, but I'm not actually the person that receives the box in from our Kansas storage facility has to open it up, look at everything. There are dozens and dozens of people involved in that art of analysis, prep, evaluation. It's very meticulous work that needs to be done. And nobody paid attention to categorizing and inventorying these materials properly.

So what was achieved by everyone who worked on this project can't be understated, and it is a real example of teamwork. Okay, Wee Willie, I'm a fetching you in. Now hold on there, Willie. I got to remember not to harm Wee Willie. Calling car 13, Officer Huckleberry, when you apprehend a gorilla, remember, no rough stuff. Now, you heard about the father's sideway, Welley, I don't force me to use force. I only drawed my pistol to scare them.

No monkey business, Willie. Holy Wellie, that there's my pistol. There's a lot of false information out in the ether, and none of it is malintended. But Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging doesn't have a preservation schedule. They are not involved in deciding what is going to be. The people that work there do the work of scanning. The people that work there do color correction, and they do picture. restoration and they do all sorts of amazing things. But there's a whole other group of people who

actually analyze, and they work with me as well as others to decide what are the candidates for preservation this year and next year and what are we going to do three years from now and so forth and so on. So there are so many people involved. The Huckleberry Hound Project started initially just in the process of finding who owned a lot of the music, and how could we clear it? Because there were physical recordings that belonged to one company. The publishing sometimes belonged to another. And as I mentioned before, when we talked about Huckleberry Hound, the reason why there was nothing beyond the first season

was not due to this internet rumor of low sales. it was due to the fact that the music clearance costs were enormous. And so we had to clear the music and actually go through the logistics of clearing the music before we could even start on configuring the remastering and then looking for the elements. And I'm giving the condensed, Campbell's condensed soup version of what that process was. Dixie Diggly-Dum are the best of friends. Pixie Dixie Dixie Diggly-Dum are friends until the end. Vixie Dixie Dixie Dixie Dizzy D'Lum with Mr. Chinks the Cat.

For me to have the half hours as close to possible within our means, recreate what those half hours were like when they were aired across four seasons in 1958, 1959, 1960, and to the end of 1961, after that was reruns. You know, it's thrilling to put it all back together. And almost everything in terms of the cartoons, they indeed did come from 4K scans off the camera negative. The Yogi Bear segments had been completed. earlier, so they look a little different. But they're okay, but what we were able to do with

the rest and preserve the grain structure and the quality of the animation, people really have looked at these and said, you know, made-for-television animation got a lot cheaper in its look after Huckleberry Hound and the early Hannah-Barbera shows. There was a lot of work that went into these cartoons and these episodes, but you also had veterans of the MGM Cartoon Department and the Warner Brothers Cartoon Department and other cartoon departments, real layout people and background people and animators and voice artists all coming together, and there's so much talent represented in the Huckleberry Hound Show and the segments with Huck yogi, Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, and of course, in the third and fourth season, Hokey Wolf and Dingling.

And the Kellogg's of it, which had been absent for 60 years, is back. And you really get that full experience. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Hey, are you a fan of the Warner Archive animation releases? Do you want to get the latest updates and news right away? if you're on Facebook, we have just created a brand new Facebook group called the Warner Archive Animation Fans Group.

Now, we celebrate past releases, but really, we created this group because of all of the great releases that have come in this year and are anticipated in the coming years. So there have been a lot of great releases from the Looney Tunes Collector's Vault series. There's the Tom and Jerry releases. There's all of the Hanna-Barbera release. I mean, there's just a wealth of animation coming from the Warner Archive. So we celebrate all of it. It's a community with other people who enjoy these releases and want to talk about them

and share the latest news, reviews, and updates from the Warner Archive. So if that sounds interesting to you, check out the link here in the podcast show notes, and we hope to see you soon. Be sure and hang around. for the next cartoon. Don't miss it. It's one of your favorites. Howdy, Pixie and Dixie?

Hi, hook. Bye, hook. The response to the set has just been tremendous. And I'm very, very grateful that the fans have come out and supported this release. That's paved the way for more to come in the future. yeah so thank you to everyone who supported the release and if you've been on the fence about buying it please buy it yeah i'll be very i'll be shameless about it yeah we need people to support these

releases so it can lead to more well we'll do today george and for those who are watching on youtube we're going to show you and so that you could see how amazingly great these look and sound and for those of you who are listening we'll play clips for you as well so that you can kind get a feel for what it's like to really have the sit-down fun of these half-hour episodes. But before we get into that, I wanted to say that the first thing is you get the box, and this is very nice packaging. You get this nice box with the three Luray cases that are holding the discs. And the first case you have season one in one case with four discs.

And on the back of the case, you have the episodes that are on each disc. And I know you don't always have the opportunity to do this. But on this release, this packaging really wanted to call that out because that's the first thing as a consumer is you get the box. And you really provided it nicely. And because you have the three different Blu-ray cases with just three discs for the last season and then four discs for the first. first three seasons. They're well protected and they sit in there very nicely. So I did want to just mention that before we get into the actual episodes. That's incredibly important because you won't, as long as I have anything to say about it, you won't see a Warner Archive product go out

into the market with packaging that is not consumer friendly. I will not stand for discs when you open up a case and they'll all fall out. It's like, it's like Blu-ray Jenga. You know, it's, ah, they're all flying all over the place. I know, I have bought from other companies various, you know, series and been very disappointed with the packaging. And I, that was one thing I really fought hard for. And that also sometimes makes us have to charge more for the retail price.

I do think that for an 11-disc set that has been put. together with such attention to detail that it really is a good value. Now, of course, I'm tainted because we're charging at a list price, we're charging $5 less than the list price was for the first Looney Tunes Golden Collection, which was six discs and DVDs. Of course, that was a different world back then. but we're trying to keep the prices at a digestible form and for 11 discs with all of this incredible classic content

that is a tribute to Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera and all the people that work for them and people like Dawes Butler and Don Messick doing the voices. It's Nirvana for people who grew up with vintage Hannah Barbera. Yep. Well, after I enjoyed opening it and looking at the packaging, George, I put it in my Blu-ray player. and how that menu pops up, looks beautiful, and it makes it so easy to hit play and start

the episode. But let's just take people through that experience a little bit because it's not just about the cartoons, it's the whole episode that you structured together, which is why I keep saying, I think this is such a fantastic release for the year because you recreate that experience. We all think back when I saw this. And, of course, I never saw it like this because I saw it in reruns and it was chopped up and, you know, in different things. But to be able to experience it, the way it was originally released, I love that fact, knowing that.

And let's just start with the very first thing you see, a cornflakes commercial. Okay, sign in. Howdy-do, sir? How'd a hearty-do to you? First, we'll give the audience a peek at your profession. Then we'll let the panel try to guess it. Ready, panel? Uh, ready.

Are you like, uh, on salary? Oh, yes, but I would gladly do this for free. Uh, do you do this every day? You bet. The first thing each morning. Do both men and women do this? You betcha. And so do millions of boys and girls.

Do you mind if I, uh, give them a hint? Be my guess. Be my guess. Get going and... Get growing. It helps you to get going and get growing. A cowlark's corn face taster. It so happens I have a sample with me. Uh, yogi.

Hey, hey, no matter how you look at it, it's the best of you each morning. I was amazed, George, how fantastic it looks and sounds. How did you kid at such great quality on that? Well, we were very fortunate because after 9. In 1965, Hannah Barberra could have just said, and they did to some degree, oh, we don't need this anymore. You know, Kellogg's is not the sponsor. Kellogg's is not involved. As I've said several times, and I'll repeat it again, unlike an episode of, let's say, I'll just make it up, F-True, where we have a camera negative, and it is, you know,

So it is an original camera negative that's cut together like a motion picture. It has main titles. It has commercials. It has the plot. It has the end titles. We did not have a full negative of each episode of the Huckleberry Hound show. The segments were inventoried individually. They're a little six-minute segments.

The Huckleberry Hounds segments, the Pixie and Dixie segments, the Yogi Berra segments, the Hokey Wolf segments. That was it. And then everything else had to be dug for, main title, end title, and the bridges and the bumpers, all of which had different code letters and numbers and what survived. And I think I've joked on the extras with your audiences before about that entry in our inventory system, HB bits and pieces, where you go into asset description and there's no information. You're just kind of rolling the dice. So this is what my colleagues who are in the trenches, this is what they did. And people who basically like their parents were an even born when

Huckleberry Hound was on the air. But everybody got so into the project. There was such an enthusiasm for it and the bottom line of it is in back of you right now I'm looking at the box that box wasn't there a year ago we we got there we were able to pull this off and you really get to experience the entertainment and also the simplicity the beautiful simplicity of the era where you could have kids join the huck hound club and send in their nickel uh and it was before there were zip codes, you know. So to that point, there were certain commercials that were saved in 35mm form. The cartoon segments themselves were made in color because Hannah and Barbera anticipated that color television would become more commonplace in the future. They were not alone

in thinking that in the early 50s Ventures of Superman later series with George Reeves. They were shot in color when color television was still limited and embryonic, but they were thinking ahead to the future. There were other shows that we don't own that were done that way as well. And so Hannah Barberra was thinking along those lines for the cartoon segments, but they didn't think about that and saved money for the commercials. They were all done in black and white. And that's how the shows were broadcast until probably,

a couple of years in. And there was a big change in how Huckleberry Hound was distributed around 1966. That is when it was really up to the local station that got the segments. And the main titles were reanimated to eliminate all references to Kellogg's. That may have been done even earlier for international. There's no date on that exact work, so I can't speak with authority that that's exactly when the titles were changed, but they were changed for later broadcasts, and that's how people saw it, and then eventually they were just thrown together with the USA Cartoon Express or the fantastic world of Hannah Barbera, and, you know, unlike Scooby-Doo,

who's had so many incarnations for the last 55 years, Huckleberry Hound kind of faded from the public zeitgeist. It wasn't that the characters weren't popular, but Hanna and Barbera kept moving on and creating new things. And meanwhile, the reruns would take care of themselves. But I would say by the mid-1970s, at least from my perspective as a kid, They weren't showing these cartoons in daytime syndication, and they certainly weren't part of Saturday morning programming. There was a little bit of more interest coming during the cable television era of the 80s, as mentioned, the USA Network.

That was before Cartoon Network. But all of these different media that presented the Huckleberry Hound Show, they weren't presenting the Huckleberry Hound Show. they were presenting segments, and even the first season of DVDs that came out 20-plus years ago, they weren't the shows, they were just the segments. Right. So the same problem with McGillagherilla, we, in putting these things back the way they were, this is terribly important to me. And I know it's terribly important to the collector and the consumer,

because big surprise, I'm a collector, I'm a consumer. I know what I want to get. I don't want to see some, you know, something that's been fudged with. But then you have the reality, oh, we don't have every bridge. We don't have every bumper. We don't have every commercial. So that's why I put as much language as I could to try to explain. We could have gotten every segment out and probably smushed it onto, let's say, you know, eight disks or,

seven discs, reduced our manufacturing cost, our mastering cost. But then we wouldn't be doing what this set is about is presenting almost in an archival manner how this series played out over four seasons in first run syndication. And that's what the set does. Every summer, thousands of pleasure-seeking tourists head for the great outdoor playgrounds of America. And the favorite spot is this wonderland of nature

called Jellystone National Park. But while these Eager Beaver Motorists are trying to get into beautiful Jellystone Park, one rugged individualist is trying to get out. I have had it, Boo Boo Boo! I'm gonna pass out of here.

Who come, Yogi? Every day, it's the same old thing. Look at the bears, look at the bears, look at the bears. Shee. Hey, pop! Look at the bears. Look at the bears. See what I mean, boo-boo.

Aside from the technical aspect and the historical aspect, there's the entertainment aspect. And these cartoons are fun. They're not babysitter, kitty fodder. They were obviously meant to delight children. I loved Huckleberry Hound when I was a little bit. kid, but it was written with a certain level of sophistication that adults could enjoy it, too. And I think that even goes back to the influence of what Hannah and Barbera were doing at MGM for 18 years, making Tom and Jerry cartoons.

They brought that same sensibility to their work, and that's what led them to eventually get into primetime with Flintstones and Topcat Jetsons, and then, you know, things change. changed to another direction with Johnny Quest and the more action-oriented programs. But this is like the golden era of the beginning of Hannah Barbera. And if you grow up with it, it's an incredible part of your nostalgia. We got a dandy cartoon coming up. But first, I'm aiming to do a high dive from way up here into that little old tank, a way down there.

But you ain't seen nothing yet. Will you see my cartoon? So I I'm hoping that anyone who thought that they might be interested in the Huckleberry Hound Show and don't necessarily have the background of growing up with it,

that they would take a chance and add this to their collection. I don't think anybody who does that will be disappointed. And of equal importance, this is a wonderful gift-giving item. If you only limit your collectible gift-giving items to the fourth quarter, to the holiday time, it's going to make the rest of the year very boring.

So throughout the year, we've tried to have exciting releases that people are going to really be, you know, hungry for. But Huckleberry Hound would be a great holiday gift for many different groups and demographics. So consider it when you're just. shopping. It's just such a terrific release and I just love the fact that the way you've put it together, whether you grew up with it and you saw it in its original form or if you never saw it in that form, now you can see it in an original form, which is ideal for the collectors who want to have that experience and to see it in HD. I mean, it looks and sounds fantastic now. So it's a terrific,

terrific release. You do have a few extras on there at the end. Those are nice to have, which I think probably were, were they on the DVD? Yes. Yeah. So those are ported over, but, you know, it's just a fantastic packaging. It's a fantastic experience to watch and a great gift for yourself or for someone else. So it's a terrific release. Well, thank you. And on behalf of everybody who worked on it, they say thank you too. Away! It's too shay away! Well, you had another, well, you've had a lot of Hannah-Barbara releases this year.

But there was one other one I wanted to talk about here, and that's Two Shade Turtle and Dumb, the Complete Series Blu-ray release. And that came out toward the end of September. So not too long ago. And this is just a two-disc release with all 52 episodes, and they're newly remastered and restored for Blu-ray. So tell us a little bit about bringing this one together. Well, this was very challenging because Two-Shade Turtle and Dumb-Dum were part of a group of

three different individual series of cartoon segments that were about five minutes or so apiece. One was Wally Gator. One was Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har Har. And the third was Touche Turtle and Dum. And they were marketed to stations as the new Hannah Barbera half-hour. animated comedy show. I don't know exactly what the phrase was. It was not a show that had a beginning, an opening, a host. You know, that's the cool thing about Huckleberry Hound is actually the first animated television host. You know, a few years later, Bugs Bunny would host the Bugs

Bunny show, along with Daffy Duck and others. But Huckleberry Hound was the first animated television host and he acted as the master of ceremonies for yogi and pixie and dixie and then hokey wolf and that kind of gave it a sense of being organically whole you know even the end of the show or they make a reference to you know tune in every week uh it's in the lyrics of the of the song you know because it like it makes you when you're a little kid like you don't want it to end you love the show so much and it's sad you know when the show is over but they'll be back next week you know yeah yeah i think that you know it's either in in mcgillagrilla or peter potomis where there's the little curtain call and like you know goodbye goodbye but we'll be back you know it's that kind of thing and and to some

degree, Huck was like that too. But it's a really, really important piece of television history, animation history, and most important, it's great entertainment. It's fun. Yeah. And we need fun right now. That's right. Well, for those who aren't as familiar with this one, you have this crusading turtle, duchet turtle, and he's got his armored shell, he's got his musketeer type hat, his trusty sword, and Dum Dum as his not so bright squire. But it's really fun. fun. The banter between them, they make an entertaining team. And, you know, each episode being around that five-minute length or so, it really keeps the pace. You know, you're watching an episode, oh, it's over already. And you can just get right into the next one. Love the song,

you know, so much of the music for Hannah-Barbara. So wonderful. You know, it just makes for a really entertaining experience to watch these and to experience them. And this one, this one, this This release, George, reminds me of the previous ones this year in terms of it's just focusing on the one show. Right. The Gila Gorilla, Wacky Races, your Top Cat, these have been fantastic releases of each of the shows. If you're a fan of the show itself, of course, you want to get it.

But if you're a fan of Hannah Barbera and all of their releases, it's fantastic the way you're packaging now. in HD, get them individually. You can get them and collect them. And you can watch them a few episodes or a whole bunch of episodes. I love it. And the fact that so many of these have been released now, George, in this short period time, you could create your own little evening by swapping some of these out. But just to get back to the Tochay Turtle, it's just a really fun release. And I've enjoyed watching these episodes. oppressor you what do you want you little pipsqueak give back the money you stole

or I'll send you spinning how about my sending you spinning instead now just a hero pick and minute gee that looks like loads of fun yeah you'll try it oh swell hey a to-shay turtle yo-yo is lots of fun Unspin me, you dumb, dumb, dumb, you? I'm sorry, Tuchay. I think I got carried away. You know, to put it to context, Hannah Barbera after Huckleberry Hound,

Yogi Bear Show, Quick Drummogra Show, they came to the market with something new. But this was not meant to be a half hour with different characters. It was up to the local station how they wanted to program. them. And so you'd have in one market, they would put Touche Turtle on, show two cartoons, and have a live host. In another market, they might put Touche Turtle on with Wally Gator and Libby the Lion. They may mix it up and put something in like Rocky and his friends that are not Hanna-Barbera. They had the flexibility to use these in a different way. They also were produced on

much lower budget. These cartoons were all made in 16mm, not 35 millimeter. So as a result, the original sources are half the quality of what you get with 35 millimeter. To complicate things, many of the original camera elements did not survive and all we had was prints. So taking the calendar back about 10, 12 years when we were released, we released Lippie the Lion and Wally Gator on DVD, and those were older masters. They didn't look great, but they were acceptable. The Tuchet Turtle Masters were unreleasable. So for Tuchet, for Wally, for Libby the Lion, each one of those individual segment cartoon series, we went back to the best original sources that we could. And we're talking about Touche Turtle and Dum Dum today, but the others are coming.

And I think that's what's exciting for the fans. And for anybody who says that they don't see a difference between Blu-ray and DVD, I recommend a visit to the optician. So Stand clear, dumb dumb I'll have to resort to brute force To smash that door down Tochet

Away Did you ever have one of those days When everything goes wrong The way the black night Hanks on to the Frick says you think they were Married Dumb Dumb, that's it No, no, not that

Well, let me out of here Help! Help! Help! That wraps it up. The black knight took off like a herd of birds. Yeah, yeah, too, what did you say that scared him move up like that? Reverse psychology, Dundam. I told him the princess was out to marry him. How ridiculous!

Can you imagine a luscious, Just doll like me, marrying a kook like Blackie. I go for the hero types like you, Tuchet. You, cuddly little restful you. Me? I'm too young to go. Tuchet, away. The thing that I love the most about Tuchet Turtle is his voice.

And that's because it was done by a voice artist by the name of Bill Thompson, Probably most famous for his work on radio, if you're a radio historian, which I'm really not. But he had a huge career as a radio voice artist, as did many people that did cartoon voices at that time. But most famously, with classic animation, he was the voice of Droopy, the dog, who is, I think, a favorite character of many people. because Tex Avery was behind the creation of Droopy. And you can hear it in Touche's voice. You can hear the connection. But I always loved this series whenever I could get to see it when I was a kid.

And now we put it together in a nice two-disc set. It's priced the same as a one-disc release. So we try to bring a little extra value. And as I said, the others are coming. And there's a lot more Hannah-Barbera coming. But we have to space it out. because we are trying to please so many different groups of fans who all want their favorite kind of thing.

And we're trying to be as equal to all the fan groups as possible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that leads me into a question I had for you. Some people are like, oh, there's no animation in November. And I thought maybe we could talk a little bit about what is the future of Looney Tunes collector's vault? Because some people were thinking maybe it would be coming toward the end of this year. And maybe you can give us an update about that.

Well, this will be an opportunity to clarify a lot of things. Earlier in the year, and really a year ago at this time, we were working on Tom and Jerry the Cinemascope cartoon collection. And I thought that would be very entertaining, it would be reasonably priced, it would be really fun to put on your 16 by 9 television and see these cartoons in their original aspect ratio because usually television broadcasts are either cut off on the sides as a 16x9-185 or their PANNiscan, which is even more crazy. So we got to do those cartoons, there are 23 of them, and it was a wonderful disc, and we added three other cartoons that Anna and Barbera worked on during that period before the MJM Animation Studio was closed. So that was released earlier in the year. Then our plan was in June, as we did, to release the Looney Tunes Collector's Vault, Volume 1, with the first disc being cartoons that had never been in remastered form as part of an animation collection. on DVD or Blu-ray, and then the second disc being cartoons that had been on DVD,

but had never been part of an animation collection remastered on Blu-ray. And that was very well-received by the fans. People love that. Love it. That gave us an opportunity to plan subsequent volumes. And the plan was for holiday time to have the second volume. Well, holiday time is almost upon us, and there is no sign of Looney Tunes Collector's Vault, Volume 2. There's a reason.

And the reason is, just as we were completing Collector's Vault Volume 1, and Tom and Jerry Cinemascope had been released, we had an opportunity. and I gathered together with other colleagues here at the company. They wanted to collaborate with the Warner Archive to do something big for Tom and Jerry's 85th anniversary. So one of my colleagues here who I will not name, so this colleague is not besieged with letters and phone calls and whatnot, but this colleague, single, handedly made it possible for our Tom and Jerry Golden Era anthology to contain all 114. Joe Barbera, Bill Hanna, produced at the MGM Cartoon Studio, theatrical shorts, uncut, uncensored,

Casanova Cat, and Mouse Cleaning, the cartoons whose omission and Golden Collection, Volume 2, killed that release, all that's a thing of the past. That's coming out at the beginning of December, but all the work that needed to be done for that release made us have to postpone the Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 2. But as we record this, and as I'm speaking now, the first of the two discs has just begun, I believe, going into compression and authoring.

There will be a release in the first part of 2026 of the Collector's Vault volume 2. And I think the fans will be very happy because among the cartoons that have never been

remastered as part of a animation collection either on DVD or Blu-ray, there are going to be some surprise inclusions. No, we're not releasing those controversial cartoons, maybe some other time. But there are some cartoons that have been notoriously absent that people have really been asking for that will

be part of that Looney Tunes release. So the animation train is still chugging up the hill, working hard, all sorts of different stuff going on right now. I think it's going to make the fans really, really happy. Makes me really happy because I'm a fan. But the thing that gives me the most reward is getting wonderful entertainment out of our vault and onto people's shelves in their home, in nice packaging, with a beautiful presentation. They can own it. No one can take it away from them. And that's the beauty of collecting physical media.

Yeah. Well, that's a Christmas present right there, George, letting us know that there is going to be a collector's vault volume two and it's going to be soon in the earlier part of 26 which is right around the corner um speaking of 26 i do want to remind people that we had a little snafu when we planned the collector's choice volume four and the collector's vault volume one in that we replicated a cartoon on both collections. So I promise people at the time, and we're fulfilling that promise,

that will have 26 cartoons on disc one and 25 cartoons on disc two. So it would be a 51 cartoon collection. And I think people are going to be very happy with the variety and span of chronological entertainment that the Looney Tunes Collector's Vault, Volume 2, will provide. And I'm hoping we'll be able to announce what the cartoons are before the end of the year. I would really like to be able to do that. So I'm not pulling all the strings to make things happen. There's a lot of people

involved in the process. But I'm pretty confident we'll be able to at least share the titles as a little Christmas gift to people to let them know what they have to look forward to in 2026. Right. Well, that's fantastic. And we'll just wrap up here, George, with a reminder. Tom and Jerry Golden Era Anthology Collection is releasing on December 2nd. So those, I know so many of you have gotten your pre-orders in for that. But if you haven't, we've got that here in the show notes here. We'll have the pre-order link for that. We'll obviously have the links to order the other titles we've talked about today. But this is a terrific update from you letting us know that there's going to be a collector's vault coming soon in 2026. So thank you for letting us know, George.

as always, we're just so thankful that you keep the listeners here of the extras up to date with all of these great, great announcements. Well, thank you, Tim, for giving me the opportunity to be able to get the message out to the people, because I know how frustrating it is when you're a dedicated fan. You want more. You want more. And it's like the old commercials. You know, we will sell no wine before it's time.

And we can't release everything unless it's as close to perfect as possible. And we're doing the best we can. We've got a lot of great movies coming for the rest of the year. And 2026 is shaping up to be very exciting. So we have to think positively. Keep thinking the good thoughts. And I think everybody for their support of the Warner Archive Collection. I hope you enjoyed that conversation with George.

It's always great when he gives us these little exclusive updates that are here on the extras. So we always thank him for that. And it keeps us up to date so that we're the first to know many times. And we can let others know, of course. But if you haven't yet subscribed to the extras, it might be a reason to do so because George is always so kind to do that. And if you'd like to pre-order or purchase any of the titles we talked about today, I did mention those will be in the podcast. podcast, show notes here. So take a look for those. Get your pre-orders in, especially for that Tom and Jerry Golden era collection releasing on December 2nd so that you get your shipped out

right away. Sometimes there's delays for those who pre-order a little later. So if I were you, if you know, you want that, be sure and get your pre-order in. That way you'll get it nice and early before the holiday, whether it's for yourself or as a gift. And if you have not Purchase the Huckleberry Hound, that, again, is perfect to get for yourself for the holidays or as a gift, along with Touche Turtle and Dum Dole. As always, thanks for listening. Stay slightly obsessed about classic animation. Hi, this is Tim Millard, host of the extras podcast, and I wanted to let you know that we have a new

private Facebook group for fans of the Warner Archive and Warner Brothers Catalog, Physical Media, releases. So if that interests you, you can find the link on our Facebook page or look for the link in the podcast show notes.