dtemplar
11-13-2004, 11:14 PM
Tvshowsondvd.com has announced that the nearsighted Mr. Magoo is coming to DVD:
While Jim Backus was busy making live-action TV history in the Fall of 1964 with his Gilligan's Island role of Thurston Howell III, he was also parlaying his long-running animated role of Mr. Magoo into its first regular television series. After more than 50 movie shorts (starting with 1949's Ragtime Bear) and TV specials, Jim Backus took his nearsighted, befuddled old character to a weekly animated series on NBC called The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo. The series has also been known under many other names over the years, but is best known simply as "The Mr. Magoo Show".
Now Sony's Music division, the folks who put out the Bullwinkle DVD sets, are bringing The Mr. Magoo Show - Complete to DVD this Winter. Amazon has a pre-order listing for this as a 4-disc set that will arrive on February 8th. List price is $39.98, but Amazon is currently taking orders at just $27.99! The series - we can only *assume* that the pre-order listing refers to the original show, rather than 1977's What's New, Mr. Magoo? reprisal - was rather short-lived, lasting just a single season. It looks like all of it will be included on this set.
Official word from the DVD publisher hasn't been made available yet, though, so stay tuned and we'll bring you that (and cover art) just as soon as we can!
While Jim Backus was busy making live-action TV history in the Fall of 1964 with his Gilligan's Island role of Thurston Howell III, he was also parlaying his long-running animated role of Mr. Magoo into its first regular television series. After more than 50 movie shorts (starting with 1949's Ragtime Bear) and TV specials, Jim Backus took his nearsighted, befuddled old character to a weekly animated series on NBC called The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo. The series has also been known under many other names over the years, but is best known simply as "The Mr. Magoo Show".
Now Sony's Music division, the folks who put out the Bullwinkle DVD sets, are bringing The Mr. Magoo Show - Complete to DVD this Winter. Amazon has a pre-order listing for this as a 4-disc set that will arrive on February 8th. List price is $39.98, but Amazon is currently taking orders at just $27.99! The series - we can only *assume* that the pre-order listing refers to the original show, rather than 1977's What's New, Mr. Magoo? reprisal - was rather short-lived, lasting just a single season. It looks like all of it will be included on this set.
Official word from the DVD publisher hasn't been made available yet, though, so stay tuned and we'll bring you that (and cover art) just as soon as we can!