Prince Valiant On DVD

[Skyknight]

http://www.animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=1026

This is a fairly underrated cartoon, but glad to see it's getting good treatment, extras, thrity five episodes per volume...

 

[Keith Justice]

This the one that aired back in the day on the Family Channel? If so, this cartoon was the ****. It aired back when there weren't any good cartoons on and it actually had the guts to actually kill people in the cartoon. No much blood, but if Valiant cut somebody down, they stayed down.

Glad to hear it's coming out on DVD! :thumbs:

 

[Skyknight]

This the one that aired back in the day on the Family Channel? If so, this cartoon was the ****. It aired back when there weren't any good cartoons on and it actually had the guts to actually kill people in the cartoon[

I'll eternally disagree with no other good cartoons being on at the time (I don't think you were in the UK to see shows like The Dreamstone and Treasure Island, which also were pretty dark, and Original TMNT was king back then), but yup, this was in all fairness something that shows what syndication allows to slip past them. Uncut, slight nudity at one point, from a GIRL, actual people dying. Surprised this went the full length of 65 epsiodes, I heard there was suppsosed to be a third season that would have surpassed the number, but the censors finally heard some complaining and cancelled it


Here's the box art

 

[laudre]

I heard about this release a month or two back. I'm still happy it's happening; Prince Valiant was something I only experienced in the comics section of the paper, as it never seemed to show up on any channels I had available to me at the time. I didn't even know there was a Prince Valiant show until years after the fact. I don't know if I'll be getting it, but I applaud in principle.

 

[BorgmanJayce]

I loved watching that show when I was younger, especially as the guy who played Shredder in Classic TMNT; James Avery also starred in Prince Valiant.

If someone finally brings out a Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors boxset with lots of extra's, I'll be a happy bunny indeed...

 

[Skyknight]

I loved watching that show when I was younger, especially as the guy who played Shredder in Classic TMNT; James Avery also starred in Prince Valiant.

If someone finally brings out a Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors boxset with lots of extra's, I'll be a happy bunny indeed...

Hell yeah, just stick JMS all over that box set, commentaries, interviews, and the script for the movie that never got animated.

 

[BorgmanJayce]

I read on Wiki about J Michael Straczynski having worked on Jayce and also about how there would have been a movie tying up all the loose ends from the TV series...

(Thinks this and classic Dungeons and Dragons TV both deserve a remake!)

 

[laudre]

When I was younger, I was never conscious of who wrote what, and thus it never occured to me why some cartoons aged so much better than others.

Then I found out that JMS was responsible for Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors AND Real Ghostbusters, and Michael Reaves wrote some of the episodes of G1 Transformers I remembered as being really outstanding, and stuff started to really come together.

 

[Skyknight]

Reaves also wrote for the classic second and third seasons of the original TMNT, handling story arcs like the Eye of Sarnoth. Alongside David Wise's contributions, still make that the definitive Turtles cartoon for me. Too bad it dragged on after that and Wise had to carry it single handidly (although there were still great episodes in between), had it ended with the third, it would have had a completly untainted record

He also wrote the pilot for Gargoyles and a lot more for that series, including the banned episode "Deadly Force"

 

[laudre]

I became a fan of Michael Reaves through Gargoyles and BTAS. And, yeah, that TMNT cartoon rocked... it had real continuity when such things were relatively uncommon.