The Best Cartoons Not on DVD!

Back on December 12th of 2005 Timothy Sexton wrote an article about The Best Television Shows Not on DVD. It was a very good article and a great list including ten wonderful television shows such as St. Elsewhere, Bosom Buddies, Alf, Barney Miller, Newhart and others. Unfortunately I’m only vaguely familiar with some of these shows because not being born until 1980 means that most of these shows aired when I was 2 years old or younger. 

The only two that came out in the 90’s (Get a Life and Picket Fences) I never watched. So the only television show on the list that I was really a big fan of was Alf. So for those of you who are younger like me, I decided to skew a little younger. Of course growing up in the 80’s means I watched lots of cartoons. Oh yeah, G.I. Joe, Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats, nothing beats those old cartoons. I’m now twenty-six years old and I’m not ashamed to say I still love cartoons. So my list is going be specifically cartoons that should be on DVD.

NA. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
This is easily my favorite cartoon on the list so you would think it would be number one but I’m giving it no number, but there is an explanation. You see the original Ninja Turtles cartoon is on DVD; however they are cheap little DVDs and feature about 12 episodes per Volume. The problem is there are 193 episodes of TMNT. If they were to release the whole thing in 12 episode volumes then it will be 16 volumes. Who wants to wait 16 volumes to have the entire show? Who wants sixteen DVD boxes from one show on their shelf? Who wants to pay for 16 volumes? What they should do is the same thing all the other classic cartoons have done. Put six episodes on a disc and four discs in a volume then you’ve cut down the series to 8 volumes. You could probably even get rid of the last season or two nobody remembers and cut it down to five or six volumes.