Real Ghostbusters UK Season 1 DVD Review

Steven Reed just sent in his review of the UK/Region 2 release of The Real Ghostbusters: The Complete First Season. Unlike Time-Life's Volume 1 release, which is a five-disc set containing all 13 Network episodes and the first 17 Syndicated episodes, this two-disc set just contains the 13 Network episodes. Steven also provided some menu screen shots and the Sony Pictures Television logo that appears at the end of each episode.


I bought the UK release of The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1 on Play.com last week for £4.99, I wasn't really expecting much in terms of re-mastered picture or sound quality, but I was really appalled at Sony's laziness and lack of imagination for designing the interactive main menus, Disc 1's menu is a exact duplicate of Creatures of the Night menu and the menu layout on Disc 2 is exactly the same as Spooky Spirits main menu.

Also, all of the episodes on both discs are unedited especially Mrs Roger's Neighborhood (the scenes at the beginning of the episode weren't edited) & Take Two (the ending wasn't cut short on the DVD, like it was originally aired on Fox Kids), but the only downside is that the title-cards are missing, just like The Real Ghostbusters broadcasts on Fox Kids.

At least they've included multiple languages such as English, French, German & Spanish as well as subtitles in languages, English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English (For the Hard of Hearing), Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish & Turkish. At the end of each episode, the Sony Pictures Television logo materialises after the DiC logo, just like it does on all the episodes included on the Time Life release

To be honest, I'm so much happier that I bought The Real Ghostbusters: The Complete Collection from Time Life, it's ten times better than the crappy set that Sony have just released. I would be interested to see when Season 5 is released in the UK and if Sony use the same masters with the defective/slowed down episodes that Time Life used.