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I have been reading some of the comments and I too can still remember the opening song and other major elements of the series story even though its been 25 some years since I have seen any episodes. This series made going to school great because it helped pass the hours until the next episode. During the summer months, no matter how nice the weather was, we were always in front of the TV at 3:00 pm sharp for our daily dose. When I first went looking to re-watch and buy the show, I could find nothing but expensive and shoddy bootleg VHS versions of individual episodes however as I understand it, all 3 seasons have been out on DVD for a few years. I will buy them eventually, the lowest price I have seen has been on a famous internet auction site for $80 per season. For now I will be renting them because, guess what, they ARE available for rental at both major online movie rental houses. "will I get my copies of the best show on TV and enjoy them for a lifetime, tune in tomorrow and find out. Remember there are only 213 Earth days left.

This is by far one of the best family friendly movies I have ever seen. The first time I saw it I was 8 years old and with my dad watching on an old reel to reel, it was his favorite movie also as he felt connected to it because he grew up in a boarding home for fatherless boys. The sound was terrible, the dubbing was way off, the footage was grainy to say the least, and there were a number of cracks in the reel. Despite all those imperfections, I loved every second of this film. For the longest time I could remember every detail about the movie but its name. I wanted to see it again but had very little information to research. One day I described the movie to a friend (this is something I always have trouble doing because I get so choked up), the friend jumped up and said "thats my dads favorite movie, he grew up an orphan" We went to her dad and he knew the name of the movie right away, from there it was just a question of finding it on media other then reel to reel. The first copy I picked up was on VHS, picture quality much better then the reel to reel but still bad. I was going to burn a back-up copy of my VHS version on DVD, but for a movie this great, I will just buy the DVD version, maybe the DVD will be a little better then the VHS version, at least I know I will have the DVD version for a lifetime. Regardless of the quality of the picture, you must see this film