Answers about Garfield and Friends DVD
I got this from www.tvshowsondvd.com
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Mark Evanier, Co-Producer and Writer for Garfield and Friends, has posted some answers at his website (NewsFromMe.com) to various questions that GaF fans have had about the DVDs. We've gotten some of those questions, too, so let's just let Mark do the talking:
Here's a question that a number of folks have sent me...
We've been enjoying our new Garfield and Friends DVDs. However, one thing baffles us. U.S. Acres seems to have turned into Orson's Farm. Do you know how or why this happened?
Yes. When Jim Davis did the U.S. Acres newspaper strip (on which the cartoons were based), the strip was distributed in certain other nations as Orson's Farm. The "U.S.A." pun didn't translate and even in some English-speaking countries, they wanted to change it to not remind readers that it was a foreign feature. When we did the cartoons, each title card was filmed twice, once with each name, so that when the shows were distributed overseas, they could air with the same name the strip had in each country. The DVD set was made off a set of negatives that had Orson's Farm title cards.
And to answer another oft-asked question: The second set of Garfield and Friends DVD is scheduled for December and the third for May of 2005. The second will not have any special features and I don't yet know about the ones to follow.
Thanks to Mark Evanier for filling us in from an official standpoint about the title card changes. We had speculated that this was the case, and now we know for sure.
We also are glad that Mark let the cat out of the bag for the December release of Volume 2. Since he's gone that far, then I suppose it's okay for us to take it a step further and let you all know that Fox is looking at December 7th for that release. That's not set in stone, but it's a good bet that this is when you'll see it. Stay tuned, and we'll let you know when Fox makes it official.
Thanks to John Cerone for pointing us to the Mark Evanier post, and to our other sources for the rest of it...you know who you are!