Stan Lee began narrating the episodes in the second season. The two shows shared one intro which showcased the new title. In the second season, the show was aired along with a newly produced Hulk animated series as The Incredible Hulk and the Amazing Spider-Man. Toei Animation, and Daewon Media contributed some of the animation for this series. Alongside the 1981 Spider-Man animated series, Amazing Friends was later re-aired in the late 1980s as part of the 90 minute Marvel Action Universe (not to be confused with 1977's The Marvel Action Universe), a syndicated series that was used as a platform for old and new Marvel-produced animated fare (the newer programming featured RoboCop: The Animated Series, Dino-Riders and on occasion " X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men", which was intended to serve as a pilot for a potential X-Men animated series).
If I experience issues with the playing quality of the disks that others have described, I will update this review.Originally broadcast on NBC as a Saturday morning cartoon, the series ran first-run original episodes for three seasons, from 1981 to 1983, then aired repeats for an additional two years (from 1984 to 1986). I’m impressed with the presentation of the set and it exceeds my expectations. It wasn’t worth it to me and I chose to go with the DVD version. The blue-ray is also the cut version of the show. As mentioned by others, the "blue-ray" isn’t true blue-ray but perhaps a higher contrast "enhanced" version. THIS SET, however, offers the uncut version of the show which is also what was offered on on the original DVDs of the seasons which were available for individual purchase.
It is the edited for TV version which is shortened for commercial time frames (which is how the show was originally aired.) A lot of very funny content and great lines are extracted throughout each episode in these shortened versions. The series as offered on Netflix is not complete. We watched 4 or 5 seasons through Netflix. One last point I want to make….yes, you can watch Friends on Netflix now. I bet this was around $250 when the show initially ended. I can’t get over the qualify for the price. Rainy day? Bad day? Break out Friends and bring on the laughs! This is a quality set. We purchased this as a Christmas gift to each other because it’s always nice to have a this bubbly, sunny show.
If you know a superfan that doesn’t own the series or maybe they could just use a new, consolidated set, this makes an terrific gift! I wish we new someone that’s as big of fans as we are yet doesn’t already own the full series that we could buy this for. Ah, the joy of friends! Once this arrives at your home, you will instantly know what I mean! I want this baby out in the open! It makes me smile and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling that makes me think I’m going to hold onto it in its entirety. Overall, it’s a very clean looking set! We’re working on becoming more minimalistic and had planned to scan the disks into hard drive storage eliminating the need for the physical set BUT the set is such a nice package! It’s a show piece. We haven’t gotten to experience this but I think it’s a cool idea and I like that it is built into the disk content rather than a book (which could get damaged) that is separate from the disks. The last disk of each season has a friend’s trivia feature built into the menu.
Upon opening the box set, my husband and I (both big fans) noticed this feature and decided to listen to the commentary offered on disc one. I believe each season (not episode necessarily) has an optional voice over feature with commentary from the 3 writers of the show offering insight and tid-bits about the show. Each Season is in its own respective DVD case within the box. I had no damage to the cardboard box that holds all of the DVD cases what-so-ever. The box arrived in perfect condition (it’s the blue and white box edition). I’ve flipped through and checked each one to insure none were missing or duplicated. I can, however say that all 40 disks arrived intact. Just received the DVD set in the mail this week! I cannot yet confirm that all disks play well. Click title of the episode to view the episode. To be clear, click coffee mug bullet point icon thingy for clips. If you accidentally click on the mug ((instead of the title)) to select the episode you wish to watch, you will instead be shown a brief clip from the episode.
Cracked the code on the issue about some episodes being "2 min long clips." In the episode menu of every disk, there is a coffee mug bullet point be each episode listed.