List of Animaniacs home video releases

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Animaniacs is a children's animated television program that ran from 1993 to 1998. Over the show's course, several VHS collections were released, and DVD boxed sets were released as well.

Contents

VHS

Several VHS videos were released in the United States, in the United Kingdom and Australia. All of these videos are out of print, but are still available at some online sellers. The episodes in the VHS "volumes" were generally jumbled at random and are in no particular order with the series. The other videotapes (with the exception of Animaniacs Stew) feature episodes that had focused on one general subject. Each video featured four to five skits each and was accompanied by a handful of skit intros, with a running time of about 45 minutes.

United States

Video name (collections)Ep #Release dateEpisodes featured
Animaniacs: The Warners Escape5August 24, 1994 [1] Newsreel of the Stars; De-zanitzed; Temporary Insanity; Hello Nice Warners; Video Review
Animaniacs Sing-Along: Yakko's World10August 24, 1994 [2] I'm Cute; Schnitzelbank; Make a Gookie; Our First Day of School; Wakko's America; H.M.S. Yakko; Yakko's World; I'm Mad; Animaniacs; The Goodbye Song
Animaniacs: You WILL Buy This Video!5August 24, 1994 [3] Puppet Rulers; Win Big; Battle for the Planet; Meet John Brain; Bubba Bo Bob Brain
Animaniacs Stew7August 24, 1994 [4] Slappy Goes Walnuts; Operation Lollipop; Sir Yaksalot; In the Garden of Mindy; Baghdad Café; Yes, Always; Bumbie’s Mom
Animaniacs: Helloooo Holidays8August 24, 1994 [5] Twas the Day Before Christmas; Jingle Boo; Yakko's Universe; Little Drummer Warners; A Gift of Gold; A Christmas Plotz; The Great Wakkorotti: The Holiday Concert; Nighty-Night Toon
Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff6August 13, 1996 [6] Draculee Draculaa; Phranken Runt; Meatballs or Consequences; Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled; Scare Happy Slappy; Witch One; MacBeth
Animaniacs Sing-Along: Mostly in Toon12August 13, 1996 [7] The Ballad of Magellan; The Presidents Song; The Planets; The Panama Canal; Be Careful What You Eat; A Quake, A Quake; Big Wrap Party Tonight; The Senses; What Are We?; All the Words in the English Language; The Tiger Prince; Hello Nurse

United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Russia, Greece

Video name (volumes)Ep #Release dateEpisodes featured
Volume 14March 27, 1995Ups and Downs; Critical Condition; Wally Llama; Spellbound
Volume 25March 27, 1995Drive Insane; Cat on a Hot Steel Beam; With Three You Get Egg-Roll; Jockey for Position; Woodstock Slappy
Volume 37October 23, 1995Hooked on a Ceiling; The Big Kiss; Mesozoic Mindy; The Flame; Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov; Nothing But the Tooth; Pavlov's Mice
Volume 46October 23, 1995Cookies for Einstein; Hiccup; The World Can Wait; The Wild Blue Yonder; Hurray for Slappy; The Three Muska-Warners
Volume 55June 3, 1996Draculee, Draculaa; Phranken-Runt; Scare Happy Slappy; Brain Meets Brawn; Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled
Volume 65June 3, 1996Chairman of the Bored; Ta da Dump, Ta da Dump, Ta da Dump Dump Dump; Smell Ya Later; Lookit the Fuzzy Heads; Where Rodents Dare

Poland

Video name (volumes)Ep #Release dateEpisodes featured
Volume 151998Ups and Downs; Critical Condition; Wally Llama; Meatballs or Consequences; A Moving Experience
Volume 251998Hearts of Twilight; The Boids; With Three You Get Egg-Roll; In the Garden of Mindy; Woodstock Slappy
Volume 361998Hooked on a Ceiling; Space-Probed; Battle for the Planet; Cookies for Einstein; Yakko's World; Meet John Brain

DVD

Volume 1 of Animaniacs had sold very well; over half of the product being sold in the first week made it one of the fastest-selling animation DVD sets that Warner Home Video ever put out. [8] In 2018, all 99 episodes, as well as the film Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish , were released in a single complete DVD boxed set by Warner Home Video. All of the releases feature unedited episodes (except for "Moon Over Minerva" and "Broadcast Nuisance").

DVD nameEp #Release dateAdditional information
Volume 125July 25, 2006 [9] This five-disc box set contains the first 25 episodes of season 1. Includes the featurette "Animaniacs Live!", where Maurice LaMarche hosts an in-studio interview via satellite big screen TV with Animaniacs friends (voice actors, composers, etc.) as they comment on the show. The featurette is presented in its original television aspect ratio, with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio in English, with French, Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles.
Volume 225December 5, 2006 [10] This five-disc box set contains the next 25 episodes (26-50) of season 1. Includes the featurette "The Writers Flipped, They Have No Script", where Maurice LaMarche leads a gathering of writers on what their favorite Animaniacs episodes are that they wrote.
Volume 325June 19, 2007 [11] This five-disc box set includes the last 15 episodes (51-65) of season 1, all four episodes (66-69) of season 2, and the first six episodes (70-75) of season 3. Includes two featurettes "They Can't Help It If They're Cute, They're Just Drawn That Way": Meet the Character Designers, Storyboard Artists and Art Directors who give life and lunacy to Wakko, Yakko, and Dot; and "They're Totally Insane-y: In Cadence with Richard Stone": The music of Animaniacs, highlighted by a tribute to the late composer.
Volume 424February 5, 2013 [12] This final three-disc box set contains the seven remaining episodes of season 3 (76-82) and all of the episodes of both seasons 4 (83-90) and 5 (91-99). There are no special features included in this volume.
The Complete Series99 + 1 filmOctober 2, 2018 [13] This 19-disc box set includes all 99 episodes of the series from all five seasons, as well as the direct-to-video film Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish. The special features from the previous first three volumes are also included in this set.

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References

  1. ↑ Amazon.com The Warners Escape product information. ASIN   6303182623.
  2. ↑ Amazon.com Yakko's World product information. ASIN   6303182631.
  3. ↑ Amazon.com You WILL Buy This Video! product information. ASIN   630318264X.
  4. ↑ Amazon.com Animaniacs Stew product information. ASIN   6303182615.
  5. ↑ Amazon.com Animaniacs: Helloooo Holidays product information. ASIN   6303182658.
  6. ↑ Amazon.com Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff product information. ASIN   6304107161.
  7. ↑ Amazon.com Animaniacs Sing-Along: Mostly in Toon product information. ASIN   630410717X.
  8. ↑ ""Animaniacs" Vol. 2 on DVD: Wakkorotti and WHV Belch Out Another Great Set". Toon Zone. 2006-12-03. Archived from the original on 29 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
  9. ↑ Lambert, David (2005-11-10). "How Long Before Animaniacs Escape the Water Tower?". TVShowsonDVD.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
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