I just realized how funny that sounds to say, nice name choice too…

They used the syndication package masters, which is why the Slimers are seperate and have the different ending and why the speed is messed up on all the 1989 episodes. The fifteen minute ones were sped up a bit to make room for commericals (otherwise there wouldn’t be any time) and the regulars are too slow so that all episodes that season were 26 minutes.

I figured it out when I checked “Partners in Slime” and “Slimers Curse” on my ABC taped VHS copies against the DVD versions (GBII and RGB for “Partners”.)

Thats why “Hallowe’en Door” is fine, and why they were still using the older “the real ghostbusters will be right back” bumpers instead of the custom to each episode bumpers with the dialouge “Ray: Hey there junior ghostbusters! theres a lot more action to come Slimer: And more Slimers too. Thats me.” The 1988 episodes also got a different ending since they weren’t aired whole, just the RGB portions.

I e-mailed them about this already too.

I watch Vol 4 disc 1 & theyre all slower not just intro but the eps as well.
but I suppose its not as bad as it could be but then again for $170.00 I think I should be allowed to be picky.

Future Tense is probably the most sluggish after egon xrays the TV. but out of all “if I were a witch man” seems faster than the rest ending at 23mins where the rest end at 26mins

On Vol 4 Disc 2 The Halloween Door Special seems to be at the perfect speed But I’m on “Surely you joust/Kitty cornered” and it seems all the eps & Intros after Halloween door are sped up.

I’m wondering if there was a timing adjustments or something on these & They got switched when they burned the DVDs for shipping who know just a speculation.

No problems with disc 3 of vol 1.

I checked my old tape for “No One comes to Lupusville” and it did the same thing, but it was from a teletoon broadcast a few years ago, not the 80’s.

As for the problem with Volume 1, Disc 3 – I have no problems to report. It played fine for me, without any hiccups.

Sounds to me like it may be the disc and not the dvd players.

Lesson learned.

I’m on VOL 2 Disc 3 “lights! CAmera! Haunting!” and so far things seem well.

but I think the episode “you cant take it with you” on vol 2 disc 1 After Egon throws the trap under the electricity in the pyramid device his speech is very fast & a little garbled anyone else notice this I think he says something about “I never thought it would work” but the audio is all scrambled but only his voice not the music or effects.

also in “No One comes to Lupusville” when Winston asks the little girl Lita if she can find the spare proton pack she seems to mouth the word “yes” but theres no voice, just wondering if anyone has had these & whether it may just be the way they were broadcast originally.

Beezer, your problem is definitely related to your DVD player and not the disc. Granted the DVD drives in computers are much better at reading the data. Perhaps you need to clean your laser on the DVD player.

Vol 4, Disc 2.. all of the episodes are pretty slow. You can tell in the theme song, and any places that use music with a regular beat.. you can tell it is off.

On volume 4 – disc 1 the episode lengths are 22-23 minutes and on volume 4 – disc 2 they’re up to 26 minutes. “If I Were a Witch Man” is the only episode that runs close to normal at 23 minutes.

Anyway, I skimmed through at least 3 episodes or more from each disc and found nothing similar to this. All of the bad ones that I’ve found are on volume 4 – disc 2. There might be a few more, but I’m guessing that it could be something with the disc?