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The Smurfs is available on DVD today (Season One = 19 Episodes.) It is digitally remastered so the musical background score, sound effects, and picture quality should be interesting.
If you are going to purchase it make sure it is from a reputable company like Amazon.com because there are various bootlegs that were recorded from television floating around that says it is the complete series (300 episodes) which it isn't.
There were over 400 Smurfs episodes that aired on television between 1981 to 1990.
About 2 years back I had purchased those bootleg DVDs that claimed to have 300 episodes to discover that several episodes were unable to play most of the DVDs when I would select an episode to view. I asked the guy to replace the "defective" DVDs and he did but those same episodes on the DVDs were still defective. So the problem is in the embedded coding, and it wasn't a bad copy problem.
So remember:
1.) There were over 400 episodes of The Smurfs that had aired on NBC from 1981 to 1990.
2.) The official Smurfs DVD has the complete 1st Season containing 19 episodes that were remastered in picture quality and sound.
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I should inform you that the reason they released Smurfs on DVD is because of the major motion computer animated movie of The Smurfs that will come out this year (2008.) I believe the human characters are live action and the The Smurfs and other anthropomorphic characters from the Smurfs cartoon will be computer animated as well. I will be looking forward to seeing the DVD (this week) and the major motion picture (later this year.)
