If anyone cares, Thad's comprehensive breakdown of the set on the "In the Balcony" facebook group:

I Haven’t Got a Hat - Restored from GC 3
Gold Diggers of ’49 - Restored from GC 5
Boom Boom - unrestored, soft
Alpine Antics - Restored from GC 5
The Blow Out - unrestored, looks rather nice
Westward Whoa - unrestored, has wrong soundtrack over opening, pretty dirty and scratched
Plane Dippy - old master from ‘90s/early ‘00s
Fish Tales - unrestored, wrong soundtrack over opening, looks terrible
Shanghaied Shipmates - unrestored, looks rather nice
Porky’s Pet - unrestored, looks OK, a little soft
Porky the Rain-Maker - old master from ‘90s/early ‘00s
Porky’s Poultry Plant - Restored from GC 4
Milk and Money - Restored from GC 5
Porky’s Moving Day - unrestored, looks OK
Little Beau Porky - Restored from GC 4
The Village Smithy - Looks very nice
Porky of the Northwoods - Restored from GC 4
Porky the Wrestler - looks awful, full of dirt, unsteady image, CENSORED, also has the wrong end title literally spliced on
Porky’s Road Race - Restored from GC 4
Picador Porky - unrestored, looks very poor, wrong soundtrack over the opening and closing

Porky’s Romance - Restored from GC 3
Porky’s Duck Hunt - Restored from The Essential Daffy Duck
Porky and Gabby - looks awful, literally a jump splice from the credits to action, then splice to the end title
Porky’s Building - Looks very nice
Porky’s Super Service - Looks awful
Porky’s Badtime Story - Absolutely awful, starts abruptly on WB shield
Porky’s Railroad - Restored from GC 4
Get Rich Quick Porky - looks awful, has the opening music from “Confusions of a Nutty Spy” and wrong closing music
Porky’s Garden - looks soft, has opening music from “Porky’s Tire Trouble” and wrong closing music
Rover’s Rival - looks OK
Case of the Stuttering Pig - Restored from GC 4
Porky’s Double Trouble - Restored from GC 5
Porky’s Hero Agency - looks OK, a little dark
Porky at the Crocadero - Restored from GC 5
What Price Porky - Restored from GC 5
Porky’s Phoney Express - looks soft, but OK
Porky’s Five and Ten - old master from the ‘90s/early 00’s
Porky’s Hare Hunt - Restored from PC 2
Injun Trouble - looks soft/dirty

Porky the Fireman - Restored from GC 4
Porky’s Party - Restored from GC 3
Porky’s Spring Planting - looks really nice
Porky & Daffy - looks rather dirty, starts abruptly on the WB shield
Wholley Smoke - Restored from GC 5
Porky in Wackyland - Restored from GC 2
Porky’s Naughty Nephew - old master from ‘90s/00s
Porky in Egypt - Restored from GC 3
The Daffy Doc - Restored from GC 5
Porky the Gob - old master from ‘90s/00s
The Lone Stranger and Porky - old master from ‘90s/00s, has opening music from “Porky’s Tire Trouble”
It’s an Ill Wind - looks very bright/soft
Porky’s Tire Trouble - looks soft/dirty, but OK
Porky’s Movie Mystery - looks soft/dirty, but OK
Chicken Jitters - very light and dirty, has opening music from “Porky’s Tire Trouble”
Porky and Teabiscuit - Restored from GC 3
Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. - looks bright, dirty; abruptly starts on WB shield
Polar Pals - Restored from GC 5
Scalp Trouble - a little soft/dirty, but OK
Old Glory - Restored from GC 2

Porky’s Picnic - old master from ‘90s/00s
Wise Quacks - Restored from GC 5
Porky’s Hotel - old master from ’90s/00s
Jeepers Creepers - a little soft/dirty, but nice
Naughty Neighbors - old master from ‘90s/00s, has the Porky’s Tire Trouble opening music looped TWICE over the titles
Pied Piper Porky - old master from ’90s/00s
Porky the Giant Killer - looks OK
The Film Fan - Restored from GC 3
Porky’s Last Stand - titles are too bright, but otherwise nice
Africa Squeaks - old master from ‘90s/00s
Ali Baba Bound - abruptly starts on WB shield, otherwise looks nice
Pilgrim Porky - Restored from GC 5
Slap Happy Pappy - pretty dark, abruptly starts on WB shield
Porky’s Poor Fish - Restored from GC 4
You Ought to Be in Pictures - Restored from GC 2
Chewin’ Bruin - old master from ‘90s/00s
Porky’s Baseball Broadcast - looks nice
Patient Porky - new poor transfer, despite being restored from the neg on GC 5
Calling Dr. Porky - too bright, has the Porky’s Tire Trouble opening music
Prehistoric Porky - restored from GC 5


The Sour Puss - restored from GC 4
Porky’s Hired Hand - looks like an older master from ‘90s/00s, has “Porky’s Tire Trouble” opening music
Timid Torreador - looks excellent
Porky’s Snooze Reel - older master from ‘90s/00s
Porky’s Bear Facts - abruptly starts on WB shield, but looks excellent
Porky’s Preview - Restored from GC 5
Porky’s Ant - has wrong LT theme, but correct opening cue, looks beautiful
A Coy Decoy - looks a little bright, but fine
Porky’s Prize Pony - looks great
Meet John Doughboy - Restored from GC 6
We the Animals Squeak! - abruptly starts on WB shield, looks dirty but looks excellent otherwise
Henpecked Duck - abruptly starts on WB shield, looks dark but OK
Notes to You - wrong opening cue, looks like an older master
Robinson Crusoe Jr. - wrong opening cue, but looks excellent!
Porky’s Midnight Matinee - looks excellent
Porky’s Pooch - restored from GC 5
Porky’s Pastry Pirates - looks a little rough but quite good
Who’s Who in the Zoo - looks rather nice
Porky’s Cafe - way too dark
Confusions of a Nutzy Spy - a little bright but mostly good
Porky Pig’s Feat - Restored from GC 3

Man, some of the cartoons play the same opening theme from Porky’s Tire Trouble. Never the prints I saw online had that issue, and I wonder why they are presented on here? Since I never expected the wrong opening themes on the ones that exist with the true opening themes.

Well, my set came two days early and I skimmed through it. While I'm disappointed with the music errors on some of the shorts, at least they are unedited (with the exception of Porky the Wrestler where the footage is likely lost) and I would rather have them on DVD with these minor errors than not have them on DVD at all. [porky]

I did a petition for this DVD, so WB will do a disc replacement for the cartoons that have the music issues, and the splices on Porky & Gabby.

Sign it here .

I actually just ordered my set today.

I'm a bit disappointed with how the titles on some of the cartoons are incorrect. I was a bit suspicious of how they were using interpositives instead of original negatives. While it sucks, titles aren't gonna make me hate a DVD set. As long as cartoon looks decent and the majority of the cartoon is present, I'm a happy customer. Anyone remember when the Max Fleischer's Superman 1941-42 set came out with the wrong titles or when Ren and Stimpy: Seasons 1 & 2 and Rocko's Modern Life: The Complete Series were released with abrupt edits and censorship? People still celebrate these sets even with the edits and purchased them regardless of their flaws.

Let's be frank, Warner Archive doesn't have the best history with animated DVDs. Releasing The Phantom Tollbooth cropped to widescreen or putting unrestored Hanna-Barbera cartoons together, to name a few examples.

I don't regret my purchase because I'm getting black and white Porky Pig cartoons on a decent disc. I got what I wanted, so I'm happy

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Honestly, I really don't see the really big deal about the wrong music for the freakin title cards and not the whole cartoon . It stinks, but I think that's a bit too nick-picky. Heck, my biggest fear was that someone was going to pull out either a colored or black and white print of those Bizzaro redrawn clones instead of the real McCoy. And it never happened!

I mean is the wrong title music for cartoons really worst than having the overseas redrawn imposters in this set? Something to think about.

I still bought the set so I'll be able to see it with my own eyes instead of looking at screenshots. Mine will deliver next Wednesday, I'll post all the information once I get it.

As far as I know WB in the mid/late 80s remastered most of the LT & MM library they owned at the time and those analog transfers still look better than some of the latest restorations, even though they obviously have dirt and scratches. By looking at some of these screenshots it seems like WB used some of these, but many of the shorts listed as 90s/early 00s seem to me new masters.

In any case, I saw both Porky's Garden and Naughty Neighbors from RaiDue's digital archives last July (which aired in 2004 in B&W) and if I remember correctly they did NOT play the incorrect theme.

EDIT: By looking at the screenshots here  it seems to me the only old masters they used (in the selected shorts) are Porky's Picnic, The Chewin Bruin and the other one which I forgot the title (but you can clearly see the rainbowing effect of composite video). All the other screenshots come from new transfers, which means they are 4K scans, even though in most cases they're really bad.

Honestly, I really don't see the really big deal about the wrong music for the freakin title cards and not the whole cartoon . It stinks, but I think that's a bit too nick-picky. Heck, my biggest fear was that someone was going to pull out either a colored or black and white print of those Bizzaro redrawn clones instead of the real McCoy. And it never happened!

I mean is the wrong title music for cartoons really worst than having the overseas redrawn imposters in this set? Something to think about.

Yeah, and besides you can simply just add them from the existing copies that have the original opening and closing titles, as well as the original opening music cues when uploading the Porky Pig 101 copies. So at least we are not completely screwed when it comes to doing corrections ourselves.

Got my set today and watched a few shorts. That "Porky the Wrestler" end title card music change is truly bizarre. I've seen the version with the correct ending music so that was jarring, to say the least.

I would argue that wrong music is just as bad as redrawn cartoons. It's an apples and oranges comparison in some ways- one is dealing with audio and the other video, but both are not the way the shorts were originally presented. It's unfortunate to lose unique pieces of music- for example, I was hoping to hear the title card for "Fish Tales" for the first time, but no dice.

Are these music changes a deal breaker? Heck no. The set is still very much worth buying. And I didn't go in expecting a perfect set, given some of Jerry's comments on Stu's Show.

i received my set today, and im enjoying it so far. the music changes are rather strange, they sound like they were added later and not part of the films themselves, but i suppose it's not the biggest deal. porky's super service, a short thad thought "looked awful" actually looked perfectly fine. however get rich quick porky did look a little bright, and porky's badtime story looked the same for the first minute or so.

update: ive noticed in porky's hero agency, 3 shots seem to be taken from an inferior print. other than that, the short looks great.

If anyone is interested, I've been fixing the majority of the audio problems in this set. Pretty easy fix, I just can't find a few things like the original audio opening to FIsh Tales.
If anyone can deliver that to me, that would be totally awesome!

If anyone is interested, I've been fixing the majority of the audio problems in this set. Pretty easy fix, I just can't find a few things like the original audio opening to FIsh Tales.
If anyone can deliver that to me, that would be totally awesome!

I'm interested in your fixes on these cartoon's music cues. If you do have any accounts on any video service sites (like YouTube, Vimeo, or Dailymotion).

If anyone is interested, I've been fixing the majority of the audio problems in this set. Pretty easy fix, I just can't find a few things like the original audio opening to FIsh Tales.
If anyone can deliver that to me, that would be totally awesome!

I'm interested in your fixes on these cartoon's music cues.

Ditto! I only have access to what's on the web, so if you can find better material that'd be awesome!

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If anyone is interested, I've been fixing the majority of the audio problems in this set. Pretty easy fix, I just can't find a few things like the original audio opening to FIsh Tales.
If anyone can deliver that to me, that would be totally awesome!

I'm interested in your fixes on these cartoon's music cues.

Ditto! I only have access to what's on the web, so if you can find better material that'd be awesome!

Speaking of that, although this still uses the incorrect music cue, it does have the correct LT opening theme.

If anyone is interested, I've been fixing the majority of the audio problems in this set. Pretty easy fix, I just can't find a few things like the original audio opening to FIsh Tales.
If anyone can deliver that to me, that would be totally awesome!

I'm interested in your fixes on these cartoon's music cues. If you do have any accounts on any video service sites (like YouTube, Vimeo, or Dailymotion).

http://www.dailymotion.c...a19d5ee0f221d68a3ee6e9a2 

This will be my channel. I'll upload them as soon as I can.

If anyone is interested, I've been fixing the majority of the audio problems in this set. Pretty easy fix, I just can't find a few things like the original audio opening to FIsh Tales.
If anyone can deliver that to me, that would be totally awesome!

I'm interested in your fixes on these cartoon's music cues.

Ditto! I only have access to what's on the web, so if you can find better material that'd be awesome!

Speaking of that, although this still uses the incorrect music cue, it does have the correct LT opening theme.

Thanks, but no thanks. Listening to it was just torture. TORTURE!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x61se4s 

Here's an example of me putting the correct beginning in.

oh by the way, how can i tell if my version's the pressed or dvd-r version? i think mine's the latter...i'm not really sure

If anyone is interested, I've been fixing the majority of the audio problems in this set. Pretty easy fix, I just can't find a few things like the original audio opening to FIsh Tales.
If anyone can deliver that to me, that would be totally awesome!

I'm interested in your fixes on these cartoon's music cues.

Ditto! I only have access to what's on the web, so if you can find better material that'd be awesome!

Speaking of that, although this still uses the incorrect music cue, it does have the correct LT opening theme.

What the heck was that?! I don't get what this person was trying to do there.

IIRC, the pressed discs have silver backs while the DVD-R ones have purple backs.

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IIRC, the pressed discs have silver backs while the DVD-R ones have purple backs.

i suppose i got the pressed version then. a bit strange because the kwicky koala show set from warner archive i have has a silver back. (and all those hb classic collection releases are dvdr i think) looks like that anyway