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I told you back in May that The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones might be out on DVD before Christmas -- and it will be.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One will hit stores on October 23 and will include seven feature-length episodes which follow a young Indiana Jones as he encounters various historical figures and important events from the past. The 12-disc set will also include a whopping thirty-eight documentaries corresponding with the episodes, and interviews with such people as Martin Scorsese, Colin Powell, Deepak Chopra and James Earl Jones. Two more volumes will follow on December 18 and Spring 2008, respectively.

Choke on hot blue nostalgia, Generation X.

The Smurfs, that popular animated program I and many of my friends watched religiously as children of the '80s, is finally coming out on DVD. The Smurfs: Season One, Volume One is a two-disc set including the first nineteen episodes of the first season, along with "The Smurfs Springtime Special" and "Smurfs: The Music Video." The set comes out December 4.

The trend of putting my childhood in versatile digital form continues with the upcoming release of The Gummi Bears on DVD. The three-disc set, which comes out on November 14, will include episodes from the first three seasons. It's been ages since I've seen this cartoon, but I remember loving it when I was a kid, and I still get that damn theme song stuck in my head from time to time. The series, which as far as I remember really had nothing to do with the candy of the same name, centered on a group of magical bears in the Middle Ages who got into wacky adventures and drank a substance called "gummiberry juice" that made them bounce around. Trust me, when I was ten it was very entertaining.