Recent content by ClassicTVMan1981X

I never knew that about these three-parters... I wish to know if the 90-minute edits exist in their entirety, because I never saw these long-form edits on (W)TBS or elsewhere then. Speaking of which... were there long-form edits of the following Mission: Impossible multi-part episodes? * "Old...

And here's the rare 1974 Paramount Communications logo -- which was similar to their TV logo of the period but actually features a refined version of Paramount's mountain logo that resembles their updated theatrical logo -- that was seen on the 30-minute PSA Let's Call It Quits, co-produced with...

Gilligan's Island is via Warner Bros. (Turner). ~Ben

Hi Mr. Masters, Have you seen this recent tall-peak Blue Mountain sighting? This one is from Kingpins (1987), which was an unsold TV series that first ran as part of the CBS Summer Playhouse cycle. ~Ben (ClassicTVMan1981X)

My guess is that they'd have to get the rights to some of the music heard within each episode, and it's another videotaped series, too, which makes it kinda hard to accurately do for Blu-Ray. ~Ben

Just so you know, yesterday I bought two of the individual releases (Yogi's Great Escape and The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones) and they were shipped out promptly. ~Ben

Has anyone else been told the box set has been delayed further? No shipping update from Amazon.com just yet, but I may wait a week or two before canceling it. ~Ben

Here's another example of a show that has been destroyed/taped over: Wheel of Fortune, pre-Pat Sajak. According to Randy West, Chuck Woolery didn't exactly get along with Merv Griffin about wanting a salary raise. After Woolery quit or was fired, Griffin erased most of the 1975-81 episodes of...

Thank you! They also messed up on guest star Willard Sage's character; in the credits, his character's surname was "Schmidt" but when spoken everyone called him "Doenitz" (as in rear admiral Karl Doenitz), hence the Anglicized spelling "Dernitts." ~Ben

Does anyone know the exact title of this season 1 episode? It was re-run by CBS on June 24, 1966, and its synopsis went: ~Ben

My question is this: for those of you who have this upgraded set, hasn't the black-and-white pilot episode "The Informer" been restored to its original 33-minute length? That was how long it was back when it had been out on VHS through Columbia House as part of its "Collector's Edition" series...

Which depends on if they still have the original 35mm studio masters, as opposed to the 16mm or the 1" videotaped dubs used in syndication and cable reruns. ~Ben

Which is a good thing because I do not like bootleg sets. ~Ben

The first Alan Parsons Project release, 1976's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, featured the complete then-current lineups of both Ambrosia and Pilot. Ambrosia, which released their first album shortly before its lineup had contributed to Tales (Parsons would then return the favor by producing...