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    Bewitched Season 1

    I just wish they would start offering color shows in black and white versions.
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    Bewitched Season 1

    You know, this started in another thread as well and just so we can argue it out separately and not under a Bewitched thread or Tarzan thread, I'm going to start a new post about this. I won't be able to get away with Fox Sucks, although they do, as the title, but that'll be the gist of it.
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    Can Anyone Recommend a Good "Jack Benny" release?

    The live shows are public domain. They were never copyrighted because no one thought they would ever be seen again so there was no reason to copyright them. Universal sells a syndication package of 104 episodes but I believe the total number of filmed shows is 149 of the 300+ produced. As with...
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    We need VOYAGERS on dvd...

    I would say don't count on a release and just transfer the off-air records because that's what I've started doing.
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    How can companies not know if a show is cut or not?

    The whole point of buying something is to get it in a form you can't get otherwise, i.e., complete with no bugs. Even Joe sixpack I don't think wants to buy something if he knows he's getting it edited, the same way he can watch it off air. Read what you just said. A lesser quality master...
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    How can companies not know if a show is cut or not?

    I'm with you Deb. I've held off on transferring The Invaders, thinking at some point someone will realize that it's SciFi and SciFi sells. But in the event I have to transfer them from videotape, I will go off my PBS recorded complete versions, even though they are from crappy, faded old 16mm...
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    How can companies not know if a show is cut or not?

    This whole quagmire that seems to be developing with companies (not the studios themselves) releasing shows just has me puzzled. I find it difficult to believe the explanations given of "we didn't know". Kind of sounds the same to me as the baseball players who took steriods saying they thought...
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    I hope they release the Alvin show on DVD

    The 1960s show and the 1980s one were vastly different. The Alvin Show ran in prime time and was similar to Rocky and Bullwinkle in that it was done for both adults and kids. It worked on two levels and was written intelligently enough that an adult could enjoy it. The 1980s show was done by the...
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    Leave It To Beaver coming in 2005!!!

    These were done yearly by the US Treasury Department. I don't know when they stopped (or if they did) as I have them going into the 80s. Mr. Ed, Superman, Odd Couple, WKRP in Cincinnati are among the shows which participated. There's even a really good one with half a dozen shows from Paramount...
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    I hope they release the Alvin show on DVD

    The Alvin Show had at least one or two songs in each episode so it could be a licensing nightmare. Not sure about whether or not the songs were so old that maybe they are public domain or not.
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    unaired pilots

    Both AITF unaired pilots exist. Don't believe that lost BS. That came from the Museum of TV, who's idea of looking for stuff is to sit there and have everything dropped in their laps. The first pilot exists in the UCLA archive where it's been all along.
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    The Second Hundred Years

    That's funny that you post this today as I just started transferring my USA taped episodes last night. I love this show, another of the great one-season Screen Gems shows. Perfect for DVD packages would be sets of all of these short-run gems: Second Hundred Years Paul Lynde Show Bridget...
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    when first seasons don't sell as well

    Key word in that sentence is "think". They don't think. They don't know the product that they are involved with. If you are talking about shows that are 20, 30, 40, 50 years old, unless you have someone like myself who has intricate knowledge of television history, these people don't have the...
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    How about the rest of Peter Gunn and all of Mr. Lucky

    My friend, you're in the wrong place. With the scant exception of myself and about 3 or 4 other people here, everyone else is young and not very interested in older shows. Both of those properties are currently owned by a company called Liberty Media and hopefully they do have plans to do...
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    Get Smart!

    See, this is how misinformation gets spread. Warners may have licensed the rights to the characters or the property, which may have come from Buck Henry the creator himself. However a quick glance at Paramount's website shows that they are still offering the show in syndication. Now it's unclear...
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    Tabitha

    According to the Sony news release, Tabitha is being released with 13 episodes so by my count that should include the original pilot since there were only 12 Lisa Hartman episodes made. Good for them. Now if we could only get them to dig out the 2 unaired All in the Family pilots and include...
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    Get Smart!

    I highly doubt WB has anything to do with this show.
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    Ozzie & Harriet -- is there a quality DVD release of this?

    I don't know where anyone would get info about Columbia having anything to do with this. The property is currently controlled by SFM thru the Nelson estate. Columbia has never had anything to do with this show.
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    Anybody remember, Run Buddy Run?

    I have the first 8 or 9 shows from off film. I'm not sure but I believe TV Land may have run the pilot at some point in their early years. That would have been the only rebroadcast for the show in the US. They only made 16 of them. The story with that show is that the ratings started out poorly...
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    Holocaust series with Meryl Streep....

    Producer - filmography (1990s) (1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s) (1940s) Murder Times Seven (1990) (TV) (executive producer) ... aka Murder x 7 Murder in Black and White (1990) (TV) (executive producer) Stones for Ibarra (1988) (TV) (producer) Mandela (1987) (TV) (executive...
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    Holocaust series with Meryl Streep....

    I'm not sure who owns the rights to it. It was a Herbert Brodkin production. He was a producer who did about 40 years of excellent, thought provoking TV, which means most of the morons have no idea who he is. How's this for a description - what Aaron Spelling is to schlocky crap, what Sherwood...
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    Yogi and Huckleberry is Coming!!

    Amazing, isn't it, the lack of care that the owners of these shows give their product. Where are the negatives?
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    "Make Room For Daddy" (5th Season) DVD Set Review

    The first 4 seasons have not been rerun since the show was part of NBC's weekday afternoon lineup in the early sixties. Once the show went into traditional syndication, those episodes were never included in the package. The reasons have never been fully explained as the show was very fresh and...
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    "Make Room For Daddy" (5th Season) DVD Set Review

    It's really a shame the way this series has been mistreated over the years, from having 6 of the 11 seasons dropped from syndication, to having the shows badly chopped for syndication to now this DVD release. I really wonder if the Thomas family knows about the abominable way this show has been...
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    Will I Like Wanted Dead orv Alive

    I'm glad to see this and I'm also glad I didn't get too far on my transfers. I had just started running this off to DVD from the uncut run from Encore in the late 90s. Now I can move on to other series. Only thing I'm curious about though is with the bonuses is why they aren't including the...
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    Hawaii Five-O - Any Interest Out There?

    From the Hawaii Five-O website: Someone wrote to me recently: "Mike, there was an article in [a national newspaper] about 3 weeks ago about Paramount/Viacom releasing TV DVD's. I called the journalist who wrote the article, and amazingly enough, she picked up the phone. I asked her about...
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    Idea for the studio geniuses

    That would be true if you are talking about going back to the 35mm negative and going off of that, which is something they are not doing right now. Most of the older shows that are coming out, they are just taking whatever elements are conveniently available. Lost in Space they went off the...
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    Wiseguy-Vol. 4 Question

    Every Cannell release so far has been a total botch job. I don't know why anyone continues to be surprised at any of this. He obviously doesn't really give a shit about the condition of his shows on DVD and will not even pick up a phone to check on getting a song licensed. He just replaces all...
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    Idea for the studio geniuses

    What we need is for the studios to form divisions similar to what the music industry did. Form specialty divisions to market the lesser appeal shows. Time Warner has Rhino Handmade, which puts together CD releases of limited appeal items. They only press a small number of anywhere from 5,000 to...
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    "Brady Bunch" Season 1 Release Date: March1, 2005

    Well she certainly was one of the most beautiful teenagers that's ever been on television. In the fifties you had Tuesday Weld for a season on Dobie Gillis, although she always gave out the vibe of being 15 going on 30. Then there was Shelley Fabares on The Donna Reed Show. She was very...
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