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Sarcasm? Not at all. In fact I'm imagining a future in which these DVDs are obsolete because you could just implant The Dukes of Hazzard on a chip in your brain. Then The Dukes of Hazzard would be up there floating around in your grey matter, every waking minute, and in your dreams too.

I shudder to think that I could ever find myself someplace where at least one Dukes of Hazzard DVD wasn't within arm's reach.

Even if your local library system is not a robust supplier of DVDs or Blu-rays, it probably has some version of Interlibrary Loan that you can use to request circulating items from other library systems (at least in within the US). It can be cumbersome and take a while to receive your item...

I mean can you ever really have too many copies of The Dukes of Hazzard?

I always wondered what happened to Bill Anchors. Pretty sure I got my first non-commercial recordings from him (the episodes of The Outer Limits that hadn't come out on VHS yet), around 1989 or 1990. Had a lot of the Epi-Logs and Star Tech catalogs too, which had a lot of cool-sounding stuff I...

For something like The Defenders, I don't really see a logistical barrier to this. True, you couldn't bang on CBS's door and get their corporate bureaucracy interested in a chump-change Kickstarter campaign. But with a small or medium-sized licensor like Shout already in place, and one volume...

Guys, it's gonna look bad on your tube TVs, too.

An audiophile friend compared the DVDs to a definitely uncompressed Dan August element today and confirmed the DVDs are slightly time-sped. Which in retrospect should be obvious given the little trims to the act titles, but we were both a little surprised that they're only shortened by 2-3...

(EDIT: Sorry for any confusion. I posted something here that was intended for another thread.)

I didn't think a QM show could look worse than Cannon or post-S1 Barnaby Jones, but I was wrong!

Oh, wow, these look terrible. The runtimes aren't that shortened (49 minutes and change) but it's still some of the ugliest time compression (or PAL-to-NTSC conversion?) I've ever seen. If you didn't know better you'd think the series was shot on tape.

Never would've thought it possible, but you guys found a reason for me to like Gomer Pyle.

More than half of Warner Archive film releases on DVD that I've seen (at least a dozen) seem to have been sourced from pretty dire older tape transfers since at least the beginning of this year. Tons of film dirt, video artifacts, and motion issues (I can't decide if we're seeing standards...

The thing about 1/3 of a season's episodes being good, 1/3 average, and 1/3 being lousy is something I've heard often enough from people who worked in early TV that I suspect it was an informal rule of thumb. As in, if you were hitting that benchmark you could probably count on keeping your...

Not unless there are some cable channels that can run 16mm prints like it's 1975.

Wow. This is appalling.

Anyone get The Gay Bride (1934) or A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)? These are easily the worst-looking Warner Archive discs I've come across since the first round of Turner pillbox transfers. Are any of the other recent releases similarly afflicted? Have they started quietly dumping old tape...

Backdoor pilot?

I stumbled across a new batch, including a lot of Claudette Colbert and some sought-after '30s Paramounts, that was released last month: Fast and Loose (1930) Honor Among Lovers (1931) The Phantom President (1932) The Misleading Lady (1932) She Loves Me Not (1934) Private Worlds (1935) The...

William Smith and Sharon Farrell in the final season also screws up Hawaii Five-O.

Now I'm curious about the inverse of this: What's the most recent series whose principal cast members are all dead?

This time last year Cheyenne, Bronco, and Sugarfoot would all have qualified.

Wide Country (1962-63), with Earl Holliman and Andrew Prine. And I think all of the regulars from The New People (1969-70) are still alive.

For once, I agree with Jack P. on something. This is a major disappointment.

They're not directors' cuts because the studio recut them, not the directors. The final paragraph of MattHR's post on the previous page explains some of the problems with these expanded-for-syndication Universal episodes (and I wrote about it here). As Night Gallery fans well know, padding an...

That's not what "original" means.

I don't have the set yet but thanks for clarifying in advance how I'm going to feel about it. I was wondering! If I'm understanding Richard's notes correctly, the Blu-ray set presents the pilot only in an incoherent syndication re-edit, even though the original version was on the DVDs. That's...

Dukes of Hazzard was dropped by TV Land because of the confederate flag iconography and Warner Bros. stopped licensing replicas of the General Lee with the flag on them. But the DVDs are not and were never out of print. There was a brief run on them, leading to out-of-stock statuses at online...

That's why they stopped putting them out!

I've never laid eyes on this but I got the sense it was less important than the second, significantly expanded edition of The Outer Limits Companion ... which is, alas, also out of print and very expensive. I think David's working on a third edition, although I don't know how far along he is...