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Thanks everyone for your kindness. I had agreed to be involved in a BluRay project to put out a restored Terry & The Pirates TV series recently but the driving force behind it (my longtime friend Bruce Cardozo) died in his sleep! And well before I became aware of his passing all of the related...

I haven't given up yet…still have related and unrelated projects I hope to finish... A friend that knows Shout said that they very likely didn't know what Steve Canyon was. and since they never heard of it, it wasn't important and hence not worth their time.

Thanks Lou. Sales have been abysmal since I announced the factory disc-issue early last August, MANY (about a thousand!) that ordered V1 and V2 have so far not ordered V3…and my partner with the Terry disc passed away last April, and I don't know where the episodes/materials ended up, perhaps in...

Thanks for the kind words, Lou! :)

You are most welcome :)

I'm just poking my head in here…still working on the two documentaries, but very slow going, still struggling with health and funding issues. I welcome any comments :)

General "Shanty" Town and Nurse "Thumbs" (called "Jeets" in the TV show) are in the pilot…they are the only characters other than Steve that appeared in the strip and the TV series. The strip arc was from 1956 titled "Taps For Shanty Town". General Town was based on USAF General Casey Vincent...

Good question, DeWilson. I have assumed the Blackmail 35mm prints were either stolen (by someone thinking they contained actual "blackmail" material, discarded on purpose (because they hated the episode or some such attitude problem), or accidentally lost in the shuffle. We'll probably never...

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So the disc arrived well protected in the cardboard shipper? No damage, it held up well? From Wed 8/12 until today, 3 days (via 1st class)…thanks John. Only want to do this once. :wacko: Going to give a few more days then will start sending them out (in the order they were reported). Will...

Not all copies have been shipped yet. I've been figuring out who got sent theirs and who is left (which is a lot of work) and also checking what is the most current address to ship to (which is also a lot of work). My central AC quit two days ago and yesterday was 104 degrees here and today the...

I Received the replacement Disc #1's and the redone/repacked remaining Volume 3's from the factory this afternoon…managed to get 40 packages stuffed, labeled and dropped off at the regional Post Office just before they closed at 6pm. More out tomorrow! Those of you on HTF that find you have...

I should have the corrected Volume 3's and replacement Disc 1's in the afternoon tomorrow, then back to shipping on Saturday. I still need to hear from those that have faulty Disc 1's…if the last half of THE MULLER STORY plays (to the END of the disc) without freezing, your disc is fine…you...

They are…they're reprinting Disc 1 for all the remaining sets…and providing substantial extra copies to send to those with bad discs. They are giving it priority, and I will get all Friday if not sooner. I need a breather anyway. Thanks for everybody's input and support. I should be back to...

I just dropped all the remaining discs back at the factory Hollywood office…they're figuring out what to do. It's clear I'm going to have to replace a percentage of discs, they promised to cover it…other than that, we'll see what they do. Fingers crossed.

Here's my shots of the manufacturing flaws on two different discs..note flaw is not in same exact spot on the two discs..the one closest to the hole plays longer before freezing:

Those of you that have received V3, could you take a look at the end of disc 1, starting with the animated L&M commercial and let it play to the end of the disc, and report to me here if it has any difficulty playing? I'm aware of 3 discs with a visible flaw in the manufacturing, but so far only...

20 Quatloos!

The emails are automagic, you have to sign up for our mail chimp mailing list if anyone wants to receive them…and if your email changes and you don't update yourself on mail chimp…sorry, not my fault. If anyone is too lazy to click on the link in my signature below, you can use this to just...

Yes, it's going well, James. I feel better than I have in 3 years. What happens after I get V3 out depends on how I feel then. I have enough without Terry to keep me busy for the rest of my life. I DO have a life and history beyond this…though I suspect most of you have no idea. I do want to...

Original Dumont Network open for Terry And The Pirates from 1952 from our archive…I don't believe this is on any of the Alpha Video episodes (I don't have time to check, though someone here may know having just purchased the Alpha set), and I suspect none of you have ever seen this:

There were only 18 episodes and it ran on the Dumont Network originally. The executive producer/owner was Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who intended to make a movie originally in 1946 but went to a syndicated TV series just before his option ran out. We have pristine original prints of the two that...

For those too lazy to search, here's a million year old link where you can see what the slipcase and Vol 3 look like: Slipcase Preview And Scheduling Update The slipcase is not for sale, and pre-ordering is closed (which is the only way you can get it, so it's a moot point). Somebody figured...

I appreciate your support Chris…please note that EVERYONE that pre-ordered will get the slipcase within the same package as Vol 3…I have three large boxes of them waiting in my office, along with a pallet of about $1000 worth shipping materials that are just for Vol 3 and the slipcases, which...

It's a mystery. Who knows? Maybe somebody saw the boxes marked "blackmail" and spirited them away thinking it was usable for some nefarious purpose...or perhaps someone REALLY hated this episode enough to lose it...but I do hope we find out someday. Thanks for asking :)

It's a new modern state of the art transfer, unlike most of what makes it to DVD (if they have old telecine transfers from the 70's, 80's or 90's laying around). To compare, here is a fully restored frame (frame #14102) from OPERATION INTERCEPT which is from the 35mm broadcast master print ABC...

Here's something interesting, a partial scan of one of the daily production reports for the episode OPERATION B-52 that shows the stages used on that day:

Thanks for your support John. It's never been a question to me of if, only when. Stay tuned :)

Nope. It was only shown ONCE in the US, NBC First Run Thursday February 26, 1959, so we are lucky to have this solitary example at all! But Milt's personal 16mm print looks great and has commentary by Abel Fernandez, Russ Maheras and myself. So you can see for yourselves, here's frame 13586...

Hard to say where they would have ended up...I have a letter from Producer David Haft to Milton Caniff (when they went to series) stating they were deciding to leave Hal Roach Studios (where they shot the pilot) and deciding between Universal-International and Desilu, and that Desilu wasn't as...