The problem is, in order for the second option to be viable, they have to figure out a way to make "some" profit, as opposed to the costs involved (especially the music rights) being higher than the expected income.
There is a third option n some cases - releasing the shows with the music...
The long-awaited (over five years) Animaniacs Volume 4 (and is it just me, or is the video qualify not quite as good as on the first three?) Red Dwarf X
CBS has had a number of these - I think they had one in the 1990s. There was also one starring George Burns, but that looked to be a combination of pilots (one of which actually got sold, as Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills) and one-off stories.
ABC also did this one year in the 1970s, with a...
It's more popular than you might think, as it was part of the Banana Splits syndication package (in fact, other than for the Banana Splits episodes, that was the only show in the package where they kept the show's own closing credits).
That's sort of the opposite of my experience - the first VCR I owned (late 1985, I would guess) cost me $600; it was a four-head stereo model (there was an equivalent non-stereo version for $500). However, the tapes weren't more than $3 each.
On the other hand, when I got my first DVD...
On the other hand, had the DVR come out first, chances are there would be more "lost shows" as not nearly as many people would have bothered making collections of shows that weren't only on hard drives (which, when they went bad, meant that they were lost forever).
As foe early video...
Does the first season set have the correct closing credits for each episode, or is it the same credits for all of them? I'm pretty sure there is at least one episode with Rosie in it where Jean Vander Pyl isn't credited.
You left one out:
IIRC, Marion Ross, Don Most, and Erin Moran competed together on an episode of All-Star Anything Goes (the syndicated celebrity version of Almost Anything Goes).
Then again, it's very unlikely that any recordings of this series still exist.
If Fox really wanted it off the air, it would have moved the show to Friday nights. Keep in mind that Glee is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers - in fact, I think it takes in the most money of all scripted non-animated TV shows on US network television.
Besides, Thursday nights don't seem...
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but if I remember correctly, some (all?) Season 1 episodes were remade for later seasons by removing the songs and tacking on Brown Hornet segments at the start of the episode (the one I can think of off the top of my head involves two white kids transferring into...
I don't remember ever seeing this in two parts - the only time I saw it was back in the days when networks still aired movies regularly, and ABC aired it in a two-hour movie block one year.
Here are some of my favorites (in fact, I usually have a Christmas Eve DVD marathon):
The Dick...
Well, the one I thought I would never see - USA Network's Duckman - finally did get released (and a complete set, too, although I am not 100% convinced that these don't have the time cuts added when the episodes were moved to Comedy Central). My top ones at the moment: The Phil Silvers...
Pardon me for asking, but (a) which shows were "forced off the air," and (b) by whom? (The only cartoon show I have ever heard of being forcibly removed was Hot Wheels, and "the version I heard was," it was the FCC's doing as they considered it a half-hour commercial for the toy cars.)
Yes, but did they restore each individual episode's credits, or just use one set for every episode? It has been a while since I have watched my set, but I seem to recall that Jean VanderPyl, who voiced Rosie, is not credited in any of the episodes on the DVDs.
I shop Best Buy (a) for hardware (I just got a Sony N100 player - and, despite the horror stories about BB personnel not knowing their stuff, the person who helped me knew exactly what I meant when I said, "You know what a Roku box is? I want the Sony version" (i.e. the N100)), and (b) when I...
It might depend on how many episodes were made. (Has Running Wilde been announced for a release?) Also, I have noticed that animated series that only have 13 (or even just six, in the case of Clerks) episodes are more likely to be released than similar-length live-action series; my best...
Well, WWE is notorious for changing music - even on shows it didn't originally produce. (Both the 1980s-era NWA shows on WTBS and the mid-1990s ECW episodes (which WWE air on its OnDemand channel) have to replace quite a bit of music (examples: originally, The Road Warriors used the original...
1. The Prisoner 2. Monty Python's Flying Circus (despite the fact that it's the "cut" version) 3. The Simpsons 4. the four Blackadder series 5. The Dick Van Dyke Show
I don't think it's "Fox's policy" so much as it is the availability (or lack thereof) of the writers / directors / Matt Groening to do the commentary tracks. Fox's special bare-bones Season 20 release showed (a) that they could release more than one season at a time if they really cut corners...
My list of rants / peeves / whatever, in order: 1. Double sided discs, mainly for the "which side is which?" problem (there is one season of Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends that has these, and it is almost impossible to read the label on the inner ring) 2. Cardboard sleeve packaging - we...
I don't have access to the DVDs or Hulu at the moment (who told you I was posting this from work?), but if the last line in the Sally/Buddy sketch is Sally saying, "I didn't know that was Jingle Bells!", I vaguely remember that being the ending when it aired on local TV decades ago. (I thought...
Favorite? Probably the 13 or so seasons of The Simpsons that have been released so far (not including the Season 20 "just the episodes" release). (More so in part because there was never any attempt to release full seasons in the USA on VHS - in fact, it took forever just to get any episodes...
"Show Segments" has aired, albeit something like 30 years ago. (For those of you who have never seen this, it takes place "in real life" - the actors are "portraying" themselves - and they discuss scenes that were cut from other episodes (which are aired); for example, in the Ed Sullivan...
The Christmas episode originally aired as a 2-hour TV-movie; maybe they feel that makes a difference. (Then again, I'm a little surprised they didn't release the "sequel" as well - Tom and Abby's first anniversary, where Nicholas runs away when he sees a newspaper photo of the robber from the...
Purchased as expected.
Next up: probably whichever of the next Family Guy set (these usually show up in mid-June) or Robot Chicken Star Wars 3 (July 12, apparently) comes out first.
EDIT: One of the previews on the AD discs mentions that the next Family Guy set will release in mid-June
Anybody have any idea which episodes those are? I have seen two different episode guides, with two slightly different numbering lists.
68 is almost certainly the Sam Snead episode.
89 is probably either the Kay Kendall episode or the one with Dick Van Dyke as Bilko's cousin (I don't...
My only gripe with Bilko possibly stopping after one season is, where I lived, they never aired all of the episodes (it aired on two different stations about 20 years apart, and, for some reason, not only were some episodes in one station's run not in the other (one had the Ed Sullivan episode...
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I'm surprised Goodson-Todman didn't do a better job of saving their early ABC shows - there are hardly any ABC episodes of The Price is Right or Password in existence. (There is a rumor that the Password tapes were reused for Family Feud.) Shame, too - I never did get to see any of...