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    Hogan's Heroes Question

    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
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    Gunsmoke Season 7 Closing Credits Question?

    Didn't the seventh season of Gunsmoke (the first hour-long season) ever have a separate closing card that was similar to what closed season six (1960-61), but with the same drumroll and five-note horn fanfare used on all other CBS shows made in-house in the 1961-62 season? ~Ben
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    Family Ties Season 3 Finale

    Does anybody know if the original 1-hour cut of Family Ties' season three (1984-85) finale, "Remembrance of Things Past," even exists? When this episode first aired on NBC, it was split in two parts, but oddly both parts aired on the same night of March 28, 1985. According to the Paramount...
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    Quincy, M.E. - Season 1 Question

    While Universal Studios itself claims the official first season of Quincy, M.E. (1976-83) are of the four 90-minute TV movies that aired during the NBC Mystery Movie cycle, I don't count them as an official season, which would really mean the official first season began on February 4, 1977 with...
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    Average Bitrates for TV on DVD Releases?

    https://www.dvd-guides.com/guides/all-to-dvd/250-put-many-movies-episodes-in-one-dvd According to this link, the higher the bitrate used, the better the picture quality. But this also means less episodes per DVD. Since it is common practice that most TV on DVD releases have up to four hours or...
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    Happy Days Again (1979-1984)

    For those of you that were old enough to have seen Happy Days in its early days of syndication from 1979 to 1984, as Happy Days Again, do any of you remember whether or not any of the holiday episodes other than the springtime one ("Three on a Porch") were aired during the appropriate times of...
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    The Ropers and Three's a Crowd

    I remain hopeful these two spin-offs of Three's Company will be given separate DVD releases. I know two episodes of The Ropers are included in the present Three's Company syndicated package: the first series premiere "Moving On" (March 13, 1979) and the season 2 premiere "The Party" (September...
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    DVD Sets with Multi-Part Stories...

    What do you think regarding DVDs of season sets that have part one of a multi-part story arc ending one disc, and the second or third part starting another? For example: Mission: Impossible - The Complete Third Season (1968-1969). Part 1 of the two-part story arc "The Bunker" is the last...
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    Perry Mason DVD Sets - Closing Theme Music Versions?

    For those of you that own Perry Mason on DVD, could any of you please find out which season 5-9 episodes keep their respective original broadcast closings? The reason I am asking is because many of the season 5-9 episodes (especially the season 5-7 episodes - those with the split closing...
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    DVD Sets You Would Like to See Redone?

    Are there any DVD sets you would like to see re-done, for example, to correct poor picture quality? One of my solutions would be to re-arrange the episodes included in each set in an order that respects the picture quality and also the original time length of the pilot episode (the pilot...
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    Universal Television Logos on DVD?

    Does anybody know what DVDs of material Universal Television produced -- whether released through Universal Studios Home Entertainment or sublicensed to Mill Creek or Shout! Factory -- keep the original Universal Television logos intact? I read not all of them keep them, hence why I am asking...
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    How many episodes per disc, and discs per season set, on average?

    Does anybody really know, on average, how many episodes are included per disc, and in turn, how many discs are included in each season set? The way I look at it is like this... 12 90-minute episodes per season set, on 4 discs (3 episodes per disc) Calculation: 75 min. (avg. run time less...
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    The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang...

    For those of you who received your copies of both The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang and Laverne & Shirley in the Army on DVD, please let me know what logos you found at the end... TV Land's reruns of season 1, episodes 4 and 5, respectively have two mistakes under the 1995 Paramount logo (which...
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    DVD9 - Industry Standard for TV on DVD?

    Is it true that most TV show releases on DVD use DVD9 discs? This would certainly be the case with shows like Star Trek (The Original Series) and Mission: Impossible, as there are at most four one-hour episodes per disc. There are some releases, though, that use the cheaper DVD5 discs (up to...
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    Hanna-Barbera Logos on DVD

    While most DVDs of Hanna-Barbera shows keep the right closing logos, a few have them get replaced with one of these two "All-Stars" logos (both of which were used from 1994-1997), depending on the genre of the series. For action/adventure series: For comedy series: Thus, I want to ask you...
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    DVD Disc Rot

    Does anyone know what kind of DVDs are more prone to this so-called "disc rot" than others? What I am talking about is what happens when a certain DVD you're playing skips on a certain episode, that is, doesn't play smoothly. Sometimes, a certain DVD may not play at all because of this...
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    VEI – What Classic TV Series Are They Working On This Year?

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    The Bad News Bears (1979-80) - Episode Summaries

    http://badnewsbears.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_The_Bad_News_Bears_episodes I have been researching the archive related to my local newspaper (The Oregonian) regarding the summaries for every episode of The Bad News Bears. I know the Wiki entry for season 2 is not right about the two-part "Wedding...
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    Star Trek (TOS) S1 - Narration on First 2 Episodes

    I'd been told by John80220 that the first two episodes (in order of broadcast) of the first season of Star Trek (TOS), "The Man Trap" and "Charlie X," had a slightly different version of William Shatner's opening narration, which usually goes: "Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of...
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    The Bad News Bears (1979-80)

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JMHJVYG/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Here's what I bought on DVD last weekend, and which my copy has been recently shipped and on its way to me. There is but one review of this title so far (5 stars!), and the person that submitted the review says...
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    TV on DVD: DVD5, DVD9, DVD10, DVD18...

    Is it true that the following original DVD releases of such shows as Star Trek (The Original Series), Mission: Impossible, The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Taxi, Mork & Mindy and Cheers had used single-layer DVD5 and/or DVD9 discs? For example, I'd say The Brady Bunch and Happy...
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    Any VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray Combo Players?

    Are there any manufacturers which still make to this day any combination players that do DVD and Blu-Ray as well as VHS tapes? If yes, then who makes the best one in terms of reliability (least amount of problems related to it)? ~Ben
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    CBS MOD DVD for 2019?

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    Goodtime Girls (1980) Questions

    While we're all waiting on a DVD release of this 13-episode series, the other question I want to ask is this: is it true that the theme tune used on the pilot is "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" before they changed it to "When Everyone Cared"? I even wonder if this was an unaired test version...
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    War of the Worlds (1988) Season 1 DVD?

    For those of you who own War of the Worlds (1988 TV series) season 1 (1988-1989) on DVD, is it true that all the episodes in the set would have ended this way? ... with the 1987-89 Paramount Television "CGI Mountain" logo. (this came from a PAL DVD, but I am asking all those of you here if the...
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    Paramount DVD Titles - 1.33:1 Ratio?

    I have a question: Do any Paramount theatrical releases on DVD exist with the TV aspect ratio of 4:3 (1.33:1)? Stuff like... Urban Cowboy (1980) Beverly Hills Cop (1984) D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) Top Gun (1986) Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) The Untouchables (film)...
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    Paramount Television and VEI DVD… for 2018?

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    Concerns About VEI...

    I am concerned about the future of VEI, not only because of both The Immortal (which is due now for release) and Longstreet, but for the sake of the company altogether. I know on Facebook, fans of Viper (which has seen its release delayed numerous times, I think, because of Fiat Chrysler...
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    THE IMMORTAL (1970-1971) to hit DVD very soon!

    VEI have just put up a teaser video regarding the DVD release of THE IMMORTAL (1970-1971)! Like THE MAGICIAN (1973-1974) this was another short-lived series I remember watching on the old Sci-Fi Channel back in 1996. You know what this means? It means that the rare 1968 Paramount Television...
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    ZOOM (PBS) (1972-1978)

    As good as the ZOOM: Back to the '70s compilation DVD is, I do believe it would be neat if WGBH and PBS could get their act together and release all six seasons of the classic version (1972-78) of this children's series on DVD in their entirety. They previously released all six seasons of the...
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