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This Amazon review confirms what I suspected: Mill Creek simply re-used the Sony DVD versions with "Love and Marriage" restored in opening/closing credits, failing to account for certain episodes that had bonus scenes during closing credits. The "Oldies But Young'uns" episode still omitted "Anna...

I just discovered this opinion article that Ben Jones, who played Cooter on Dukes, wrote for a New York Times debate about the Confederate Flag: The Confederate Flag Is a Matter of Pride and Heritage, Not Hatred Merely TWO DAYS after the Charleston shooting. Combine that with Jones's all-caps...

The current incarnation of TV Land currently shows these programs from 1985 & earlier in syndication: Three's Company (1977-1984) (I don't know if TVL's syndie package includes the sequel Three's a Crowd or spinoff The Ropers, both of which are on Antenna TV along with 3C) Gilligan's Island...

The TV Land of the late '90s and early '00s couldn't last forever. Audiences age. Sure, the "golden age" TV Land might've introduced younger audiences to shows of the past, but TV Land could keep its old brand viable to advertisers for so long. So this is why you've got the "new" TV Land whose...

TV Land butchers its shows in various ways anyway: syndicated reruns (though it's more likely on the distributor not TV Land itself), too many ads (why the heck do half hour shows last 36 or 37 minutes anyway?), and credit squeezing. So Dukes fans, however they feel about TVL being...

The season 5 episode "Oldies But Young'uns" originally had the song "Anna (Go To Him)" by Arthur Alexander playing over the end credits. On the Sony DVD, the song was replaced with the generic faux theme music that replaced "Love & Marriage". I don't know if the song is back on the Mill Creek...

Mijac Music has the rights to non-MJ songs like "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" and "When a Man Loves a Woman". As for why, it must be similar to how Michael Jackson once owned the rights to Beatles songs. And apologies for my mistake in discussing The Wiz song - I didn't realize that The Wiz was a...

Shout Factory also wasn't able to clear Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" for the recent WKRP full series set. Looks like after MJ's death, Mijac Music is making very very high asking prices for the rights to MJ songs. (Mijac Music publishes any song first performed by MJ.)

Hmm. So Shout was able to clear the Star Wars theme (and Patton theme also as confirmed elsewhere here) but not Thank Heaven for Little Girls?I would speculate that rights holders for music originally recorded for film would want the music not associated with other media. Patton and Star Wars...

On Brewster, guest star Andy Gibb peformed the song. On Rhoda, a character sang the song too. In contrast, the WKRP "Patter of Little Feet" episode used the original soundtrack recording. I think with show tunes, the rights holders want to keep the integrity of the original recordings by not...

Someone posted earlier that WKRP has been shown in Norway; there's also video of WKRP dubbed in Catalan.

Multiple reasons. One, even generic music composed specifically for the show - in this case the theme music for Real Families (the parody of Real People in "Real Families" episode) - needs to be licensed. Maybe MTM/Fox lost track of whoever composed the music. That's a similar problem that CBS...

Because the Happy Days season 5 DVD included "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (albeit a cover version), I thought that Shout could have restored that song and original dialogue for this DVD. Turns out not. Either "We've Only Just Begun" is less expensive, or Fox simply did not have the original...

True. Could be the same reason why Shout couldn't license Chuck Berry or Beatles songs for this DVD release. The producers of Mad Men had to pay $250,000 for a Beatles song for an episode. I'm looking up Chuck Berry on IMDB right now and see that the shows/movies that use his songs often have...

Felder's lawsuit was settled in '07. I wonder what his lawsuit has to do with the Eagles licensing music for movies & TV. Which brings me to also respond to another poster's comment... Well, ever since the Eagles settled with Felder 7 years ago (and after Felder sued the band in '01), here is a...