Absolutely and positively number 1 on my list is 77 Sunset Strip 2. Surfside Six 3. Hawaiian Eye 4. Adventures in Paradise 5. Sea Hunt 6. The Rebel 7. Bourbon Street Beat 8. Bat Masterson 9. Yancy Derringer 10. The Roy Rogers Show 11. The Invaders 12. The rest of Cheyenne 13. Maverick 14. Spenser 15. The Gallant Men 16. 12 O'Clock High 17. Sky King 18. Annie Oakley 19. Laredo 20. 26 Men 21. Bronco 22. Sugarfoot 23. Broken Arrow 24. Shotgun Slade 25. Colt .45 26. The Gray Ghost 27. Jungle Jim 28. Naked City 29. Pony Express 30. The Silent Service 31. The rest of The Saint b/w episodes 32. Garrison's Gorillas 33. Petrocelli
TV: Bionic Woman Eight is Enough Golden Palace The Ropers Six Million Dollar Man
MOVIES: The Big Circus Good Morning Miss Dove Who's Minding the Store? (Jerry Lewis) Scavenger Hunt Star Wars (original '77 version, 16x9) ...Why did I even write this?! LOL
1. The Invaders 2. The Green Hornet 3. Sea Hunt 4. Thriller 5. The Defenders
The top five long shots:
1. The Rebel 2. The Loner 3. Wagon Train 4. T.H.E. Cat 5. Hong Kong
And yes, continuation of 50s - 70s era sets that coming out at too lethargic a pace to find me confident of a complete series release ("Rawhide", "Untouchables", "Night Gallery", Alias Smith & Jones", "The Fugitive", et al).
Here Come the Brides (Season 2) The Lucy Show Here's Lucy (Ok... I want it all) Peyton Place (I'd love to see good clean transfers) Petticoat Junction (Pick up where MPI left it) Beverly Hillbillies (same as above) Tales of the Gold Monkey Mickey Mouse Club (50's Season sets) Zorro (Disney version) Hawaian Eye
The list could go on- I've given up on Batman and have chosen to take care of that in an alternative way!!!
BATMAN (1965-68) Fox MAVERICK Warner SUSPICION Universal THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR Universal BUS STOP Fox THE WESTERNER Four Star (Fox? Paramount?) THE BLUE LIGHT Fox THE IMMORTAL (1969-70) Paramount
And the series that need to continue toward completion on R1 DVD:
DRAGNET LEAVE IT TO BEAVER WKRP IN CINCINNATI THE FUGITIVE RAWHIDE ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS THE UNTOUCHABLES ROUTE 66 MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 GET A LIFE SCTV PLAYBOY'S PENTHOUSE/PLAYBOY AFTER DARK BEANY & CECIL
The Lucy Show (as long as it is done as well as the I Love Lucy sets) Dobie Gillis The Six Million Dollar Man Surfside 6 China Beach (unlikely I know) The Carol Burnett Show (full season sets - hell might freeze over first) My World and Welcome to It Flipper (finish series) Vega$ We've Got Each Other
Here's some Saturday Morning TV Shows I'd Like to see on DVD.
Hot Wheels Skyhawks The Adventures of Gulliver The Adventures of Huck Finn Shazam! Run Joe Run! Westwind Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Fantastic Voyage Lassie's Rescue Rangers
PLEASE RELEASE THESE ON DVD Cannon The F.B.I. It Takes a Thief M Squad (a reality, perhaps?) Mannix (also a reality?) Name Of the Game Waterfront
PLEASE CARRY ON WITH THESE SERIES The Equalizer Hawaii Five-O Ironside The Mod Squad Streets of San Francisco
PLEASE PUT THESE ON R1 Dave Allen At Large Department S The Goodies
MOVIES At Sword's Point Cavalcade (another '08 reality?) more Charlie Chan Dangerous Moonlight W.C. Fields, Vol. 3 (with Million Dollar Legs) Harry's War more Laurel & Hardy more Three Stooges Time Out For Rhythm (speaking of the Stooges) The Wrong Box the Boston Blackie movies the Bowery Boys movies (please, WHV ...) the Mexican Spitfire movies the Wheeler & Wolsey movies
Here are the shows that I'd love to see come to DVD in 2008:
1. Superboy - Seasons 2-4 Season 2 will most likely get released to promote Superman: The Man of Steel in 2009, but I'm still hoping WB releases Season 2 sometime next year. The Man (or in this case, the Boy) of Steel is such an iconic character of popular culture, WB should not miss the oppurtunity to make big bucks off the sales for the remaining 3 seasons, which are infinitely and arguably better than Season 1. Though I still enjoyed Season 1.
2. SpongeBob SquarePants - Season 5: Volume 2 I love nautical nonsense, and like any SpongeBob DVD, Season 5: Volume 1 gave me just that. I'm looking forward to Paramount giving the release info on Volume 2.
3. Marvel Action Hour Iron Man series With the release of the highly-anticipated Iron Man movie next May, BVHE should release this final half of the Marvel Action Hour series on DVD (the other half being the Fantastic Four, which has already been released). Using a DVD set as a marketing tool is something that all studios should do, whenever possible.
I couldn't agree more. I bought at least 16 TV-DVDs last year and this year, I only bought 5. Lets hope that next year will be a better year for TV-on-DVD.
You just reminded me of a title I'd like to see released. I would like to see a complete series set for the 60's Fantastic Four cartoon. I have very fond memories of that show and it's the only FF cartoon I've watched. I caught an episode a few months ago on TV and my 6 year old nephew seemed to really enjoy it.
My wishes for releases are the same as last year that went unfulfilled. For 2008 I wish for:
—New regulations that make it less expensive and easier to license music. —Studios to take advantage of recent technology (such as Kodak's Digital ICE) that has made restoration easier (reducing the number of man-hours involved), and using it for TV shows. —If the WGA strike goes on, that studios dip deeper into their back catalogs for releases.