Philip Verdieck
Supporting Actor
Actually, they did release them in order too. Maybe you had to sign up for it or something, but a friend of mine has a lot of them by now. I think he is in the 4th season.
So, instead of a continous release of a series that has one single storyline, we have some episodes from the first season, some from the second, some from the third, and so on.
That isn't what happened.
WHV's tapes were available in both three-tape sets and as individual (two-episode) tapes. They were released in two waves:
The first wave consisted of Season 1 3-packs alternating with S5 3-packs. The feeling was that many fans had missed S5 when the show moved to TNT either because they didn't have cable or couldn't get TNT, so S5 should be released as soon as possible. The two seasons alternated until all episodes had been released, and the episodes were released in order within each season.
The second wave worked forward from S1 and backwards from S5, and therefore alternated S2 and S4. They cancelled the release of the tapes entirely after 4 sets (12 episodes) of S2 and 2 sets (6 episodes) of S4 had been released. NO S3 episodes were ever released by Warner Home Video in the retail channel.
So the VHS release was certainly odd, but not as random and irrational as the quote above indicates.
Regards,
Joe
So, instead of a continous release of a series that has one single storyline, we have some episodes from the first season, some from the second, some from the third, and so on.
This sounds more like how the laserdiscs were released, which the episodes were mixed up.
Jason
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