The Future of PERRY MASON (Season 6 & beyond) (1 Viewer)

[Gary OS]

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevelecher
O.K., why hasn't this been picked up on tvshowsondvd.com? Is it a secret yet that Season 6 will be out?

It's not a secret at this point, at least not here at HTF. But generally Gord & Dave only report when the studios give them press releases. Not every time, but most of the time. And since this release isn't coming until October and CBS/P doesn't generally give advance release news until about 3 months beforehand, I'd say we are just too far out yet for TVShowsonDVD.com to announce anything just yet. But it shouldn't be much longer before they give us an official announcement.


Gary "it's certainly coming on that date, barring a catastrophe" O.

 

[Joe Tor1]

Gary, I'll accept this as GREAT NEWS, even if TSOD is not yet ready to!

Does the same apply to Gunsmoke?

 

[Gary OS]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Tor1
Gary, I'll accept this as GREAT NEWS, even if TSOD is not yet ready to!

Does the same apply to Gunsmoke?

Yes it does, Joe! Both shows are still alive and kicking on the release schedule for CBS/Paramount.


Gary "and Bonanza S2 will get off the snide as well - not that I'm personally interested in that one" O.

 

[Joe Tor1]

Originally Posted by Gary OS
Quote:
Yes it does, Joe! Both shows are still alive and kicking on the release schedule for CBS/Paramount.


Gary "and Bonanza S2 will get off the snide as well - not that I'm personally interested in that one" O.

That's great news about Bonanza too! I just ordered S1 (never figuring to get very far with it) but the balance of S2 will be welcome.

 

[stevelecher]

Joe:

Didn't know you were a Perry Mason collector. Great! Nice to see your name again.

Thanks Gary O.

Steve Lecher

 

[danno31]

Do you believe that it will take CBS a year to release Perry Mason season 6, volume 2 or only about 6 months? And when do you believe that they will release the Perry Mason movies? I had thought that they would release the first set somewhere between 2015 and 2016, as long as there were no delays.

 

[Steve...O]

Score another one for the crystal ball!

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Perry-Mason-Season-6-Volume-1/15675

Nice color shot of 4 of the 5 main cast members on the front. I have a 16x20 B&W poster of all 5 taken from the same photo shoot framed in my office. It's nice to see what color clothes they were actually wearing and how they actually would have looked had we seen them in person. Ray Collins and William Hopper have dueling white haired ness going on although Hopper still had some grey.

 

[John Koehler]

Thanks Steve. FINALLY some good news, but what a dang long wait!

 

[Steve...O]

The CBS Syndication Bible was updated this week and the PM page was updated to indicate that S6 has been transfered to HD which means the upcoming DVD release should have the same stellar look as the others.

I've seen some PM on the ME-TV network and they're using 16mm prints for some of their airings. It begs the question if CBS/P is making these transferred series (not just PM but any of them) available to syndicators?

Incidentally the other updates were to confirm that the entire run of Hawaii Five-0 is now in HD as are the first seven seasons of Love Boat (something of a shocker). There was an update to the Petticoat Junction page but it was just to identify which seasons were B&W vs color.

 

[DeWilson]

I've seen some PM on the ME-TV network and they're using 16mm prints for some of their airings. It begs the question if CBS/P is making these transferred series (not just PM but any of them) available to syndicators?

Incidentally the other updates were to confirm that the entire run of Hawaii Five-0 is now in HD as are the first seven seasons of Love Boat (something of a shocker). There was an update to the Petticoat Junction page but it was just to identify which seasons were B&W vs color.

It's most likely that CBS/P supplied them with older off-the-shelf Viacom era syndication prints (which might have been transfered from 16mm at the time), and not the new transfers. Heck, Scifi Channel still uses TWILIGHT ZONEs from the edited Vicaom era prints - logos and all!

 

[ToddR2]

Steve, Encore Westerns shows an unpredictable mix of Have Gun, Will Travel episodes. Some are remastered and feature the current CBS/Paramount logo, and some are old Viacom prints. This puzzling variation in source material often changes night to night, so it's not as though they are using a whole season's worth of old prints, followed by S4-5 remasters.

 

[Joe97478]

Apparently CBS Video has announced that Perry Mason, Season 6, Volume 1 will be released on October 4, 2011.

 

[The Obsolete Man]

Apparently CBS Video has announced that Perry Mason, Season 6, Volume 1 will be released on October 4, 2011.

With season 6.2 following on November 22
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Perry-Mason-Season-6-Volume-2/15879

 

[WaveCrest]

DVD Talk review of Perry Mason: Season 6 - Volume 2:


Perry Mason: Season 6 - Volume 2 - DVD Talk review

 

[stevelecher]

Gary OS
Anything on that crystal ball of yours about Season 7? Still loving the series and wanting to collect it, though the series shows wear and tear by this time. I would say seasons 1 - 4 are the pinnacle of this great show.

 

[Richard Kaufman]

The larger issue, I think, is that the production of physical DVDs may cease before many of these series have their final seasons released. This is likely because of, among other things, the years-long schedule in releasing the entire series when they only do a season (or half season) every six months to a year drags out the release of the entire series way too long--longer, perhaps, than the life of the delivery system . Wtih the demise of the physical CD not too far off, DVDs are not long for this world either.

 

[RickER]

The larger issue, I think, is that the production of physical DVDs may cease before many of these series have their final seasons released. This is likely because of, among other things, the years-long schedule in releasing the entire series when they only do a season (or half season) every six months to a year drags out the release of the entire series way too long--longer, perhaps, than the life of the delivery system . Wtih the demise of the physical CD not too far off, DVDs are not long for this world either.

Except, people still buy DVDs.
What is up with this rash of DVD is dead stuff. Hey, i buy more Blu-rays than DVDs. But i have no problem buying a TV show i want, on DVD!
Now DVDr...that is another story!
All the other points i agree. It has taken as long to release this show on DVD, as it ran on the air!

 

[Greg Chenoweth]

Still the DVD's keep coming. We've made it all the way through Season 6 with three more seasons to go. I am in the midst of watching the third disc from Season 6, Volume 2. I enjoy these Perry Mason sets very much. I do wish they would not break up the seasons, but we've six years so hopefully they will all be out by 2014.

 

[Richard Kaufman]

It's just my opinion, but I foresee the demise of the physical DVD as at most 5 to 10 years away. And by that I mean the demise of all physical media as a mode of delivering content.

 

[Carabimero]

While disc-based media is certainly diminishing, I believe it will be around in some form for many years to come. It's been too pervasive, for too long, to shrivel and die so quickly. Add to that, many dinosaurs, like me, insist on having their material, if not primarily on disc, at least backed up on disc.