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This week's releases of Bonanza and One Step Beyond has made me reflect on CBS/Paramount's concerted effort to release "official" DVDs of many PD chesnuts.
Over the past year, they've put out:
The Beverly Hillbillies S2, S3
Petticoat Junction S1, S2
The Lucy Show S1
Bonanza S1 V1, S1 V2
One Step Beyond S1
So are there any other shows in their library that could be "clawed back" next?
(It's unfortunate that Dragnet is a Universal property, because it would be a prime candidate for this sort of reclamation.)
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What I really want to see is clean, "official" releases of the great '70's TV movies produced by Aaron Spelling like THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE, SATAN'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, and others, that have been PD eyesores for years. I don't know how well the questionable Wild Eye editions of THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER and SHARK ATTACK sold, but if they did okay, CBS/Paramount should be taking notice and digging other gems out of the vault - a good chunk of the legendary "ABC Movie of the Week" films are theirs.
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Mark Edward Heuck 
What I really want to see is clean, "official" releases of the great '70's TV movies produced by Aaron Spelling like THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE, SATAN'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, and others, that have been PD eyesores for years. I don't know how well the questionable Wild Eye editions of THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER and SHARK ATTACK sold, but if they did okay, CBS/Paramount should be taking notice and digging other gems out of the vault - a good chunk of the legendary "ABC Movie of the Week" films are theirs.
It would be great if they could keep the original intro although they probably won't because:
—It's probably not in the negatives, but was tacked onto the prints the network received (I assume)
—The music from the famous 1969-1974ish intro (the one with the slit-scan effects a la
2001: A Space Odyssey) is based on a Burt Bacharach song called "Nikki", and we all know the one place CBS/P loves to save a buck.
STOP THE MADNESS! STOP THE BUTCHERING AND ABANDONMENT OF TV SHOWS ON DVD!
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I'd love to see a collection of the ABC Movie of the Week, with each installment starting up with the intro and scenes from "tonight's" movie. Tragic that the entertainment and nostalgia value is lost to business concerns.
I have a "public domain" DVD of "Where Have All The People Gone?" with Peter Graves and Kathleen Quinlan – in a double feature with "Embryo" – the picture and sound quality are awful, some old 3/4" U-Matic dub. I'd love to see this old TV movie get a decent transfer. Does anyone know who owns it? It was made by Metromedia in 1974.
Here, hear on "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble." That was a landmark, hard to believe it's not out.
"I didn't know you had antennae."
